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Few Countries Deny Women to Vote, including Vatican

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...

Pope Urges Tolerance on Christmas

After a daunting incident yesterday,  Pope Benedict delivers a multi-lingual address urging tolerance.   He urged the world to view the Church as a source of unity.  He used 65 languages to say...

Pope Benedict gives Christmas message after assault

" The Pope spoke in a firm voice in front of thousands of pilgrims, appearing undaunted by the earlier incident. He said the Church was a "source of unity" for many people across the world and called for those...

Gays will never enter heaven according to Cardinal Barragan

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...

Vatican Bishops Gather To Learn Internet Skills From Top Techies

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...

Kenyan Anglicans not ready to walk the road to Rome

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,...

Church 'mortified' by Berlusconi

" 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...

Ireland braces itself for another report on clerical child abuse

"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...

The Vatican wakes up to the wisdom of Oscar Wilde

" 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...

New torture and rape story by Catholic Church:Worst ever

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...

The Pope Blesses You with Social Networking

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:...

Vatican Denies Pope's Involvement in Hitler Youth

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...

Pope pursues Heavenly power

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....

Pope Benedict to visit the Holy Land this May

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...

Lion Cub Greets Pope with a Roar

  "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...

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