The Vatican newspaper, LOsservatore Romano, editorialized that President Barack Obama has operated in most areas with more caution than predicted.
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Candidates for Priesthood Reflect Increasing Diversity
After years of underrepresentation, African-American Catholics have apparently regained a proportional representation among those being ordained.
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Bishops Urge New President to Fight AIDS
AIDS and H.I.V. need to be our national priority,” said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg
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In Israeli Jewish Schools, No Teaching About Christianity
Currently, if anything about Christianity is taught, it is about the Crusades and the Inquisition. There is no teaching of comparative religion.
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Invitation Stokes a National Controversy
Notre Dames invitation to President Obama is the latest in a series of controversies concerning the identity of Catholic colleges.
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Scholars: Promote Religious Freedom
There is this erroneous notion that its unconstitutional if we are talking to religious leaders around the world, said Thomas F. Farr.
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Richardson Honored in Rome
Archbishop Sheehan introduced the governor to Pope Benedict, saying, Holy Father, this is our governor and he just repealed the death penalty.
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Vatican Objects to Remarks on Israel
The Vatican called Irans president’s recent remarks about Israel at a U.N. conference on racism as extremist and unacceptable
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The Benedictine priest Stanley L. Jaki (left), a Hungarian-born author, physicist, philosopher and theologian, died on April 7 in Madrid.
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A Different Analogy
Tom McCluskey, vice president of FRC Action, the legislative arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council, said the effort to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution may provide a better analogy for state-by-state campaigns to restrict abortion than efforts to abolish the death penalty. Bu