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Fr. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican press office director, released a tentative schedule for the early days of the conclave, which begins tomorrow, Tuesday, March 12. Since Rome is five hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), EDT is in parenthesis below.

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Many Catholic politicians in Europe, too, ignore Church teaching. But how did they get in office?

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion - OSV Newsweekly, 4/22/2012

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We do not talk about it enough, but it is happening all over the world. It is legalized same-sex marriage, and the map of Western Europe is interesting — and dismaying — for Catholics.

Iceland, Norway and Sweden allow two people of the same gender to marry under the law. It is no surprise. The Scandinavian states have been socially liberal in the extreme for years. Marriage in the conventional sense, between one man and one woman, is fading away. Catholic before the Reformation, these countries became almost universally Lutheran, by now they are almost totally secularist and even agnostic.Read more