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Cameroon to host World Day of the Sick on Friday

Feb 8, 2005

This morning, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, opened the traditional preceding meetings... Read more

New Vatican document calls for reform and a genuine search for truth in annulment cases

Feb 7, 2005

The Vatican, this morning announced the presentation of a new instructional document to be used by Diocesan and Interdiocesan tribunals... Read more

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U.S. Secretary of State discusses Middle East, religious freedom with Vatican officials

Feb 7, 2005

During her first official diplomatic trip, new United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited yesterday with Vatican Secretary of... Read more

Pope gives Angelus blessing from hospital room

Feb 6, 2005

Yesterday at noon, Pope John Paul II appeared at the window of his hospital room for the recitation of the... Read more

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“We need to trust life!” says Pope in message from hospital

Feb 6, 2005

Yesterday, in his message delivered from his hospital room at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, John Paul II affirmed urged... Read more

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Holy Father continues to improve, says Vatican

Feb 6, 2005

Today at noon, Rome time, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, director of the Holy See Press Office, read a bulletin to journalists giving... Read more

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Vatican denies Pope's message pre-recorded

Feb 6, 2005

The Vatican has denied Pope John Paul II had help from a pre-recorded tape in reciting the Angelus from his... Read more

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Pope tells seminarians to love and imitate Mary in order to be faithful priests

Feb 6, 2005

On Saturday at the Vatican, community members of the Pontifical Major Seminary of Rome participated in their traditional meeting for... Read more

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Cardinal Stafford to preside on Pope’s behalf at Ash Wednesday Mass

Feb 6, 2005

With Wednesday being the start of Lent, the Vatican announced that Cardinal James Francis Stafford, major penitentiary of the Apostolic... Read more

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Council for Justice and Peace calls for a “new humanism”

Feb 6, 2005

On Saturday, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, presented the Compendium of the Social... Read more

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Progress in Pius XII’s cause for beatification

Feb 6, 2005

In an interview with the Italian news agency APCOM, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes... Read more

Pope hopes to preside at Angelus on Sunday

Feb 3, 2005

Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls told journalists today that the “state of the Holy Father’s health has improved.”... Read more

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Holy See to issue document on dignity of marriage and annulments

Feb 3, 2005

The Vatican announced this week the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts will release a new document entitled “Dignitas connubii” on... Read more

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Holy Father expresses grief over death of 101-year-old Cardinal Bafile

Feb 3, 2005

Upon learning of the death of 101-year-old Cardinal Corrado Bafile yesterday, the Holy Father sent a telegram to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,... Read more

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President of European Parliament expresses wishes for Pope’s recovery

Feb 3, 2005

Joseph Borrell Fontelles, president of the European Parliament, met this morning with Vatican officials, Angelo Sodano,Cardinal Secretary of State and... Read more

Vatican calls Pope's condition "positive"

Feb 2, 2005

Late this morning, Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls told journalists that "The Holy Father's general and respiratory conditions... Read more

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Pope says organ transplants must "guarantee respect for life and for the human person"

Feb 2, 2005

Today the Vatican released a Letter from Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences regarding the practice... Read more

Pope’s condition improves overnight but will remain in hospital

Feb 1, 2005

This morning Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls released a statement saying that the condition of John Paul II,... Read more

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Vatican source warns against so-called "expert" speculations on Pope's health

Feb 1, 2005

This morning, a Vatican source contacted by CNA warned about confusion that so-called "experts" consulted by the secular media can... Read more

Pope thanks faithful for their “fervent prayers”

Feb 1, 2005

Today while presiding at a Mass for the annual Day for Consecrated Life, Archbishop Franc Rode, prefect for the Congregation... Read more