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Patriarch Joins Pope In Resisting Secularism World Bulletin
Edward Pentin’s Vatican Notebook S ometimes the Holy Father can sound like a voice in the wilderness when he warns countries against constructing societies without recourse to......
Pope Expresses Sadness At Death Of Revellers In Crush
POPE BENEDICT XVI has expressed his grief after19 people were killed at a techno music festival in his native Germany that erupted into a panicked stampede. After praying the......
Filipino Bishops Oppose Sex Laws
THE FILIPINO bishops have denounced legislative proposals on sex education and population control. Noting that President Benigno Aquino campaigned against corruption, the......
New Vatican Role For Burke
AMERICAN Archbishop Raymond Burke has been named a member of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. Archbishop Burke already serves as prefect of the Supreme Court of the......
German Abuse Case Dropped
ARCHBISHOP Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg has been cleared of charges regarding a sexual abuse case, the offices of the public prosecutor in Konstanz has announced. The......
Chilean Bishops Seek Jail Amnesty
BY STAFF REPORTER THE CHILEAN Catholic bishops have drawn sharp criticism for proposing that the government mark the country’s bicentennial by pardoning or reducing sentences......
Us Catholics Pray For Relics Return
CATHOLICS in America have been praying for the safe return of a relic of the True Cross, one of the holiest and historically significant relics belonging to the Archdiocese of......
Pope Benedict To Declare
00 Gaudi's church a basilica BY STAFF REPORTER POPE BENEDICT XVI will proclaim Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia church a basilica later this year. Cardinal Lluís Martínez Sistach......
Diocese Of Rome Dismayed By Exposé Of Priests
BY CAROL GLATZ IN ROME IN THE WAKE of an undercover video and news report documenting priests in Rome engaged in homosexual acts, the Rome diocese has called for priests engaged......
Vatican Coins Are Finally In Circulation
BY CAROL GLATZ IN ROME FOR THE FIRST time since the Vatican adopted the euro in 2002 the Vatican has begun to put some of its coins into public circulation. But, the likelihood......