By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Catholic Church has excommunicated a Brazilian priest after he defended homosexuality, open marriage and other practices counter to Church teaching in online videos. In a statement released late on Monday... [Full Article]
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's Catholic Christians flocked to churches to celebrate Easter Sunday, praying, singing and rejoicing in the resurrection of Christ behind high blast walls and tight security cordons. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (AP) - World leaders are sending their congratulations and Catholics around the world are celebrating after the Vatican announced the election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to the papacy - making him the first pontiff from Americas. (S... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Cardinals elected a new pope to lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on Wednesday, overcoming deep divisions to select the 266th pope in a remarkably fast conclave. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - A pastor in Ontario wondered about behind-the-scenes politicking ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope. He could have read news reports or listened to briefings by the Vatican spokesman. Instead, he asked a cardinal. Less t... [Full Article]
LUWERO, Uganda (Reuters) - Over the past century, the Catholic Church has been growing fastest in one of the regions other Catholics know least. Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for only one percent of the world Catholic population in 1910. By 2010, that... [Full Article]
SAO PAULO (AP) - Faithful attending Sunday Mass on five continents for the first time since Pope Benedict XVI's retirement had different ideas about who should next lead the Roman Catholic Church, with people suggesting everything from a Latin A... [Full Article]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation attended Mass on Sunday with their church awkwardly having no pope for the first time in 600 years and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to Benedi... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Catholic Church has awoken with no leader following Pope Benedict XVI's dramatic resignation, in which he pledged obedience to his successor as a "simple pilgrim" starting the final pilgrimage of his life. (Sour... [Full Article]
LONDON (AP) - Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry and have children, Britain's most senior Catholic cleric said Friday. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
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