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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican officials, meeting to review the status of married priests, reaffirmed the value of priestly celibacy and said its importance should be highlighted among priests and seminarians...

BOSTON (CNS): Evidence of an alleged miraculous cure in the US Archdiocese of Boston attributed to the intercession of Cardinal John Henry Newman has been sent to the Congregation for Saints' Causes in Rome...

Most Catholics know very little about the Islamic faith. Here is a guide to some of the basics of Islam and how they relate to Christianity. PATRICIA ZAPOR reports.

ROME (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI has agreed to be photographed for a calendar to raise money for Rwandan children...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): If famine and malnutrition are to be alleviated, funnelling most of the earth's resources to a select few must end, and individuals need to adopt less consumerist lifestyles, Pope Benedict XVI said...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The head of the Vatican's justice and peace office and an editor of a Vatican-approved Jesuit journal said it would be wrong to carry out the death penalty against Saddam Hussein...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS): The controversy over pop star Madonna's plan to adopt a Malawian boy highlights the need to find solutions for the growing number of orphans in the country, said a Catholic Church official...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI said priestly sexual abuse of minors was a "heart-rending" tragedy that requires an effort of purification by the Church...

BEL AIR, California (CNS): Jane Wyatt, the Catholic actress who won three Emmy awards for her portrayal of Margaret Anderson, the mother on the genial 1950s US television comedy Father Knows Best, died on October 20 at her home in Bel Air, California...