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Church Gets Ready For Dan Brown Prequel
Edward Pentin’s Vatican Notebook T he Vatican may call for a boycott of the upcoming movie Angels & Demons , the prequel to The Da Vinci Code , although it’s more likely to......
Chinese Priest Beaten Amid Dispute Over Seized Land
A CATHOLIC priest from China’s Shaanxi province was injured seriously after two men beat him up inside a mayor’s office, where he had been invited to discuss issues related to a......
Parishes Allowed To Use Missal
THE VATICAN has allowed parishes in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland that have started using Vatican-approved Mass translations to continue to do so, after the Southern......
Cardinal: America Is Risking Despotism
BY NANCY FRAZIER - O ʼ BRIEN IN WASHINGTON DC A SENIOR American cardinal has said plans to deny health workers their conscience rights risks turning the United States “from......
Delayed Letter Timed For May
POPE BENEDICT XVI ’ S first social encyclical is already completed and should be ready for release in early May, Cardinal Renato Martino has said. The original aim had been to......
Grief At Death Of Redemptorists
THE COLOMBIAN bishops’ conference has expressed sorrow at the murder of two Redemptorist priests last week. Fr Gabriel Fernando Montoya Tamayo, 40, and Fr Jesús Ariel Jiménez,......
Cuba Approves Renovation Of Catholic Chapels
BY JOHN PONTIFEX CATHOLICS in Cuba have achieved an unprecedented breakthrough after the regime agreed to plans for the renovation of four churches in the capital. In a country......
Thousands Protest Against Decision To Honour Obama
BY ED WEST OVER 62,000 people have signed a petition protesting at a Catholic university’s decision to ask President Barack Obama to give its commencement address. The president......