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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 (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.
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.
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.
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.
In this Year of the Priest, (June 2009 through June 2010)proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI to uplift the Roman Catholicpriesthood, Roman Catholic Womenpriests traveled recently toBaltimore, Md., to remind the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops who weregathering there for their annual meeting that we exist and, asordained women, are already serving the people of God.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation.
Actors and musicians crowd the Sistine Chapel during their meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. The Pontiff spoke to more than 250 people-painters, sculptors, architects, writers, dancers, musicians, actors and directors-seated amid the frescoed beauty of the Sistine Chapel.
VATICAN CITY—One of the gems of the Vatican’s priceless religious art collection—a 6th-century reliquary containing what are revered as fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified—has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory.
ROME - Deep in the heart of Vatican City, Cuban-born Roman Catholic theologian Miguel H. Diaz has managed to find an Italian version of a sandwich that reminds him of home: pan con lechon."Theyre Italian pork sandwiches but very, very close to pan con...
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Vatican’s failure to cooperate with a panel investigating the sexual abuse of children by priests in Ireland is “very regrettable,” said an auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop of Dublin, Eamonn Walsh.
Vatican City - Children who are forced to emigrate must be protected from the risk of exploitation, Pope Benedict XVI said in in a message issued by the Vatican on Friday. The pope's message was prepared for the 96th edition of the Catholic church'...
VATICAN CITY — One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection — a 6th-century reliquary containing what are revered as fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified — has been restored to its Byzantine-era...
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