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In this Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009, file photo, Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi looks on near a portrait of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, part of the "Galilei Divin Uomo" exhibit, in the Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica in Rome.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Public Health Article Date: 09 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST A debate over whether the late Sen.

Even as they agreed to postpone a planned face-to-face meeting that had been set for Thursday, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin turned up the heat Monday on U.S. Rep.

An analysis of fundraising reports indicates Roman Catholic dioceses and even individual priests from around the country donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the anti-marriage campaign that successfully overturned Maine's law that had allowed same-sex couples to tie the knot.

The Rev. Warren Harvey, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Pine Bluff, stands next to the headstone of Sister Agnes Hart, whom Harvey believes could be considered for sainthood.

Pope Benedict has paid tribute to Paul VI, the pope who made him a cardinal. Thousands turned out in a chilly rain for Benedict's Mass in Paul VI Square outside the cathedral in Brescia , Italy.

A US Roman Catholic deacon has spoken of how the agonising pain he had suffered from a spinal disorder disappeared after praying to the revered English Cardinal John Henry Newman.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield has amended its plan to merge five parishes in Northampton.

The Vatican has confirmed that opening its door to married Anglican priests doesn't mean the Roman Catholic church's requirement for celibacy for clergy is changing.

Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, a captive people of a divided continent literally with their hands dismantled the Berlin Wall.

A court hearing is planned to determine when to release documents generated for sexual abuse lawsuits against priests in a Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut.

From London, England : Nov 6, 2009 / 12:24 am .- Members of The Traditional Anglican Church in Great Britain have announced that they will enter into communion with the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans.

Roman Catholics in northern Nova Scotia watched with shock and sadness on Thursday the television images of their once respected bishop surrendering to police in Ottawa.

Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.

By Catholic News Service ARLINGTON, Va. - As Virginia prepared to execute convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington called for mercy and urged that Muhammad's sentence be commuted to life in prison without possibility of parole.

By Catholic News Service ESZTERGOM, Hungary - Hungarian Bishop Zoltan Meszlenyi, who froze to death in a Hungarian prison in 1951, has been beatified as a martyr for the faith.

GALLUP, N.M. - A slain Catholic nun who lived and worked on the Navajo Indian reservation of western New Mexico was remembered for her passion for the poor at funeral services.

I just can't keep it in. I know I shouldn't boast but, well, as a Roman Catholic I simply have to.

Vicar-turned-author Rev G P Taylor says he will desert the "sinking ship" Church of England, which he said was the "spiritual arm of New Labour", for Roman Catholicism.

Unlike his predecessor, recently installed New York archbishop Timothy Dolan was expected to use his proximity to the nation's most powerful media outlets to raise the Roman Catholic Church's public profile.