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The cardinal stepped down as archbishop in February 2013 after three priests and one former priest alleged Cardinal O'Brien had made sexual advances toward them 20 years earlier.
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Hawking's avowed atheism did not keep him from engaging in dialogue and debate with the church as his work and contribution to the papal academy showed.
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Every diocese in the world still needs to have at least one trained exorcist on hand for the (rare) eventuality of an actual demonic possession, said Father Cesare Truqui.
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Loudly boasting or complaining about fasting during Lent and treating others unkindly is not what God wants, Pope Francis said.
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The process needs to be more transparent, Father Hans Zollner said.
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The Pope called his message "Because of the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold."
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The seven Trappists and 11 other religious men and women were killed in Algeria in the 1990s.
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ROME (CNS) -- After special study, the German bishops' conference decided to stick with the traditional wording in the Lord's Prayer while the Italian bishops' conference has decided to change the words of the prayer in their translation of the Roman Missal.
The decisions come after the French bishops decided that beginning early December last year, French Catholics would change the line, "Lead us not into temptation," to the equivalent of "do not let us enter into temptation."
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Pope Francis called on the world community to do more to protect the Yezidi minority in Iraq and Syria.
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The annual meeting in Davos brought together people representing business, government, academia and media to discuss the theme, "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World."