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VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Anglican Communion needs to find a way to affirm the dignity of all people and encourage the active role of women in the Church while remaining faithful to the Christian tradition and Scriptures, Cardinal Walter Kasper said...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Responding to an open letter from dissident groups asking Pope Benedict XVI to change Church teaching on birth control, the Pope's spokesman said the letter was "paid propaganda in favour of the use of contraceptives"...

MEXICO CITY (Zenit.org): Mexico's oldest pilgrimage - and the one that attracts the most pilgrims, with 50,000 participants this year - concluded on July 20 at the feet of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNS): When Iraqi youths were not granted visas for World Youth Day in Australia, Iraq's Chaldean Catholic bishops decided they would bring World Youth Day to Iraq...

LONDON (CNS): Catholic officials have applied for permission to exhume the body of a 19th-century cardinal whose cause for sainthood is expected to soon progress to beatification...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): With violence, poverty, discrimination and environmental degradation putting the future of humanity at risk, people are seeking freedom, redemption and a better world, Pope Benedict XVI said...

One commentator described Pope Benedict XVI's homily at the World Youth Day Saturday-night vigil as "one of the most beautiful texts of his pontificate". ZENIT reports.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican has expressed its disappointment with a July 7 decision by the Church of England, the mother church of the Anglican Communion, to move ahead with plans to allow the ordination of women bishops...

GUATEMALA CITY (Zenit.org): The bishops of Guatemala have pleaded for better treatment for migrants from their country, just as the European Union was hoping to finalise its new policy on immigrants.