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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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 Muslims Outnumber
 Catholics: Vatican 

Islam is world's biggest religion with 1.3B members

Mar 30, 08 4:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Islam has topped Roman Catholicism as the world's biggest religion for the first time, the Vatican said today. About 1.1 billion people are still Catholic, but Muslims have pulled ahead with 1.3 billion members. “For the first time in history we are no longer at the top:... More »

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Islam • Muslims • religion • Vatican • population • Catholicism • Catholics

 Prominent Italian Muslim Baptized by Pope

Convert Takes Big Step at Vatican During Easter Vigil

Mar 23, 08 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italy's best-known commentator on Islam converted to Catholicism yesterday at the Vatican, during Easter vigil, and was baptized by the Pope himself, the AP reports. Though Magdi Allam was born a Muslim, he said he "never" practiced his native religion, and made his name criticizing Islamic fanaticism, receiving death... More »

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Islam • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Hamas • Italy • Vatican • Egypt • Easter • Catholicism • Magdi Allam • baptism

Teens' Public Orgies Rattle Chilean Mores

Sexcapades reflect consumer-driven, apolitical youth culture

Mar 20, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Can 100 teenagers performing oral sex on one another in a public park not be a political statement? That's one of the questions the sight of horny, apolitical, bisexual Chilean teenagers are prompting among their appalled, mostly Catholic compatriots, Newsweek reports from a country still haunted by General Pinochet's repressive... More »

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Latin America • Chile • homosexuality • sexuality • Catholicism • sexual behavior • Augusto Pinochet • consumerism • bisexual • heterosexual • teenager • Pokemones • ponceo

 Pope Pushing for
 Church in Saudi Arabia 

Islam's holy ground could be ready to open up

Mar 20, 08 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI is lobbying Saudi Arabia to let a Catholic church on its soil, Time reports. The Vatican confirms that it's discussing forging diplomatic relations with the Saudis, but a house of worship would be a major coup in a country where all religions besides Sunni Islam are banned. More »

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Islam • Saudi Arabia • Pope Benedict XVI • King Abdullah • Qatar • Catholicism • interfaith dialogue

Environment, Bioethics Under Vatican's Scrutiny

Church updates Catholic morality for  modern, globalized life

Mar 10, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Catholics must guard against "new sins" such as polluting the environment and using genetic modification, the Vatican says. Their church has updated the concept of sin for the contemporary world, paying special attention to the expanding and morally murky world of bioethics, a top official from the Apostolic Penitentiary,... More »

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stem cell research • Pope Benedict XVI • pollution • genetic modification • Vatican • drug trafficking • Catholicism • cloning • Holy See • bioethics • sin

Evangelicals Turn Back
to Ritual

Some adopt previously shunned  confession, communion, Lent

Mar 8, 08 12:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Evangelical Christians are increasingly turning to long-shunned traditions as a means of practicing their faith, reports the Washington Post. In a trend some call “worship renewal,” some are reviving Catholic customs such as fasting for Lent, going to confession, and weekly communion. “Evangelicalism is coming to point... More »

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Christianity • Catholicism • Christians • monasteries • evangelicals • communion • Catholics • Lent • ancient customs • rituals • traditions • confession

Pope Fans Rush for Tour Tickets

Demand is high ahead of Benedict's US visit in April

Feb 26, 08 9:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI will be making his first visit to the US in April, and tickets for two super masses are in high demand, USA Today reports. Ticket requests for the masses at Yankee Stadium and Washington's National Park stadium are already more than double the number of seats available.... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Catholics • Pope Benedict's US visit

Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan

Prez wants each 5th grader to study a victim

Feb 16, 08 12:53 PM CST
(Newser) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a new controversy: The maverick leader is  now defending his plan to have every fifth grader study a French youth killed in the Holocaust. Critics, including Jewish analysts, warn the move could traumatize students. But one historian applauded Sarkozy's "courage" and said what... More »

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education • Israel • Holocaust • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Jews • religion • Nazi • Catholicism • separation of church and state • anti-Semitism • French schools

Benedict Plans to Meet With Muslim Leaders

'Historic' spring summit seeks to mend rift after 2006 controversy

Jan 2, 08 11:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Catholic and Muslim leaders plan a "historic" meeting at the Vatican this spring, reports the AP, a year and a half after Pope Benedict's controversial comments about the Prophet Muhammad. Benedict proposed the meeting in response to an open letter from 138 Muslim scholars that urged interfaith dialogue based... More »

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Islam • Pope Benedict XVI • Muslims • God • Vatican • Catholicism • Prophet Muhammed • pontiff • interfaith dialogue

Catholics Now No. 1 in Britain

Anglicans second to Catholicism for first time in 400 years

Dec 23, 07 12:47 PM CST
(Newser) - For the first time in 400 years, Catholicism has more adherents than the Church of England in Great Britain, the Sunday Telegraph reports. Immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa have filled the pews of Catholic churches, while attendance at Anglican Sunday services has dipped 20% since 2000, according to a... More »

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Catholic Church • Anglican Church • England • religion • God • Vatican • British • worshippers • Catholicism • Britain • prayer • Anglican • Catholic • Church of England • Bishop of Portsmouth

Mitt: 'Freedom Requires Religion'

Romney stands by Mormon faith in long-awaited address

Dec 6, 07 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - In a much-hyped address on religion, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney asserted today, “Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone." The former Massachusetts governor focused on religious liberty during the speech in College Station, Texas, but did allow that if Mormonism hurts his candidacy, “so be... More »

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Mitt Romney • religion • Massachusetts • Catholicism • Mormonism • Republican evangelicals

Faith Doesn't Play in British Politics

Blair complains that any UK pol who cites God
is considered  'a nutter'

Nov 25, 07 6:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Soon-to-be-Catholic Tony Blair has confessed that faith was "hugely important"  in decisions he made as Britain's prime minister, and he wished he could, like President Bush, have been open about it at the time. But Britons are suspicious of religion, Blair said in a TV interview reported in... More »

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Tony Blair • Christianity • religion • God • government • Catholicism • Britain • Alastair Campbell • Iraq war

Pull Over, Father

Irish clergy oppose new drunk driving standard, fearing it would rule out communion

Nov 3, 07 5:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Irish priests are carping about a government proposal to lower the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers from .08 to .05, fearing that communion wine may make them legally drunk. “I don't like to use the word wine, as it is Christ's blood,” says one priest, “but... More »

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Catholic Church • wine • drunk driving • Ireland • Catholicism • mass

Muslim Scholars to Pope: It's the Same God

Letter calls for peace, understanding between Christianity and Islam

Oct 11, 07 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Christianity and Islam are more alike than they are different, Muslim scholars say in a letter to Pope Benedict XVI. Quoting passages from the Bible and Koran, the letter shows links between the faiths, and calls for peace. If enough people heed the statement, one scholar says, “the atmosphere... More »

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Islam • Pope Benedict XVI • Christianity • Catholicism

6 Ark. Nuns Excommunicated

Members of 'Army of Mary' cast out

Sep 27, 07 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six Arkansas nuns have been booted from the Catholic Church for refusing to renounce the Army of Mary, a sect the Vatican deems heretical for its founder’s claim to be the reincarnation of the virgin. “We know we are doing the right thing,” said an 82-year-old nun.... More »

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Catholic Church • Arkansas • Vatican • excommunication • Catholicism • Army of Mary • Virgin Mary

Pope Blasts Wasted Weekends

Sundays are time to reflect on dangers posed by humanity, he says

Sep 10, 07 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict has urged Catholics to  keep Sunday special amid the  "mad rush" of the modern world. He encouraged people to set the day aside for reflection on faith and the dangers humans pose to the world, including destruction of "God's creation," an apparent reference to environmental... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • religion • Austria • Catholicism • Vienna • Sundays • weekend • St. Stephen's Cathedral

100 Years of Anti-Modernism

Pius X's 1907
'Pascendi' slammed 'modernists' in the Catholic Church

Sep 2, 07 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Pius X's encyclical "Pascendi Dominici Gregis" turns 100 years old next week. The  document decried so-called "modernists" in the Church who looked to new discoveries and theories about human experience and desire to explain religious belief. The ensuing purge of Catholic thinkers did not relent until Paul... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • Catholicism • Pius X • encyclical • Paul VI

France Bids Adieu to Archbishop

Notre-Dame holds Catholic-Jewish funeral ceremony for former church leader

Aug 10, 07 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Catholic and Jewish prayers rang out at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris today during the funeral of the former archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Lustiger, who died Sunday at 80. A convert from Judaism whose mother died at Auschwitz, he was known for his tireless work to bridge his two faiths, and... More »

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Catholic Church • Nicolas Sarkozy • Judaism • death • Auschwitz • Catholicism • Notre Dame • archbishop • Jean Marie Lustiger • funeral

Church Sex Abuse: Should the Pope Pay?

In US cases, a move to hold the Vatican accountable

Jul 19, 07 1:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two court cases involving abusive priests in Oregon and Kentucky have raised the possibility that the Vatican may be forced to pay damages to victims and allow its top officials to testify at US trials. Until now, the Holy See has been considered outside US jurisdiction, but lawyers argue that... More »

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Vatican • sexual abuse • Catholicism

Mass Embarrassment:
Priests Need Latin Lessons

Pope restores old rite, but clerics don't know the words

Jul 16, 07 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Traditionalist Catholics have lauded Pope Benedict's recent call for more Masses in Latin, but priests are biting their nails—few of them know enough of the language to say a Latin Mass. Even Italian priests face embarrassment in the wake of Pope Benedict 's decision to allow Latin services at... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Latin Mass • Latin liturgy • Mass • Catholicism • language

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