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France’s lower house of parliament has approved a sweeping bill to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
President Francois Hollande’s Socialists have pushed the measure through the National Assembly and put France on track to join
File under: There’s More To This Than Meets The Eye.
Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month after nearly eight years as the head of the Catholic Church, saying he is too old to continue
Pope Benedict XVI has announced his resignation. Here is the full text of his statement from the Vatican translated from the Latin:
Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonisations, but also to
Three expert Vatican watchers list some of their leading papabile – Italian for cardinals who might be elected as the next pope. In alphabetical order:
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa, made headlines last year for a ripping attack on
By Harriet Ryan
The Archdiocese of L.A. took $115 million from its cemeteries’ maintenance fund in 2007, nearly depleting it. The move seems legal, but it was not announced, and relatives of the dead were not told.
Pressed to come
By Gareth Jones
Polish director Malgoska Szumowska tackles the controversial topic of homosexuality in the Roman Catholic priesthood in her film “In the Name of” that had its world premiere on Friday but she said her aim was not to
By John L. Allen Jr.
This column probably ought to carry a warning label: “The following piece of writing contains an apples-and-oranges comparison that may be hazardous to your intellectual health.” I’m going to compare two fights among senior churchmen,
by Scott Roberts
MPs have voted 400 to 175 in supporting the government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill – a majority of 225 votes – following an afternoon of heated debate in the House of Commons.
About 140 Conservative MPs
What were the Magdalene Laundries?
Institutions where women were sent if they were regarded as “fallen women”.
Who was sent there?
The women who were committed to these homes included women who conceived out of wed lock, wards of state