Pope's Priest Urges Penance for 'Abominations'
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VATICAN CITY, Dec. 15 -- 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.
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Jewish campaigners and Poland's president call for the Catholic Church to act against a controversial priest.
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A Roman Catholic archbishop will ask officials of St. Louis University to take âappropriate actionâ against its basketball coach, who said in a television interview that he supports abortion rights.
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VATICAN CITY, Sept. 16 -- Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely regrets" offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," a senior Vatican official said in a statement Saturday.
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The archbishop of Canterbury strongly suggested yesterday that apologies from the US Episcopal Church for creating a controversy by ordaining an openly gay priest as a bishop had not gone far enough to heal a breach in the worldwide Anglican Communion. He called on the American church to repent.
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Pope Benedict began a highly charged visit to mostly Muslim Turkey on Tuesday hoping his calls for understanding between religions would soothe anger over his recent comments seen here as insulting to Islam.
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Cardinal Roger Mahony apologized this afternoon for âthis horrible sin and crimeâ and said he hoped the $660 million settlement would bring a âfinal resolution.â
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Working too hard, even for those leading the Catholic Church, is bad for the spirit, Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday as he greeted tourists at his summer residence outside Rome.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador  - The Catholic Church in El Salvador begged forgiveness on Wednesday for a priest who raped an altar boy and now faces charges he abused other children.
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In a dramatic plea for understanding, Archbishop Sean P. O&#39;Malley yesterday described his effort to close parishes as &#39;&#39;personally repulsive to me,&quot; but
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Afghanistan's Taliban has demanded that Pope Benedict XVI apologise for remarks linking Islam with violence, adding the comment showed the Christian West was waging war against Muslims.
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Pope Benedict XVI calls on the media to be more ethical and focus on the dignity of the human being.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict's personal preacher yesterday urged the pope to call a worldwide day of fasting and penitence to ask forgiveness for the clergy sexual abuse scandals.
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Pope Benedict tried on Sunday to calm   Muslim anger at his remarks on Islam, saying he was "deeply   sorry" about the reaction and that medieval quotes he used on   holy war did not reflect his personal views.
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The Vatican used the stage of   the United Nations on Wednesday to try to make amends for   remarks by Pope Benedict that drew fury from Muslims worldwide.
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Social and political evil is  spreading through the world, causing war, injustice, violence  and desperation, Pope John Paul said in his annual peace  message on Thursday.
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Pope John Paul II on Monday called for more opposition to laws he sees as threatening families based on traditional marriage, urged a vast mobilization of the public worldwide to combat hunger and restated the Catholic church's ban on embryo stem cell use.