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WASHINGTON (RNS) Christian conservative groups decried new federal guidelines that will increase taxpayer dollars going to embryonic stem cell research. The guidelines, which took effect Tuesday (July 7) after they were issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stipulate that federally funded research will be allowed only on excess embryos at fertility clinics that…

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown. In the third encyclical of his pontificate, Benedict pressed for reform of the United Nations and international economic and…

WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama said he may attend “a number of different churches” in Washington rather than just one and is receiving a daily devotional message from a key staffer. “How we handle church when we’re here in D.C. is something that we’re still figuring out,” the president said during a roundtable with Catholic press…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican City State reported a deficit of $22 million for 2008 as a consequence of the “global economic-financial crisis,” the Vatican announced on Saturday (July 4). The Vatican’s annual profit and loss statements showed that the 108-acre sovereign territory, which includes St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums, fared much worse…
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