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15 Sep 2018, 11:29 am by Tom Smith
Imagine if Donald Trump insisted that the Catholic church give him the right to choose the list of men from which Rome would select American bishops. [read post]
1 Jul 2017, 5:35 pm by Tom Smith
Rome (CNN)Pope Francis is replacing the Catholic Church's conservative chief of doctrine, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, amid apparent tensions over the Pope's efforts to open up church teaching and tackle a series of sex abuse scandals. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 10:12 am
Peter's Square in Rome is the largest mass beatification ceremony the Church has ever held. [read post]
22 May 2022, 6:00 am by Howard Friedman
”...Kirill has in recent years aspired to expand his church’s influence, pursuing an ideology consistent with Moscow being a “Third Rome,” ... in which Mr. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 7:21 pm
Reuters UK: Catholic groups ask pope to end contraception ban, by Philip Pullella: ROME (Reuters) - More than 50 dissident Catholic groups published an unusually frank open letter to Pope Benedict on Friday saying the Church's ban on contraception had... [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 10:05 am by firstamendmentblogger
In the Sunday New York Times Gary Wills reviewed INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman and RENDER UNTO ROME: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church by Jason Berry. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 12:56 pm by Tom Smith
But Pope Francis, the Bishop of Rome and world leader of the Catholic Church, has some ideas about laws governing the secular world. [read post]
21 Sep 2013, 11:22 am
Indeed, it positively misleads the reader, because as so happens, the Task Force on Re-imagining the Church had just issued its first report on its vision for the future church. [read post]
1 May 2024, 12:28 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Jude on loan from Rome is drawing large crowds of Catholics and other Christians to churches in Orange County this week. [read post]
15 Mar 2021, 8:07 am by Tom Smith
ROME — The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church won't bless same-sex unions since God "cannot bless sin. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 6:36 am by Tom Smith
Against suspicions in Rome, it championed the American experiment. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 12:22 am
Rising rents in Italy, particularly in Rome, have led landlords to refuse to renew many residential leases at their current rates. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 6:23 am by Lawrence Solum
Gregoriana)Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS)Stephen Macedo (Princeton)Tariq Modood (Bristol, tbc)Theo de Wit (Tilburg)The International Research Network on Religion and Democracy (IRNRD), LUISS University, Rome, and John Cabot University, Rome, are pleased to announce an international conference, ‘Between Rawls and Religion: Liberalism in a Postsecular World’, to be held in Rome on December 16-18, 2010.The conference will bring together scholars in philosophy,… [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 12:39 pm
As ECUSA received that tradition from the Church of England, which received it from the Church of Rome, "Holy Matrimony" is a union conferred by God (as Jesus explained) upon a man and a woman through the divine authority conferred upon Peter by Jesus Christ, and by Peter upon the priesthood whom he and his apostolic successors ordained. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 12:56 pm by Howard Friedman
A Vatican spokesman said:The objective of the accord is not political but pastoral, allowing the faithful to have bishops who are in communion with Rome but at the same time recognized by Chinese authorities.For nearly 70 years, Chinese Catholics have been split between an official church recognized by the Chinese government and an underground church loyal to the Vatican. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 6:57 pm by Gerard Magliocca
 In 1870, he denied the charge that he wanted to “persecute Rome on account of the peculiar religious notions” of the Vatican, which was an odd way of defending yourself against religious bias. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Angelicchio, of Rome, has been named in a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing a teenage altar boy when the priest worked at a church in Onondaga County in the late 1980s.... [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
As previously reported, when convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke died in Italy last week, the Vatican prohibited any church in Rome from celebrating a funeral mass for him. [read post]