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The Bbc Can’t Take Catholicism Seriously World Bulletin...
the director-general of the BBC, gave an address in the unlikely setting of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross this week, but left out religion in his speech.......
Italian Diocese Reopens Cause Of Fr Matteo Ricci
MORE THAN 25 years after the Vatican approved opening the canonisation Cause of 16th-century Jesuit missionary Fr Matteo Ricci, the diocese of his birth has reopened his case.......
Us Prelate Preaches On Reality Of Satan
BY ED WEST ONE OF AMERICA ’ S leading churchmen has spoken about the reluctance of religious leaders to speak about Satan. Addressing the Emmanuel Community’s annual symposium......
Archaeologist Casts Doubt On Age Of Shroud Of Turin
BY JUDITH SUDILOVSKY IN JERUSALEM RESULTS from studies on the remains of a first-century shroud discovered on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem prove that the famous Shroud......
Bishops Write To President Obama After Haiti Quake
BY STAFF REPORTER THE UNITED States needs “a long-term coherent strategy for recovery, development and poverty reduction in Haiti”, said the chairman of the American bishops’......
Document Focuses On Role Of Pontiff
BY CINDY WOODEN IN ROME A DRAFT document being studied by an international CatholicOrthodox commission has highlighted historical common ground on the thorny issue of the role......
Pope Prays For Victims Of Shoah
MARKING international Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Benedict XVI prayed that honouring the memory of the six million Jews who died in the Nazi death camps would lead everyone......
Israeli Paper Defends Pius
THE AMERICAN writer Dimitri Cavalli has published an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz asserting that the “campaign against Pope Pius XII is doomed to failure”. “His......
Ralph Mcinerny Dies, Aged 80
THE AMERICAN scholar Ralph McInerny, a retired University of Notre Dame professor and prominent Catholic editor and author, perhaps best known for writing the Father Dowling......
Catholic Churches Burned In India
THREE CATHOLIC churches have been attacked in India, with media and Christian leaders attributing the violence to Hindu extremists exacting “reprisals” for what is seen as......