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From AP VATICAN CITY by Nicole Winfield ndash Cardinal Pio Laghi a longtime nbsp Vatican nbsp diplomat who went to Washington to try to dissuade nbsp U S President George W Bush nbsp from launching the2003 invasion of Iraq has died the Vatican said Sunday He was 86 Laghi died Saturday e

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This message was posted on the First Things blog this morning by Joseph Bottum editor of the magazine Fr Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today January 8 shortly before 10 o rsquo clock at the age of seventy-two He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day aft

Depends what you mean by criticize nbsp Deal Hudson former editor of Crisis magazine and now director of InsideCatholic com offers a qualified yes here Hudson A Catholic journalist may therefore criticize a bishop in editorial fashion so long as he shows respect for the office maintains

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An artist known for his mosaics in Lourdes and Fatima designs a chapel in Connecticut

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From the Associated Press The leader of Maine s Roman Catholics has taken the unusual step of threatening to punish an outspoken advocate for people who were sexually abused by priests possibly by denying him communion Paul Kendrick of Freeport has been banned from the Cathedral of the Immacu