Catholic nuns and monks decline
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The Vatican has reported a further dramatic fall in the number of Roman Catholic monks and nuns worldwide.
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A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, but hope remains of an eventual breakthrough, the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland said yesterday.
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By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 10--If what Iomega Corp. endured over the past decade is  "restructuring," then two-thirds of 14th century Europe's population was  merely downsized by the Black Plague.
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Less than half of all Britons now believe in God, a sharp drop from the more than three-quarters of the population who said they were believers in 1968, according to a survey published.
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As seminary enrollment has sagged, Chicago's Catholic Church is trying to recruit priests who reflect the diversity of their flock
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The wall separating church and economics is being breached as some academics turn to studying the effect of religion on economies.
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The proportion of the Finnish population who belong to the countrys main religion, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church, has been declining.
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Ever since Pope Benedict XVI wandered into the religious crossfire between Islam and the West, the Vatican has been busy trying to retreat to calmer ground.
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An association representing 75,000 Roman Catholic nuns has rejected a proposal from a victims advocacy group designed to encourage people who were sexually molested by nuns to come forward and get help.
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The Pope reverses a decision to downgrade the Vatican department dealing with the Islamic world.
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Two of Northern Ireland&#39;s church leaders have expressed disappointment that talks aimed at restoring devolved government have ended without a deal.
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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, SEPT. 12, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- A priest who is not profoundly spiritual is "a poor celibate," says a consultor to a Vatican dicastery.
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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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Depressed men and women who consider themselves affiliated with a religion are less likely to attempt suicide than their non-religious counterparts, according to new study findings.
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A few years back, the St. Anthony's Ladies Society folded. It's happened to a lot of clubs.
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Italian brides and grooms marrying in Catholic churches will no longer "take" each other as husband or wife, but will "accept" each other.
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The ongoing sexual-abuse crisis. Dioceses declaring bankruptcy. What to do with Catholic politicians who don&#39;t hold to church teachings.