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Vatican Briefs Bishops On Motu Proprio
BY STAFF REPORTER THE SENIOR bishops of Western Europe and America were summoned to the Vatican last week to discuss the imminent publication of the motu proprio widening the......
Pope Encourages Ethical Adult Stem Cell Research
POPE BENEDICT XVI has encouraged medical experts to search for heart treatments using adult stem cells rather than embryos. A group of scientists, many of them doctors, attended......
Benedict Xvi Condemns Killers
THE POPE has condemned the killing of 11 Colombians by guerrilla forces and urged the release of all those held hostage in the country. The legal deputies were shot and killed......
Foley To Be Appointed As Cardinal
POPE BENEDICT XVI has named American Archbishop John P Foley as pro-grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, a fraternal organisation dedicated to supporting the Latin......
Over 3, 000 Gather For Kenyan Rally
MORE THAN 3,000 members of the Young Christian Students Movement (YCS) converged last week at the National Catholic Youth Centre, Ruaralca, near Nairobi in Kenya, for their......
Chinese Plot To Blow Up Revered Marian Shrine
BY JAMES POTTS CHINESE authorities are planning to blow up a revered Marian shrine after judging it to be a place of "illegal religious activity", according to AsiaNews. The......
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement Has Marked Its...
Bishop Sam Jacobs of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana was one of several speakers over the weekend at a special event in America to celebrate the occassion. "We have a great challenge......
Dance Work
BY PAOLO GAMBI AN ITALIAN cardinal has condemned a new dance work that presents a sadomasochistic vision of the life of Christ. Messiah Game, by German choreographer Felix......