VATICAN CITY (CNS): Bishop Carlos Belo, who has been the spiritual guide of East Timor's successful struggle for independence, has resigned as apostolic administrator of Dili diocese for health reasons...
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Ordination of gays ‘risky’
VATICAN CITY (CNS): A Vatican congregation, in response to a query by a bishop, said men who are homosexuals or have homosexual tendencies should not be ordained priests...
Read More »Cardinal target
LONDON (CNS): Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster has rejected media allegations that he turned a blind eye to paedophile priests in his previous Diocese of Arundel and Brighton...
Read More »Religious needed in Church schools
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Citing a steep decline in the number of men and women religious who work in schools, the Vatican has issued a new document highlighting the 'irreplaceable' role of consecrated people in education and encouraging them to persevere...
Read More »Back from cold
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo resumed his public ministry on Thursday, November 21, ending more than a year of penitential isolation following his return to the Church...
Read More »US urged to step back from brink
WASHINGTON (CNS): US bishops have urged the United States to 'step back from the brink of war', saying they 'find it difficult to justify the resort to war against Iraq...
Read More »Jews do not need conversion
VATICAN CITY (CNS): In their relations with Jews, Christians cannot conceal the strong missionary dimension of their faith, but also must recognise that Jews do not have to convert in order to be saved, a top Vatican official said...
Read More »US war warning
RABOUEH, Lebanon (CNS): Patriarchs from Middle Eastern Catholic Churches who met in Lebanon have warned the United States against a war with Iraq...
Read More »Iraq war would be catastrophic
ROME (CNS): An international delegation of Catholic aid agencies has warned that military strikes against Iraq would provoke an unjustifiable humanitarian catastrophe for Iraqi civilians...
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