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Pope John Paul II 'performed an exorcism on a drooling woman but was unable to cure her of her demons'.

The shock figure was announced by American cardinal Joseph William Levada as he opened a conference on the wide scale phenomenon which has rocked the Roman Catholic church.

Irish anti-abuse campaigner Marie Collins told Catholic leaders at a Vatican summit that the Church has to be held accountable for destroying the lives of victims of paedophile priests.

The Vatican described the unprecedented assembly as a response to a painful issue that has wracked the Church and estranged many faithful.

A top Roman Catholic official opened a conference on protecting children from sexual abuse Monday by defending Pope Benedict XVI, arguing that he deserved thanks for his efforts.

American cardinal defends Pope Benedict’s handling of sex abuse cases

[[358628]] CITE DU VATICAN (AFP) : Le pape Benoît XVI plaide pour "un profond renouveau de l'Eglise" dans un message adressé aux participants d'un symposium organisé par l'Eglise catholique sur la pédophilie lundi à Rome. "Soulager les victimes doit être de la plus haute importance pour la...

Les Eglises d'Asie ont pris du retard dans la lutte contre la pédophilie en...

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 ...

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

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.

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....

"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…

Was the secretary general so good at his job he made serious Holy See enemies?

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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-...

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...

The American Beauty star wed music producer Simone Sestitio in Vatican City in July 2010

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...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI received a rare, scaly visitor Wednesday during his weekly general audience: an endangered Cuban crocodile....

The Vatican has been caught plundering Wikipedia for background on 22 new cardinals announced by the Pope.

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.

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...

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...

The newly-displayed Vatican archives show us that many of today’s challenges are not new.

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

US, UK and Vatican decry Christmas Day attacks claimed by the Boko Haram group that have left up to 40 people dead.

L'attentat contre une église catholique près d'Abuja au Nigeria qui a fait...

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...

A MYSTERY buyer has snapped up the web address vatican.xxx - a domain made for porn

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...

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.

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».

The Vatican on Wednesday denied reports that it had bought the web domain vatican.xxx to prevent internet pornographers from using it.

The Vatican announced a 17th-century Mohawk-Algonquin woman will be canonized as a Catholic saint.

HOST says approval for Play Your Cards Right was like going to 'gameshow Vatican'

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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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.

The Vatican says European inspectors in the fight against money laundering have held a week of meetings with church officials.

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".

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.

The Vatican's official newspaper has claimed there are "few doubts" that William Shakespeare was a Catholic.

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.

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...

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.

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.

"Unhate" campaign includes Photoshopped images of Netanyahu and Abbas kissing; Vatican protest leads Benetton to withdraw ad of Pope kissing an Imam.

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

Retailer says its campaign’s aimed at ‘unhate’; pulls picture featuring Pope after Vatican complains

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....

Three popular African singers have released a CD in collaboration with Vatican Radio to mark the pope's upcoming visit to Benin.

[[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...

The Edison Memorial Tower; the Basilica; the Golden Gate Bridge; the Eiffel Tower; the Vatican; the Globe Theater; and Fallingwater.

An international conference opens in Rome Wednesday devoted to medical applications of adult stem cells.

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.

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

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...

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'...