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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Thursday to upgrade Vatican-Kremlin relations to full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said.
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has asked the president of the Irish bishops' conference and the archbishop of Dublin to come to the Vatican to discuss "the painful situation of the church in Ireland" following a report detailing the church's failures in addressing clerical sexual abuse.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI will break with tradition this year and celebrate Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at 10 p.m. instead of midnight, the Vatican said Monday.
If His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI hasn't accepted your friend request, don't get mad. He's a busy man! He has to pick which 2 Pac track to put on the Music From the Vatican MySpace playlist . OK, not really. But CNN reports that the Music From the Vatican MySpace page has recently posted a playlist of songs that, according to the page itself, "share the aim to reach the heart of good minded ...
Midnight Mass will be celebrated at 10 p.m. to help ease Benedict's holiday season fatigue. Pope Benedict XVI will break with tradition this year and celebrate Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at 10 p.m. instead of midnight, the Vatican said Monday.
The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will break with tradition this year and celebrate Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at 10 p.m. instead of midnight.
CARMEL, Calif., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- William A. Wilson, appointed in 1984 as the first full-fledged U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, died at his home in Carmel, Calif., at 95, his daughter said.
Ireland's top Roman Catholic leaders will hold talks with Pope Benedict this week to formulate the Vatican's response to an Irish government report on a 30-year cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests.
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI will meet with Irish bishops to discuss a report that the Catholic Church in Dublin covered up years of sexual child abuse, the Vatican says.
Limerick Bishop Donal Murray is expected to offer his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome today. The bishop flew to Rome yesterday to discuss his future with the Rome hierarchy.
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A Vatican move to hold its Christmas Eve midnight mass two hours earlier does not indicate health problems for Pope Benedict XVI, officials say.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- An Anglican ordination that was scheduled to be held in a Roman Catholic church in rural Australia was moved to a Protestant church because the Vatican refused to have women ordained in a Catholic building.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Pope Benedict XVI has invited Ireland’s top clergy to Rome on Dec. 11 to be briefed on the “painful” situation in Ireland. Cardinal Sean Brady and Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, will both attend, according to a statement from the Vatican sent via e-mail.
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday lamented what he described as a steady diet of news about evil in the world, saying it hardens hearts, as he prayed at the Spanish Steps in a Christmas season tradition.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will break with tradition this year and celebrate Christmas Eve Mass in St.
The Holy See and the Russian Federation have vowed to establish full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said Thursday, following a meeting at the Vatican between Pope Benedict XVI and Russia’s president, Dmitri A. Medvedev. In a statement, the Vatican called the meeting “cordial.” Ties between the Vatican and Russia have historically been strained, because of the cold war and the centuries-old rift ...
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