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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Thursday to upgrade Vatican-Kremlin relations to full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said.
A Roman Catholic Cardinal told homosexuals and transsexuals on Wednesday they would never get into heaven, prompting a rebuke from the Vatican itself.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After 25 years doing the English-language commentary for the pope's Christmas midnight Mass, U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley is stepping away from the microphone and hanging up the headphones.
NORRISTOWN — Last Tuesday, Jack Flanagan interviewed for a job he felt his entire career had been steering him toward. This Tuesday, he learned it would be his.
It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Dmitry Medvedev will oversee the signing of an agreement between OAO Gazprom, Eni SpA and Electricite de France SA on the South Stream natural-gas pipeline and meet Pope Benedict XVI in Rome tomorrow.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In a truly win-win arrangement, a group of U.S. university students get amazing access to the Vatican and the Vatican gets an enthusiastic, computer-savvy volunteer workforce.
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- A Swiss referendum prohibiting the construction of minarets prompted criticism from neighbors, the Vatican and an association of Islamic states amid concern the vote may hurt trade and banking ties with the Muslim world.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI urged governments and international organizations to give special attention to the rights of child immigrants, who often are victims of exploitation and abandonment.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers and concrete action to comfort all those who are suffering from AIDS.
>Episcopal Life Daily >November 24, 2009 >Episcopal Life Online is available at > http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife . >Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes: * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NAVAJOLAND: Leadership workshop helps area mission move forward * WORLD REPORT - BRAZIL: Archbishop responds to the Vatican's Apostolic Constitution * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Anglican ...
A major Catholic organization with branches in the U.S. has written to Pope Benedict XV! demanding he remove Irish bishops caught in the current sex abuse scandal.
In this Year of the Priest, (June 2009 through June 2010)proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI to uplift the Roman Catholicpriesthood, Roman Catholic Womenpriests traveled recently toBaltimore, Md., to remind the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops who weregathering there for their annual meeting that we exist and, asordained women, are already serving the people of God.
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers and concrete action to comfort all those who are suffering from AIDS. Benedict issued the appeal during his weekly Sunday blessing ahead of World AIDS Day on Tuesday.
After nearly four decades of reciting almost identical prayers at Mass, Catholics will have to start memorizing new wording that the Vatican says adheres more closely to the original meaning of the Latin text. The Diocese of San Bernardino already is discussing how to prepare parishioners for the new translations, which are expected to be put in effect in 2011.
The presidents of Chile and Argentina marked Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI the 25th anniversary of a peace treaty signed between the former dictators of their countries with papal mediation.
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