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Pope names new Swiss Guard commandant
8/21/2008 1:19:30 AM by adeal
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Daniel Anrig, who has a law degree, is currently head of police in canton Glarus in central Switzerland. He will take over from Commandant Elmar Mäder in December.The Swiss Guards with their colourful antiquated uniforms have been serving pontiffs for more than 500 years. The 1998 killing of a guard ....(ReligionInsight)
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Pope appears to back fascism warning
8/21/2008 1:18:27 AM by adeal
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SILVIO Berlusconi's Government has engaged in a vigorous damage-limitation exercise after Pope Benedict appeared to lend his moral authority to concern that Italy was in danger of returning to fascism under the tycoon's hardline right-wing leadership.(ReligionInsight)
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The World Council of Churches is celebrating six decades of service...
8/21/2008 1:15:45 AM by adeal
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Sixty years is a short time in the church calendar, but the six decades since the founding Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in August 1948, have marked incalculable changes, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches said today.(ReligionInsight)
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Tentative $10M settlement in KC church abuse cases
8/21/2008 1:11:59 AM by adeal
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The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City and St. Joseph says a tentative $10 million deal has been reached to settle 47 sexual abuse claims against a dozen clergy or former clergy. Bishop Robert W. Finn tells priests in a letter released late Tuesday night that the agreement is subjec ....(ReligionInsight)
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Beijing bishop urges pope to visit China
8/21/2008 1:08:24 AM by adeal
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The Beijing bishop appointed by China's state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and that relations with the Vatican are improving. "We strongly hope that Benedict XVI will make a trip to China," Joseph Li Shan told Italy' ....(ReligionInsight)
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HIV-positive Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse dies in North Texas
8/19/2008 5:41:10 AM by adeal
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The Rev. Philip Anthony Magaldi, who was convicted of embezzlement and was accused by two people of separate but similar incidents of sexual abuse, died Tuesday. He was 72. The priest, who maintained his innocence, had told the Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese in February that he was HIV positive. ....(ReligionInsight)
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Drawing of pedophile looks like Jesus
8/19/2008 5:31:37 AM by adeal
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The recent news report about convicted pedophile & murderer Joseph Edward Duncan III floored me when I first opened the link. The artist's drawing of him looks virtually identical to renderings of Jesus found in Anglo-centric churches all over North America and Europe.(ReligionInsight)
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Black Churches Confront HIV-AIDS Crisis
8/19/2008 5:30:36 AM by adeal
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The black church - traditionally a loud voice for social change - has been curiously silent on the crisis of AIDS in the African-American community, and some say, even negligent. When Demarsh Tarver contracted AIDS in Alabama, he says his minister told him to pray for forgiveness.(ReligionInsight)
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Chinese Customs Officials Confiscate 315 Bibles From US Christian Group
8/19/2008 5:26:42 AM by adeal
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A group of American Christians who had more than 300 Bibles confiscated by Chinese customs officials left the airport Monday after a 26-hour standoff, saying they realized officials would not change their stance.Members of Vision Beyond Borders, who arrived in the southwestern city of Kunming on Sun ....(ReligionInsight)
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The Catholic Church and Birth Control
7/31/2008 3:04:51 AM by adeal
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Re “The Pope vs. the Pill,” by John L. Allen Jr. (Op-Ed, July 27), on the Roman Catholic Church’s continued commitment to the papal ban on birth control: The encyclical “Humanae Vitae” suffers from a profound lack of humanity. Forty years ago, Pope Paul VI could and did choose to disregard the recom ....(ReligionInsight)
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