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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...
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican Saturday to discuss relations between Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches.
Faint writing on the famous linen proves it can't be of medieval origin, claims a researcher.
A Penn State professor recently had the opportunity to visit the Vatican to participate in a confere
VATICAN CITY - Sitting before Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI called on an audience of contemporary artists Saturday to embark on "a quest for beauty."
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. Archbishop Rowan Williams said he came away convinced there was no "dawn raid" on his church by Rome, telling Vatican Radio he wishes "every blessing" for those who ...
Sitting before Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday called on an audience of contemporary artists to embark on "a quest for beauty."
Pope John Paul II High School, the first Catholic high school in Thurston County in decades, is slated to open next fall in the former Lacey firehouse on Pacific Avenue.
VATICAN CITY -- In 1512, Raphael finished his ruminative portrait of Pope Julius II, who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1999, the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan produced "The Ninth Hour," a wax sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite.
VATICAN CITY -- A month after the Vatican announced the creation of a new Anglican rite within the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday held "cordial discussions" with the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, the Vatican said in a statement.
A month after the Vatican announced the creation of a new Anglican rite within the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI...
VATICAN CITY - After offering a home in his church to disaffected Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI assured the archbishop of Canterbury yesterday that he is still committed to...
Archbishop Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI met privately in what the Vatican called "cordial discussions," as part of what has clearly been a difficult visit by the Anglican leader. The Vatican said in a brief statement that the two leaders "turned to the challenges facing all Christian communities" and the need "to promote forms of collaboration and shared witness in facing these ...
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.
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.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — One of the gems of the Vatican’s priceless religious art collection — a 6th century reliquary containing what is revered as fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified — has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory. The Vatican on Thursday unveiled the restored Crux Vaticana, a foot-high jewel-encrusted golden cross containing what tradition holds are shards of Jesus ...
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