Articles on this issue "crimes"
Oblate of Mary Immaculate Father Reynaldo Roda was shot and killed Tuesday in what appears to be an attempted kidnapping. The 54-year-old priest spent the last 10 years as a missionary in the …
read moreTwenty members of the Italian Parliament joined in signing a statement asking that the directors of Italian public television not broadcast the BBC documentary "Sex Crimes and the Vatican." …
read moreBenedict XVI expressed sadness on learning of the death of Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo, a renowned opponent of the Sicilian Mafia. The retired archbishop of Palermo died Sunday at age 88. In …
read moreBenedict XVI condemned the crime of kidnapping in the world and expressed his closeness to its victims. The Pope did so today in his first greeting, in Italian, after praying the midday …
read moreHere is the address delivered April 25 by Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, apostolic nuncio to Thailand, at the 11th U.N. Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The Vatican press …
read moreThe Vatican City's Promoter of Justice says that eventual adherence to the Schengen Treaty will allow this state to adapt to European levels and improve the quality of judicial administration. …
read moreThe Church lamented the "alarming statistics" that show a sizable increase in the number of suicides in Japan last year. Japanese police reported that 34,427 people took their lives last year, …
read moreA U.S. bishops' spokeswoman criticized a ruling by a court panel striking down the attorney general's directive that doctors in Oregon may not misuse federally controlled drugs to assist …
read moreThe occurrence of a crime cannot justify the elimination of a life, says an archbishop in the wake of the Health Ministry's decision to distribute free the "morning-after" pill to rape …
read moreBishop Giorgio Biguzzi of Makeni welcomed the opening last week of the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone, entrusted with judging the crimes committed during the civil war. The tribunal, …
read moreJohn Paul II expressed grief over the terrorist attacks in Madrid and condemned them as "unjustifiable acts that offend God, violate the fundamental right to life, and undermine peaceful …
read moreJohn Paul II expressed his sympathy and closeness to the relatives of the victims of the suicide attack in Jerusalem that left eight dead. In a telegram addressed to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, …
read moreBelow is a summary of the address given by Dr. Bengt Safsten of Department of Internal Medicine at University Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden, at a recent international conference on the theme of …
read moreFollowing the terrorist attacks in Istanbul, John Paul II stressed that "dialogue is the only worthy path of man in the tensions that oppose persons or human groups." "Homicidal violence …
read moreJohn Paul II condemned the attacks occurring in Iraq, including today's suicide bombing at an Italian paramilitary base in Nassiriya. "I express the firmest condemnation of this new act of …
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