Once-Obedient Catholics Challenge Church
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Colin Riley has gone obediently to Mass since boyhood, but he was mumbling apologies for raw words the other day to a statue of Jesus in the quiet sanctuary of St. Albert the Great. He was seething over efforts to close his church and others around Boston.
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Pope Benedict XVI pressed ahead with his appeals for a unified church Thursday as he a celebrated a Mass in St. Peter&#039;s Basilica attended by a delegation of Orthodox Christians.
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The parishioners at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Bothell got a shock this weekend: Instead of delivering a typical sermon, the Rev.
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The inclusion of prayers calling for conversions has led to sharp criticism of the Vatican.
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Now that it is often treated like a  maligned minority, the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe  has decided to start acting like one too.
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All across central Florida, people have gathered at battered churches to ask themselves whether nature's swirling wrath had also unsettled their faith.
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In a dramatic plea for understanding, Archbishop Sean P. O&#39;Malley yesterday described his effort to close parishes as &#39;&#39;personally repulsive to me,&quot; but
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, yesterday pleaded with both sides in the war over homosexuality to repent for bringing the worldwide Church to the brink of schism.
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Pope Benedict XVI's reference to dark aspects in Islam's history also has opened up another type of backlash for his church: fresh examinations of its past as conqueror, inquisitor and patron of missionaries whose zeal sometimes led to conflict with other faiths.
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Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of Lviv, Ukraine, challenged nearly 175 U.S. Ukrainian Catholic bishops, priests and deacons gathered in Washington to give new energy to evangelizing the people of the United States.
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The Vatican has issued tough new rules making the route to sainthood more difficult.
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The church's leadership has been a center of activism, open debate and dissent for liberal Protestants for decades.
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A dwindling, aging army of parishioners gathered in the sanctuary of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church yesterday, eager to give Bishop Leonard Blair a piece of their mind.
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Apparently, being the patron saint of Claynation isn't always   easy.
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Priests suspected of sexually abusing children but protected from expulsion by Catholic law are being offered a choice in the New York Archdiocese: Enter a lifelong supervision program or leave the church.
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An influx of immigrants and refugees to Clarkston, Ga., sparked a battle within one church that led it to change not just its name but its mission.
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The Catholic Church in Mexico   accused a former altar boy on Thursday of attempting extortion   by filing a lawsuit charging U.S. and Mexican church officials   allowed a priest accused of sex abuse to escape justice.