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{mosimage}VATICAN CITY - Just minutes before Pope Benedict XVI prayed that the example of newly beatified Spanish martyrs would spur Catholics to work for reconciliation and peaceful co-existence, a small fight broke out across town in front of a church run by Opus Dei.
Beatified Austrian refused to fight for Hitler
By Catholic News Service
{mosimage}VATICAN CITY - A Vatican cardinal beatified Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer who was beheaded in 1943 after he refused to fight in Hitler's army.
Collection tells the legend of the Knights Templar
By John Thavis, Catholic News Service
{mosimage}VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is publishing a collector’s edition of documents on the Knights Templar, the medieval crusading order that became the focus of legends and mysteries.
Christian-Muslim peace = world peace
By Regina Linskey, Catholic News Service
{mosimage} WASHINGTON - For the first time, more than 100 senior Muslim leaders from around the world sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders proposing theological similarities as a basis for peace and understanding.
Pope names 23 new cardinals
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
{mosimage}VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI named 23 new cardinals at the end of his weekly general audience Oct. 17 and said he would formally install the cardinals during a special consistory at the Vatican Nov. 24.
Canadian Jewish leaders condemn meeting with Iran president
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
{mosimage}OTTAWA - Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) executive director Karen Hamilton grilled the Iranian president during a recent meeting in New York, telling him his threats to wipe Israel off the face of the map were “unacceptable.”
Catholic-Anglican text encourages realism over divisions
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
{mosimage}VATICAN CITY - Anglicans and Roman Catholics should witness to the faith they share and work together to promote Christian values in the world, but they also must be realistic about issues still dividing them, said a recent document by Anglican and Catholic bishops.
Claim that John Paul refused nutrition refuted
By John Thavis, Catholic News Service
{mosimage}ROME - Pope John Paul II’s personal physician has vehemently denied an Italian doctor’s claim that the late pope refused nutritional support that would have prolonged his life.
Protecting environment a 'moral imperative'
By Catholic News Service
{mosimage}UNITED NATIONS - Addressing the United Nations, a Vatican official said climate change demands a new co-operative international strategy in order to avoid a “bleak future.”
Catholic leaders welcome Vatican documents on artificial nutrition
By Nancy Frazier O'Brien, Catholic News Service{mosimage}WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic health care and ethical groups thanked the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for clarifying its stand on artificial nutrition and hydration for patients in a persistent vegetative state in a pair of Sept. 14 documents.
Europe needs to revert to Christian values
By John Thavis , Catholic News Service{mosimage}VIENNA, Austria - On a three-day pilgrimage to Austria, Pope Benedict XVI brought a core theme of his pontificate to Central Europe, warning that a drift away from Christian values is leaving society unfulfilled, less charitable and without a real future.