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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.
Late night talk show writing staffs around the globe rejoiced when it was announced that Rolling Stone magazine was planning on opening a restaurant chain. Music news hub site The Daily Swarm went with the straightforward snark of “Everything is served stale” to jab the Old Tie-dye Lady.
BROWNSVILLE – Pope Benedict XVI has chosen a South Texas native to serve as the next bishop of Brownsville, a diocese spokeswoman said. Monsignor Daniel E. Flores, who has served as an auxiliary bishop in Detroit since 2006, will replace retiring...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 / Christian Newswire / -- In today's society, marriage is under tremendous attack. This raises an important question: is marriage the foundation of family life?
A top Israeli official was headed to the Vatican on Wednesday for a new round of talks on long-standing disputes over Church property in the Holy Land and other issues that have marred ties.
He's already done the Vatican. So don't be surprised if Milan's famed La Scala opera house doesn't turn up in Dan Brown's next thriller.
ROME — Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday lamented what he described as a steady diet of news about evil in the world, saying it hardens hearts, as he prayed at the Spanish Steps in a Christmas-season tradition.
Tupac Shakur's mother Afeni Shakur released a statement to AllHipHop.com today (Dec. 8th) regarding her son's inclusion on a Vatican playlist of influential songs.
Funeral services for William A. Wilson , a Los Angeles businessman and a member of President Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" who was the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Holy Cross Cemetery , 5835 W. Slauson Ave., Culver City.
ROME, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI, appearing at a ceremony in Rome, accused the mass media Tuesday of producing "poison" that makes people less sensitive to violence.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- An Anglican ordination that was scheduled to be held in a Roman Catholic church in rural Australia was moved to a Protestant church because the Vatican refused to have women ordained in a Catholic building.
CARMEL, Calif., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- William A. Wilson, appointed in 1984 as the first full-fledged U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, died at his home in Carmel, Calif., at 95, his daughter said.
Pope Benedict XVI waves from his popemobile as it rains, after the traditional prayer to celebrate the Immaculate Conception, in Rome. On Dec. 8, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and it is a national holiday in predominantly Roman Catholic Italy.
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has asked the president of the Irish bishops' conference and the archbishop of Dublin to come to the Vatican to discuss "the painful situation of the church in Ireland" following a report detailing the church's failures in addressing clerical sexual abuse.
ROME (CNS) -- The statues, paintings and mosaics of Mary found not only in the churches of Rome, but also in its public squares and on street-corner shrines should help the city's visitors and residents treat each other with more respect, Pope Benedict XVI said.
ROME (AP) — Pope Benedict is praying at the foot of the Spanish Steps, keeping a tradition that rings in the Roman holiday season.
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