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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Catholicism

Catholicism stories: 66 news summaries

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Blair to Convert to Catholicism

Being Anglican was politically expedient, but the PM's been drawn to the Roman church for 30 years

Jun 22, 07 5:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair is about to become a Roman Catholic, the Guardian reports. His wife is a practicing Catholic, his children were raised in the faith, and the PM has attended mass with them often. But political considerations have kept him officially Anglican all these years. With his last day in... More »

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Tony Blair • Catholic Church • Anglican Church • religion • Catholicism

Mormon Faith Bedevils Romney Bid

Voters wary; rivals quick to take advantage (and apologize later)

Jun 20, 07 9:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mitt Romney is still having to explain and defend his religion on the campaign trail. In recent weeks, staffers for two GOP rivals sent out e-mails questioning Mormon beliefs (the candidates later apologized), notes ABC News. And Romney himself has had to battle misconceptions about his faith, especially with regard... More »

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Mitt Romney • presidential campaign • John F. Kennedy • religion • Joe Lieberman • Judaism • polygamy • Mormon • Catholicism

Pope: Marxism, Capitalism Hold Latin America Back

Also, contraception and secularism

May 14, 07 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI blamed both capitalism and Marxism for Latin America's problems in a speech yesterday in Brazil, the world's most Catholic nation. Benedict blamed Marxism for "a painful destruction of the human spirit," but also worried that capitalism gives rise to "degradation of personal dignity through... More »

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Latin America • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Brazil • Marxism • Catholicism

Brazilians Gather To Hail New Saint

Pope Benedict visits Sao Paulo to canonize one of their own

May 11, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Up to a million spectators will flock to Sao Paulo today to see Pope Benedict XVI canonize the first saint born in Brazil. Friar Galvao, a Franciscan monk who died in 1822, wrote Latin prayers on slips of rice paper that he rolled into "pills," which appeared to... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Brazil • Friar Galvao • Sao Paulo • saint • Catholicism

In Brazil, Pope Talks Tough
On Abortion

Benedict makes first visit to world's largest Catholic population

May 9, 07 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict brought the Catholic Church's stern anti-abortion message to Brazil today, weeks after Mexico City legalized the practice and as Brazil faintly contemplates doing the same. The Pope is on his first trip to Latin America—the fastest-expanding corner of his flock, but also one of the most precarious—... More »

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abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • abortion rights • Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Catholicism

King Cozies
Up to Pope

Don King gets
ringside seat,
offers Benedict XVI
a boxing belt

Mar 22, 07 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A tonsorially tamed Don King took the stage Wednesday in front of an atypical audience–the Pope. The legendary boxing promoter, who spent four years in jail for manslaughter, was denied a personal audience with his Holiness, but did manage to hand the pontiff a handwritten set of prayer requests–... More »

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Don King • Pope Benedict XVI • St. Peter's Basilica • Vatican City • Luca Messi • Bergamo • St. Mary Major Basilica • boxing • Catholic Church • Catholicism

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