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ROME (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI's letter to Chinese Catholics will be released at Easter and will encourage the faithful, clarify issues of doctrine and call for full religious freedom, said China's cardinal...

Scholars and archaeologists have dismissed claims that two film-makers have found the tomb of Jesus. JUDITH SUDILOVSKY reports.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI will canonise a Brazilian Franciscan during his May trip to Brazil and will declare four other new saints in June...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI has denounced the high-tech trend that encourages parents to seek the "perfect child" through genetic selection...

CONTINUING an 80-year-old papal tradition, Pope Benedict XVI this week cancelled regular audiences and cleared his calendar to make a weeklong Lenten retreat...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Contemplating Christ nailed to the cross should stimulate people to protect human dignity and "to fight every form of contempt for life", Pope Benedict XVI says in his 2007 message for Lent...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Two months after taking over as head of the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes has issued a strong and lengthy defence of priestly celibacy...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The latest Vatican statistics confirm that the Church's population and ministerial workforce are continuing to shift to developing countries, especially those in Africa and Asia...

BOCA RATON, Florida (CNS): Fame brought drugs and the fast life for many pop stars decades ago, but for the singer known as Dion it also came with an emptiness and a voracious hunger for more...