Roland Flamini
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August 16, 2005
Can things be looking up for divorced Catholics who re-marry? The late Pope John Paul II's approach to the problem was tough and uncompromising. Catholics who entered into a civil marriage following a divorce were in a state of "moral disorder, opposed to the precise requirements deriving from the f...
August 12, 2005
One of John Bolton's first acts on receiving his recess appointment as U.S. representative to the United Nations was to meet his Chinese counterpart and later announce that the United States and China had joined forces in opposing any enlargement of the world body's Security Council. Since both Beij...
August 03, 2005
It took a military coup to bring Mauritania's pro-U.S. President Muawiya Ould Taya to power 21 years ago: it took another one to unseat him Wednesday. A military junta announced that it has seized control of the very poor, but newly oil rich, West African country promising to introduce democracy at ...
August 03, 2005
The recent terrorist bombings in London and Sharm-al-Sheik were not specifically directed against Christianity, Pope Benedict XVI said Monday, but he stopped short of agreeing that Islam could be a religion of peace.
The pope is on vacation in the Aosta Valley, in the Italian Alps. He gave a "fly...
August 03, 2005
By the time the synod of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem convenes Aug. 15 to elect a new patriarch of the Holy City, they hope to have evicted the current one from the residence where he has dug himself in, protected by Israeli police.
Patriarch Irineos I was voted out of office by his pee...
August 03, 2005
Thousands gathered near Bologna's main railway station Tuesday to mark the 25th anniversary of Italy's worst-ever terrorist attack. On Aug. 2, 1980, an explosion demolished part of the northern city's rail terminal killing 85 people and injuring more than 200. There were no claims of responsibility,...
August 01, 2005
With John Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations blocked in the Senate his "recess appointment" Monday was a foregone conclusion if the Bush administration wanted a forceful presence in New York during what promises to be a period of change.
Bolton takes up his appointment w...