Pope revives old Latin mass, sparks Jewish concern
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Pope Benedict, in a decree issued on Saturday, authorized wider use of the old Latin mass and told the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics that his nod to Church traditionalists was nothing to be afraid of.
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VATICAN CITY  - In a Christmas shadowed by violence and the threat of conflict around the world, Pope John Paul II expressed &quot;great apprehension&quot; over the situation in Iraq but optimism at the outlook in the Palestinian crisis.
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The Vatican tried to enroll Roman Jewish men in its security forces in 1943 in order to save them from the Nazis, the Vatican's second in command said on Tuesday, rejecting charges that wartime Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic.
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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 traveled to the city of Altoetting to hold Mass on Monday, as his sentimental homecoming to Bavaria drew well-wishers and Roman Catholics eager to hear his words.
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Two pieces of Christian art that predate the Holocaust raise questions about anti-Semitism.
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A meeting with Muslim diplomats Monday was Pope Benedict XVI's latest effort to mend relations after remarks about Islam and violence that ignited the Vatican's most serious international crisis in decades.
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Pope John Paul has said Mass for several hundred thousand people and put two Italians and a Spaniard who lived in the 20th century on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Pope Benedict on Wednesday showed once more that he has a thing for old hats.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert asks the Pope to urge Christians to denounce Holocaust denial, at talks in the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY, July 7  â Pope Benedict XVI removed restrictions on Saturday on celebrating the old form of the Latin Mass in a concession to traditional Catholics, but he emphasized that he was in no way rolling back the changes of the Second Vatican Council.
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Pope John Paul II was back at the Vatican on Friday after overcoming breathing problems that required emergency hospitalization and left many wondering how he would continue in his papacy with such frail health.
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Pope Benedict celebrated parts of Sunday's Mass with his back turned on the congregation, re-introducing an old ritual that had not been used in decades.
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A Jewish group said Sunday it plans to "modify" its publicity campaign to fight anti-Semitism that showed an image of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary with the slur "Dirty Jew" scrawled across it to mimic graffiti after it drew negative reactions.
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The Vatican said yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI will soon issue a document providing for wider use of the Tridentine Mass, the centuries-old Latin rite that was largely supplanted in the 1960s by a new liturgy, usually translated into modern languages.
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An assembly representing Conservative rabbis worldwide expressed dismay on Tuesday over a revised Roman Catholic prayer calling for the conversion of Jews and voted to ask the Vatican to clarify the text's meaning.
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Jewish campaigners and Poland's president call for the Catholic Church to act against a controversial priest.