Vatican: Decline in religious orders
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The number of men and women belonging to religious orders worldwide continues to decline sharply, but there has been an increase in priests assigned to dioceses, the Vatican said.
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Â· Research argues that orders are not working  Â· Evidence suggests lack of support for offenders
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The Vatican has reported a further dramatic fall in the number of Roman Catholic monks and nuns worldwide.
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A campaign to sanctify the European Union through the beatification of its founding father, Robert Schuman, has run into stiff resistance from the Vatican and now appears likely to fail.
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At many campuses --  maybe most -- the Greek system has been in decline for about 40  years. The parties and friendships notwithstanding, more  students resent the snobbishness, the silly rules, the extra  expenses, the hazing and the demands that interfere with study  or work.
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Cardinal Jozef Glemp, who headed Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church through the dark days of martial law and the country's later jump to free-market democracy, stepped down Wednesday after more than 25 years as archbishop of Warsaw.
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Pope Benedict is coming under mounting criticism from his former German theologian colleagues who liken the Catholic Church's doctrinal office, which the pontiff once headed, to a 19th century censorship bureau.
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ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) - Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences,  vanishing foreign correspondents, concentration of ownership,  shrivelling papers...is journalism imploding? Can independent  journalism survive?
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Ma inferiore a 2005 e 2004, in passivo media vaticani
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Some are Catholics who see their church as stuck in the past. Others are believers who happen to be divorced, pregnant before marriage or gay. A few just can't find a priest when they need one.
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The Vatican on Tuesday said Christian denominations outside the Roman Catholic Church were not full churches of Jesus Christ.
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Pope John Paul II encouraged Catholics to rediscover the importance of Sunday Mass during the Advent season.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Western societies are losing   their souls to scientific rationality and frightening believers   in the developing world who still fear God, Pope Benedict told   an open-air mass in Germany on Sunday.
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Â·  Anglicans decide they are not breaching doctrineÂ·   Vote could worsen split in worldwide communion
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The Vatican is making it tougher to become a saint.
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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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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.