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...One of Asia’s most senior Roman Catholic clerics is meeting officials in Beijing, as a deal between the Vatican and China over the church’s role in the country appears to be fraying....
...“We, the Catholic bishops, ask that society help people to live and live until the end, until death comes,” said Bishop Matthieu Rougé....
...None of the big political parties in France oppose abortion rights. Religious groups and the Catholic Church had opposed the constitutional change, and expressed sadness at the outcome....
...The appointment in Shanghai, one of the oldest and most prosperous Catholic dioceses, is a further blow....
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...a medieval Roman Catholic monastery set between fields and wooded hills in northern Scotland....
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...It has ended bans on divorce and abortion that were the hallmark of the Catholic Church’s decades-long sway over Ireland, and has introduced same-sex marriage....
...Western business chambers have expressed concerns over the scope of the law, and Hong Kong’s Catholic church last week moved to reassure believers in the territory that confessions would remain confidential...
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...Donald MacEwan, the university chaplain, articulate and clever, says the church to which he has given his life is “increasingly not part of the society. Belief in God is shrinking.”...
...The world around her had been changing, including the Catholic church: Vatican II, the great wave of reform announced in 1962, had led to deep ructions between conservatives and liberals....
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...Luis Manuel Díaz was released by the ELN following an operation carried out by the Colombian military, the UN and the Catholic Church, the government confirmed on Thursday....
...a doctrinal struggle for control of the Roman Catholic Church....
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...Cameron met Lai’s son Sebastien last week to discuss the case. Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen, a veteran human rights advocate, and several foreign diplomats attended the hearing....
...Butler points out the oddity of the Catholic Church accusing trans activists of child abuse. In 2017, evangelical Christians burnt an effigy of Butler in São Paulo....
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