Gays and trans people will never enter heaven according to leading Catholic Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan. Cardinal Barragan, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Workers...
Representatives from Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook have gathered in Vatican City today, not for a sermon or liturgy, but to give Vatican officials a lecture on the use of Internet and new media. During a four-day conference which started today, Vatican officials...
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Even as the Pope finally decided to allow groups of disaffected Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Holy See while retaining their Anglican heritage and traditions, the head of Kenya's Anglican Church,...
" The Roman Catholic Church has expressed "unease" and "mortification" over revelations surrounding the private life of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. In some of the strongest Church criticism to date, the newspaper...
"A report into clerical child abuse in Dublin released later today will "shock and horrify" the whole of Ireland, a leading figure in the Catholic church has admitted."I confess that I didn't know that we were expecting another report. And this one, it's predicted, will cause...
" With his outrageous wit, clear disdain for figures of authority and openly homosexual lifestyle, Oscar Wilde is an unlikely pin-up for the Catholic Church. Persecuted and imprisoned for his sexuality, gay rights...
The countries that do not allow the women to vote is becoming fewer and fewer. Saudi Arabia and the Vatican still deny the right for women to vote. Without the vote, it is difficult for the women's voice to...
My friend Anna Limosan lived in a Catholic Convent from 1944 to 1965.What they did to her is so horrific that you will not believe me. She was raped, beaten every week with a burning hot metal pole, starved for weeks on end, oh my God the list of horrors for 21 years day in...
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So, is social networking played out when the Vatican launches its own social media site, or does this mean the the Pontiff is getting with the times? This is not a rhetorical question, since it really happened:...
A Vatican spokesman has issued contradictory information about Pope Benedict XVI, stating that the pope was never involved in the Hitler Youth movement. This is in direct contrast to a series of interviews the Pope gave in 1996, that said he had been drafted into the Hitler...
In sustainable energy news, Pope Benedict XVI pursues Heavenly power with largest solar plant in Europe. The project will be situated on 740 acres near the Vatican City at an estimated cost of US$660 million....
There was talk of a visit but it wasn't official unil today."Pope Benedict XVI has confirmed the first papal trip to the Holy Land since Pope John Paul II's visit in 2000. The pontiff will visit the sites of...
"Vatican City Pope Benedict XVI meets an unusual guest during his weekly audience at the Vatican. The lion cub was presented to the pontiff in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall yesterday as part of a performance...
Obama is not the only high-profile leader who is embracing social media. Pope Benedict XVI has launched a Vatican channel on Youtube, which compliments the Vatican website (I didn't realize that the .va domain...
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On this Epihany Day, Pope Benedict XVI warned that the world's pollution could destroy the future of our planet, and that people need to take the issue of world climate change more seriously. " Benedict is...
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