Topic: Roman Catholicism
The Vatican on Wednesday hosted an unusual Latin competition for Christmas between schoolchildren from Austria and Liechtenstein, with participants allowed to call on cardinals for help.The test entitled "Puer Natus Est" ("A Child is Born") included translations of liturgical texts from Latin ...
Archbishop John Nienstedt has issued a prayer in support of Minnesota's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriageJohn Nienstedt, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, has issued a prayer in support of Minnesota's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in ...
An independent Dutch inquiry into child sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests said Friday it found "tens of thousands" of victims since 1945, identifying 800 alleged perpetrators.Dutch bishops said they were filled with "shame and sorrow" over the Deetman Commission's findings -- ...
India's Missionaries of Charity order said it would pray for British writer Christopher Hitchens' soul, despite his aggressive campaign against its Nobel prize-winning founder, Mother Teresa."We will pray for him and for his family," spokeswoman Sister Christie told AFP on Friday, upon ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - White-robed priests burned incense as they marched slowly through Havana's narrow streets, giving Catholic faithful a rare glimpse of Cuba's patron saint outside her remote eastern home.The ceremony was one of many witnessed by tens of thousands of people ...
PITTSBURGH, Pa (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic priest was arrested on charges he viewed child pornography in the rectory of his Pittsburgh-area church, the diocese said on Sunday.The Rev. Bartley Sorensen, 62, pastor of St. John Fisher Church in Churchill, Pennsylvania, was ...
As the Vatican's top culture man, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi breaks off from his rounds at least once a day to shoot off a tweet to his followers, either snappy quotes from the Bible, famous philosophers and dons, or details about art festivals, ...
The Vatican on Wednesday said it disapproved of the presence of an excommunicated Chinese bishop at an ordination ceremony, having asked that no "illegitimate" clergy take part.The ordination of Luo Xuegang in Yibin in Sichuan was approved by both China's official church ...
A Chinese bishop excommunicated by the Vatican attended an ordination ceremony on Wednesday, a move likely to anger the Holy See, which had asked that no "illegitimate" clergy take part in the rite.The ordination of Luo Xuegang in Yibin in the southwest ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it was sincere about better ties with the Vatican, a day before the planned ordination of a bishop that will be a test of whether the two sides can rein in tensions over control of ...
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Understanding the Roman Catholic Church
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Roman Catholic Indulgences Debate
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