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NEW ORLEANS — Police evicted parishioners from two New Orleans Catholic churches on Tuesday (Jan. 6), apparently ending a 72-day standoff that began when parishioners moved into the churches and occupied them around the clock to save them from closure. Accompanied by lawyers from the city attorney’s office, police arrived almost simultaneously at 121-year-old Our…

Paris – Signs are mounting that the conflict in Gaza is starting to spill over into violence in Europe’s towns and cities, with assaults against Jews and arson attacks on Jewish congregations in France, Sweden and Britain. Assailants rammed a burning car into the gates of a synagogue in Toulouse, in southwest France, on Monday…

The Episcopal Church claimed a major legal victory Monday (Jan. 5) when California’s Supreme Court ruled that breakaway parishes do not have the right to keep church property if they secede from the national denomination. And while the decision technically applies to only one church in one state — St. James Church in Newport Beach,…

Vatican City – An American Catholic theologian censured by the Vatican for “grave doctrinal errors” has been told to cease teaching about the nature and identity of Jesus Christ. The Rev. Roger Haight, a Jesuit, has been asked by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Catholic Church’s highest doctrinal authority, not to…
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