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Keeping the Faith: Blowin’ in the wind
Now that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been installed as Pope Francis, I must say that I could not be happier with the papal conclave’s choice. Not that the College of Cardinals would bother to ask my opinion on the matter...
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Vatican: Conclave to start early next week
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The conclave to pick a new pope will begin as early as Monday, and likely no later than Wednesday, the Vatican said Friday morning. The final date was to be set by a vote of the cardinals later Friday evening.
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Late Jesuit and ex-congressman Robert Drinan accused of attempted sex assault
A popular online advice columnist has said that the late Rev. Robert Drinan, a famed Jesuit priest and onetime Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, tried to kiss and fondle her in the 1970s when she was 18 or 19 years old.
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Pope Benedict XVI wants Catholic colleges to ensure that faculty are faithful to church doctrine
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday (May 5) called on Catholic colleges and universities in the United States to do more to affirm their “Catholic identity,” particularly by ensuring the doctrinal orthodoxy of their faculty and staff.
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Pope condemns European priests calling for disobedience
Pope Benedict has issued a rare condemnation of priests who have questioned church teachings on celibacy and ordaining women during a homily in St. Peter's Basilica on Holy Thursday, when priests recall the promises made when ...
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Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Cuba benefits both Vatican and the Castros
(RNS) When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, he called for the island nation "to open to the world and for the world to open to Cuba." Pope Benedict XVI now will walk in that wider doorway. The official reason for the tr...
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Unconventional statue of John Paul II gets a makeover
Just eight months after being unveiled, a controversial statue of Pope John Paul II in Rome is receiving a major makeover. The 16-foot statue stands just outside the city’s main railway station but, since last May, it has been ...
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Christopher Hitchens’ atheism was a gift to believers
Christopher Hitchens will be remembered as many things: an acerbic essayist, connoisseur of Scotch and cigarettes and roguish writer whose forceful pen was fueled by an imposing intellect. Yet his impact on American life, which...
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Pope Benedict XVI to visit Cuba, Mexico next year
Pope Benedict XVI confirmed today that he will travel to Cuba and Mexico next year. “Supported by divine Providence, I have the intention to make an apostolic trip to Mexico and Cuba before Easter,” he said at the end of his ho...
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Nun on verge of becoming Hawaii’s second saint
A Catholic nun who worked with lepers is on the verge of becoming Hawaii’s second canonized saint, after Vatican officials attributed a second miracle to her intercession. Mother Marianne Cope, a German-born Franciscan nun who ...
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