This story ran back in August, and now the mystery deepens as new info is dug up and the coffin is devoid of body. "The grave of the 19th Century Cardinal John Henry Newman did not contain his body, the Catholic...
"WHILE denying that Catholic schools convert or “proselytize members for the Church,” Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal asked that they be unashamed in proclaiming Jesus’ truth. He said the words while celebrating mass during the Sacred Heart School-Jesuit (SHS-J)...
As part of the lead up to this year's Ryder Cup Competition in Louisville an inspirational international golf event for one-armed golfers will take place. Louisville is the hometown of the legendary U.S. one-armed...
"Hackers are a skeptical bunch, but that doesn't bother Dan Kaminsky, who got a lot of flack from his colleagues in the security research community after claiming to have discovered a critical bug in the Internet's infrastructure.Kaminsky made headlines on Tuesday by talking...
"The Pope played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests, according to a shocking documentary to be screened by the BBC tonight.In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued...
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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"A landmark meeting between Catholic officials and Muslim scholars that aims to spur dialogue between Christianity and Islam is planned to take place in Rome this spring, a senior Vatican official said.The top Vatican official in charge of relations with Islam, Cardinal...
Pope changes rules for papal elections"Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing a new pope, returning to the traditional requirement that two-thirds of the cardinals in the conclave agree on a new...
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Antoni GaudÃ, the deeply pious architect whose unfinished
cathedral the Sagrada Familia has inspired Catholics for generations,
is being considered for sainthood - but his masterpiece may be under
threat. Graham Keeley reports from Barcelona
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Ordinarily I don't read Mr Palmo's breathless gossiping (well, it is not all that, and the good Lord knows I am no epitome of prose style, but it is too overheated to make regular visits) but I have a very nasty cold with fever and require distraction; and then remembered...
Sweet Jesus! The bit where the hotel hosting the exhibition expressed concern for its safety caught my eye: threatening someone over an exhibit that one has not even seen is not very Christian, is it?"A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate...
"March 28, 2007 -- The New York Archdiocese is inviting youngsters back to a Greenwich Village parish schoolhouse it shuttered last year - at $25,000 a pop.Now, working-class parents who had paid about $2,500 to send...
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The Clericus Cup, a Vatican-sponsored and Catholic-specific soccer tourney, continues until June with 16 teams and 311 players. My question is, who's watching the "flock" and hearing confession while these guys are...
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"Senior cabinet ministers have told MPs privately that Cherie Blair is the cause of the cabinet split over demands to exempt Roman Catholic adoption agencies from equality laws on gay adoption.
The row intensified yesterday when the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac...