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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich loses yacht in poker game Posted: 7 months ago by Ankabout
Owner of the English football team Chelsea lost his $500,000 yacht in a poker game.
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Catholic Church Quits Pretending Posted: 10 months ago by 2manyusernames
that they are anything but one big scam making up their own rules which brings them more power. They are bringing back indulgences.
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Some 400 Latvians ask Russia's Abramovich to buy their country Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Over 400 Lativans have signed a letter addressed to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich asking him to buy their country, Latvia's novonews.lv website said on Monday.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 141 [+].
Catholic nun sentenced to prison for her part in the Rwandan genocide. Posted: 3 years ago by tomphoolry
Unbeleivable if true.
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Hell Boy Fights to Attend Catholic School Posted: 2 years ago by VooDooPeacock
St. Peter the Apostle, an Australian Catholic School, objected to the enrollment 5 year old Max Hell because of his last name.
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Rome workers uncover city of dead Posted: 1 year ago by JoshSF49
While renovating a rugby stadium, they find a roman city.
What a surprise!
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 145 [+].
Widow Appeals For Peace Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
The widow of a Catholic man beaten to death by a sectarian mob in Northern Ireland has appealed for no retaliation for his murder.
He was targeted by a gang of up to 40 men who entered a mainly Catholic housing estate after football matches involving Rangers and Celtic.
Update to this story
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Is this the earliest image of St Paul? 'Sensational' 1,600-year-old icon of saint found in a Roman tomb Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
This faded face, with a pointed beard and furrowed brow, is believed to be the oldest image in existence of St Paul the Apostle.
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‘Let Iraqis kill each other,’ Catholic bishop says Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
"Things are worse and worse and worse every single day, even for the Americans. The best thing is to withdraw, and then let the brothers attack each other"
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Should Priests Marry? Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
Outgoing NY Cardinal Egan suggests that the Catholic Church would sooner or later have to consider whether to allow priests to marry.
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Swiss want permission to reverse an ancient deal they did with the Almighty Posted: 4 months ago by Doggylives
JUST over 330 years ago, devout Roman Catholic villagers in Switzerland struck a deal with God that would protect them from a bloody great glacier.
The glacier is now receding and threatening to flood their town.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 74 [+].
Twelfth-century copy of Roman map displayed Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
An 800-year-old map, the sole surviving copy of a chart used by the Roman Empire's courier service, was put on show for just one day on Monday after being accorded "Memory of the World" status by UNESCO.
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Nation's Roman Catholic Bishops ok gay document. Posted: 3 years ago by Alton
Bishop's agree on document to welcome gays into the church, but there's a catch.
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Raped Indian nun denounces police Posted: 1 year ago by Nateebiinature
A Roman Catholic nun raped in the Indian state of Orissa, allegedly during a riot by Hindus, has publicly denounced local police.
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Rent A Priest.com Posted: 2 years ago by wags273
NOT SPAM!
A odd sight where you rent priests?
Founded in 1992, CITI (Celibacy Is The Issue) Ministries is a lay organization that locates, recruits, certifies and promotes married Roman Catholic priests to fill the spiritual needs of the faithful.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 71 [+].
Church-run Adoption Agencies say 'No!' to Gay Couples. Posted: 3 years ago by tundramonkey
The Church of England has backed the Catholic Church in its bid to be exempt from laws on adoption by gay couples.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 75 [+].
Roman Polanski 'held in Zurich' Posted: 2 months ago by ruthstark
Film director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody on a 31-year-old US arrest warrant, Polanski admitted unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, but fled to France before sentencing.
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Well, he was "mostly dead" Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
A little bit of Catholic church history they don't teach you in Sunday school:
One thousand one hundred and four years ago a trial took place in Italy, a trial so macabre and gruesome that it easily qualifies as the strangest and most terrible trial in human history. At this trial, called the Cadaver Synod, a dead pope wrenched from the grave was brought into a Rome courtroom, tried in the presence of a successor pope, found guilty, and "subjected to the most barbarous violence."
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Catholic Church buries limbo after centuries Posted: 3 years ago by kissmenow
The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 53 [+].
Decline Of the Roman Empire Driven By Climate Change Posted: 12 months ago by willo
The decline of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean more than 1,400 years ago may have been driven by unfavorable climate changes.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 121 [+].
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