Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace
AP - Sun Nov 8, 11:14 am ETPope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.
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Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.
When the Vatican recently announced its readiness to offer a new spiritual home to disgruntled practitioners of the Anglican faith, there was initially a stunned silence in England — and then bouts of protest.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI's efforts to unify the Catholic Church and reach out to Christian traditionalists took a new step with the start of talks between the Vatican and a group of breakaway Catholics that includes a Holocaust denier.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms, prompting an angry reaction from the Vatican and government officials.
The Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis.
The Vatican yesterday denounced a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms. In a decision that could force a review of the use of religious...
ROME (JTA)—Italian officials and the Vatican protested a human rights court ruling that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and educational freedoms.
Arcbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, recently made a defense of the church's handling of the priest sex abuse crisis by citing suspect numbers and by pointing the finger at other denominations, largely on the basis of an article in The Christian Science Monitor.
After a three-year process, the Vatican recently decided to invite the world's 77 million Anglicans into the fold, offering full communion within the Roman Catholic Church while retaining Anglican liturgy and the married priesthood.
When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in April 2005, all the world rejoiced - or recoiled - with the certain knowledge that the cardinals had settled on the one man who would be more conservative than John Paul II.
GARRISON, N.Y. (CNS) -- One hundred years before Pope Benedict XVI captured headlines by establishing a special structure for Anglicans who want to be in full communion with the Catholic Church, the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Atonement became the first religious group to be received into the church in its entirety.
As Roman Catholic religious women brace for a Vatican investigation and the abortion battle reaches new heights, an order of nuns based in Wisconsin has reprimanded a Chicago sister for volunteering as an escort at an abortion clinic.
The Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis as Rome makes it easier for disillusioned conservative Anglicans to convert.
Pope John Paul II’s Tyler Lusignan ran for 185 yards and two touchdowns, while adding another TD on a punt return as the Jaguars downed St. Helena Central 28-6 in PJP’s final regular-season home game Friday.
Pope John Paul II’s Jaguars take on the St. Helena Central Hawks in the final game of a three-game home stand tonight.
For decades, Sister Donna Quinn has championed the rights of women to use contraception, seek ordination and end unwanted pregnancies. The Dominican nun has picketed for abortion rights in Washington, petitioned the pope for a female archbishop and escorted women into abortion clinics. But as the Vatican turns up scrutiny of the nation's nuns and U.S. Roman Catholic bishops refuse to support ...