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VATICAN CITY (AP)--The Vatican's wartime pope, Pius XII, learned of the Nazi roundup of Jews in Rome only after it had occurred and tried to gain their release and prevent further arrests, a Catholic journal reported Thursday, citing newly unearthed World War II-era documents. The article, in the Italian Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica, challenges claims that Pius did little or nothing to protect Jews from slaughter by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The article in Civilta Cattolica, which has close ties to the Vatican, comes as the church digs into its archives to defend Pius as part of its efforts...

VATICAN CITY, DEC. 1, 2003 (Zenit.org).- A society that does not perceive the Church's message in a positive way needs bishops who have an intense relationship with Christ, says John Paul II. The Pope expressed this conviction Friday when he received the first group of French bishops, from the provinces of Cambrai and Reims, on their five-yearly visit to the Holy See. Based on reports the bishops gave him in individual meetings, John Paul II said that in today's world "your mission has become, without a doubt, more complex and delicate, in particular, because of the crisis you must continue...

Pope John Paul II told participants in a Catholic-Islamic meeting Tuesday that God's name must never be used to incite violence or terrorism. John Paul said there is an urgent need in today's world for dialogue and cooperation among religions, especially Christianity and Islam. "I appeal to you, and to all men and women of good will, to join your voices with mine as I repeat that the holy name of God must never be used to incite violence or terrorism, to promote hatred or exclusion," the pope said. The meeting was sponsored by the Vatican's Council for Interreligious Dialogue...

October 1, 2003 What the War Revealed By David Quinn In the run-up to the recent Gulf War, I received a letter from a reader of the Irish Catholic, for which I was at that point still editor, declaring that if I kept up my support for the United States’s position with regard to Iraq, I would find myself automatically excommunicated from the Church. I had previously heard of Catholics who supported the war being described as dissidents, but to say that such people could consider themselves excommunicated was to take things to a new level entirely. My reader’s reasoning...

Pope to meet Mahmoud Abbas during Palestinian PM`s official visit to Italy in August

Pope John Paul II said in his Easter Sunday message that the Iraqi people should determine their future, adding his moral authority to the international debate on the aftermath of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. "Peace in Iraq!" proclaimed the pontiff, drawing cheers from some 60,000 people, chilled by rain, in St. Peter's Square, where a tired-looking John Paul had just finished celebrating Mass on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica. "With the support of the international community, may the Iraqi people become the protagonists of their collective rebuilding of their country," said John Paul, who had vigorously spoken out...

O'Reilly just said Roman Curia are villians of the year!

Boston's Cardinal Law Offers His Resignation - Headline Only as Per Fox News Online

There are several articles on how the DNC has attacked the Catholic Church -- something Mary Landrieu has done nothing about. The first article is: KISSLING BARES HER ANTI-CATHOLIC STRIPES; SHE FURTHER SHAMES THE DNCClick Here for Catholic League Article Additionally, the DNC highlight two anti-Catholic groups that "pose as sheep in wolf's clothing". The first is the Frances Kissling's CFFC, the other is Call to Action-Online. Both of these can be found under: http://www.democrats.org/links/#religious Or just Click Here to show these and other links The next link highlights the attack on the Vatican directly by Frances Kissling's CFFC through...

FRIDAY FAX July 19, 2002 Volume 5, Number 30 EU Parliament members seek Holy See silence, ouster from UN Members of the European Parliament have stepped up their attacks on the Catholic Church, circulating a number of resolutions condemning the Church's moral authority on subjects like abortion and demanding that all Church influence on temporal matters cease. To this end, one of the resolution calls for the European Union to "initiate.the procedure to cancel the official status that the Holy See enjoys at the UN." In an explanatory letter, Maurizio Turco, a member of the Radical Party and the...