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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...
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 Byzantine-era glory, experts say.
The Vatican pulled out all the stops Saturday at a meeting that aimed to revive the age-old ties between the Catholic Church and artists.
Photo by Bullneck The Catholic Church is shaking things up these days, huh? The same Church that silenced Galileo Galilei has acknowledged that aliens could maybe exist . Further, the Church says that xenomorphs might not require redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church is only talking astrobiology in theoretical terms right now, but what's preventing the Vatican from ...
This photo shows the front of the restored Crux Vaticana (Vatican Cross), according to experts the oldest known reliquary containing the purported fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Experts said the Crux Vaticana has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory.
In Rome, the archbishop of Canterbury called for clarity on the future of Catholic-Anglican dialogue.
MEDIA ADVISORY, Nov. 20 / Christian Newswire / -- Wishing to stay in touch with her daughter away at college and taking her cue from Pope Benedict XVI's call to use modern technologies to spread the Gospel, Riz Marsella founded SacredVerse.com , a communications tool now available on the internet for the "Text Generation."
Roman Catholics should look beyond the divisive issue of ordaining women to see how much they share with the world's Anglicans and work toward greater Christian unity, the head of the Anglican Communion said on Thursday.
Centuries ago in Rome, scientists who believed in extra terrestrial life were burned at the stake. Now, in 2009, the Vatican hosted a conference on extraterrestrial life and a Arizona astronomer was there.
This just in, a lot of people are hooked on the Twilight series! The premiere of the movie New Moon brought in more than $26 million dollars in just the first few hours of its midnight release. Whether they're infatuated with actors Robert Pattinson and\or Taylor Lautner, or they love vampire themes in general, the reality is, people of all ages, both male and female, are caught up in the ...
Is the pope (a) Team Edward, (b) Team Jacob or (c) none of the above? Take a wild guess. To the surprise of no one, it turns out the folks who hated J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown...
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — The bishop of Malta says Pope Benedict XVI will visit the tiny Mediterranean island April 17-18 to mark the 1950th anniversary of St. Paul's shipwreck.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI called Wednesday for greater international efforts to ensure basic human rights for children, saying he was praying for all young people who suffer.
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. 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.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 19, 2009) - His Excellency Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican Ambassador to the United Nations, will be the guest of honor at The Musical Splendors of Christmas, a concert of Sacred Arias and seasonal favorites performed by operatic tenor Roberto Iarussi and soprano Christian Holms on December 3, 2009, at St. Francis of Assisi Church Manhattan. Proceeds ...
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.
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