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Made public today was Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio, "Omnium in mentem". The document is dated 26 October 2009 and contains two variations to the Code of Canon Law , variations which have long been the object of study by dicasteries of the Roman Curia and by national episcopal conferences.

The US capital took a first step towards joining a handful of states that recognize gay marriage Tuesday as the city council voted to legalize gay marriage.

HOUMA - Before the Rev. Van Constant trades his parish for a combat zone next year, he has packing to do.

A third inquiry into clerical child sex abuse by Catholic priests will run until next summer, it was revealed tonight.

Cornwall Inquiry head Justice Normand Glaude says systemic failures were found in the response to allegations of historic sexual abuse.

The diocese announced the appointment in a statement on Tuesday. Medley was born in Marion County and ordained to the priesthood in 1982.

ALESSANDRA RIZZO Vatican City - Published on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 7:09AM EST P ope Benedict XVI called for urgent action to protect the environment, saying Tuesday that climate change and natural catastrophes threaten the rights to life, food, health and ultimately peace.

EDITOR: Let's suppose someone was running around Wausau wearing a Packer helmet and sweatshirt yelling, "I'm a Packer player." Wanting that person to stop making such a disturbance, you stop and start questioning him.

A girl holds a figurine of baby Jesus as Pope Benedict XVI leads the Angelus prayer from the window of his apartment overlooking St.

By Source: Published: Monday, December 14, 2009 VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI shares "the outrage, betrayal and shame" felt by Irish Catholics over cases of clerical sexual abuse and the way abuse claims were handled by church leaders, and he plans to write a special pastoral letter to the Catholics of Ireland, the Vatican said.

APPLETON - Mary's likeness stood among a bed of roses Sunday representing tradition and deep Catholic faith that's bound generations.

Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Church urged a court Monday to let Christians use "Allah" as a translation for God and overturn a government ban that has become a symbol of religious grievances in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

OPPOSITION frontbencher Christopher Pyne has accused Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of a cynical attempt to take credit for Mother Mary MacKillop's possible canonisation.

Despite practising as an Anglican for years, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will always be a Catholic, a sister of that church says.

The Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart is the 63rd minor basilica in the U.S.. Minor Basilicas enjoy special rights and privileges.

Anti-abortion activists are holding vigils outside Massachusetts and Rhode Island churches over the weekend.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is regarded as Mexico's most popular religious and cultural image.

MELBOURNE, December 11, 2009 - In an address to a gathering sponsored by the World Parliament of Religions last Friday, former US President Jimmy Carter has once again blamed traditional religion, particularly Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics, for "creating an environment where violations against women are justified." It is a theme that Carter ...

The new Archbishop of Milwaukee will be installed the first Monday in January as the leader of some 675,000 parishioners and 211 churches in the area.

The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has released a letter from 'a group of Chinese bishops and priests' who praised Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's recent letter to the Church in China.