6 nuns in Ark. excommunicated for heresy
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Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be possessed by the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of Little Rock announced Wednesday.
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Pope John Paul, looking tired and speaking with difficulty, put five Catholics on the road to sainthood Sunday, including the 19th century German mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson&#39;s film on Christ&#39;s passion.
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ALBANY, New York  - 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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VATICAN CITY, AUG. 25, 2004 .- John Paul II handed over the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan to a Vatican delegation that will take it to the Orthodox patriarch of Moscow this Saturday.
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Now there is new evidence: A sixth-century manuscript written in Latin by St. Donato, an Augustinian monk who founded a monastery in the area of Valencia, provides never-before-published details about Laurence, ...
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With tens of thousands of U.S. nuns over age 70, the Roman Catholic Church is facing a massive financial shortfall for the care of retirees in religious orders &#151; a gap that over the long term dwarfs costs from the clergy abuse crisis.
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Launching a new front in the Episcopal Church conflict over the appointment of an openly gay bishop, six defiant congregations joined Sunday in a confirmation service led by bishops acting without permission from the Diocese of Ohio.
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An excommunicated Roman Catholic archbishop continued to defy the Vatican on Sunday when he installed two married men as priests.
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ROME -- Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, the provocative and colorful African prelate known for exorcisms, mass healing ceremonies, and temporarily breaking with the church to marry a Korean acupuncturist, was excommunicated yesterday by the Vatican.
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A renegade African archbishop who   wanted the Vatican to allow priests to marry has been   automatically excommunicated after he ordained four married men   as bishops, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians were last night locked in dispute over an 800-year-old war crime and a box of 1,600-year-old bones that was meant to have brought them a giant step closer to reunification.
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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican yesterday issued a "Ten Commandments" for motorists to keep them on the road to salvation, warning drivers against the sins of road rage, abuse of alcohol, and even rudeness.
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Nuns join Buddhist monks in Burma for the first time in a seventh day of anti-junta protests in Rangoon.
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Â· Catholic leader demands NHS block on terminationsÂ· Communion challenge to pro-choice politicians
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Outraged order of nuns calls for silencing of erotic verses of Juan RamÃ³n JimÃ©nez.
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LONDON-- More than 5,000 Catholics attend Masses every Sunday at Our Lady Mother of the Church, packing the old stone church so completely that loudspeakers were  recently installed outside so the overflow crowd can hear.
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A VALLETTA, Malta, DEC. 2, 2004 .- This island nation's Catholic bishops are protesting against the pressures exerted by a U.N. Commission on Malta to legalize abortion in certain circumstances.