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Vatican, Feb. 4, 2008 (CWNews.com) - After Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) met on February 2 with Fatmir Sejdiu, the president of Kosovo, the Vatican press office issued a statement emphasizing that the Holy See was not changing its policy regarding the possible independence of the Serbian province. The Vatican "will follow developments on the ground with particular attention," the official statement indicated. The communiqué went on to say that the Holy See looked for a peaceful resolution of conflicts there, respectful of the rights of all parties. In his talk to Sejdiu, the Vatican revealed, Pope Benedict made...

Code: ZE05021106Date: 2005-02-11We Fear Nothing With Christ, Says Father Cantalamessa Pontifical Household Preacher Comments on Sunday's GospelROME, FEB. 11, 2005 (Zenit.org).- In his commentary on the Gospel of the first Sunday of Lent, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the Pontifical Household, alerts the faithful about the devil's action and reminds them that Christ has conquered him. * * * Matthew (4:1-11) "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry. The tempter approached and said to him, 'If...

Is the Pope Catholic? Mel Gibson's dad doesn't think so BY WENDY GROSSMAN Daniel Kramer and Houston Press Hutton Gibson says Pope John Paul II is not a true pope. The pope isn't Catholic. John Paul II, the man most people believe to be pope, is really an impostor. He's deliberately plotting to destroy the Catholic Church from within. Catholics have been lied to, and they have been robbed. These are the messages Hutton Gibson preaches in his crusade to save the souls of his fellow Catholics. From his home in northwest Houston, he mails out his eight-page newsletter titled...

The sex, drugs and paedophilia scandal in the heart of the US Catholic Church has brought the Boston archdiocese to the edge of ruin, reports Julian Coman Leo Inzaghi, the manager of the Caffe dello Sport in Boston's Italian district, stopped reading the local newspapers last week. As a practising Catholic and a father, he found their contents too shocking. "My wife telephoned me and said, 'Have you seen what the Church knew about Father Nyhan?' It turned out that the priest at the private school where we sent our daughter was transferred there after being accused of molesting two...