Vatican text angers Protestants
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The Pope approves a text that says Christian denominations outside Roman Catholicism are not "true" Churches.
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Gay rights activists say Vatican influence fuels discrimination against gay people in Italy.
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By NEDRA PICKLER  WASHINGTON - Two bloggers hired recently by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards were criticized Tuesday by a Catholic group for posts they had written elsewhere on the Internet.
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The Vatican complains of a 'militant secularism' sidelining the Church from public life in Europe.
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An online statement posted Sunday in the name of an al-Qaida-linked group pledged that the Vatican would be spared, but repeated threats to "turn Rome into hell."
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The Spanish Catholic Church's about-face on the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS was met with anger by left-wing politicians, commentators and gay rights groups who labeled the church's position as unreasonable and inhuman.
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Pope Benedict is sorry Muslims   were offended by a speech that provoked fury in the Islamic   world and led to calls for the leader of the Catholic church to   apologize personally, the Vatican said on Saturday.
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Outraged order of nuns calls for silencing of erotic verses of Juan RamÃ³n JimÃ©nez.
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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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Academics and students accuse pontiff of defending the Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS  Two bloggers hired recently by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards were criticized Tuesday by a Catholic group for posts they had written elsewhere on the Internet.
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The Catholic Church in Scotland expresses dismay at figures showing its members are more likely to suffer sectarian abuse.
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A Vatican cardinal says the fire directed at would-be EU commissioner Rocco Buttiglione amounts to a "lay inquisition".
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London - The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised conservatives in the Anglican church for using hostile words about homosexuals in the recent row over the ordination of gay bishops.
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A Vatican handbook made public Monday questioned preventive war and denounced the "horrendous crime" of abortion, but Vatican officials denied they were trying to influence the U.S. presidential election campaign.
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Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely regrets" offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," the Vatican said Saturday.
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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is becoming increasingly alarmed at what it regards as official anti-Roman Catholic sentiment and secular trends in Europe, as government after government approves measures on abortion, family law, and scientific study that run counter to Catholic teaching.