Celibacy 'obligatory' for priests
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Pope Benedict XVI confirms that celibacy "remains obligatory" for Roman Catholic priests.
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The Vatican offers priests a course in casting out devils with lessons on psychology and the law included.
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DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. - Two Episcopal priests face possible punishment from the church after it was discovered that they were leaders of a local society of Druids, people who follow a pre-Christian practice of worshipping the sun and venerating the Earth.
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A  bishop is to step down over a porn scandal at a  seminary in his diocese, Austrian media report.
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By lifting restrictions on a rite out of favor since the 1960s, Benedict is signaling the limits on Catholic reform
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The Vatican has revised its guidelines on marriage annulments, acknowledging some abuses and saying Tuesday that it wants the practice that some critics have dubbed "Catholic divorce" handled in a more serious way.
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The nation's Roman Catholic bishops said Friday they will spend the next nine months deciding whether to make any changes in the policy they enacted at the height of the clergy sex abuse crisis that includes permanently barring guilty priests from church work.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has been cleared of accusations that its opposition to abortion violated a law banning priests from mixing in politics, but the church said yesterday that it will mount a campaign to change the law it believes is too restrictive.
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Eleven years after the Church of England first began ordaining women as priests, its governing body voted on Wednesday to consider allowing females to become bishops.
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TORONTO (CP) - An Anglican Church commission urging Canadian dioceses to stop blessing same-sex relationships isn't binding and won't likely have an immediate impact on the practices of individual parishes, says the church's Canadian primate.
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A Spanish bill allowing gay marriage is expected to go to parliament has the Catholic Church up in arms. One bishop said it was like unleashing a virus.
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By VICTOR L. SIMPSON  VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI's personal priest asked the pontiff on Friday to declare a day of fasting and penance to express the Roman Catholic Church's solidarity with the victims of clerical sex abuse.  In a strongly worded lecture, the Rev.
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A decree this month by Pope Benedict allowing wider use of the old Latin mass has spawned a veritable cottage industry in helping Roman Catholic priests learn how to celebrate the centuries-old rite.
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Non-Catholics who are up in arms of the proclamation by Pope Benedict XVI that the only true church in the world is that of Catholicism shouldn't even bother getting upset. Just chalk it up to an old man trying to get a little attention.
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LORETO, Italy, SEPT. 5, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- John Paul II pointed to the testimony of Pere Tarres i Claret, a doctor who became a priest on his way to beatification.
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Pope Benedict XVI has approved a document that relaxes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass used by the Roman Catholic Church for centuries until the modernizing reforms of the 1960s, the Vatican said Thursday.
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Australia's dwindling number of Catholic priests has appealed to the Vatican to overturn a centuries-old ban on married clergy in an effort to stem the serious decline in their ranks.