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In All Things
Some video to supplement Austen Ivereigh s reporting below on the 24 new cardinals including two Americans Cardinal Donald Wuerl archbishop of Washington D C and Cardinal Raymond Burke prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
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The cardinals who could well be voting for the next pope now number 121 -- 40 per cent of them appointed by Benedict XVI -- following the consistory this morning in Rome a solemn and colourful occasion in which the new members of the College promise to defend the Church even at the cost of martyrdo
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From CNS The Vatican is preparing a document for all bishops conferences offering guidelines for a coordinated and effective program of child protection and for dealing with allegations of clerical sexual abuse said Cardinal William J Levada prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of th
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While New Yorkers can be gratified to see the U S C C B presidency make a turn toward the northeast mdash and we at America can only be delighted that a friend of the House and contributor has been selected to head the conference best wishes and congrats Archbishop Tim Dolan mdash I can rsquo t
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One of the amusing effects of this week's announcement that Britain's Prince William is going to marry his long-time girlfriend, Kate Middleton, is that every copy of the blue dress that Kate was wearing at their photo-op has disappeared. The shops here in London say that they sold out of the dresses within 24 hours of the latest event-of-the-century announcement. People understand why, of course, at least intuitively: everybody wants to be somebody and the somebody that everybody who's anybody wants to be this week is either partner in Britain's new royal couple.
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The world s first Ordinariate -- a special jurisdiction for Anglicans becoming Catholics who are able to retain some of their traditions -- will be created by the Catholic Church in England and Wales its bishops announced today Their statement announced a timetable of ordinations formation and re