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  • February 2008

    • Pope Fans Rush for Tour Tickets

      USA Today  |  Feb 26, 08 9:03 AM CST

      Pope Fans Rush for Tour Tickets

      (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. Every Catholic archdiocese in the country has received a free ticket allotment to distribute to the faithful. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • Catholics

    • More Americans Cut Church Ties

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Feb 26, 08 6:00 AM CST

      More Americans Cut Church Ties

      (Newser) - Americans are swapping  religious affiliations at an accelerating rate, with 50% choosing  a different denomination than the one they were raised in, and 16%—double the number 20 years ago—saying the have no ties to a particular church, a new survey of religious life finds. That doesn't mean they're atheists, the Pew Forum report released yesterday concludes; only 1.6% say they are non-believers. More »

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      religion  • immigration  • Catholic Church  • evangelicals  • America  • secularism  • faith  • Latinos  • churchgoers

    • Pope Appeals for Lebanon Peace

      Associated Press  |  Feb 17, 08 11:40 AM CST

      Pope Appeals for Lebanon Peace

      (Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI expressed concern today over the escalating tensions in Lebanon, calling on its people to find a “president for all Lebanese” to end the months of infighting that have stalled elections. After his noontime blessing, the pontiff told the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square that he was troubled by the country’s newly routine clashes, the AP reports. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Lebanon  • Beirut  • parliament  • St. Peter's Square  • Lebanese presidential elections

    • Spain's PM Tells Church to Get Out of Election

      Times (UK)  |  Feb 14, 08 11:53 AM CST

      Spain's PM Tells Church to Get Out of Election

      (Newser) - Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is meeting today with a Vatican representative to protest the Catholic Church's call for voters to oust his Socialist party in the March 9 general election. Zapatero was infuriated by bishops' publication of "moral guidance," calling on parishioners to vote out the government and effectively endorsing the conservative opposition, the Times of London reports. More »

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      Catholic Church  • divorce  • Spain  • Vatican  • Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero  • Spanish elections  • Basque separatists  • Francisco Franco

    • Catholic HS Bars Female Ref

      Associated Press  |  Feb 14, 08 11:43 AM CST

      Catholic HS Bars Female Ref

      (Newser) - A Kansas Catholic high school’s decision to ban a female referee from officiating a boys’ basketball game because of the school’s religious beliefs has state officials investigating the incident and considering banning the school from future competition, the AP reports. Referees said officials from St. Mary’s Academy, near Topeka, refused to let Michelle Campbell work a game Feb. 2. More »

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      Catholic Church  • high school  • Kansas  • gender bias  • high school basketball

  • January 2008

    • British Cleric to Pope: Party On!

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 29, 08 1:14 PM CST

      British Cleric to Pope: Party On!

      (Newser) - An Anglican archbishop from the land of Monty Python brought Pope Benedict a hoppy Holy Grail this month, reports the Guardian. Archbishop of York John Sentamu had heard that Benedict liked Black Sheep, so he brought along the British ale and a custom brew dubbed Holy Grail to his audience with the pontiff. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • beer  • Anglican Church  • Yorkshire

    • Brazil Govt. Targets Carnival Debauchery

      AFP  |  Jan 29, 08 11:35 AM CST

      Brazil Govt. Targets Carnival Debauchery

      (Newser) - As Brazil prepares to indulge in the 5-day party known as Carnival, the president is spearheading a campaign to get samba-crazed revelers to practice safe sex and drink in moderation. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Brazilians to have fun in his weekly radio address, AFP reports, but reminded them that "the next week we have to work and look after our families." More »

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      Catholic Church  • Brazil  • AIDS  • contraception  • condom  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva  • safe sex  • Carnival  • samba

    • Angry Students Block Pope Visit

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jan 16, 08 4:31 AM CST

      Angry Students Block Pope Visit

      (Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI has scrapped plans to speak at a prestigious Italian university after unprecedented protests by furious students and professors who accused him of justifying Galileo's trial and "affronting" people of science, the Los Angeles Times reports. The pope once described as "reasonable" the 400-year-old heresy trial of Galileo, and Benedict's negative take on science now extends to issues like stem cell research and evolution, critics charge. More »

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      Italy  • science  • Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • evolution  • stem cell research  • Galileo

    • Italy's Favorite Saint to Be Exhumed

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 8, 08 2:00 PM CST

      Italy's Favorite Saint to Be Exhumed

      (Newser) - The body of Padre Pio, one of Italy’s most beloved saints, will be exhumed this year for a “checkup” and to be put on display for public veneration, the Guardian reports. "It is our duty to allow the generations that come after us the ability to venerate and best care for his mortal remains," said the archbishop of Puglia, where the man formally known as Saint Pius is buried. More »

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      Italy  • Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • Padre Pio  • Holy See

  • December 2007

    • Mike's Church Trip Annoys Catholics

      Reuters  |  Dec 24, 07 3:34 AM CST

      Mike's Church Trip Annoys Catholics

      (Newser) - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee may have alienated some Catholic supporters with yesterday's visit to Cornerstone, the mammoth evangelical church in Texas run by controversial pastor John Hagee. Hagee has suggested that the Roman Catholic Church played a part in the Holocaust, though the outspoken preacher claims he is not anti-Catholic, Reuters reports. More »

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      Mike Huckabee  • Catholic Church  • evangelicals  • John Hagee

    • Catholics Now No. 1 in Britain

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Dec 23, 07 12:47 PM CST

      Catholics Now No. 1 in Britain

      (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 survey of English churches. More »

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

    • Blair Now Officially Catholic

      Times (UK)  |  Dec 22, 07 11:16 AM CST

      Blair Now Officially Catholic

      (Newser) - Tony Blair converted to Catholicism yesterday, confirming months of rumors that he would switch from the Church of England, the UK Times reports. "I am very glad to receive Tony Blair into the Catholic church," said the archbishop of Westminster, who performed the ceremony in London. The former PM had long been attending services with his Catholic wife. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Vatican  • Tony Blair  • conversion  • communion

    • Pope Rips Christmas Materialism

      Associated Press  |  Dec 9, 07 12:36 PM CST

      Pope Rips Christmas Materialism

      (Newser) - Continuing the Vatican's battle against rampant consumerism on the occasion of Jesus' birthday, Pope Benedict XVI today blasted a pervasive "materialistic mentality" in "the way of living out and perceiving Christmas." The pontiff urged pilgrims gathered below his window on St. Peter's Square instead to "fill your hearts with redeeming hope," reports the AP. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • Christmas  • Rome  • Pope John Paul II  • commercialism

    • Navy Chaplain With HIV Gets Jail in Forcible Sodomy Case

      Associated Press  |  Dec 6, 07 2:43 PM CST

      Navy Chaplain With HIV Gets Jail in Forcible Sodomy Case

      (Newser) - An HIV-positive US Navy chaplain pleaded guilty today to several charges of forcible sodomy and an aggravated assault charge for not disclosing his HIV status to one man, the AP reports. Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Matthew Lee, 42, was sentenced to two years; without the plea bargain, the charges could have carried a life sentence. More »

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      Catholic Church  • homosexuality  • US Navy  • HIV/AIDS  • US Naval Academy

    • NY Diocese's Coloring Book Warns of Abuse

      Newsweek  |  Dec 5, 07 9:06 AM CST

      NY Diocese's Coloring Book Warns of Abuse

      (Newser) - A coloring book handed out by the Catholic Church to kids in New York warns them not to be alone with an adult in a room with the door shut, Newsweek reports. It doesn't specifically name priests as a risk, but it does depict an angel warning an altar boy not to "be alone in a closed room with an adult." A man with his back turned—possibly a priest—is smiling at the child. More »

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      children  • New York  • Catholic Church  • education  • priest  • priest sex abuse  • clergy abuse scandal  • clergy

    • $37M Deal for Priest Sex Victims

      Quad City Times  |  Dec 4, 07 2:12 AM CST

      $37M Deal for Priest Sex Victims

      (Newser) - A Catholic diocese in Iowa has agreed to pay $37 million to settle claims by 156 people who charge they were sexually abused by priests. The deal clears the way for the diocese to emerge from bankruptcy declared last year after a jury awarded $1.5 million to a single victim. Diocesan headquarters and three homes will be sold to raise the money. More »

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      Catholic Church  • bankruptcy  • settlement  • child molestation

  • November 2007

    • Pope Condemns Atheism

      Reuters  |  Nov 30, 07 3:20 PM CST

      Pope Condemns Atheism

      (Newser) - Pope Benedict issued a strong condemnation of atheism today and warned that advances in technology must be met with similar advancements in ethics. In his second encyclical, the pope said atheist ideologies have "led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice," Reuters reports. "Man needs God," he wrote. "Otherwise he remains without hope." More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Marxism  • atheism  • encyclical

    • Vatican Offers Earthly Rewards

      Times (UK)  |  Nov 23, 07 6:35 AM CST

      Vatican Offers Earthly Rewards

      (Newser) - The Vatican is offering corporate-style performance bonuses to its workers for the first time, the Times of London reports. Pope Benedict XVI is offering rewards based on "dedication, professionalism, productivity and politeness." The conditions will apply to the thousands of lay workers who do everything from run Vatican Radio to repairing the Popemobile. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • bonuses  • Popemobile  • Vatican City

    • Sweatshop Crucifixes Stir Up Unholy Mess for Church

      Newsday  |  Nov 21, 07 2:13 AM CST

      Sweatshop Crucifixes Stir Up Unholy Mess for Church

      (Newser) - Revelations that crucifixes in their gift shops are made in a Chinese sweatshop has shocked officials at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral and Trinity Episcopal Church, who removed the crosses from stores, reports Newsday . Young workers at the crucifix factory reportedly work 15-hour days in poor conditions for only 26 cents an hour. The $1.40 crosses sell for $17.95 at St. Pat's. More »

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      Catholic Church  • sweatshop  • labor movement

    • 950 Years Later, 2 Churches May Reunify

      Times (UK)  |  Nov 16, 07 12:26 PM CST

      950 Years Later, 2 Churches May Reunify

      (Newser) - Nearly a millennium after they split, the Catholic and Orthodox churches have published a joint document outlining first steps towards reunification. The Ravenna Document imagines a reunified church with the Pope at its head and proposes a new council composed of Catholic and Orthodox bishops that could formally end the schism of 1054, the London Times reports. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • Orthodox Christianity

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