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16 Jul 2012 – Justus George Lawler’s “Were the Popes Against
the Jews” effectively rebuts the negative critique of the popes of the 19th and 20th centuries in David Kertzer’s
2001 “The Popes Against the Jews” and in those of even
earlier books by Daniel Goldhagen and John Cornwell. In
so doing, Lawler makes a significant contribution to what
has become an ongoing discussion among scholars and
journalists. He carefully analyzes Kertzer’s presentation,
showing where he fudges and manipulates historical facts
and statements. Read more...
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16 Jul 2012 – WASHINGTON (CNS) — Participants in the 13th
annual West Coast Muslim-Catholic Dialogue compared
and contrasted the qualities of the believer in Islam and
Catholicism during a recent meeting in Orange, Calif. Read more...
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16 Jul 2012 – WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic and Jewish
scholars heard presentations on a book that one bishop
called “an important milestone in Catholic-Jewish
relations” and discussed mutual problems of rising school tuition and threats to religious freedom during recent dialogue sessions. Read more...
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13 Jul 2012 – WASHINGTON (CNS) — Church leaders in
Ukraine have signed an open letter calling for Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovych not to sign a law that would
grant Russian, spoken by most people in eastern and
southern Ukraine, “regional language” status. Read more...
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13 Jul 2012 – JERUSALEM (CNS) — Calls for academic
boycotts against Israeli institutions of higher learning run counter to the tenets of academic freedom and dialogue,
said the presidents of two American Catholic universities. Read more...
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13 Jul 2012 – WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — The president of the
Bishops’ Conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina called for
renegotiation of the 1995 U.S.-brokered peace deal, which
ended the country’s bloody four-year war. Read more...
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12 Jul 2012 – CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Just as
individual musicians in an orchestra turn dissonance into
harmony through hard work, sacrifice and listening to one
another, so, too, can the world’s people turn conflict into peace, said Pope Benedict XVI. Read more...
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12 Jul 2012 – Pope Benedict XVI addresses an inter-faith orchestra of Israeli and Arab musicians following a concert in his honor on 11 July. Read more...
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