America's nuns were 'betrayed' and 'double-crossed,' says one leading analyst

-- For all the talk about the shortage of U.S. Roman Catholic priests, the situation with sisters in women's orders is far worse.

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Comment is free: A failure of nerve

Pope Benedict XVI self-consciously followed in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II, seeking reconciliation between the oppressed and the oppressor.

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Pope Benedict visits Auschwitz

Pope Benedict visited the Auschwitz death camp as "a son of Germany" on Sunday to meet former inmates and view an execution wall and starvation cells where some of the 1.5 million victims died.

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A Pope From Germany Prays at Auschwitz

Pope Benedict XVI prayed today at the cells and crematoriums of the death camps here, on a visit he called "particularly difficult and troubling for a Christian, for a pope from Germany."

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Sequel Fever: Sony Has Da Vinci II and III

I'm told it's absolutely true that Sony bought the rights to the Robert Langdon character.

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Vatican Punishes a Leader After Abuse Charges

From the article:The Vatican cautiously acknowledged today long-standing allegations of sexual abuse by the founder of prominent Catholic community, asking him to give up his public ministry in favor of a quiet life of "prayer and penitence."

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Hey, at Least Jesus Wasn't Gay -- McKellen on "The Da Vinci Code"

"I'm very happy to believe that Jesus was married," [openly gay actor Ian McKellen, who plays Leigh Teabing in the film,] said. "I know the Catholic Church has problems with gay people and I thought this would be absolute proof that Jesus was not gay."

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The Church dost protest too much

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How dark the con of Dan

By Archbishop George Niederauer

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US priest guilty of nun's murder

A Roman Catholic priest in the US has been found guilty of the murder of a nun 26 years ago in what prosecutors said was a ritualistic killing.

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India Catholics target Da Vinci

A Danish cartoonist (not one of the 12 targeted for the Mohamed drawings) recently depicted a group of apes reading The Da Vinci Code. One of them goes: "I don't know what I'm doing, but everybody else is doing it too." That's sort of how I feel about the hype.

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Priest Convicted In Nun's Slaying, Prosecutors Say Rev. Gerald Robinson Anointed Her With Her Own Blood

No way.

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Official wants Da Vinci movie banned

In a recent opinion piece on Manila Times Internet Edition a writer argued the superiority of Christianity over Islamic fundamentalism, stressing how nobody had called for the beheading of Dan Brown even though the bestselling Da Vinci Code can be labelled nothing but "heresy" if

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It's Not Pornographic Smut if it's From the Bible!

Catholic school teacher, Miss Marcia Blane, forced Truman Vidal to eat a short story he wrote named "The Passion That Knew No Bounds," calling it racy and salacious. After close scrutiny, Brother Hardwick discovered that the X-rated work was based completely on Bible verses.

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'Everywhere I turned, I ran into sexual abuse'

The real conspiracy in the Catholic church has nothing to do with the Da Vinci Code, says Patrick Wall - it's the cover-up of paedophile priests. Mark Honigsbaum meets the former monk who is leading a crusade to hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

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Priest, personal friend of John Paul II, faces 31 counts of sex assault

No God in sight: This is no less than a personal friend of John Paul II, former secretary general for the Pontifical Work for the Propagation of Faith in the Vatican.

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South Korean Roman Catholic delegation arrives in North Korea

The power of faith: What a lot of people probably don't know is that South Korea is a very religious society.

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Catholic Priests Sexually Molested Children for Centuries

A history of abuse: For those preoccupied with Knights Templar, Bible Codes and da Vinci Codes, the Gospel of Judas and the Prophesies of Nostradamus, here's something equally mysterious, less mundane but somewhat more important, a conspiracy of sexual abuse. W.R.

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Retired Vatican official now faces 31 charges in Ontario

Ontario Provincial Police have added 15 more charges against a former Vatican official accused of sexually assaulting boys in the eastern part of the province.

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'God or the Girl': Catholic priesthood hits reality TV

"God or the Girl" pits four aspiring young Catholic priests against their libidos during the final four weeks before their decisions to take the church's Holy Orders, with the vow of chastity.

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Cardinal backs limited condom use

Catholicism in the 21st century: One of the Roman Catholic Church's most distinguished cardinals has publicly backed the use of condoms among married couples to prevent Aids transmission.

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Pope focuses on Europe and opposing Islam

Making Islam the enemy: A year after Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI it has become clear that Europe is a key focus of his work, as is under-cutting Islam. "The truth is that Ratzinger has always been a Euro-centric thinker," Catholic writer Vittorio Messori said

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When prayer feels like you're talking to the wall

LORD, WON'T YOU BUY ME A MERCEDES BENZ: "I learned the purpose of effective prayer. It isn't to change God. In the first place, God doesn't change.

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Nostradamus Book Claims World War III Revelations Revealed

(A psyop from the Neocon Truth Squads? These "interpretations" claim Ahmadinejad is the anti-Christ, and mentions events like the close-run US election, an the highly anticipated war between Iran and Israel. Moreover, Truth Revealed Publishing does not exist.

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Pro-Life Nation

It was a sunny midafternoon in a shiny new global-economy mall in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, and a young woman I was hoping to meet appeared to be getting cold feet.

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