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A major Catholic organization with branches in the U.S. has written to Pope Benedict XV! demanding he remove Irish bishops caught in the current sex abuse scandal.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to meet Pope Benedict XVI for the first time next week while on his politcal visit to Italy, the Kremlin disclosed Thursday. The presidential office said Medvedev would meet the pope in the Vatican on Dec...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After 25 years doing the English-language commentary for the pope's Christmas midnight Mass, U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley is stepping away from the microphone and hanging up the headphones.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Dmitry Medvedev will oversee the signing of an agreement between OAO Gazprom, Eni SpA and Electricite de France SA on the South Stream natural-gas pipeline and meet Pope Benedict XVI in Rome tomorrow.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In a truly win-win arrangement, a group of U.S. university students get amazing access to the Vatican and the Vatican gets an enthusiastic, computer-savvy volunteer workforce.
MySpace Music has launched in Britain with a "Get Real Close" campaign that includes a playlist of tunes from the Vatican.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers and concrete action to comfort all those who are suffering from AIDS.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI urged governments and international organizations to give special attention to the rights of child immigrants, who often are victims of exploitation and abandonment.
A Roman Catholic Cardinal told homosexuals and transsexuals on Wednesday they would never get into heaven, prompting a rebuke from the Vatican itself.
Pope Benedict XVI hailed a 1984 Vatican-mediated friendship agreement between Argentina and Chile as a "luminous example" of peace winning out over war during an audience Saturday with the presidents of both countries.
Commentary: There are all sorts of Catholics. There's Andrew Sullivan. The pope. Newt Gingrich. Sister Jeannine Grammick, that glorious woman who defied the Vatican in her ministry to LGBT people. There are Catholics for Choice and the Knights of Columbus. There is my ex-partner, who in five years of domesticity I never once knew to go to Mass or receive Holy Communion. Once a Catholic, always a ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers and concrete action to comfort all those who are suffering from AIDS. Benedict issued the appeal during his weekly Sunday blessing ahead of World AIDS Day on Tuesday.
It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
>Episcopal Life Daily >December 2, 2009 >Episcopal Life Online is available at > http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife . >Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes: * TOP STORY - Online Advent calendars offer daily moment of reflection * WORLD REPORT - Philippines and Canadian church groups demand massacre probe * WORLD REPORT - AUSTRALIA: Vatican vetoes use of Catholic ...
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI received Saturday Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her Chilean counterpart,Michelle Bachelet, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a treaty which ended a territorial dispute between the two L...
The presidents of Chile and Argentina marked Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI the 25th anniversary of a peace treaty signed between the former dictators of their countries with papal mediation.
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