LONDON (CNS/Zenit): A Chaldean Catholic leader said Christianity may begin to disappear from Iraq if the country's new constitution is based on Shariah, or Islamic law...
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Thousands at slain Taize founder’s funeral
TAIZE, France (CNS): About 10,000 Christians of various denominations travelled to the Church of the Reconciliation in the village of Taize, in the eastern Burgundy region of France, for the August 23 funeral of Br Roger Schutz, the renowned ecumenical leader...
Read More »Call for a holy ‘revolution’
COLOGNE (CNS): In back-to-back encounters with more than 1 million young people from around the world, Pope Benedict XVI urged them to discover the transforming power of the faith and join the "true revolution" of personal holiness...
Read More »Need to engage youth
COLOGNE (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI urged bishops in his German homeland to tap into the "enormous potential energy" of World Youth Day in order to face a series of dramatic pastoral challenges...
Read More »Bishop protests youth visa ban
COLOGNE (CNS): A German bishop joined a protest over his country's refusal of visas to some World Youth Day pilgrims from poorer nations...
Read More »Hospital in abortion row
LONDON (CNS): A British cardinal has ordered an inquiry into claims that doctors working out of a Catholic hospital are referring women for abortions and prescribing the morning after pill...
Read More »Sisters deny abuse claims
CALCUTTA (CNS): The Missionaries of Charity have denied allegations that they abused residents at a home for children in India...
Read More »Pope’s brother in hospital
ROME (CNS): Doctors at Rome's Gemelli Hospital gave Pope Benedict XVI's older brother, Msgr Georg Ratzinger, a pacemaker on August 3 after he was hospitalised with an irregular heartbeat...
Read More »Vocation amid A-bomb rubble
A survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb 60 years ago tells how he ended up finding a vocation to the priesthood.
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