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Butler found guilty

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A three-judge panel of Vatican jurists found Paolo Gabriele, the papal butler, guilty of aggravated theft and sentenced him to 18 months in gaol for his role in leaking private papal correspondence and other confidential documents. The verdict was read on October 6 by Giuseppe Dalla Torre, president of the three-judge panel, just two hours after th...
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Meet ‘offensive’ Bollywood film with peace, not violence: Bishop

  An Indian bishop has urged Christians to respond to a new Bollywood film denigrating the Christian faith with peaceful words and not violent protest. "We express with firm and unequivocal words, the disappointment of the Indian Church for this film considered offensive towards the Christian faith, but with peaceful words,” Bishop of Vasai, Mgr Felix Machado, the President for t...
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Up to Catholics to keep the peace on Islam

Joondanna priest Fr Peter Porteous had no way of predicting the protests and bloodshed that have ripped through the Islamic world in the past two weeks. But it seems the information session on Islam he has helped to convene and will run at his parish this weekend, couldn’t have come at a better time. God calls on all Catholics to be peacemakers, both through Scripture and Church teach...
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Ukrainian leaders face the dilemma of language

By Barb Fraze Many Ukrainian Catholic leaders serving the faithful outside the homeland face a dilemma: Do they serve the needs of the new immigrants and elderly by using Ukrainian in liturgies, or do they minister in English to keep younger people coming to church? Ukrainian “has revived a little with the new immigrants,” who want their native language used in church so their childre...
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Together with fellow Ukrainian Catholic bishops, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, processes outside Sts Volodymyr and Olha Cathedral in Winnipeg, Canada.

Benedict affirms right of Christians to freedom

By Francis Rocca Pope Benedict XVI signed a major document calling on Catholics in the Middle East to engage in dialogue with Orthodox, Jewish and Muslim neighbors, but also to affirm and defend their right to live freely in the region where Christianity was born. In a ceremony at the Melkite Catholic Basilica of St Paul in Harissa, Lebanon, on September 14, Pope Benedict signed the 9...
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Olive trees are seen onstage as Pope Benedict XVI leads a meeting with youth in the square outside the Maronite patriarch’s residence in Bkerke, Lebanon, on September 15.

Class out for new shepherds at bishops’ school

Three Australians completed a training course for new bishops in Rome yesterday, including Toowoomba Bishop Robert McGuckin whose predecessor Bishop William Morris was removed by the Holy See in May 2011. Armidale Bishop Michael Kennedy and Ballarat's Bishop-elect Paul Bird were also numbered among an estimated 105 men in attendance. The ten day course (September 11-20) course provide...
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Ancient faith faces the future

By Barb Fraze Ukrainian Catholic bishops from around the world gathered in Canada to discuss how to make their parishes more vibrant – especially through the involvement of lay people. How they do that requires solutions as varied as the parishes that represent more than 4 million Ukrainian Catholics on four continents. “We have parishes that are growing” and need pastoral, financi...
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Papal imprint: Benedict’s teachings are leaving a mark on future priests

Pope Benedict XVI, in his eighth year as pontiff, is making his mark on a new generation of future priests, who have embraced many of his ideas and priorities. For Danny Pabon, a seminarian from the Archdiocese of Newark, who just began studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, reading Pope Benedict’s account of the meaning of Jesus’ life and teachings was a turning poin...
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Many young seminarians are now influenced by Pope Benedict XVI, including these five new students pictured at the Pontifical North American College in Rome on September 5. From left are: Stephen Gadberry, Danny Pabon, Nathan Ricci, Timothy Ahn and Michael Hendershott.

Vandals burn door and graffiti monastery

Vandals burned the door of a Trappist monastery outside Jerusalem and spray-painted a wall with the names of illegal Israeli outposts, one of which had been evacuated two days earlier. In addition to the names of the outposts – Jewish enclaves not approved by the Israeli government – the vandals scrawled slogans against Christianity including “Jesus is a monkey” on the walls on the Latru...
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A monk stands next to graffiti sprayed on a wall at the entrance to the vandalised Trappist monastery outside Jerusalem on September 4.

Misreading of Vatican II led to collapse in Marian studies and devotion to Mother of God: expert

By Carol Glatz Devotion to Mary “collapsed” in some parts of the United States after the Second Vatican Council even though the council fathers had upheld her critical place within the Catholic faith, said a leading American expert in Marian studies. The council’s decision to integrate a draft text on Mary into a larger dogmatic text – Lumen Gentium – rather than publish it as a separate do...
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Father James Phalan, right, says devotion to Mary “collapsed” in some parts of the US after Vatican II even though council participants upheld her critical place within the Catholic faith.

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