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"Trust is essential for such an extensive and sensitive project, as the partners agreed from the outset," Bishop Stephan Ackermann of Trier, the German Church's delegate for issues of sexual abuse.

German Church ends sex-abuse research inquiry, citing lack of trust 

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BERLIN - Germany's Catholic Church has withdrawn from an inquiry into sexual abuse by clergy, citing a breakdown of trust with researchers.

On January 7, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court order allowing government funding of research involving certain embryonic stem-cell lines

U.S. Supreme Court lets stand policy on embryonic stem-cell research funds

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 7 let stand a lower court order allowing government funding of research involving certain embryonic stem-cell lines.

Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of Saltillo, Mexico, poses outside the diocesan seminary, where he celebrated the 25th anniversary of becoming a bishop Jan. 5. The new church-state relationship is an example of one of the many changes Bishop Vera has witness duri ng his quarter-century of being a bishop in Mexico, serving dioceses stretching from Chiapas on the southern border to Saltillo in northern Mexico.

Mexico has changed, but maybe not for better, says bishop

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SALTILLO, Mexico - Although church-state relations have thawed in the past 25 years, Saltillo Bishop Raul Vera Lopez said he remains dissatisfied with government restrictions on religion.

Retired Ottawa Archbishop Joseph-Aurele Plourde, instrumental in setting up the Canadian bishops' international development agency, died Jan. 5 at the age of 97. He is pictured in a 2010 photo.

Retired Ottawa Archbishop Plourde, 97, dies

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OTTAWA - Ottawa Archbishop-emeritus Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, who chaired a committee that oversaw the founding of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, died Jan. 5 at the age of 97 after 49 years as a bishop.

People attend a memorial service in late December at St. Theresa's Church in Madalla, Nigeria, for victims of a suicide bomb attack on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan urged religious leaders to help mold th e characters of their followers to help stop the current crises facing the country.

Nigerian religious leaders can help followers end nation's crises

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ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan urged religious leaders to mold the characters of their followers to help stop the current crises facing the country.

People from across Canada line up to enter the teepee where Chief Theresa Spence has stayed during her hunger strike.

Churches throw support behind Chief Spence

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As Chief Theresa Spence passed three weeks living on nothing but water, fish broth and herbal tea, churches and Christian organizations were lining up behind her request for a meeting with Prime MInister Stephen Harper, Governor General David Johnston and aboriginal leaders from across the country.

Historian Edward T. O'Donnell, an associate professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., poses in an undated photo. O'Donnell says Notre Dame's emergence as a college football power coincided with the emergence of a Iris h-American middle and upper class.

Notre Dame football's rise paralleled Irish-Americans' societal ascent 

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WASHINGTON - As Notre Dame prepared to play Alabama Jan. 7 in U.S. college football's Bowl Championship Series title game, it seemed like the clash of the titans.

Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society of St. Pius X, claimed that top Vatican officials told him not to be discouraged by official statements from the Vatican, because they did not reflect Pope Benedict XVI's true feelings

Calling Jews 'enemies' is 'unacceptable,' Vatican spokesman says

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VATICAN CITY - The Catholic Church remains committed to deepening its relations with Jews and finds it "absolutely unacceptable" to consider the Jewish people as enemies, the Vatican spokesman said.

A notice on the Vatican Museums' website informs patrons that they will be unable to pay using credit and debit cards beginning Jan. 1. The Vatican's point of sale agreement was terminated amid unofficial reports of regulatory concerns by Italian financ ial authorities. The Vatican said the no-plastic policy was expected to be short-lived.

Vatican suspends acceptance of credit cards amid tension with regulator

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VATICAN CITY -- Vatican City State vendors, including the Vatican Museums and supermarket, stopped accepting credit- and debit-card payments Jan. 1, citing technical difficulties amid unofficial reports of regulatory concerns by Italian financial authorities.

Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this Sept. 26, 2012, file photo. More than 2.3 million pilgrims and visitors joined the pope for an audience, liturgy or prayer at the V atican or Castel Gandolfo in 2012.

Vatican says 2.3 million people joined pope for Vatican events in 2012

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VATICAN CITY - More than 2.3 million pilgrims and visitors joined Pope Benedict XVI for an audience, liturgy or prayer at the Vatican or Castel Gandolfo in 2012, the Vatican said.

French Bishop Jacques Gaillot speaks Jan. 3 with people in solidarity with illegal immigrants workers who have been on a hunger strike for 63 days in Lille, France. Illegal immigrants who occupied the Vatican’s embassy in Paris to support the Lille str ikers have called on the Catholic Church to support their struggle for better treatment.

Illegals who occupied Paris embassy ask Church backing for cause

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PARIS - Illegal immigrants who occupied the Vatican's embassy in Paris have called on the Catholic Church to support their struggle for better treatment.

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