The designation of five Catholic theologians to attend the World Council of Churches assembly in New Delhi as `` official '' observers reverses the Church's earlier stand.

This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.

* 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.

In some Roman Catholic countries such as Italy there have been religious influences, especially from missionaries who have spent a long time in the Third World ( the most famous being Alex Zanotelli ).

During World War II, a dog tag could indicate only one of three religions through the inclusion of one letter: " P " for Protestant, " C " for Catholic, or " H " for Jewish ( from the word, " Hebrew "), or ( according to at least one source ) " NO " to indicate no religious preference.

On the other hand, prominent distributists such as Dorothy Day and those involved in the Catholic Worker movement were / are strict pacifists even to the point of condemning involvement in the Second World War at much personal cost.

** World Day of the Sick ( Roman Catholic Church )

* The Catholic Church in the Modern World by E. E. Y.

As World Bank President Robert McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices will get preferential access to resources, doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, called it insulting that money should be exchanged for the conscience of a Catholic nation.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

* Archbishop of Vancouver, William Mark Duke, was also known as " Iron Duke " for being a strict disciplinarian and financial manager of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver during the Great Depression of the Dirty Thirties and World War II years

" During World War II, Jewish chaplains worked with Catholic priests and Protestant ministers to promote goodwill, addressing servicemen who, " in many cases had never seen, much less heard a Rabbi speak before.

* Father Tom Mooney-First Catholic chaplain to die in World War II, in Belgium

In October 1999, an executive committee of the World Methodist Council resolved to explore the possibility of its Member Churches becoming associated with the doctrinal agreement which had been reached by the Catholic Church and Lutheran World Federation ( LWF ).

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

These churches are not in communion with the Holy See of Rome, but their Union of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches is in full communion with the Anglican Communion and a member of the World Council of Churches.

The concordat of 1933, with which the Vatican sought to protect the Church in Germany, and Hitler sought the destruction of ' political Catholicism ', and Pius ' leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II, including his " decision to stay silent in public about the fate of the Jews ", remain the subject of controversy.

Fátima, Portugal | Fátima Statue of Pope Pius XII, who consecrated Russia and the World: « Just as a few years ago We consecrated the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Roman Catholic ) | Virgin Mary, Mother of God, so today We consecrate and in a most special manner We entrust all the peoples of Russia to this Immaculate Heart ...»

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* Origins, an online theological journal published by Catholic News Service ( CNS )

Other initiatives included publication by the United States-based Catholic News Agency of a series of ten articles on the revised translation.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

The News from Lake Wobegon does not have a set structure, but features recurring characters and places such as the Chatterbox Café, the Sidetrack Tap, Pastor Ingqvist of the Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church and his successor Pastor Liz, Father Emil of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Roman Catholic Church ( a parody of Our Lady of Perpetual Help ), the Lake Wobegon Whippets sports teams, various members of the Bunsen and Krebsbach families, and an assortment of nearby " Norwegian bachelor farmers.

News of the apparition on Tepayac Hill spread quickly through Mexico ; and in the seven years that followed, 1532 through 1538, the Indian people accepted the Spaniards and 8 million people were converted to the Catholic faith.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

* A tradition in evolution: Pallium signifies authority, loyalty ( Catholic News Service )

On Monday, June 25, 2012, according to an online Catholic News Service ( CNS ) news brief posted that day, the Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision and with the majority opinion written by Associate Justice Elena Kagan, that life in prison without parole as an automatic sentence would be considered unconstitutional in all cases in the United States.

On December 24, an anonymous Vatican official told Catholic News Service, " There was no declaration, no judgment from the pope.

Catholic World News reported that " the Vatican " estimated the number of those served by the Fraternity of St Peter, the Society of St Pius X and similar groups at " close to 1 million ".

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, Vatican Information Service ( VIS ) and Catholic News Service ( CNS ), announced that Pope Benedict XVI had named the 53-year-old Bishop Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, until then an Auxiliary Bishop ( assistant bishop ) of Quebec ( since 2009 ), as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada.

According to Catholic News Service ( CNS ) and the Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, the incumbent Archbishop of New York, announced before reviewing the city's parade on St. Patrick's Day 2012 that the Cathedral would undergo a massive five-year, three-phase, $ 175 million renovation because of crumbling bricks, faulty heating, and acid rain and pollution that has eaten away at the Tuckahoe marble of the 135-year-old church.

Father Peter Gumpel who was involved in the analysis of the matter at the Vatican told Catholic News Service: " Since it was impossible to distinguish what derives from Sister Emmerich and what is embroidery or additions, we could not take these writings as a criteria.

In a Thursday, August 23, 2012 online news story article about the Archdiocese's schools by Lou Baldwin of Catholic News Service ( CNS ), it was announced that the Faith in the Future Foundation would assume management of the seventeen archdiocesan high schools and the four special education schools.

On Thursday, December 30, 2010, the Catholic News Service homepage reported that Pope Benedict XVI had issued an Apostolic Letter that established the Financial Information Authority as an independent agency to oversee the monetary and commercial activities of all Vatican-related institutions, including the IOR.

** Independent Catholic News, a Catholic news website

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* 10 Aug 1991: The " Loyalist Retaliation and Defence Group " ( believed to be linked to the RHC ) shot dead a Catholic civilian at his shop on Donegall Road, Belfast.

* 23 Aug: The RHD claimed responsibility for two pipe bomb attacks on the home of a Catholic family at Deerpark Parade, Belfast.

* 29 Aug: The RHD claimed responsibility for two pipe bomb attacks on the home of a Catholic family in Ballynahinch.

* 04 Aug: The RHD issued a death threat against Catholic workers at the Mater Hospital and Ulster Hospital in Belfast.

Italian botanist, b. at Palermo, 8 Aug., 1816 ; d. at Florence, 9 Sept., 1877, a devout and faithful Catholic.

* 18 Aug 2009: In retaliation for attacks on Orange halls, the OV claimed responsibility for attacks on Catholic and nationalist owned businesses in Garvagh, Rasharkin, Dunloy and Ballymoney.

In response to the disarray of religious educational institutions Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Aeterni Patris of 4 Aug. 1879 called for the renewal of Christian philosophy and particularly for the study of the doctrines of Aquinas: " We exhort you, venerable brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defense and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences.