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The Papal Succession
On February 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced his intention to resign from the papal office effective February 28. The first papal resignation since Pope Gregory XII in...
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2008 Undergraduate Fellows Report: A Leap of Faith: Interreligious Marriage in America
December 31, 2008
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A Discussion with Wendy Tyndale about Gender Roles, Peace, and Conflict in Central America
April 1, 2010
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A Discussion with Bishop Singulane on the Role of CCM in the Ending of the Mozambican Civil War
May 26, 2009
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Cardinal Peter Turkson on Condom Use to Prevent HIV/AIDS within Marriage
October 5, 2009
I would not undervalue the possibility that somebody who has AIDS, recognizing his own Christian commitment, would simply just decide to refrain from sex. [...] Some would, in such a situation, have advised the use of condom by the partner who has HIV/AIDS so it doesn't spread. But again, in our part of the world, even the use of condom is sometimes risky: risky in the sense that [...] we have cases of condoms that have burst during sex and it is they themselves who have come to talk about it otherwise we would not have known it in our hospitals.
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson is the Ghanian Catholic Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio and the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace who is considered papabile (a contender for the papacy). Previously serving as the...
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson is the Ghanian Catholic Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio and the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace who is considered papabile (a contender for the papacy). Previously serving as the...