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Last Updated: Tuesday - 07/13/2010

Week of January 11, 1999

Canadian and Foreign News Highlights

Catholic leaders decry attacks on Iraq:

Catholic leaders have condemned U.S.-British military strikes against Iraq and called on the international community to seek just ways to handle the Iraqi crisis in the future. "I repeat once again: War has never been and will never be an adequate means to a solution of the problems between nations!" said Pope John Paul.

Vatican envoy charged with harassing employee:

A high-ranking Church official at the Vatican's embassy in Ottawa has been charged with criminal harassment. Msgr. Vito Rallo, 45, is to appear in court Jan. 29 for allegedly "engaging in threatening conduct" towards a 58-year-old woman, an Ottawa-Carleton police official said Jan. 5. Rallo, who remains on duty, is the pope's number two representative in Canada after Archbishop Carlo Curis.

Clinton lesson for kids is 'Don't lie':

The head of Boys Town has asked all American children to take one lesson to heart from the Clinton scandal: Don't lie. Father Val Peter said every child old enough to know the president is in trouble because of things he did should be told that "the main lesson is about lying." He said people who lie often do so to hide the fact that they did something wrong, to avoid getting caught or hurting someone who would be hurt to know what they did. But lying only adds to the hurt, he said.

Contraception killing Western world:

Most Western countries are effectively dying because they no longer have a replacement birth rate, thanks to contraception and abortion, said the founder of Human Life International. Benedictine Father Paul Marx said the United States has a birth rate of 2.1. In Canada it is 1.8 nationwide, and an even lower 1.4 in overwhelmingly Catholic Quebec.

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