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The Devil may wear Prada — but the Pope does not, according to the Vatican.
The pontiff has been hailed as a “style icon” since his election just over three years ago and speculation has been rife that he enjoys designer clothes
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The Vatican has banned the makers of a CERN-inspired quantum physics-based prequel to The Da Vinci Code from filming in its grounds or any church in Rome, describing...
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A brief discussion of some chemical security provisions that have been added to the Farm Bill (HR 2419) nearing final approval in Congress.
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Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.
“For the first time in history, we are no longer...
made popular Mar 31 2008
Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the...
made popular Mar 25 2008
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The Vatican’s No. 2 official hinted Thursday at a papal visit to Cuba, hours after Pope Benedict XVI said Roman Catholics on the communist-run island still face...
made popular Feb 22 2008
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The Vatican secretary of state’s trip to Cuba Wednesday to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s historic visit comes at a critical...
made popular Feb 21 2008
AP, Washington
A senior Chinese official is trying to calm U.S. misgivings ahead of Beijing’s coming Olympic Games about what the Bush administration sees as religious...
made popular Feb 20 2008
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Pope Benedict XVI will visit the White House on April 16 during his first visit to the United States as pontiff.
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Hundreds of women rallied in Rome and Naples on Thursday to protest police interrogation of a woman after she underwent an abortion and to oppose a campaign push by...
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Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917 in Fatima, on a...
made popular Feb 13 2008
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Abortion, not usually a major election topic in Italy, is playing an important role in early campaigning for April’s parliamentary elections.
made popular Feb 13 2008
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Today is Monday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2008. There are 324 days left in the year.
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The second shortest-lived Parliament in Italy’s postwar history was sent packing Wednesday, and Italians will return to the ballot box in April for an election...
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Former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi hit the campaign trail Friday without waiting to find out if the country faces early elections as a result of Premier Romano...
made popular Jan 26 2008
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Premier Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in parliament’s lower house Wednesday night, but his chances for success in the upper house appeared to worsen as more...
made popular Jan 23 2008
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Italy’s justice minister offered his resignation Wednesday after the start of a corruption investigation involving his wife, but Premier Romano Prodi quickly...
made popular Jan 16 2008
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The father of a 13-year-old altar boy murdered 36 years ago hopes his son’s killer will finally be brought to justice now that thousands of pages of case file...
made popular Jan 15 2008
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Chances of a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Russian Patriarch Alexy II at a neutral location are improving, a top official in the Russian Orthodox Church was...
made popular Jan 10 2008
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A Vatican cardinal is calling for special prayer sessions worldwide for the victims of sexual abuse by priests.
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Pope Benedict XVI will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy and representatives of the country’s Jewish community during a stop in Paris on his September...
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A Vatican-affiliated news agency says a Roman Catholic priest has been killed in Nepal in a suspected terrorist attack.
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Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis, a church law expert known for his tough stance that politicians who support abortion rights be denied Holy Communion, was named...
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A papal aide says Pope Benedict XVI intends to return to the old way of distributing Communion at Masses.
made popular Jun 25 2008
The Vatican has banned the makers of a CERN-inspired quantum physics-based prequel to The Da Vinci Code from filming in its grounds or any church in Rome, describing...
made popular Jun 18 2008
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The Vatican is slamming the door on attempts by women to become priests in the Roman Catholic Church. It has strongly reiterated in a decree that anyone involved in...
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AP, Vatican City
The Vatican is slamming the door on attempts by women to become priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
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“Why does no one in the West raise his voice about what is happening in Orissa?”
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Pope Benedict XVI has written a special prayer for Chinese Catholics who face “daily trials” in the officially atheistic country, the Vatican said Friday.
made popular May 16 2008
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Italy’s top criminal court overturned the acquittals of a Vatican cardinal and another top churchman accused of environmental pollution involving a Vatican Radio...
made popular May 13 2008
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The Vatican’s chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.
made popular May 13 2008
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Pope Benedict XVI should be questioned soon about clergy sex abuse in the Catholic church because he is the most knowledgeable person on the topic and his advanced age...
made popular May 13 2008
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China said Thursday that a landmark performance by the China Philharmonic Orchestra at the Vatican will help improve understanding between the two sides.
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Rome
The conductor leading the China Philharmonic Orchestra in a landmark concert Wednesday at the Vatican said he feels honored to perform for the pope, saying music breaks...
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The China Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform this week for Pope Benedict XVI, state media reported Monday, the latest indication that the often-strained ties...
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Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, a Colombian prelate who helped lead the Vatican’s campaign against abortion and insisted condoms do not prevent HIV transmission,...
made popular Apr 20 2008
# Pope’s repeated professions of shame and anguish can be more than an emotional balm after culminating in the first publicly known meeting with the sex abuse...
made popular Apr 19 2008
Pope Benedict XVI is in the midst of the first journey to America of his pontificate, and he met with President George W. Bush this week. Hopefully this visit will...
made popular Apr 18 2008
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The Vatican says that Pope Benedict XVI met privately Thursday with victims of clergy sex abuse during his trip to the United States.
made popular Apr 17 2008
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Pope Benedict XVI looks on during his Sunday Angelus address in his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday July 6, 2008. The pontiff on Sunday urged the G-8 summit in Japan this week to take courageous measures to help the...
