Posts Tagged ‘Cardinal’
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New pope elected
White smoke emerged from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel and bells pealed in Vatican City Wednesday evening, signaling that a new pope has been chosen to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. The new Roman Catho...
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British cardinal steps down
Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric has resigned.Cardinal Keith O'Brien has handed in his resignation following allegations from three priests and a former priest that O'Brien approached them inappropriately in the 1980s.
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Vatican official calls leaked documents an ‘immoral’ and ‘brutal’ attack
The Vatican's No. 3 official on Tuesday condemned the theft and publication of secret papal documents as an “immoral act of unheard-of gravity.”
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Pope to find challenges, opportunities in Cuba
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Two weeks before Pope Benedict XVI was scheduled to touch down in Cuba, a small group of protesters occupied a church in central Havana, asking that a message with their requests be delivered directly to...
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Cardinal says bishops must ‘cooperate’ with police on abuse
The Vatican’s doctrinal chief on Monday (Feb. 6) told Catholic bishops from all over the world that they have a duty to “cooperate” with civil law on cases of clergy sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal William J....
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Washington D.C. archbishop now a cardinal
Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington D.C. was included with 23 other men that Pope Benedict XVI elevated recently to the College of Cardinals, the Catholic Church’s most powerful body, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Wuerl...
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Vatican indignant over the conduct of police during Belgian raids
The Vatican decried recently the way the Belgian police handled the raids on church grounds and a cardinal’s home. They expressed outrage that the tombs of two cardinals were drilled open. The tombs of Cardinals Van Roey and Su...
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India Christian schools oppose spromoting Hinduism in classes
Christian schools in Mumbai demurred recently a suggestion by the Birhand Mumbai Corporation to introduce Hindu culture into their classes. Archdiocesan Board of Education General Secretary Gregory Lobo said their 150-odd Chris...