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State 194: A Documentary About Palestine
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‘The Exorcist’ at the Geffen: No green vomit, but plenty of evil
Trial opens against Catholic official tasked with oversight of pedophile priests
‘A Modern Priest’ passes away
DC moves to legalize gay marriage
Vatican on ‘New Moon’: a ‘moral vacuum’
Pumpkins and popes
Church custodian arrested in priest’s slaying
The Vatican’s ‘bold bid’
Sarah Silverman: ‘Sell the Vatican, feed the world’
Tony Blair talks with pope’s newspaper about converting
Prayer before sex
Ted Kennedy’s ‘quiet faith’
Ted Kennedy, liberal lion and Camelot Catholic, is dead
Saints and sinners: popes and presidents
Pope to address economic crisis in encyclical
Vatican to launch inquisition?
The Vatican’s worldly mission in the cosmos
Polish priest gives ‘saucy’ sex tips
No top of the morning in Catholic churches
Catholic bishop rewrites Holocaust, says Jews control world
Christ’s crucifixion and the Holocaust: ‘appropriating suffering’
Pope confirms: Holocaust denial is bad
Bishop who denied Holocaust booted from seminary leadership
Pope tells bad bishop to recant views on Holocaust
Grand jury investigating Cardinal Mahony
The end of Catholic schools?
Papal pastrami
Playboy apologizes for nude Virgin Mary
Virgin Mary bares all for Playboy Mexico
Pope’s press forgives John Lennon for Jesus remark
Catholic priest to Obama supporters: No Communion for you!
From black president to black pope
Catholic priest comes out, supports gay marriage
Jenna Jameson, porn queen and ‘devout Catholic’
Miss Sister: a beauty pageant for nuns
Knights Templar heirs sue pope for $150 billion
Communion and the case for firing PZ Myers
The communion controversy continues
Bishop knew about abortion for Catholic Charities ward
More L.A. parishes pony up for price of pedophile priests
Nuns prevented from voting
Parish donates $1.5 million to abuse victims
The vanishing American Catholic
Pope says pedophiles can’t be priests
Some Jews still upset as Pope readies U.S. visit
When news broke last year that Pope Benedict XVI was reviving an ancient prayer for the conversion of the Jews, the reaction in Jewish circles was outrage tempered by confusion.
Communal leaders warned that the move would deal a serious blow to the four decades of progress in Jewish-Catholic relations following Nostra Aetate -- the landmark document that absolved the Jews of collective guilt for the killing of Jesus -- unless the pope clarified how the prayer meshed with Catholic doctrine.
Pope baptizes pro-Israel Muslim
‘Hitler’s Pope’ a Zionist sympathizer?
Traditionalists: ‘Pope has felt obliged to change the very venerable prayer for the Jews’
‘Jews should chill out’
Video from Vilna
Catholics against war to deliver ashes to Bush
LA Archdiocese sells headquarters
Converting Bobby Jindal
Ave Maria and the pizza man’s unanswered prayers
‘Judge orders priest to recite Psalms for parking illegally’
Pope attacks ‘climate change prophets of doom’
Cardinal Mahony assaulted because of clergy scandal
Vatican ambassador on Israel: ‘Better when there were no diplomatic relations’
Catholic bishops turned away from Western Wall
Priest arrested for stalking Conan O’Brien
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