Pope hits out at new "marriage, Italian style"
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The 1964 classic "Marriage, Italian  Style," where Marcello Mastroianni is duped into wedlock by his  long-suffering mistress, Sophia Loren, suggests matrimony here  has long fallen short of the Roman Catholic church's ideal.
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Pope John Paul on Saturday urged  Christians to be committed to seeking unity of their divided  Churches but, in a reference to homosexual clergy in the  Anglican communion, said new ethical obstacles had surfaced.
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Italy's left is seeking to 'eradicate' the traditional family with its plan for a law that would give unmarried couples, including gays, some of the same rights as married couples, the Vatican newspaper said ...Comment
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The Spanish government&#39;s plans to legalize same-sex marriage was lambasted by the Roman Catholic Church, the BBC reported Tuesday.
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Pope John Paul II told New Zealand bishops Monday that efforts to equate marriage between man and woman to other forms of cohabitation violated "God's plan for humanity."
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Pope Benedict on Saturday condemned genetic engineering and other scientific practices that allow people to select so-called "designer babies" by screening them for defects.
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Italy's disputed candidate for EU justice  and security commissioner, under fire for calling homosexuality  a sin, has said single mothers are "not very good."
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Vatican relations with the Islamic world must be restarted from square one because Muslims insist on misinterpreting Pope Benedict's recent comments on Islam, Germany's top Catholic cardinal said in an article on Wednesday.
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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is becoming increasingly alarmed at what it regards as official anti-Roman Catholic sentiment and secular trends in Europe, as government after government approves measures on abortion, family law, and scientific study that run counter to Catholic teaching.
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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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ROME The Vatican said Monday that anti-Christian elements were ravaging Europe with a new Inquisition that had claimed a devout Roman Catholic Italian minister because he expressed his faith and called homosexuality a sin.
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Italy&#39;s would-be European Commissioner, Rocco Buttiglione - already notorious for his view that homosexuality is a sin - has caused fresh outrage this weekend by telling a conference in northern Italy that single mothers are &#39;not very good&#39;.
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An Italian school's substitution of a Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood so as not to offend Muslim children has raised the Vatican's ire and sparked debate on how much traditions should change to accommodate immigrants.
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Pope John Paul II kept up his campaign against gay marriage Saturday, telling the ambassador from Canada &#151; where some provinces allow same-sex couples to wed &#151; that such unions create a "false understanding" of marriage.
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Pope Benedict said on Wednesday   his use in a speech of medieval quotes critical of Islam, which   infuriated Muslims worldwide, did not reflect his own   convictions and were misunderstood.
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LONDON, Aug 21 (IPS) - A new missive on women from the Vatican followed   by a strong response to it has brought new spark to an old  debate.
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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.