Woman Explains Choice to Be Catholic Priest
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A woman is ordained to the Catholic priesthood. Not surprisingly, the hierarchy does not approve.
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Mother Teresa experienced  &quot;emptiness&quot; like any human, and the revealing letters she  shared with her colleagues portrayed her humility, said the  Archbishop of Kolkata, where the nun lived most of her life.
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's arbiter of doctrinal orthodoxy, has given Catholic voters leeway under certain circumstances to vote for politicians who support abortion rights, U.S. Catholic officials said.
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CARDINAL Keith OâBrien is so desperate to fill the moral vacuum he believes is the cause of all Scotlandâs troubles (including dwindling attendance at mass) that sometimes he opens his mouth before engaging his brain.
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NEW YORK -- After years of painful soul searching, Rhiannon O'Donnabhain -- a former construction engineer from a devout Irish Catholic family in Boston -- decided to surgically change his sex to female in 2001. The struggle was equally tough financially -- hormone treatments and medical procedures...
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Pope Benedict XVI rebuffed calls to let divorced Catholics who remarry receive Communion in a new document Tuesday and told Catholic politicians they are expected to wage the church's fight against abortion and gay marriage.
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An influential Brazilian cardinal says the Roman Catholic Church should reconsider its ban on allowing priests to marry.
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After a decade-long crusade, Sheila Rauch Kennedy said on Thursday the Roman Catholic Church had overturned its annulment of her 12-year marriage to former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy.
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The nun's leading critic argues thatÂ  her crisis of faithârevealed in newly published lettersâwas brought on by the crushing unreasonableness of the Roman Catholic faith.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI rebuffed calls to let divorced Catholics who remarry receive Communion in a new document yesterday and told Catholic politicians they are expected to wage the church's fight against abortion and gay marriage.
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A shortage of priests has some calling for a loosening of the traditional restrictions, but Benedict makes clear it won't happen on his watch
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A bishop is entangled in a spiritual mystery after admitting he couldn't explain how he got a black eye after a drinks party -- while witnesses gave a colourful account of his night out.
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The 19th-century mystic nun who inspired some of the more controversial scenes of Mel Gibson&#39;s hit movie, &quot;The Passion of the Christ,&quot; was beatified yesterday by Pope John Paul II.
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Avoiding further controversy in the worldwide Anglican family, the Episcopal Diocese of Newark on Saturday chose a Massachusetts priest as their new bishop, rather than an openly gay candidate on the ballot.
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When Casey Capello made the decision to transfer from Notre Dame of Hingham to Archbishop Williams for her junior year, an influential factor was having the opportunity to play for a state championship.
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Priests and estate agents are rarely mistaken for each other. The former have signed a contract with the Lord, while the latter, it is widely thought, are more likely to be in league with the devil
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Some clergy have criticized what they regarded as the churchâs leftward drift, including the consecration of an openly gay bishop.