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Pope Pens Mystery Book On Holiday
Edward Pentin’s Vatican Notebook A s Angelus addresses go this was a perfect model of clarity and reason. Terrorism, suggested Pope Benedict XVI, will succeed if its targets are......
China Arrests Bishop For Seventh Time
B ISHOP J ULIUS Jia Zhi Guo of the underground Catholic Church was arrested twice in one month by government officials, according to an American watchdog group. The 71-year-old......
Catechism A Best-seller
S OME 400,000 copies of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church have been sold, making it a best-seller this summer in Italy. According to data from the Vatican......
Cohabitee Denied Funeral
A PRIEST has refused to give an Italian woman a Christian funeral because she had “lived in sin”. Fr Giuseppe Mazzotta of Marcellinara, near Catanzaro in Calabria, said that he......
Bishop Beaten In Angola
A C ATHOLIC bishop has been beaten up in a sacristy in Angola. Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso of Cabinda was accosted while he was preparing to celebrate Mass at the Immaculate......
Nine Catholic Women Receive ‘holy Orders’
Feminists attack Catholic hierarchy and teachings N INE C ATHOLIC women have been unofficially ordained as priests and deacons in North America, risking excommunication by the......
Pope’s Terror List Angers Israel
BY STAFF REPORTER I SRAEL has complained to the Vatican after Pope Benedict XVI omitted to include the country in a list of those suffering at the hands of terrorists. In his......
Brazilian Priest Shot Dead After Campaign
BY STAFF REPORTER A B RAZILIAN priest who campaigned for the families of 29 people allegedly killed by rogue police officers has been shot dead. Fr Paulo Henrique Machado, 35,......
Priests Held Over Murder Of Bishop
BY DAVID V BARRETT T WO C ATHOLIC priests have been arrested in connection with the murder of Italian Bishop Luigi Locati in northern Kenya. Bishop Locati, 77, was clubbed on......