Pope to preside at funeral for cardinal
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Benedict XVI will preside Tuesday at a funeral Mass in St. Peter's Basilica for Cardinal Angelo Felici, who died in Rome Sunday.
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Pakistani security forces are braced for protests as the funeral takes place of a leading Baloch nationalist.
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of the Roman Catholic church in Washington, D.C., for 20 years, died on Sunday, the city's regional church body said. He was 84.
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Pope Benedict XVI, making sentimental stops in his predecessor&#039;s homeland, brought joy to Poles by announcing that he hopes John Paul II will be made a saint &quot;in the near future.&quot;
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Pope John Paul II will give his traditional blessing at midday Sunday from the hospital where he is being treated for the flu and breathing troubles, but an aide will read out the weekly Angelus prayer, the Vatican announced Saturday.
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Pope Benedict announced on Tuesday he had changed the rules to elect his successor, in a move meant to ensure that future pontiffs have broad support before white smoke rises again from the Sistine Chapel.
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Security is tightened in Rome ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first appearance since making comments angering Muslims.
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The body of Cardinal James A. Hickey, longtime Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, was moved Friday to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for his funeral Mass on Saturday.
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Outgoing PM will travel to the Vatican to meet the Pope in preparation for his conversion.
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For more than two decades he was Pope John Paul II&#039;s confidant and the Vatican&#039;s public face. A usually unflappable Spaniard, Joaquin Navarro-Valls struggled to hold back tears as the Polish pontiff lay on his deathbed.
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The Mormon church's famous Temple Square prepared to accommodate tens of thousands of mourners Saturday when the faith's beloved president Gordon B. Hinckley is laid to rest.
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America&#39;s Roman Catholic bishops chose a new president Monday who has released the names of priests accused of molesting children and reached out to victims but who also plans
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Pope Benedict is due to visit Austria, where he will join Jewish leaders to pay tribute to victims of the Nazis.
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The elevation of Sean Brady to cardinal indicates the pope wants to visit NI, a leading clergyman says.
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Lebanon prepares for the funeral of leading anti-Syrian politician Pierre Gemayel who was killed on Tuesday.
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Pope Benedict XVI is to issue a decree Saturday allowing greater use of the traditional Latin Mass, part of his efforts to reconcile with followers of an ultratraditional excommunicated bishop and bring them back into the Vatican's fold.
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Throngs of Luciano Pavarotti's admirers had a last chance to pay their respects to the big, booming tenor before an invitation-only funeral Saturday in his hometown's cathedral.