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US Wasted Billions in Rebuilding Iraq

Posted Sunday, August 29, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq – A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system i…


Pontiff Affirms Duty Toward Future Generations [2010-08-29]

Posted Sunday, August 29, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

Zenit.org ).- Benedict XVI says that we have a duty toward future generations — to entrust them with the earth in a state in which they too can inhabit it. The Pope said this today in Italian-languag…


Against the Pope’s Visit Just 5% Say Yes

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

SCOTLAND'S sectarian wounds appear to be healing, according to a new poll that suggests that only 5 per cent of the population objects to the Pope's visit.




Parents Sue ‘basement Sex Priest’

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their 18-year-old daughter in the basement of their home and are now suing, saying he got her pregnant.The lawsuit, fi…


The Young Tearaway Who’s in the Running to Be Next Pope

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

When Benedict XVI visits Britain next month, Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson will be with him. Hugh O'Shaughnessy charts the rise of a quiet contender


Spanish Bishop Denounces Abortion in Catholic Hospitals

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

The office of Monsignor Josep Ángel Saiz Meneses, Catholic bishop of Tarrasa – a town of the Catalonian region of Spain near Barcelona, responded on August 27 to reports in local media th…


Franciscan Priest Violently Murdered in Peru

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

Sadness and bewilderment has followed the violent death of a Puerto Rican Franciscan priest (OFM) and his young assistant in the Convent of “San Francisco,” located in the heart of the Per…


Priest Among Missing 5 Years After Katrina

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

The night sky heaved like a living thing as Fire Chief Joe Perez took another slow cruise in the rescue truck down the two-lane road snaking across this town in the last patch of marsh standing betwee…


Belgian Catholic Leader Offered to Keep Sex Abuse Case Secret, Officials Say

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

A file photo taken on December 15, 2009 shows Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels posing as he presents his book 'Hoop, Geloof en Liefde' (Hope, Faith and Love), during a press conference in Mechelen. …


Archbishop Chaput on Liberty And Mission [2010-08-28]

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Catholic News, Denominations, Science, Top Stories

Zenit.org ).- Here is the text of an address Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, Colorado, gave Tuesday in Slovakia. The address was titled "Living Within the Truth: Religious Liberty and Cathol…