Franciscans
FRANCISCANS is the common designation for a number of religious communities professing to live according to the ideals of Francis of Assisi (1181/1182–1226). In 1206 Francis withdre...
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Sao Paulo (dpa) - Pope Benedict XVI visited a drug rehabilitation
centre on Saturday, on his five-day pastoral visit to Brazil set to
end Sunday with the opening of a key co...
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Sao Paulo (dpa) - Friar Galvao - an 18th-century Franciscan priest
believed to have performed miraculous healings through pieces of
paper rolled into pills - is set to becom...
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Sao Paulo (dpa) - Friar Galvao - an 18th-century Franciscan priest
believed to have performed miraculous healings through pieces of
paper rolled into pills - became the firs...
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Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley is going high-tech. He already has his own blog, now he plans to start podcasting to the masses, beginning with downloadable Christmas messages.The video messages _ ...
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Warsaw (dpa) - Rebel nuns who had spent two years barricaded
inside their convent were evicted in a high-profile police operation
in Poland Wednesday.
Having ...
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The number of men and women belonging to Roman Catholic religious orders worldwide has continued to decline but there has been an increase in priests assigned to dioceses, the Vatican said Tuesday....
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Pope Benedict XVI named four new saints Sunday from France, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square attended by several heads of state and thousands of faithful.The pr...
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Sao Paulo (dpa) - Pope Benedict XVI visited a drug rehabilitation
centre Saturday and pledged 100,000 dollars of his own money toward
the centre's work.
His f...
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Sao Paulo (dpa) - Pope Benedict XVI on Friday canonized 18th-
century Franciscan Friar Galvao, who became the first Brazilian-born
saint, in one of the highlights of his fir...
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Police evicted 65 rebellious ex-nuns Wednesday from a convent they illegally occupied for two years after defying a Vatican order to replace their mother superior, a charismatic leader who had reli...
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Franciscans
Pope Benedict XVI visits drug rehabilitation centre in Brazil
