The Christian village of Korian in the Punjab province of Pakistan was destroyed July 30 in a violent raid by thousands of Muslims.
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President, Pope Discuss G-8 Commitments, Bioethics
In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the pope also presented a copy of a recent Vatican document on biomedical ethics.
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Is Assassination Ever Justified?
New disclosures have prompted a debate about how government-sponsored assassination should be viewed in light of the Catholic moral tradition.
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President, Pope Discuss G-8 Commitments, Bioethics
THE VATICAN — The church’s positions on bioethical issues and matters of global social justice received marked attention during Pope Benedict XVI’s meeting with President Barack Obama on July 10 in Rome. Mr. Obama had traveled to Rome for the Group of 8 summit, an annual meeting of the
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Is Assassination Ever Justified?
The recent disclosure that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was developing a program to track down and kill individual Al Qaeda leaders has re-awakened legal and ethical questions about assassination as a tool of national policy. The program had been kept hidden from Congress until this spring,
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Honduran Cardinal Addresses Coup Crisis
Cardinal óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga denied that the church supported the coup détat.
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New Encyclical Seeks New Way of Doing Business
Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis, said Pope Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate.
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President Meets With Religious Press
The Catholic social tradition, President Obama said, still impresses me, and it can be a powerful force still in American society.
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Honduran President Urged Not to Return
We think that a return to the country at this time could unleash a bloodbath, said Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga.
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U.S. Bishops Revisit Covenant Document
The ambiguities in a seven-year-old document from Catholic and Jewish dialogue partners are continuing to cause confusion.