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(AP:VATICAN CITY) Pope Benedict XVI is urging banks to help families experiencing financial problems. Benedict says one of the primary objectives of banks is to support the weakest in society while also spurring productivity.
Vatican City - Diplomatic contacts are under way for a possible visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Israel and the Palestinian Territories in 2009, the papal spokesman said Thursday. Father Federico Lombardi was commenting on a report by an Israeli newsp...
* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Ivan Arce On January 15, 2008, the Vatican released a statement indicating that Pope Benedict XVI had canceled his visit to Italian La Sapienza University as a result of a series of protests...
(The Associated Press) Pope Benedict XVI is urging banks to help families experiencing financial problems. Benedict says one of the primary objectives of banks is to support the weakest in society while also spurring productivity. The pontiff was speaking at his weekly audience Wednesday attended by officials from the southern Italian credit bank Calabrian. The pope and other Vatican officials ...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Sacramento's bishop, who has had health problems, and appointed the California diocese's coadjutor as his successor. The Vatican said in a statement Saturday that Bishop William Weigand, who led the 900,000-member diocese for 15 years, will be replaced by Jaime Soto, who became coadjutor bishop in 2007.
Pope Benedict XVI says one of the primary objectives of banks is to support the weakest in society while also spurring productivity.
Associated Press - November 29, 2008 11:34 AM ET VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Sacramento's bishop, who has had health problems, and appointed the...
Pope Benedict XVI is urging banks to help families experiencing financial problems. Benedict says one of the primary objectives of banks is to support the weakest in society while also spurring productivity. The pontiff was speaking at his weekly audience...
Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials on Tuesday condemned the Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.N. resolution calling on governments worldwide to de-criminalize homosexuality.
Steve Kraske, The Kansas City Star’s political correspondent, is host of “Up to Date” from 11 a.m. to noon weekdays on KCUR, 89.3 FM. Today: John L. Allen Jr., senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and senior Vatican analyst for CNN, discusses misconceptions about and the future of the Catholic Church.
Genoa, Italy - A group of gay rights activists in Italy staged Wednesday a protest against the Vatican's refusal to endorse a proposed United Nations resolution calling on governments to de- criminalize homosexuality. The demonstrators, numbering aro...
Wed, Dec 3, 2008 (4:21 a.m.) Pope Benedict XVI is urging banks to help families experiencing financial problems. Benedict says one of the primary objectives of banks is to support the weakest in society while also spurring productivity.
Pope Benedict XVI is considering a visit to Israel next year, a Vatican spokesman said on Thursday.
Pope Benedict XVI expressed concern on Thursday over the fate of two Roman Catholic nuns kidnapped at gunpoint in Kenya more than two weeks ago, the Vatican new agency said.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The Vatican will vote against a European Union draft declaration to the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality, a stance that has drawn criticism from pro-gay rights groups seeking to persuade countries such as Saudi Arabia to lift the death penalty for same-sex relations.
The Vatican has come out against a United Nations resolution that calls on all governments to decriminalize homosexuality. The resolution, Archbishop Celestino Migliore said, would "add new categories of those protected from discrimination" and could lead to the decline of heterosexual marriage. Still, some are questioning why the Catholic Church is being granted this type of status on a world ...
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