Illegitimacy
Until the 1960s, it was widely assumed that marriage was a universal or nearly universal institution for licensing parenthood. Marriage assigned paternity rights to fathers (and their fam...
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Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, a staunch critic of Beijing,
issued a statement Tuesday pointing out discrepancies between the
content of a weekend letter from Pope Benedict XVI to Chinese
Ca...
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Father Li Shan said Wednesday he has been elected as Catholic
bishop in Beijing to replace the late Michael Fu.
Li has become the first bishop elected without papal approval
since Pope Ben...
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The state-sanctioned China Catholic Patriotic Association
rejected Monday a report saying four priests who served underground
churches in China were arrested by police because they shunned th...
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Cairo (dpa) - A campaign of so-called "Islamic revisionism" has
been relaunched in some of Egypt's prisons, with former Jihadists
lecturing detained militants on "the illegi...
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Anti-war activists consider 1st Lt. Ehren Watada a hero for his refusal to go to Iraq.The Army accuses him of betraying his fellow soldiers.At a court martial that began Monday at Fort Lewis, south...
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An appeal hearing of a damages suit filed by a former Mainichi
Shimbun reporter, who was convicted for his news gathering activities
on Okinawa's 1972 reversion to Japan, st...
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BEIRUT, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad
Siniora assured his country on Saturday there was no cause for
alarm and said his cabinet was assuming executive powers in the
absence of a...
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Freedom: As thousands of monks marched on Rangoon last week, a velvet revolution seemed near. But barbarism destroyed the road to democracy. Burma's rulers sent a message that tyranny pays. It must...
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Illegitimacy
Cardinal Zen decries mixed messages in pope's letter to China
