2012年10月23日星期二

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High court: archbishop collaborated with secret police during Romania's communist era

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 10:16 AM PDT

BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's highest court has upheld the conviction of a top Orthodox cleric that he secretly served as an informant for the country's communist-era Securitate police.

Vatican's Syria mission is postponed

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 07:21 AM PDT

The Vatican is postponing the departure of a Catholic church delegation to Syria, citing the "gravity of the situation" in the country wracked by civil war.

Vatican court: Butler's theft harmed pope, church

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:55 AM PDT

FILE - In this photo taken Wednesday, May, 23, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by his private secretary Georg Gaenswein, top left, and his butler Paolo Gabiele, bottom left, arrives at St. Peter's square at the Vatican for a general audience. The Vatican tribunal that convicted the pope's ex-butler of stealing private papal correspondence has sharply condemned the theft as harming the pope, the Holy See and the entire Catholic Church. The three-judge tribunal issued its written explanation Tuesday Oct. 23, 2012 of how it reached its Oct. 6 ruling against Paolo Gabriele, who was convicted of aggravated theft and sentenced to 18 months, currently being served under house arrest. Gabriele confessed to photocopying papal documents and giving them to an Italian journalist to expose the "evil and corruption" around him, in the biggest Vatican security breach in modern times. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)The Vatican tribunal that convicted the pope's ex-butler of stealing private papal correspondence sharply condemned the theft on Tuesday as causing "reprehensible" damage to the pontiff, the Holy See and the entire Catholic Church, and said investigations are continuing.


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