In one incident, 44 Tamil refugees were killed when shells hit a 400-year-old Catholic Church.
Their forefathers may have converted to Islam under Ottoman rule, but behind closed doors they kept their old Catholic practices.
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But this also made him the object of suspicion by the old Catholic families, who traditionally manned France's officer class.
The Pope's policy does not change church doctrine and applies only to the Year of Mercy, a centuries-old Catholic practice during which believers may receive special indulgences for their sins.
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Calling this a good week for the Dow is in the same zone as the old lines about catholic popes and bears in the woods.
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He would eliminate centuries-old privileges enjoyed by the Catholic church.
Ms. Bartel, a 64-year-old former director of education for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, says the ordeal led her to retire from a job she loved.
The 41 year old was 1 of 9 kids in his Irish Catholic conservative family.
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Even before his election, the 76-year-old was a deeply influential leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Also in 2007, Benedict eased curbs on using the old Latin mass, stirring the first of several Catholic-Jewish rows.
The death of the three-day-old baby last November shocked Chile, a predominantly Roman Catholic country.
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The scandals nonetheless made clear that the Catholic Church's lumbering, centuries-old Vatican administrative bureaucracy is its Achilles' heel.
St Patrick's Old Cathedral School, the city's most venerable Catholic school, is only the latest to be scheduled for closure.
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Lugo could become a victim of a conflict between rural landowners and poor farmers that is a century old, said Luis Galeano, a professor at the Catholic University in the capital.
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The 31-year-old had argued with illegal loggers in the area, the Catholic Church's Pastoral Land Commission said.
He notes that the Catholic Church is haemorrhaging members in its centuries-old strongholds, and finding it difficult to recruit new priests.
Stodghill, left behind to raise their then-2-year-old daughter alone, sued the hospital and its owner, Catholic Health Initiatives, for the wrongful deaths of all three.
Old-time campaigners thought in terms of blocks: union, Catholic, farmer, immigrant and so forth.
He finds, for example, a sadness for the vanished Catholic past lurking in the keen antiquarianism and the almost obsessive rediscovery of old modes of expression.
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Sellars tells the story through texts ranging from those by the 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen to the 20th-century radical Catholic activist Dorothy Day, from poetry by Louise Erdrich and Rosario Castellanos to excerpts from the Old and News Testaments.
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