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Pope to Catholics: indulge yourself with a tweet
A new papal decree states that believers who follow this month’s Rio World Youth Day online could be entitled to an “indulgence”, a medieval spiritual incentive that reduces your time in purgatory.
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Catholics have a new leader: but who is Pope Francis?
Compassionate to single mothers but against gay marriage, open to other faiths but opposed to contraception. Channel 4 News examines the contradictions of the Latin American Pope Francis I.
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‘An inspired choice’: Catholics react to new Pope
With Catholics worldwide celebrating the election of Pope Francis, political and relegious leaders welcome the new leader of the world’s largest Christian church.
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Celibacy and Catholicism: the end of the affair?
As the Catholic church copes with the aftermath of another sex scandal – this time involving Cardinal O’Brien, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric – the celibacy of priests is back up for debate.
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Benedict: where now for the Catholic church?
Catholics around the world have reacted with shock to the first papal abdication since the Middle Ages. Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti said he was “very shaken” – but what do UK Catholics think?
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Soho gay mass move splits gay Catholic opinion
The scrapping of a gay-friendly mass because it was incompatible with the Catholic church’s teachings on homosexuality has met with mixed reaction from gay Catholics.
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Catholic church steps up gay marriage opposition
Catholics are being urged to protect the “true meaning” of matrimony as a letter from two senior archbishops is read in 2,500 churches arguing against government plans for gay marriage.
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Monks lose control of Catholic abuse school
A Catholic school where pupils were sexually abused accepts an inquiry’s recommendation that monks should be stripped of their powers.
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Catholic church liable for priests charged with abuse
A high court judge rules that the Catholic church is legally responsible for priests charged with child abuse, in a landmark case.
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Catholics urged to return to meat-free Fridays
Bishops in England and Wales ask Catholics to avoid meat on Fridays, reviving the church’s tradition of fasting as an act of penance.
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Catholic church denies legal responsibility for abuse
A hearing into whether the church has the same legal obligations towards priests as employers towards employees, could have massive ramifications, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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WikiLeaks: Catholic church fears over Anglican conversions
The latest WikiLeaks cable reveals fears of anti-Catholic violence in the UK after the Pope offered to accept conservative Anglicans into the Roman Catholic church.
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Anglican bishops defect to Roman Catholic Church
In a Channel 4 News interview, one of the five Church of England bishops preparing to defect to Rome compares his old church to the Titanic.
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Wave of Catholic unity for penitent Pope
Say what you will, they’ve certainly been lucky with the weather where Hyde Park’s doing a good job of living up to still, sunny, Bellahouston Park, in Glasgow, on Thursday.
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Young Catholic prepares to welcome Pope
Paschal Uche will welcome the Pope on behalf of Britain’s young people outside Westminster Cathedral on Saturday. The 21-year old has been telling Channel 4 News he feels “happy and humbled”.
