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Papacy buffeted by changes in modern world

Source: Kansas.com, Feb 12 2013, 5:07pm CST

The pope is by far the world's most visible religious figure. His office can be a bully pulpit on everything from salvation to the economy. In his overseas travels, he's greeted with the kind of pomp and reverence ...

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Boy shook when pope touched him - claim

Source: Independent Online (South Africa)  |   May 21 2013, 5:48am CDT

Vatican City - The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed that he had. “The Holy Father di ...

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Catholic Church takes on reproductive rights in Philippines, risks further alienation

Source: Global Post  |   May 21 2013, 5:02am CDT

Activists supporting the Reproductive Health Law hold a protest in front of the Supreme Court building in Manila on March 19, 2013. The Philippines' highest court suspended a controversial birth control law that had met fierce opp ...

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"The papacy remains the world's oldest continual functioning institution"


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Vatican denies video footage shows pope exorcism

Source: Bangkok Post  |   May 21 2013, 4:49am CDT

The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. Pope Francis leads the Pentecost ceremony at St Pet ...

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Video emerges of Pope Francis reportedly performing an exorcism

Source: The Independent  |   May 21 2013, 3:30am CDT

Pope Francis appears to have been captured on video performing an exorcism in St Peter’s Square. The astonishing footage, taken immediately after Pentecostal mass on Sunday 19th May, shows the Pontiff approach the second of two wheelchair bound people, w ...

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Evangelizing the Evangelicals

Source: Crisis Magazine  |   May 21 2013, 3:10am CDT

In his new book, George Weigel explicates the historical development of Evangelical Catholicism, a reform begun by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), developed by the renewals of the early twentieth-century, formalized by Vatican II, and authoritative ...

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Enough of Nice-Nasty Christianity

Source: The Root  |   May 20 2013, 9:12pm CDT

Christians should stop wielding religion as a tool of oppression, write Evette Dionne at Clutch magazine. "The Fighting Temptations" is one of the funniest, tongue-in-cheek depictions of the Pentecostal Bap ...

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The Colors of Evangelicalism

Source: Real Clear Religion  |   May 20 2013, 1:52pm CDT

Amos Yong is an American Pentecostal theologian who was born in Malaysia. He is one of nine evangelical theologians, including Bradley, an associate professor of theology and ethics at The King's College, who write about their personal experie ...

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Pope Francis Puts The Poor Front And Center

Source: NPR  |   May 20 2013, 1:15pm CDT

Pope Francis blesses a child Sunday after the Holy Mass at St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. Pope Francis blesses a child Sunday after the Holy Mass at St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. Over the past week, Pope Franci ...

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Downplaying the canonization of Christians martyred by Muslim invaders?

Source: Patheos Blogs  |   May 20 2013, 12:33pm CDT

In a recent post about an error in a story about a new saint, readers talked about the notable lack of media coverage of another set of new saints — Christians martyred by Islamic invaders. One reader commen ...

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