In the Catholic church, for example, marriage is a religious sacrament carrying no secular legal significance.
All six reports have been conducted by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.
All three reports have been conducted by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.
The selection of a Latin American pope underscores a big demographic shift in the Catholic Church toward the region.
The Safeguarding Board helps to protect children in the Catholic Church from being abused by priests or anyone else.
Geoghan, a central figure in the Catholic Church's abuse scandal in Boston, was taken to hospital, but died shortly afterwards.
"The Personal Ordinariates were established by an Apostolic Constitution, the highest form of legal document in the Catholic Church, " he said.
Cardinal O'Brien, 74, stood down from some frontline duties in the Catholic Church in Scotland last year due to his age.
Patrus Ananias, who is close to activists in the Catholic church, takes over a new Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation.
From 1991-94 he was an ordained priest in the Catholic church, having attended the Gregorian University in Rome and the Franciscan Study Centre in Canterbury.
The Jesuits are the largest single order in the Catholic Church.
Vatican reporter John Allen's new book is Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Tartaglia thought that, "since Pope Benedict announced his resignation and since he stepped down", there had been a sense of loss in the Catholic Church.
The public silence of the Vatican during the widespread atrocities of World War II is arguably the most controversial issue in the Catholic Church's wartime history.
The CDU's roots are in the Catholic church, especially in Germany's south (its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, or CSU, considers itself a separate Volkspartei).
In the Catholic Church, perhaps the worst of the sexual scandal reported outside of the Irish fiasco took place within the secretive, almost cult-like, Legion of Christ.
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Cardinal O'Brien stood down from some front-line duties in the Catholic Church in Scotland last year because of his age, and is due to retire next month when he turns 75.
This has seen a succession of married priests coming over, so providing a ready supply of candidates to fill the growing number of vacancies, due to lack of celibate males, in the Catholic Church.
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Also speaking on Newsnight Scotland, Harry Reid, former editor of the Herald newspaper, who is currently writing a book about Scotland's relationship with religion, said he thought the cardinal's "sudden departure" would "leave a gap" in the Catholic Church in Scotland.
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Ms. JENNIFER CLARK (Los Angeles): The fact that all the youth come together to pray and to go to mass shows that we're in support of what the church does and that we truly do love the Catholic Church and believe in what the Catholic Church teaches.
But the legislation has critics, and the Church in Wales, the Roman Catholic Church in Wales and the Wales Orthodox Mission have all raised concerns.
The Shrovetide processions - banned in turn by the Catholic Church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and by the socialist government in the twentieth century - play an important role in securing cohesion within the village community.
In September, the Roman Catholic Church in the Australian state of Victoria confirmed that more than 600 children had been sexually abused by its priests since the 1930s.
John XXIII was famed for calling the Second Vatican Council in 1962, which ushered in great changes in the Roman Catholic Church's relationship with the modern world.
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She said it was a sign that even now, thousands of miles away in Europe and in the highest office in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, her brother showed the same sense of humor he displayed since their childhood growing up in Argentina.
While the decree severely limits active participation in the German Catholic Church, it does hold out some hope for anyone considering a return to the fold.
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