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29 min ago | EDGEunitedstates.com News Feed

Right Wing Harps on Jackson as 'Pedophile'

Even as family and fans were preparing to lay the late pop star Michael Jackson to rest, figures on the political right were lambasting the singer as a "pervert" and a "pedophile." Newsday , in a July 9 article, reported that a U.S. congressman, Peter King, had posted a YouTube clip in which he called Jackson a "pervert," saying, "Let's knock out ...

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4 hrs ago | Star Phoenix

Priest clears PM in holy wafer flap

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was criticized this week over his handling of a communion wafer at Romeo LeBlanc's Catholic-service funeral.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, Religion, Canada, Pope Benedict XVI

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Truthdig

Does Obama Have a Friend in the Vatican?

When President Obama meets with Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, there will be no right-wing Catholic demonstrators upbraiding the pontiff, as they did Notre Dame earlier this year, for conferring the church's legitimacy upon this liberal politician.

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WABC 7

Believers see Virgin Mary in tree trunk

Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.

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Related Topix: Religion, Travel, Ireland Travel, Offbeat

WMTW-TV

Bishop Denied 'Charitable Immunity' Request

Maine's supreme court has ruled against the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland in a sex-abuse case that raised an issue of immunity.

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The Straits Times

Pope hosts G-8 leaders' wives

POPE Benedict XVI on Wednesday hosted the wives of world leaders who were in Italy attending the G-8 summit, the Vatican said.

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Catholic.net

Encyclical's Ancient and New Perspective

By Genevieve Pollock WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 7, 2009 .- Benedict XVI's latest encyclical offers a unique vision by using traditional principles to enlighten today's societal issues such as globalization, the economy, technology and the environment, affirms a university president.

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Related Topix: Religion, Pope Benedict XVI, The Catholic University of America

Wed Jul 08, 2009

News.com.au

Church says PM's motives are saintly

IT would be "crass and counter-productive" for Kevin Rudd to attempt to lobby Pope Benedict XVI on the canonisation of Mary MacKillop, Jesuit priest Frank Brennan said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Pope Benedict XVI, Kevin Rudd, Religion

Canoe

Did Harper pocket the wafer?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper consumed a communion wafer given him by a Roman Catholic priest last week and did not put it in his pocket as critics allege, says a spokesman.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, Religion, Italy, World News, Canada,

News Observer

Vatican replaces cardinal in Holocaust controversy

Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday replaced the cardinal responsible for lifting the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop as part of the Vatican's effort to reconcile with an ultraconservative group.

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Related Topix: Religion, Pope Benedict XVI

The Baltimore Sun

Economy forces Towson Catholic to close

Faced with rapidly declining enrollment and mounting debt, Towson Catholic High School will not open for classes in September and becomes the archdiocese's first high school to close in many years.

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Related Topix: Religion, Towson, MD, Education Etc., Education

Buffalo Business First

Catholic Charities finishes shy of goal

Catholic Charities of Buffalo fell just short of its campaign goal, raising nearly 95 percent of its $11 million goal.

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Related Topix: Religion, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro

WBT-AM Charlotte

News Story: Obama confers with world leaders in Italy

President Barack Obama listens to language translation during the Civil Society Leaders Forum, Tuesday, July 7, 2009, in Moscow.

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Related Topix: Europe, Italy, World News, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Religion, Pope Benedict XVI

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Zenit

Crisis No Reason to Stop Aid, Says Benedict XVI

VATICAN CITY, JULY 5, 2009 .- Benedict XVI is exhorting world leaders to look at the economic crisis as a reason to continue sending aid to underdeveloped nations, not as an excuse to stop.

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Related Topix: Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Benedict Xvi, Europe, Italy, World News, Silvio Berlusconi,

The Straits Times

Sainthood proposal slammed

AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Tuesday was accused of 'sheer arrogance' over moves to press the Pope to create the country's first saint.

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Related Topix: Kevin Rudd, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion

Appleton Post-Crescent

Holly Rottier of Appleton tapped to head Diocese of Green Bay school system

The Diocese of Green Bay announced late Monday that an Appleton woman has been hired as the Catholic schools director.

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Related Topix: Appleton Metro, Appleton, WI, Religion, Education Etc.

The Globe and Mail

Pope denounces profits at all costs

Nicole Winfield Vatican City - Last updated on Tuesday, Jul. 07, 2009 08:34AM EDT P ope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics, dignity and the search for the common good in the third encyclical of his pontificate.

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The Straits Times

40 wounded, 6 killed in blast

A CRUDE bomb exploded in front of a petrol station on a restive island in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing six people and wounding 40, a military spokesman said.

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Related Topix: Religion

Mon Jul 06, 2009

Catholic Digest

Interview at the White House

President Obama made his comments during a 45-minute roundtable discussion at the White House July 2, with eight senior religion journalists, including Catholic Digest editor-in-chief Dan Connors.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Religion, Pope Benedict XVI, Journalism, Abortion

Global Catholic Network EWTN

6-Jul-09 - Sunday Angelus: God Has Answer for Ongoing Violence, Crucified Christ Is Promise of Hope

VATICAN CITY, JULY 5, 2009 .- Ever since murder marked the very first human family, people have continued to kill one another, but God's answer to this is the blood of his Son, Benedict XVI says.

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