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Who will pay? Romanian court orders tower next to cathedral demolished

January 30, 2013

BUCHAREST, Romania - A Romanian appeals court ordered a new 18-story office building demolished because it threatens the Bucharest cathedral's physical security and was illegally constructed.

Bitter cold can’t dampen March for Life crowd’s passion

January 30, 2013

WASHINGTON - The tens of thousands of participants at the annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 25 demonstrated just how determined they are not only by showing up in such large numbers on a bitter cold day but by continuing a 40-year tradition of protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion.

Tweets and retweets: Study analyses @Pontifex traffic

January 29, 2013

ROME - In his first month on Twitter, Pope Benedict XVI sent two dozen mini-messages in nine languages, generating more than 270,000 comments and responses from other Twitter users, according to a study conducted by an Italian Jesuit magazine and an Italian new-media consulting firm.

Catholic samba group turns parade into procession after nightclub fire

January 29, 2013

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - A Catholic samba group in Rio de Janeiro changed its parade plans after the nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people, most of them students from the local university in Santa Maria.

Cardinal Glemp headed Church during hard times

January 29, 2013

WARSAW, Poland - Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp took over as head of the Polish Church during "hard and uncertain" times, Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk of Gniezno told hundreds of people at the cardinal's funeral.

The sick, their caregivers can gain indulgences on World Day of Sick

January 28, 2013

VATICAN CITY - The sick, their caregivers and any Catholic who prays for or lovingly assists someone who is ill can gain an indulgence with prayers and service on or around the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which the Catholic Church marks as World Day of the Sick.

Catholics, United Church find common ground on marriage

January 25, 2013

Interfaith dialogue doesn’t reach agreement, but ‘winner-take-all’ wrong approach

Faith groups throw support behind U.S. gun control efforts

January 25, 2013

WASHINGTON - If Vincent DeMarco is right — and he’s got a whole bunch of faith leaders and their organizations lined up to work with him — ending easy access to the kinds of high-power guns used in mass shootings in the United States can be accomplished with a tried-and-true strategy.

Social networks need more logic, love and less ranting, rage, pope says

January 24, 2013

VATICAN CITY - Social media need to promote more logic, kindness and Christian witness than bluster, star-status and division, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Retired Polish primate, Cardinal Glemp, dies at 83

January 24, 2013

VATICAN CITY - Retired Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw, who served as primate of the Catholic Church in Poland during the final years of communism and during the restoration of democracy, died Jan. 23 at the age of 83.