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Associated Press – June 16, 2008 ROME – Rome’s diocese said Monday it has barred the producers of “Angels & Demons” from filming in two churches for the prequel to the “The Da Vinci Code,” the popular book and film that angered many Catholic leaders. Producers of the film, directed by Ron Howard and starring…

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY — President Bush received an especially warm welcome from Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday (June 13), as the two leaders met for the third time in little more than a year. Instead of receiving his guest in the papal apartments, as protocol ordinarily…

Associated Press ORLANDO, Florida — U.S. Roman Catholic bishops issued a document Friday warning against what they consider the moral dangers of embryonic stem cell research, saying it treats human beings as commodities and reduces procreation to a manufacturing process. With general elections looming in November, the bishops said they are not asking Catholics or…

By Ashly McGloneReligion News Service WASHINGTON — A federal religious freedom watchdog panel says it has reviewed textbooks used in a Saudi-run school in northern Virginia and confirmed that they contain passages that promote violence and intolerance. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said Wednesday (June 11) that the most troubling elements of the…
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