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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

RABOUEH, Lebanon (CNS): Patriarchs from Middle Eastern Catholic Churches who met in Lebanon have warned the United States against a war with Iraq...

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...