2009年1月31日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Vatican orders review of women's religious orders (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 08:12 PM CST

AP - The Vatican has begun a first-ever comprehensive study of women's religious orders in the United States, four decades into a steep decline in the number of Roman Catholic sisters and nuns in the country.

Bishop who denied Holocaust apologizes to pope (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:07 PM CST

Israel's Ambassador to the Holy See Mordechay Lewy, left, shares a word with Cardinal Raffaele Farina, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives, on the occasion of an exhibition of ancient Hebrew manuscripts at the Vatican library, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Lewy said relations with the Vatican remain good, despite a controversy on Pope Benedict XVI's decision to rehabilitate an ultraconservative society which includes a Holocaust denier.  (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - A bishop recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI expressed regret Friday to the pontiff for the "distress and problems" he caused by denying the Holocaust.


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