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Vatican officials are insisting that Pope Benedict's new remarks on condoms are not a change in church teaching on contraception. But initial reaction in Europe and among Roman Catholics here is that the first papal acknowledgment of condom use is an important ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A Holocaust survivors group urged Pope Benedict on Saturday to ban an arch-traditionalist bishop from the Catholic Church because he hired a lawyer close to neo-Nazi groups to defend him in court in Germany.Bishop Richard Williamson, one of four ...

Oct. 12, 1576, Regensburg [Germany]), Holy Roman emperor from 1564, whose liberal religious policies permitted an interval of peace between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany after the first struggles of the Reformation. Maximilian's sympathies for Lutheranism, formed in his youth, eventually ...

Pope Benedict XVI will make an official visit to his homeland next year, his third trip to Germany since his election in 2005, the president's office announced Friday.. Benedict will visit Berlin, along with the Erfurt diocese in eastern Germany and the ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans debating Muslim integration to stand up more for Christian values, saying Monday the country suffered not from "too much Islam" but "too little Christianity."Addressing her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, she said she took ...

The relationship of Christians and Christian institutions to forms of the political order has shown an extraordinary diversity throughout church history. The political power of the Christian proclamation of the coming sovereignty of God resided in its promise of both the establishment ...

Troeltsch's father, a physician, early instilled in his son a passion for scientific observation and led him to see problems of history and civilization within a framework of the development of the sciences. He studied Protestant (Lutheran) theology at the universities of ...

The development of Christianity's influence on the character of society since the Reformation has been twofold. Though the impulses for transformation of the social order according to the spirit of the Christian ethic came more strongly from the Free churches and state ...

While unity is given in Christ, two diametric forces appear in the history of the church. Tensions increased as the church began to define the relationship between God the Father and God the Son and later the relation between the divine and ...

The word ecumenism comes from a family of Classical Greek words: It represents the universality of the people of God and affects the way Christians think about their faith, the church, and the world. Ecumenism is a long process that draws Christians ...

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Topic: Germany

"Evolution, not revolution"

Jewish group urges pope to ban Holocaust denier

Maximilian II

Pope to visit native Germany in 2011

Merkel urges Germans: stand up for Christian values

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