The Pope had some interesting comments today about materialism and modern angst in his final address to the hundreds of thousands gathered in Australia for World Youth Day. He spoke about a spreading emptiness and...
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Activitists in Australia have won the right to distribute condoms at the world youth day in Sydney marking the pope's visit, blocking an order that had attempted to stop them from doing so by barring people from "annoying" the pilgrims."Young Catholics attending World Youth...
Relations between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the local Catholic Church has not been easy. It has been paved with numerous clashes and little cooperation. It became rather extreme after members of the Opus Dei and conservative side of the local Catholic...
Is it a simple sonogram or a holy sighting? For one Miami, Florida mother, the birth of baby Sabastian was a gift from God. After suffering a recent miscarriage, Amy Janer was nerve-racked about her third pregnancy...
A RECENT FRENCH POLL shows that majorities of both practicing Catholics and Protestants support France's pro-American president Nicolas Sarkozy, even as his overall polling numbers have dropped " Reportedly, 61...
"Do to others as you would have them do to you, and avoid doing what you would not want them to do. This “golden rule” is given in the Bible, but it is valid for all people, including non-believers. It is...
An Iraqi priest has been killed by unidentified gunmen in central Baghdad as a result of a drive-by-shooting."Fr Adel Youssef, an Assyrian Orthodox priest, was gunned down near his home in the capital's Karrada...
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Wow...I wonder how many other people they have to convince now.... :)"The Vatican acknowledged that some Jewish groups had expressed "disappointment" over the prayer Pope Benedict XVI revived from the old Latin rite...
"Rome (ANTARA News/Kyodo) - The Muslim population in the world exceeded that of Catholics in 2006 for the first time in history, the Vatican daily L`Osservatore Romano reported Sunday, adding that the makeover came about as a result of higher fertility rates among Muslims...
Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday."Forthe first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims haveovertaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview withthe Vatican newspaper...
Medinat Yisrael a Jewish problem – part one
The Roman’s are the ones that caused many of the problems we are seeing to day, the built a very powerful empire their method of training a well disciplined army and...
A life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus will finally be displayed in New York starting in late October, seven months after protests by Roman Catholics forced a different gallery to cancel its exhibition.
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I'm not going to write a word about the rest of Mr Moore's article that's in the Telegraph today (after all, he had assistance from a colleague, so who knows which of them is responsible for what nonsense): but Mons Georg Ratzinger is giving his brother "a special hooded...
When I was younger I was a rather immature and unfocused person. I
had a low self-esteem and was needy. Though I had a good upbringing,
two loving parents and an extended family that was supportive,...
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