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Pope Benedict XVI seeks to reassure Roman Catholics amid scandal
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday spoke out for the first time about the turmoil over leaked Vatican documents, seeking to reassure the faithful that the church would weather the storm. The pope, who acknowledged "sadness in my heart"...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Theft, Vatican City, The Pope, Christianity
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For contraceptives, a Catholic exception?
Even before the Supreme Court has ruled on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. "Obamacare" — 43 Roman Catholic organizations have filed lawsuits challenging a related regulation that requires...
Tags: Laws, Justice and Rights, Career and Workplace, Abortion, Abortion Issue
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John Adams tests his own faith tackling the Crucifixion of Jesus
Losing your religion may be an occupational risk for artists who like to weigh in on the Big Questions. But when John Adams set out to write music representing the Crucifixion of Jesus, the composer underwent what he calls "a good old-fashioned crisis of...
Tags: Poverty, Andy Warhol, Johann Sebastian Bach, Christianity, Opera (genre)
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Vatican butler arrested in documents leak
ROME — As it turns out, the butler did it. At least that's who the papal police force believes is responsible for the recent leaks of personal papal correspondence that has shed unwanted light on power struggles and alleged corruption within the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Italy, Vatican City, The Pope, Police Arrests
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Gallup poll on abortion: 'Pro-choice' position hits record low
The percentage of Americans who say they are “pro-choice” reached a record low, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, but the political impact of the new data remain unclear given the volatile nature of the abortion issue....
Tags: Polls, Religion and Belief, Politics, Democratic Party, Planned Parenthood
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Secret files detail clergy abuse at Santa Barbara boarding school
Robert Van Handel remembered the boy as about 9 years old, tan, effeminate.
"Now that I think back on it, he was probably the most beautiful child that I molested," Van Handel wrote to a therapist.
Van Handel, a priest who ran a boys choir in Santa...Tags: Religion and Belief, Lawyers, Laws, Sex Crimes, Trials
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Conservative bishops court the disdain of Catholic women
America’s conservative Catholic bishops are so worried that some woman in their employ will get access to birth control that they have filed 12 lawsuits against the federal government. What they are failing to see is a much bigger challenge that...
Tags: Republican Party, Laws, Politics, Christianity, Justice System
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Tom Fuentes dies at 63; longtime O.C. Republican Party leader
Tom Fuentes, whose forceful leadership of the Orange County Republican Party confirmed it as an epicenter of GOP fundraising and political clout, has died. He was 63.
Fuentes died late Friday at his home in Lake Forest, family spokeswoman Kathy...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Science and Technology, Christianity
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The Catholic League's over-the-top 'hate speech' charge
The Catholic League, the media-savvy conservative group that combats anti-Catholicism real and imagined, recently took after the Los Angeles Times for an editorial supporting Georgetown University’s speaking invitation to Health and Human Services...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Georgetown University, Barack Obama, Christianity, Broadway Theater
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Letters: Sebelius and censorship
Re "Silencing Sebelius," Editorial, May 18 Last month, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishopscondemned Rep. Paul D. Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget as contrary to Roman Catholic social doctrine. Also, dozens of faculty members at Georgetown University issued...Tags: Religion and Belief, Education, Georgetown University, Christianity, Kathleen Sebelius
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Letters: Obamacare and church rights
Re "More suits are filed over birth control," May 22 So the Roman Catholic hierarchy continues to fight for the right to deny contraceptive coverage to the employees of organizations affiliated with the church, even if their primary purpose is not...Tags: Religion and Belief, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Health Treatments, Christianity
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Mary Kennedy is mourned at private funeral in New York
Family and friends gathered Saturday at a modest stone church in a hamlet north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy, the latest member of that charmed and cursed family to fall victim to tragedy and inner demons.
The service, held...Tags: Larry David, Christianity, Glenn Close, Celebrities, John McEnroe
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