Los Angeles Times
An affront Catholics agree on
Liberal and conservative Catholics don't agree on much, but they're both outraged by a new rule on contraception coverage.Ever since the closing of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, conservative and liberal Roman Catholics have been deeply divided over church teachings, many of them concerning marriage and sexual matters. Those who are more conservative would like to see the teachings remain ...
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Mail & Guardian
Vatican rubbishes corruption claims
The Vatican fiercely rejected claims by one of its archbishops of widespread corruption and waste in the management of the Holy See.
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Huffington Post
"Towards Healing And Renewal": Vatican To Host Global Summit On Sexual Abuse
By Alessandro SpecialeReligion News ServiceVATICAN CITY (RNS) Ten years after the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in the United States, Catholic bishops from all over the world will meet next week at a Vatican summit aimed at preventing abuse and protecting children.Read More...More on Catholic Church
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Irish Times
FG turns to prayer in effort to reverse embassy closure
IT WAS all one-way traffic at this week’s Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting when Deputies and Senators discussed a motion from Sligo TD Tony McLoughlin calling on the Government to consider a review of its recent decision to close the Vatican embassy.
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Le Point
Veillée au Vatican pour demander pardon aux victimes d'actes pédophiles
Des responsables de l'Eglise catholique "demanderont pardon" la semaine...
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AP
Retired Cardinal Bevilacqua dies in Pa. at 88
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Retired Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia for more than 15 years, championing the Vatican line on homosexuality and abortion but later coming under fire by two grand juries investigating child sex abuse allegations, has died. He was 88....
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science blogs
The Arxiv Is Not a Journal [Uncertain Principles]
There's been a lot written recently about academic publishing, in the kerfuffle over the "Research Works Act"-- John's roundup should keep you in reading material for a good while. This has led some people to decide to boycott Elsevier, including Aram Harrow of the Quantum Vatican. I'm generally in favor of this, but Aram says one thing that bugs me a bit:
Just like the walled gardens of Compu...
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CNN
Scalfaro, Italian president in 1990s, dies at age 93
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a long-time Italian politician who served as the European nation's president for much of the 1990s, has died, the Italian government and Vatican announced Sunday.
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euronews
Au Vatican, le lâcher de colombes a connu quelques couacs
"Elles veulent rester dans la maison du pape" a commenté, amusé, Benoît XVI qui avait libéré ce dimanche les deux colombes en "signe de paix pour la…
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Irish Times
Vatican rife with corruption, TV show alleges
Was the secretary general so good at his job he made serious Holy See enemies?
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New York Times
Archbishop Viganò’s Transfer Hints at Vatican Power Struggle
A Vatican administrator wrote to Pope Benedict XVI revealing mismanagement and asking to continue cleaning up financial affairs. Instead, he was made ambassador to the United States.
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Irish Times
Vatican whistleblower 'begged' to stay
A senior Vatican official who was transferred after he exposed a web of corruption begged to be allowed to continue his crusade and denounced a "vulgar and insolent" cleric behind a plot to destroy him, according to a leaked letter today.
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Reuters
Corruption scandal shakes Vatican as internal letters leaked
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican was shaken by a corruption scandal Thursday after an Italian television investigation said a former top official had been transferred against his will after complaining about irregularities in awarding contracts.
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AP
Vatian defends transfer of official to Washington
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican has defended its transfer of a top official to Washington after he exposed alleged corruption in the awarding of Holy See contracts....
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Times LIVE
Pope transferred whistle-blower
An Italian news program has obtained letters from a top Vatican official to the pope in which he begs not to be transferred after exposing corruption in the awarding of Vatican contracts that cost the Holy See millions of euros (dollars).
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Times of India
Vatican official warns pope of corruption
The Vatican says it has no comment on a media report that an Italian prelate was transferred to Washington as papal ambassador after he wrote to the pope complaining about corruption in the awarding of Vatican contracts.
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Times of India
Crime in the name of religion
Religion is a great thing. To me it's superb. But when sex abuse scandals rock the domain of religion, it sets you thinking. It's some food for thought. Morality is a great thing. It's worth holding onto. So where in religion--And I'm not naming any one-- does the line get blurred. The whole of last year, saw a spurt in such news. News of abuse in religion is revealing. Let me not expound on it...
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politico
Conservative women for Romney
The Romney campaign put out a radio ad in Florida this morning that appears aimed squarely at one promising constituency: conservative women.
The spot features two Romney endorsers, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon.
Spotlighting Bondi is a straightforward political choice, but she’s only one of three statewide officers who have endorsed Ro...
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The Nation
A sheer misconception
It is a sheer misconception to assume that terrorism means making the lives of innocent people miserable through generating an atmosphere of harassment and persecution. Disfigurement of facts and defacement of actualities is also a very heinous form of terrorism. Pope Benedict, in his traditional beginning-of-the-year address to diplomats at the Vatican said referring to the assassination of a ...
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Les Echos
Pour vaincre la crise en Europe, hisser "le drapeau des valeurs" (Monti)
Le président du Conseil italien Mario Monti a jugé mercredi que la crise économique en Europe pouvait être dépassée en hissant "le drapeau des valeurs au dessus des "intérêts de l'argent". Dans une longue interview à Radio Vatican, quatre jours après avoir été reçu par Benoît XVI, il a de nouveau...
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Irish Times
Cardinal's profit mission and an FBI investigation into sale of church property
RITE AND REASON:IN 2005 parishioners of St James in the farm belt town of Kansas, Ohio, recoiled when Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair, facing a tight budget, closed the parish, steering them to one several miles away. They filed an appeal to the Vatican. It failed.
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Daily Mail
British 'hot cross bun' nuns who saved Italian Jews from Nazis move closer to sainthood as Vatican begins major new probe
A file on Mother Riccarda Beauchamp Hambrough (pictured) and Sister Katherine Flanagan will be studied in detail by the Church’s top historians and theologians.
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Los Angeles Times
Mena Suvari files for divorce from Simone Sestito
Mena Suvari filed for divorce Friday after just 18 months of marriage to concert promoter Simone Sestito.
The papers, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, cite “irreconcilable differences,” indicate the pair separated in November 2011 and request no alimony payments for Sestito, TMZ reports.
The “American Horror” actress also wants her old name back -- that would be Suvari, rather than Suvari-...
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dlisted
Mena Suvari Is Legally Quitting Her Husband Of 18 Months
After 18 long months (that's three eternities in Kardashian years) of wearing a wedding band, Mena Suvari has decided that her wedding band would look a lot better off of her finger and in the palm of a pawn shop clerk, because she has filed for divorce from her second husband Simone Sestito. A two-time divorcee by the age of 32! Mena is living the life I was supposed to live if g...
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omg
Mena Suvari Files for Divorce After Less Than 2 Years of Marriage
The American Beauty star wed music producer Simone Sestitio in Vatican City in July 2010
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TMZ
Mena Suvari -- I'm Filing For Divorce
Mena Suvari's Vatican wedding is ending in divorce ... TMZ has learned. The 32-year-old "American Beauty" actress has filed court papers to end her marriage to 25-year-old concert promoter Simone Sestito. The two were married back in 2010 at a…
TMZMena Suvari -- I'm Filing For Divorce
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Le Figaro
Fin de la récréation doctrinale dans l'Eglise catholique ?
Si ce n'est pas une revanche de l'histoire cela y ressemble. Le cinquantième anniversaire du Concile Vatican II qui va être célébré dans l'Eglise catholique en 2012 pourrait paradoxalement marquer le crépuscule de..."l'esprit du Concile" qui fut pourtant sa grande promesse. Cet...
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Telegraph
The Pope gifted a crocodile
A crocodile has been presented to the Pope during an audience in the Vatican in what is thought to be a first in the history of the Holy See.
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National Post
Endangered Cuban crocodile meets the Pope
VATICAN CITY — A rare Cuban crocodile met a bemused Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican on Wednesday, as Rome’s Bio Park zoo celebrated its centenary with the eco-friendly pontiff. A staff member from the zoo – which has 1,200 animals and is visited by 700,000 people a year – presented the 60-centimetre long crocodylus ...
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AP
Pope gets rare, scaled visitor at general audience
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI received a rare, scaly visitor Wednesday during his weekly general audience: an endangered Cuban crocodile....
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Daily Mail
Pope Benedict XVI: Gay marriage is a threat to humanity
The Pope made his comments, some of his strongest yet against gay marriage, during a new year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican.
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BBC
Vatican admits to Wikipedia use
The Vatican acknowledges that it used Wikipedia to produce biographies of 22 new cardinals that were sent out to journalists.
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Telegraph
Vatican accused of cut and paste job from Wikipedia
The Vatican has been caught plundering Wikipedia for background on 22 new cardinals announced by the Pope.
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Times of India
Indian among Pope Benedict's 22 new cardinals
Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals Friday, including prelates in such key posts as New York and Hong Kong and a large number of Italians holding major Vatican positions.
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Los Angeles Times
Archbishop calls for prayer after priest admits fathering children
The Most Rev. Gabino Zavala, an important figure in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a venerated champion for social and economic justice, resigned his post as auxiliary bishop Wednesday after revealing to the Vatican that he is...
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Reuters
U.S. Catholic bishop who resigned fathered two children
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An assistant bishop of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles in the United States has resigned because he had a secret family, including two teenage children.
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Washington Post
Vatican launches Catholic home for U.S. Episcopalians
American Episcopalians upset with their denomination’s acceptance of gay and female clergy can now convert to the Roman Catholic Church while keeping many cherished traditions in a special new U.S. diocese that was established on Sunday (Jan. 1) by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Houston-based diocese, called the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, will allow a special Anglican-style Catholi...
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The Jerusalem Post
Vatican opens its vaults
The newly-displayed Vatican archives show us that many of today’s challenges are not new.
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lesoir
10:01 Des extraits du film « Frankenstein » dans les archives du Vatican
Des extraits du film d’horreur « Frankenstein » ont été découverts dans les archives du Vatican, rapporte l’agence de presse catholique autrichienne Kath...lire la suite
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Daily Mail
Vatican says Turin Shroud is 'impossible to falsify' - lending weight to experiment that showed it was made in 'blinding flash'
The official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano said in a rare statement this week that, 'For science, the shroud continues to be an 'impossible object' – impossible to falsify.'
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Al Jazhera
Condemnation follows Nigeria church blasts
US, UK and Vatican decry Christmas Day attacks claimed by the Boko Haram group that have left up to 40 people dead.
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Le Point
Nigeria : le Vatican parle de "haine aveugle"
L'attentat contre une église catholique près d'Abuja au Nigeria qui a fait...
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Reuters
Pope Christmas message calls for end to violence in Syria
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called for an end to violence in Syria and a resumption of Middle East peace talks on Sunday on a Christmas Day marred by a bomb blast at a Catholic Church in...
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Les Echos
Benoît XVI demande la fin des violences en Syrie et le dialogue au Proche-Orient
[[340238]] CITE DU VATICAN (AFP) : Le pape a demandé dimanche, à l'occasion de Noël, "la fin des violences" en Syrie où "trop de sang a été versé" et "la reprise du dialogue entre Israéliens et Palestiniens". Dans son message "urbi et orbi" ("à la ville et au monde"), Benoît XVI, évoquant les...
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Raw video: Nativity scene shines in Vatican City
A nativity scene was unveiled in St. Peter's square in front of the Basilica hours before the start of the evening Christmas Eve Mass on Saturday. Pope Benedict XVI also lit a candle in his studio window in a traditional sign of peace.
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NEWS.au.com
Vatican fits sensors to preserve artworks
THE Sistine Chapel has been fitted with detectors to check for pollution from its millions of visitors every year that could harm priceless frescoes by Michelangelo and Botticelli.
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The Sun
Vatican porn site address bought
A MYSTERY buyer has snapped up the web address vatican.xxx - a domain made for porn
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TechCrunch
Someone Has Purchased Vatican.xxx, And It Isn’t The Vatican
Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's spokesman, said today that an unknown party had purchased Vatican.xxx. This mystery person has not stepped forward, and the site itself is a placeholder stating simply that it has been "reserved from registration."
It's a warning to all those companies and institutions that may have opted not to purchase this domain variation, and although it's not the o...
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Reuters
Mystery buyer acquires vatican.xxx web address
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Wednesday an unknown buyer had snapped up the internet address vatican.xxx, a domain combining its name with an extension reserved for pornographic content.
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AP
Vatican: No plans to limit Sistine visitors
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The director of the Vatican Museums says there are no plans to limit the number of visitors who flock to the Sistine Chapel to admire Michelangelo's frescoes, despite harmful dust build-up....
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Le Figaro
Les négociations entre le Vatican et les Lefebvristes vont continuer
En septembre dernier, Rome avait proposé un accord pour réintégrer ces chrétiens intégristes, en marge de l'Église depuis 1988. Rome indique qu'ils ont fourni une réponse «ni négative, ni positive».
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Times LIVE
Vatican denies buying .xxx porn domain
The Vatican on Wednesday denied reports that it had bought the web domain vatican.xxx to prevent internet pornographers from using it.
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USA Today
Native American is proclaimed Catholic saint
The Vatican announced a 17th-century Mohawk-Algonquin woman will be canonized as a Catholic saint.
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physorg
Star images helping to save Vatican books
(PhysOrg.com) -- Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitised to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky.
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The Sun
Vernon gets the o-Kay from Bruce Forsyth
HOST says approval for Play Your Cards Right was like going to 'gameshow Vatican'
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AP
Pope illuminates big Christmas 'tree' via Tablet
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has illuminated a huge Christmas tree lighting display in Umbria by tapping on a tablet computer from the comfort of the Vatican....
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euronews
Le Vatican prépare Noël
no comment : Le Vatican prépare Noël
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Daily Mail
Catholic church's English language liturgy changes today to unify global Mass translations
It is the most significant change to worship for English-speaking believers since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
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AP
Pope calls for responsible, credible climate deal
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has urged this week's U.N. climate change conference in South Africa to craft a responsible and credible deal to cut greenhouse gases that takes into account the needs of the poor....
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Irish Times
Gilmore welcomes new Nuncio
The Vatican has confirmed that that Irish-American Monsignor Charles Brown, 52, is to be the new papal nuncio, as reported inThe Irish Timeson Thursday.
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USA Today
Anti-money laundering experts inspect Vatican
The Vatican says European inspectors in the fight against money laundering have held a week of meetings with church officials.
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Telegraph
Germany unmoved by French pleas for more ECB action
French appeals for Germany to sanction extra powers for the European Central Bank have been firmly rejected, despite warnings from politicians, economists and even the Vatican that it is the only way of "averting a catastrophe".
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New York Times
World Briefing | Europe: Vatican: Cardinal Bernard Law, Who Resigned Amid Sex Scandal, Retires
Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned as archbishop of Boston in 2002 amid a sex abuse scandal, has retired from his post at the St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, the Vatican said.
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BBC
Disgraced US cardinal leaves job
Cardinal Bernard Law, forced to resign as archbishop of Boston in 2002 over a sex abuse scandal, retires from his new post in Rome, the Vatican says.
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Telegraph
'Few doubts' William Shakespeare was Catholic, Vatican claims
The Vatican's official newspaper has claimed there are "few doubts" that William Shakespeare was a Catholic.
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Irish Times
Ad space
PLANET BUSINESS:Benetton is back to its old tricks, with a marketing campaign designed purely, it would seem, to get the Vatican to scale up its publicity for free.
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FOX
Vatican Preps Legal Action Over Pope Kissing Ad |
The Guardian
Benetton tears down pope-kissing ads after Vatican legal threat
Clothing company says sorry and hastily withdraws Unhate poster featuring Pope Benedict XVI kissing Egyptian imamThe Vatican is taking legal action to prevent further distribution or publication of an image of the pope kissing a Muslim leader, after it was used as part of an advertising campaign for clothing company Benetton.The poster, which briefly appeared in various locations around Italy b...
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Reuters
Vatican takes legal action over Benetton pope kiss ad
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Thursday it would take legal action to stop the distribution of a photo montage in an advertisement by the Italian fashion firm Benetton showing Pope Benedict kissing an imam on the mouth.
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BBC
Vatican legal action over kiss ad
The Vatican threatens legal action over the publication of an ad showing Pope Benedict kissing a leading imam on the mouth as part of a Benetton advertising campaign.
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USA Today
Protest prompts Benetton to pull ad of Pope kissing an imam
AFter protests from the Vatican, Benetton has pulled an ad showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing a senior Egyptian imam.
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The Jerusalem Post
Benetton campaign features world leaders kissing
"Unhate" campaign includes Photoshopped images of Netanyahu and Abbas kissing; Vatican protest leads Benetton to withdraw ad of Pope kissing an Imam.
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National Post
Benetton pulls ad showing Pope kissing an imam after outrage from the Vatican
Italian clothes company Benetton backed down and pulled a photo montage showing the Pope kissing a leading imam from its new global ad campaign on Wednesday after the Vatican issued a stern condemnation
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Benettons lip-locked leader ads: bad taste?
Retailer says its campaigns aimed at unhate; pulls picture featuring Pope after Vatican complains
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Benettons lip-locked leader ads: bad taste?
Retailer says its campaigns aimed at unhate; pulls picture featuring Pope after Vatican complains
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AP
Benetton yanks pope-imam kiss ad after protest
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Benetton clothing company withdrew an ad Wednesday featuring Pope Benedict XVI kissing a top Egyptian imam on the lips after the Vatican denounced it as an unacceptable provocation....
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Mail & Guardian
African music stars sing for new Vatican CD
Three popular African singers have released a CD in collaboration with Vatican Radio to mark the pope's upcoming visit to Benin.
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Les Echos
Le voyage au Bénin, une épreuve physique pour un pape qui ne renonce pas
[[323078]] CITE DU VATICAN (AFP) : Le pape Benoît XVI, âgé de 84 ans, a devant lui un voyage éprouvant de trois jours au Bénin, alors qu'il a donné des signes de fatigue au long de l'année sans jamais alléger son lourd programme de travail. Pape depuis six ans et demi, le souverain pontife à la...
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AP
Pope: Yes to adult stem cells, no embryonic
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has reaffirmed his opposition to embryonic stem cell research, saying it's morally wrong to destroy an embryo no matter how beneficial the resulting treatment is....
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BoingBoing
More landmarks in Minecraft
The Edison Memorial Tower; the Basilica; the Golden Gate Bridge; the Eiffel Tower; the Vatican; the Globe Theater; and Fallingwater.
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USA Today
Vatican hosts adult stem cell conference
An international conference opens in Rome Wednesday devoted to medical applications of adult stem cells.
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Irish Times
Martin says Vatican Embassy closure 'strange'
THE GOVERNMENT decision to close Ireland’s Embassy to the Holy See has been described as “strange” by Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin. It was indicative of a view that saw religion as belonging to the private sphere, he said.
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National Post
Tintin in the Congo, branded racist in Europe, defended by Vatican newspaper
“The comic book was published in the 1930s, and for that reason expresses the values of the era — but can it really perturb young Britons of today, raised as they are on the Internet, video games and fish and chips?”
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Pravda
The crisis of faith
The last thing the Church needs today are more bureaucrats. What the Church does need is to restore much of the Tradition it jettisoned after Vatican II. Though this is totally lost on our most all of our Modernist bishops there are some positive ways the church can overcome the crisis of faith and bring back souls from the precipice of moral relativism
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The Nation
Pope urges end to Nigeria violence
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday appealed for "an end to all violence" in Nigeria after deadly attacks by Islamists claimed at least 150 lives in the north of the country.The attacks Friday targeted Christian churches as well as police stations and an army base in Damaturu and Maiduguri and two small towns. "I follow with apprehension the tragic events reported in recent days in...
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New York Times
Pope Expresses Outrage at Abuse in Ireland
The pope “shares the outrage” of Catholics in Ireland over the handling of a sex-abuse scandal and plans to write a letter to Catholics there, according to a Vatican statement.
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Scientific American
Italy science council funds creationist book
After hosting a panel earlier this year to discuss supposed flaws in evolutionary theory , Italy's science agency the National Research Council (CNR) reportedly put up thousands of dollars to help with the publication of a follow-up book, Evolutionism: The Decline of an Hypothesis . The move has vexed many scientists in the country where the Vatican recently came out in support of Darwin'...
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