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LES COMBES, Italy (CNS): One month after the extradition to Turkey of Pope John Paul II's would-be assassin, the Vatican confirmed that the Pope personally intervened in the gunman's release from his Italian prison...

NEW YORK (CNS): A UN meeting in Geneva to review results of the 1995 World Summit on Social Development and set future goals produced a document generally acceptable though weakened by the normal compromise approach of such agreements, said two members of the Vatican delegation to the session...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Allowing Catholics who have civilly remarried after divorce to receive Communion not only violates Church law but is an affront to Catholics who live according to the law, the Vatican said...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has praised the late Cardinal Agostino Casaroli for his role in drawing back the Iron Curtain and called the former Vatican diplomat a "man of dialogue"...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Appealing for an end to anti-Christian violence in Indonesia and India, Pope John Paul II called on all people to strive for interreligious harmony...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): India's most senior archbishop died in a car crash in Poland on June 20...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Celebrating Mass in a packed St Peter's Square, Pope John Paul II closed the 47th International Eucharistic Congress on June 25 with a strong call for missionary action throughout the Christian world...

DUBLIN (CNS): Irish tenor Frank Patterson, known internationally for his glorious voice and charitable works, was buried in his hometown of Clonmel on June 17...

ROME (CNS): Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, has been released from an Italian prison and extradited to Turkey, where he will serve a sentence for the 1979 killing of a journalist...