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COLOGNE, Germany (CNS): German Catholics have reacted angrily to Cologne Cardinal Joachim Meisner for criticising lay people about their lack of knowledge of the Church...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Beginning the 25th year of his papacy, a landmark reached by only four of his predecessors, Pope John Paul II thanked God for his ministry and entrusted his future to the care of the Virgin Mary...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Officials involved in the process to canonise Mother Teresa of Calcutta said they were confident that the healing of an Indian woman with an abdominal tumour would be the miracle needed for the nun's beatification...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has extended the Rosary by adding five new mysteries dedicated to chapters from Jesus' public life...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The International Theological Commission has concluded that women deacons in the early Church performed a role that was different from that of the ordained male diaconate...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Before one of the largest and most orderly pilgrim crowds in Vatican history, Pope John Paul II canonised Msgr Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer on October 6 and called the Opus Dei founder’s message of sanctifying ordinary life valid for all believers...

MANCHESTER, England (CNS): England's most senior churchman, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster, said he would co-operate fully with a police inquiry into his role in transferring a priest later convicted of sexually abusing children...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul II has appealed for a global rediscovery of the Rosary as the ideal prayer for invoking world peace...

TURIN, Italy (CNS): Trapped particles of dirt and scorched fabric had darkened parts of the Shroud of Turin and eventually could have made it difficult to see the shroud's image of a crucified man, said Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin...