BBC: Vatican text angers Protestants
By David Willey BBC News, Rome

Pope Benedict has approved a new text asserting that Christian denominations outside Roman Catholicism are not true Churches in the full sense of the word.

The document, issued by a Vatican watchdog, has been criticised as offensive by some Protestants. the rest


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