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Vatican Plans To Open Secret War Archives
Freddy Gray reports on Pope's attempt to clear Church's name 'THE VATICAN has decided to open its archives covering the years leading up to the Second World War for the first......
Swiss Female Ordination Dismissed By Church
A Swiss Church leader has said a lay Catholic theologian faces automatic excommunication after she claimed she was ordained to the priesthood. "If she's been a Catholic before,......
Pakistan Persecution Intensifies
DISCRIMINATION against Christians and the desecration of church buildings in Pakistan have increased in the past year,Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore, Pakistan, has said.......
Nuns Arrested By Indian Police
INDIAN police have detained four Missionaries of Charity nuns and accused them of attempting to convert people after the nuns visited a government-run hospital in the southern......
Catholic Boom In California
A NEW STUDY says that California's Catholic population is growing by more than 13 per cent a year. By 2025 Catholics will make up more than 36 per cent of the state's......
Italian Soccer Ace Critically Ill
A FORMER Italian football star remains critically ill in hospital after falling from his office window. Gianluca Pessotto, the general manager of Juventus, was found clutching......
By Staff Reporter
A MOTHER has threatened to sue the priest who kicked her out of a church and made her miss her own child's baptism because she was wearing a skirt that he considered too short.......
From Carol Glatz In Rome
POPE BENEDICT XVI has renewed appeals for an end to "the blind violence" bloodying Iraq and the Holy Land. He also called on world leaders to begin making "a serious and......
Pope Opts For Safety
FIRST CAME the Gucci sunglasses, followed by shoes by Prada and then a sleek featherweight iPod. So what do you give the Pope who has everything? Swedish carmakers Volvo believe......
Married Priest For Pope's Diocese
BY STAFF REPORTER " A mimeo German man has been ordained as a Catholic priest in Munich after getting special permission from the Pope. Reiner Deschler-Hertan, 46,a former......