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A few years ago I decided to go on a self-directed solo pilgrimage to holy places representing Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Of course, this was all in the aftermath of my rather public break with President Bush in which the White House described my motivation for doing this as "Matthew is on a personal journey. |
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As Pope Francis starts out in the Vatican, following his historic election as Latin America's first pontiff, a trusty fellow Jesuit will be helping him broadcast his message: Father Federico Lombardi. |
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Last weekend, the priests and priestesses of the Canadian branch of the international market fundamentalist religion gathered in Ottawa and called, as they always do, for more human sacrifice. I speak, of course, of the annual networking conference of the inaptly labelled Manning Centre for Building.... |
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A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis said on Saturday that paedophilia is a psychological illness, not "a criminal condition". |
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Today is Sunday, March 17, the 76th day of 2013. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick's Day. Today's Highlight in History: On March 17, 1973, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, a freed prisoner of the Vietnam War, was joyously greeted by his family on the tarmac at Travis.... |
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THE Vatican was embroiled in fresh controversy last night after one of the Cardinals who helped to appoint the freshly elected Pope Francis described paedophilia as a psychological illness, not a “criminal condition”. |
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NOT widely known and little appreciated, Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) offers high intellectual entertainment that might surprise readers who know him principally as the author of Madame Bovary. Bouvard and Pécuchet are the descendants of the European novel’s … |
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China's new leader Xi Jinping pledges a cleaner, more efficient government as the country's ceremonial legislature wrapped up a pivotal session that installed the latest generation of communist leaders in a once-a-decade transfer of power. |
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JOHANNESBURG: A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis last week has told the BBC that paedophilia is an illness and not a crime. Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of Durban, told BBC Radio 5 yesterday that paedophilia was a "disorder" that needed to be treated. |
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This week, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met with several retired generals, his former colleagues in the military, at the State Palace. This event sparked speculation, including the ... |
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THE new Pope Francis is expected to engage his followers via social media, but like his predecessor, he's not believed to be particularly tech savvy. |
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