Pope ends Latin Mass restriction
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Pope Benedict XVI removes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Tridentine Mass, despite concern from Jewish groups.
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer to sainthood, including Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire the blockbuster movie "The Passion of the Christ."   Cheers went up in St. Peter's Square from a crowd of about 30,000 people when the pontiff finished reading the Latin words with which he beatified the five candidates, and banners with their images were unfurled on the facade of St...
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In his most significant address on China to date, Pope Benedict on Saturday decried state restrictions on religious freedom that "suffocate" the Church and sow division among the country's Catholics.
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Tens of thousands of people packed Pope Benedict XVI's traditional noontime blessing Sunday in a show support after the Vatican canceled his visit to a university because of some protests by students and faculty.
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass for 230,000 people Tuesday in a sunny field outside Regensburg, taking his homecoming tour of his native Bavaria to the university town where he once taught theology.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has been cleared of accusations that its opposition to abortion violated a law banning priests from mixing in politics, but the church said yesterday that it will mount a campaign to change the law it believes is too restrictive.
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Pope John Paul II will leave hospital on Thursday, "cured" of his throat spasms, the Vatican says.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing popes, making it potentially harder to name a successor but ensuring that when the white smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel, the new pontiff will have broad support among cardinals.
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Pope Benedict has ordered changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at Good Friday services by traditionalist Catholics, deleting a reference to their "blindness" over Christ, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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Pope Benedict XVI changes the rules that will decide his successor, reversing reforms made by Pope John Pau Il.
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London - The BBC has bowed to the demands of angry British Catholics and scrapped plans to broadcast a controversial comic cartoon lampooning the figure of the pope and the Vatican.
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The Vatican cleared the way Monday for the beatification of Mother Marianne Cope, a nun who helped found what is now St.
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A decree this month by Pope Benedict allowing wider use of the old Latin mass has spawned a veritable cottage industry in helping Roman Catholic priests learn how to celebrate the centuries-old rite.
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Pope Benedict XVI said Friday the Vatican wishes to "impose nothing on anyone" in a parting message of goodwill to Muslims at the end of his first papal trip to an Islamic nation.
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Pope Benedict XVI has approved a document that relaxes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass used by the Roman Catholic Church for centuries until the modernizing reforms of the 1960s, the Vatican said Thursday.
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Pope John Paul II will leave hospital on Thursday, 'cured' of his throat spasms, the Vatican says.
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Tycho:  The enforced revelry period has finally come to a close.  Thank Christ.