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October 23, 2009: New Vatican Policy on Anglicans

October 23, 2009: New Vatican Policy on Anglicans

Watch National Catholic Reporter senior correspondent John L. Allen Jr. and Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discuss the Roman Catholic Church's plan to absorb unhappy Anglicans wishing to become Catholics.

Posted: Oct 23rd, 2009  Comments: 8   Views: 361   
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August 21, 2009: U.S. Nuns and the Vatican

August 21, 2009: U.S. Nuns and the Vatican

"Women religious say this represents an investigation or an attack on the American way of being church, which has stressed more lay involvement, more religious involvement, collegiality, more accountability demanded of the bishops," says National Catholic Reporter editor Tom Fox.

Posted: Aug 21st, 2009  Comments: 11   Views: 4,764   
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May 15, 2009: Pope’s Mideast Trip Wrap-Up

May 15, 2009: Pope’s Mideast Trip Wrap-Up

It was a week of prayers and pleas for peace and gestures of reconciliation to all sides in the Holy Land.

Posted: May 15th, 2009  Comments: 1   Views: 2,657   
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March 27, 2009: Pope’s Trip to Africa Wrap-Up

March 27, 2009: Pope’s Trip to Africa Wrap-Up

After a week in Cameroon and Angola the pope said he was moved by Africa's "powerful sense of the sacred."

Posted: Mar 27th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 3,364   
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April 11, 2008: Pope Benedict’s Foreign Policy

April 11, 2008: Pope Benedict’s Foreign Policy

The Holy See has played an active global role for centuries. It has permanent observer status at the United Nations and has all the rights of full UN membership except voting.

Posted: Apr 11th, 2008  Comments: 0   Views: 928   
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