Spain bishops deny condom rethink
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The Roman Catholic Church in Spain denies any relaxation of the Catholic ban on the use of condoms.
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The Vatican's office for health care has concluded a study on the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS, and a long-awaited report on it is now being examined by the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog, a senior cardinal said Tuesday.
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MADRID, Spain  - The Catholic Church in Spain backtracked late Wednesday from a leading bishop's groundbreaking statement in support of condom use to fight the spread of AIDS, saying instead the church still believes artificial contraception is immoral.
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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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Bishops of the Episcopal Church rejected demands by leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion to roll back the churchâs liberal stance on homosexuality.
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The Catholic Church in Spain backtracked from a leading bishop's groundbreaking statement in support of condom use to fight the spread of AIDS, saying instead the church still believes artificial contraception is immoral.
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Spain's defense minister on Tuesday rejected Pope John Paul II's criticism of its Socialist government, which wants to legalize gay marriage and streamline laws on divorce and abortion, and he said some church positions go against the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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The Roman Catholic Church in Spain moved to quench any notion of a sea-change in its attitude to the use of contraceptives, saying remarks by one of its top people had been misunderstood and that doctrine ...
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MADRID, Jan 2  (IPS) - The Spanish Catholic Church "has strayed from  the fundamentals of democracy," said the governing socialist  party (PSOE) Wednesday, in response to harsh criticism from the  Church leadership.
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Efforts to increase the use of condoms in Madagascar to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS have failed dramatically, largely because of the opposition of church leaders.
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A doctor alleged Wednesday that Pope John Paul II violated Catholic teaching against euthanasia by refusing medical care that would have kept him alive longer &#151; a charge immediately dismissed by Vatican officials.
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Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola has rejected the U.S. Episcopal Church's latest efforts to calm tensions over the consecration of gay bishops &#151; an issue threatening to split the global Anglican-Episcopalian family.
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MADRID The Spanish justice minister on Monday rejected a new proposal from Basque militants for dialogue with the intention of ending the region&#39;s long conflict, saying the proposal lacked an explicit renunciation of violence.
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Roman Catholic bishops in England and  Wales rejected as "false and entirely misleading" a BBC  documentary about what it said was a cover-up of child sexual  abuse under a system enforced by Pope Benedict XVI in his  previous job.
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A senior Irish bishop denied that he was the clergyman who christened the sons of British soccer captain David Beckham and his pregnant pop star wife Victoria.
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A news report that a cardinal threatened doctors who performed an abortion with excommunication sparked controversy Wednesday and a denial from the prelate.
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People added two and two and got five, said an Irish bishop who denied he christened the sons of former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her husband, David.