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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...
Hofstra University Thursday awarded a $50,000 prize for interfaith work to an international multireligious group and to a Manhattan rabbi who helped make history last year when he hosted Pope Benedict VXI at his synagogue.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI called for prayers and greater efforts on the part of the international community to help the children around the world who live in dramatic situations.
The Shroud of Turin, shown in this 1979 file photo, the 14-foot linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus.
A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery.
A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams heads to Rome a month after the Vatican outlined new procedures designed to help disaffected conservative Anglicans enter the Roman Catholic Church
One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection - a 6th century reliquary containing the purported fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified - has gotten a new look after being restored to its...
ROME -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
Ku.Ra Comunicazione/The Associated Press The restored Crux Vaticana looks much more like it did at the time the Byzantine Emperor Justin II gave it to the people of Rome, according to Byzantine art experts.
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 (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation.
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation.
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.
(AP:ROME) News reports in Italy say investigators are scrutinizing millions of euros worth of Vatican bank transactions to see if they violated money laundering regulations.
VATICAN CITY - After offering a home in his church to disaffected Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI assured the archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday that he is still committed to seeking closer relations between Catholics and Anglicans.
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