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Death toll grows to 275 in Italy Quake
Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy today as the first funerals got underway for victims of the country’s devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 275 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday.
As more bodies were pulled from the rubble, some of the 28,000 homeless spent [...]
Contraceptives pollute Environment says Vatican
The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano said Saturday.
The pill “has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature” through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the [...]
