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Still smarting over "The Da Vinci Code," the Vatican has banned filming of the controversial follow-up flick "Angels & Demons" in Rome churches.

The Catholic church barred Tom Hanks and producer-director Ron Howard from shooting scenes in two historic cathedrals after branding author Dan Brown's works anti-Catholic blasphemy.

"Normally we read the script, but this time it was not necessary," said Msgr. Marco Fibbi, spokesman for the diocese of Rome. "The name 'Dan Brown' was enough."

 

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Cardinal Renato Martino, the Vatican's justice and peace minister, has condemned the Israeli government's continuing war on the Gaza Strip saying the territory now resembled "a big concentration camp."

"Defenceless populations are always the ones who pay. Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp,"

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Vatican says politicians who back abortion should be barred from Communion
Wednesday, 20th August 2008. 3:05pm

By: Roberto Sanchez Guevara.

The Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature of the Holy See, Archbishop Raymond L Burke, pointed out that Catholics, especially politicians, who publicly advocate abortion should not take commune, and said that Church ministers had a duty to deny communion if such people request it until they have reformed their views.
Vatican says politicians who back abortion should be barred from Communion

"Who can claim a right to receive the Body of Christ? Everything is an act without a measure of God's love. Our Lord makes himself available in his Body and his Blood but we can not ever say that we have the right to receive in the Holy Communion. Every time we approach him must do so with a profound awareness of our indignity, "said the Prefect.