Beatification Approved for Hawaii Nun
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The Vatican cleared the way Monday for the beatification of Mother Marianne Cope, a nun who worked for more than 30 years with leprosy patients at Molokai's Kalaupapa settlement in Hawaii.
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The widow of a soldier killed in Afghanistan won state approval Wednesday to place a Wiccan religious symbol on his memorial plaque, something the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had refused.
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Pope John Paul II is moving five Catholics closer to sainthood. Those who were beatified include Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's ...
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A devout and defiant Austrian farmer beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for deserting Hitler's army was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on Friday in the last major step before possible sainthood.
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After an appeal by the former Congressman's spurned first wife, the Vatican reverses a controversial annulment
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Advancing the sainthood causes of five Europeans, Pope John Paul II beatified the last Hapsburg emperor and the nun whose visions inspired Mel Gibson s film, The Passion of the Christ.
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The Holy See on Sunday gave an unprecedented stamp of approval to an American studio film.
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The first state-appointed Chinese Catholic bishop for 50 years to have the Pope's approval is being consecrated.
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U.S. Catholic bishops are planning to appoint a nun to their lay review board on sexual abuse, a step that could undermine the watchdog panel's independence, several of its members charged this week.
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The pope on Wednesday named a Hong Kong bishop to eventually succeed Cardinal Joseph Zen, the leading proponent for religious freedom in China.
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Bishop John C. Wester lays his hands upon the Rev. Jose Gregorio Rausseo Gomez while the Rev. Manuel de Jesus Ceron-Valdez waits his turn during their ordination to be priests at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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ELLUNO, Italy, OCT. 20, 2004 .- For Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope John Paul I is "an example for all" and he prays for his beatification.
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A Hungarian nun who helped save the lives of dozens of Jews during World War II was beatified Sunday in a Mass attended by thousands.
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A woman is ordained to the Catholic priesthood. Not surprisingly, the hierarchy does not approve.
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Pope Benedict has given his  backing to Beijing&#39;s new state-approved Catholic bishop, the  official Vatican newspaper L&#39;Osservatore Romano said on Friday,  hours after Li Shan was installed in the Chinese capital.
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OCEANIA/ISOLE SALOMONE - Cresce la vita religiosa nel Pacifico: Professione solenne di una suora Domenicana Honiara (Agenzia Fides) - La comunitÃ  cattolica delle Salomone ha vissuto di recente un evento di grande gioia: Suor Loretta Arohikeni, Domenicana, ha emesso la Professione solenne di vita religiosa in una celebrazione tenutasi nella cattedrale di Ho...
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A life-size statue of Elvis Presley is to be erected in Hawaii marking the 30th anniversary of the singer's death.