Italy priest says Mass with dead man on floor
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A priest who continued saying Mass while the body of a man who died of a heart attack during the service was still on the church floor defended himself on Thursday, saying that is what he would have wanted.
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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. A spokeswoman for Giuliani said the firm had no plans to fire Monsignor Alan Placa.
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Piergiorgio Welby is paralysed and speaks through a computer An Italian judge has rejected a request by a terminally ill man to have doctors switch off his life support machine.Comment
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Gunmen abducted an Italian Roman Catholic priest who was on his way to a remote village to celebrate Sunday Mass in the southern Philippines, police said.
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An Italian priest kidnapped by Islamic militants broke down in tears Friday as he described his six weeks of captivity in the Philippine jungle.
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An elderly Italian nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa was shot dead by two gunmen at a hospital Sunday in an attack possibly linked to worldwide Muslim anger toward Pope Benedict XVI.
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A funeral mass is being held for aid worker Margaret Hassan, thought to have been murdered in Iraq.
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A senior Iranian cleric said on Friday   that Pope Benedict's recent remarks that angered Muslims were   an "act of madness" and said the leader of the Catholic Church   had "disgraced himself."
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Friends and relatives attended a Roman  Catholic funeral mass in London on Saturday for British- Iraqi  hostage Margaret Hassan, believed to have been killed by her  captors in Iraq.
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Pope Benedict XVI leads Mass for almost one million Poles before a symbolic visit to the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.
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The grandson of Benito Mussolini has  lodged a legal request to exhume the body of Italy's fascist  dictator to find out how "Il Duce" really died, his lawyer told  Reuters on Monday.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - A Roman Catholic priest accused of ordering the slaughter of 2,000 people who sought refuge in his church during Rwanda's genocide insisted his slain parishioners were in his prayers Monday, as his lawyer dismissed the charges against his client as "rumours."
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II celebrated a special Mass early yesterday in his private chapel for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. Later, he publicly praised the outpouring of aid for the stricken populations as a sign of hope for 2005.
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Parishioners in southern Italy have bricked up the entrance to their Roman Catholic church, in response to a decision to transfer their popular priest, local authorities said.
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LORETO, Italy : Pope John Paul II defied the elements and debilitating illness to pray for the victims of the Russian hostage crisis at a giant open-air mass in Italy before hundreds of thousands of ecstatic followers.
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A Roman Catholic priest urged mourners Wednesday at the funeral of a Texas soldier who was captured and mutilated in Iraq to avoid &quot;unholy rage&quot; and work for peace to honor his memory.
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The grandson of Benito Mussolini has   lodged a legal request to exhume the body of Italy's fascist   dictator to find out how "Il Duce" really died, his lawyer told   Reuters on Monday.