1220 Stories, most recent news story added Sat Nov 21, 9:34 pm ET
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.
The archbishop of Canterbury held his first talks with Pope Benedict XVI since the Roman Catholic church’s unprecedented invitation to disaffected Anglicans.
ROME -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.Experts say the historian might be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery. Barbara Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, says in a new book that she ...
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
After offering a home in his church to disaffected Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI assures the archbishop of Canterbury that he is still committed to seeking closer ties between Catholics and Anglicans. Pope Benedict XVI - Catholic Church - Archbishop of Canterbury - Anglicanism - Pope Benedict
Pope Benedict XVI is meeting with artists, actors and musicians in the splendor of the Sistine Chapel to renew the Catholic church's friendship with the world of art.
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."
More than 250 artists including Champaign native John David Mooney will meet on Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI in the famed Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome. The gathering under Michelangelo's frescoes will bring together artists from all genres to renew friendship and dialogue between the church and artists, and to encourage new opportunities for collaboration, according to the Vatican.
Pope Benedict XVI is expected to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday, the first meeting between the religious leaders since a Catholic overture to disaffected Anglicans that some commentators compared to a hostile takeover on Wall Street.
Vatican slams 'Twilight'; Robert Downey Jr. ponders retirement; Students don't find Jude Law so sweet after orange attack
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Pope Benedict XVI and Rowan Williams , the archbishop of Canterbury, reiterated their wish to strengthen the relationship between the Roman Catholics and the Church of England at a meeting in Rome today.
A treasure of the Vatican’s collection of religious art, a sixth-century reliquary containing what are revered as fragments of the cross on which Christ was crucified, has been restored.
After the Pope invited Anglicans to become Catholics, their religious leader visited Rome. As Sheila MacVicar reports, the growing rift between the two shows no sign of narrowing.
A Vatican researcher claims she found nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin that includes the words “Jesus Nazarene” and mention of a death sentence.
Deep in the heart of Vatican City, Cuban-born Roman Catholic theologian Miguel H. Díaz has managed to find an Italian version of a sandwich that reminds him of home: pan con lechón.
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
