Beijing appoints new bishop
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China's state-controlled Catholic Church installed a cleric well-regarded by the Vatican as bishop of Beijing on Friday in a move that officials say should help ease their tense relations.
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China has announced new rules on religious groups aimed at ending discrimination on grounds of belief.
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By Lisa Crutchfield, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 23--U2's "Gloria" poured from the speakers. The pews were packed.   And the newly consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia was pumped.
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China's Communist Party unveils its new leadership line-up, with new faces joining its top decision-making body.
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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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The first state-appointed Chinese Catholic bishop for 50 years to have the Pope's approval is being consecrated.
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The Roman Catholic bishops of the United States elected Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., to be president of their national conference in an unusually close vote yesterday
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China&#39;s state-controlled Catholic  church has quietly nominated a new bishop for Beijing and the  priest chosen said the government would decide whether to seek  approval from Rome as Pope Benedict demanded.
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New rules come into force giving China more say over how Tibetan monks select their leader, the Dalai Lama.
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Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., who plans to declare his diocese in bankruptcy because of sexual abuse claims, was elected yesterday as the next president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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A state-approved Catholic bishop of Beijing was installed to applause from parishioners on Friday in a tightly orchestrated ceremony that was subsequently endorsed by the Vatican, in a sign of a thaw in relations.
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A  bishop is to step down over a porn scandal at a  seminary in his diocese, Austrian media report.
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China's state-controlled Catholic church has quietly nominated a new bishop for Beijing and the priest chosen said the government would decide whether to seek approval from Rome as Pope Benedict demanded.
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China replaced its finance minister on Thursday amid media reports that he was involved in a sex scandal just weeks ahead of a major Communist Party meeting that will set the country's policies for the next five years.
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Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen on Friday lashed out at China's latest ordination of a bishop without papal approval &#151; the third known case this year &#151; accusing Beijing of reneging on a promise to the Vatican to stop the practice.
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Roman Catholic Church leaders in Austria formally installed a new bishop Sunday in a diocese rocked by the discovery of a vast cache of child pornography on computers at a seminary.
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Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., who plans to declare his diocese in bankruptcy because of sexual abuse claims, was elected Monday as the next president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.