Pope's preacher calls for abuse penance
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Pope Benedict XVI's personal preacher asked the pontiff Friday to declare a day of fasting and penance to publicly declare repentance and express solidarity with the victims of clerical sex abuse.
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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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POPE John Paul today issued a new appeal for peace in Iraq and the Middle East, condemning the &quot;horror&quot; of violence as well as &quot;the terrorism that cruelly targets the innocent&quot;.
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The only man allowed to preach to Pope Benedict on Friday told the Pontiff he should call a worldwide day of fasting and penitence to ask forgiveness for the Roman Catholic Church's priestly sexual abuse scandals.
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LORETO, Italy  - Pope John Paul prayed for the  victims of the "inhumane violence" of Russia's Beslan school  tragedy as he said Mass on Sunday before 200,000 people in  central Italy.
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The Vatican said Friday it had asked the Mexican founder of the conservative order Legionaries of Christ to renounce celebrating public Masses and live a life of &quot;prayer and repentance&quot; following its investigation into allegations he sexually abused seminarians.
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Advocates for victims of abuse by Catholic clergy on Friday urged presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani to fire a priest who was suspended from the church and then hired by the ex-mayor's security consulting business.
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Pope John Paul prayed for the victims of the &quot;inhumane violence&quot; of Russia&#39;s Beslan school tragedy as he said Mass on Sunday before 200,000 people in central Italy.
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Pope Benedict XVI called Saturday on Christians and others touched by his words to mobilize against the widening warfare in the Middle East, saying no good comes out of war, not even for the victors.
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Pope John Paul II told American bishops Friday that he shares their pain over the U.S. sex-abuse scandal and said he was aware of their determination to deal forthrightly with the problem.
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Pope Benedict faced a growing   chorus of demands on Tuesday for an unequivocal apology for   remarks seen as portraying Islam as a violent faith, despite   attempts by Western leaders and churchmen to defuse the crisis.
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Pope Benedict on Sunday renewed his appeal to Catholics to reject abortion and euthanasia, saying life was God-given and could not be cut short under "the guise of human compassion".
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The spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans reminded his bishops of the need for humility on Sunday in a veiled rebuke to those whose wrangling over gay clergy threatens to tear the church apart.
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Pope Benedict XVI blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon on Saturday at the 850-year-old pilgrimage site of Mariazell in Austria.
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Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday that he is "deeply sorry" about the reaction in some countries to a recent speech in which he quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor as saying that the prophet Muhammad brought "only evil and inhuman" things to the world.
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Israel's prime minister asked Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday to urge Christians to protest Holocaust denials, Israeli government officials said.
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In his Christmas message, the Anglican Bishop of Canberra has urged Australians to act to relieve poverty and injustice at home and abroad.