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Yankees manager Girardi attends father’s funeral

By DAVID MERCER - Associated Press

High-ranking Roman Catholic prelates appear in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City in September 1963 for the opening ceremony of the continuation of the Second Vatican Council designed to “open the windows” on the Roman Catholic Church. (The Associated Press)

50 years later, Vatican II still divides

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Pope Benedict XVI, accompanied by his private secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein (top left), and his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for a general audience on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope’s butler convicted in leaks, given 18 months

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

** FILE ** Paolo Gabriele, the pope's butler, was arrested after Vatican investigators discovered papal documents in his Vatican City apartment. (Associated Press)

Pope’s ex-butler goes on trial for leaked papers

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Paolo Gabriele

Former butler goes on trial in leaking of pope’s personal papers

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

The remains of a car used in a suicide bombing sit outside a church in Bauchi, Nigeria, on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. The attack killed two people and wounded another 45, officials said. (AP Photo)

Suicide bomber kills 2, injures 45 at Nigerian church

By Shehu Saulawa - Associated Press

Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Anti-Obama Catholics want dinner invitation rescinded

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

WILLIAMS: Compulsion: Final step in left’s drive to ideal society

By Armstrong Williams - The Washington Times

Guatemala frees colonel accused of killing Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi

Associated Press

Cardinal Jaime Ortega attends a procession honoring the nation's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, in Havana on Nov. 10. A political cartoon that appeared in Miami's El Nuevo Herald showed the cardinal and a military-clad Cuban President Raul Castro singing a love song together, implying that the religious leader was a Castro lackey. (Associated Press)

Cuban prelate under fire as cozy with Castro

By Paul Haven - Associated Press

Illustration Obama's anti-Christianity by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KUHNER: State-sanctioned anti-Christianity

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Pope Benedict XVI, accompanied by his private secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein (top left), and his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for a general audience on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

RUSE: Catholic bishops strike back

By Cathy Ruse

**FILE** President Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control on Feb. 10, 2012, at the White House. (Associated Press)

Catholic leaders take aim at Obama contraception plan

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

Illustration: Georgetown University by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

REILLY: Georgetown: ‘Fertile ground’ for anti-Catholicism

By Patrick J. Reilly - The Washington Times

Ind. diocese denies discrimination over IVF

By CHARLES WILSON - Associated Press

"Everything's been all right so far, but going forward, I'm afraid. Sometimes criminal guys hop on the train, and they'll rob you or kill you. ... Yeah, I'm scared." -Victor Caseres, 26, who had traveled 750 miles by hopping freight trains to arrive at the shelter (Keith Dannemiller/Special to The Washington Times)

Central Americans determined to trek north to U.S.

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Vatican reform is in order

The Washington Times

Pope Benedict XVI arrives to lead an open-air Mass at Revolution Square in Havana on Wednesday, his last day in Cuba. The square includes an image of Communist hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara (background, left). (Associated Press)

Pope warns Cuba about ‘fanaticism’

By Nicole Winfield and Paul Haven - The Washington Times

Pope Benedict XVI (left) speaks with Cuban President Raul Castro at the end of an open-air Mass in Revolution Square in Havana on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Pope wrapping up Cuba visit with Mass, meeting with Fidel Castro

By Nicole Winfield and Paul Haven - Associated Press