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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican called a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the president of Vietnam on Friday "a significant stage" in efforts for closer ties between the communist country and the Holy See.
VATICAN CITY | Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday that there are growing signs of religious freedom in Cuba and that there is an opportunity for reconciliation between the communist nation and the United States. Welcoming Havana's new ambassador to the Vatican, Benedict also expressed sympathy for Cuba's suffering during the global downturn as well as "the devastating effects of natural disasters ...
*Afeni Shakur says she was taken aback upon learning that her son's music is included on a Vatican play list of its Top 12 influential songs. “This came as such an amazing surprise – it’s not something I would have ever thought possible,” Shakur told AllHipHop.com in a statement.
GIRLS Pope John Paul II falls to Bogalusa Pope John Paul II’s Lady Jaguars suffered a 76-62 loss to the Bogalusa Lady Jacks in a back-and-forth game held Thursday in Bogalusa.
SAN JUAN — All of the Catholic priests in the Rio Grande Valley got the news via text message Wednesday morning. Pope Benedict XVI had named Daniel Flores as bishop of the Dioceses of Brownsville to replace Bishop Raymundo Peña. Priests who had...
After hosting a panel earlier this year to discuss supposed flaws in evolutionary theory , Italy's science agency the National Research Council (CNR) reportedly put up thousands of dollars to help with the publication of a follow-up book, Evolutionism: The decline of an hypothesis . The move has vexed many scientists in the country where the Vatican recently came out in support of Darwin's ideas ...
A Vatican body has refused a request by parishioners to block a planned merger of two parishes, St. Vincent Pallotti in Haddon Township and St. Aloysius in Oaklyn.
Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday there are growing signs of religious freedom in Cuba and that there is an opportunity for reconciliation between the communist nation and the United States.
By Juliet Williams The Associated Press SACRAMENTO - William A. Wilson, the first American to serve as ambassador to the Vatican and a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers, has died.
McALLEN — Pope Benedict XVI chose a Texas native known as a great evangelizer in three languages to be the next bishop of Brownsville, the Vatican announced Wednesday.
Italy has given a final go-ahead to the abortion drug RU-486, capping years of debate and defying opposition from the Vatican.
Late Fall is not a safe time to park your car near the Vatican... as the owner of this Fiat (and the Mini below the jump) will surely attest to. We'll let our good friends at Axis of Oversteer...
Msgr. Daniel E. Flores, who has been an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Detroit since 2006, was named Wednesday by the Vatican to become bishop in Brownsville, Texas. Flores, 48, was born along the Texas gulf coast and raised in Corpus Christi. He will take over for Bishop Raymundo Pena, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 75.
McALLEN -- Pope Benedict XVI chose a Texas native known as a great evangelizer in three languages to be the next bishop of Brownsville, the Vatican announced Wednesday.Bishop Daniel Flores, 48, will take over for the retiring Bishop Raymundo Pena. Pe ...
BROWNSVILLE — “When can I tell my mother?” Those were the first words that came to Bishop Daniel E. Flores when he learned that Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to serve as the sixth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville. “She...
A Downtown candlelight service is scheduled Dec. 16 to support Catholic nuns who are the target of a Vatican investigation.
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