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Chaldeans criticize death penalty for man who killed Mosul archbishop
Posted on May 20, 2008 09:07am CST.By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
ROME -- Chaldean Catholic leaders in Iraq have criticized a death sentence for the man convicted of killing Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq.
"Violence must not call for more violence. We are in favor of justice but not of capital punishment," Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, Iraq, told the Rome-based missionary news agency AsiaNews.
Vatican says 2005 document on gays applies to all seminaries
Posted on May 20, 2008 09:08am CST.By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY -- In a clarification approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican said its 2005 document prohibiting the admission of homosexuals to the priesthood applies to all types of seminaries.
That includes houses of formation run by religious orders and those under the authority of the agencies dealing with missionary territories and Eastern churches, said a statement signed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state.
The Catonsville Nine 40 years later
Posted on May 20, 2008 14:37pm CST.| On the Road to Peace by John Dear S.J. | Tuesday, May 20, 2008 |
| Vol. 2, No. 37 |
Yesterday (May 19) commemorates an historic occasion. It marks 40 years since the shattering gesture of the Catonsville Nine, those illustrious Catholic resisters, including Daniel and Philip Berrigan. With intent and purpose, they entered a draft board center in the Knights of Columbus Hall near Baltimore, and there they hauled draft files out to the parking lot and, in a bonfire of home-made napalm, set them ablaze.
