The Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI will carry out the Christmas Midnight Mass will not be so "midnight" this year and will be served at 10 pm instead of at 12 am. The change of schedule has raised alarms about Pope's health. The official Vatican said the change is...
Barry Artiste Op/Ed Wow, apparently the Vatican is taking the moral high road on deviancy!But then they should know all about deviant behaviour, ask any altar boy with a sore bum. "The Vatican has spoken out...
"A damning report into child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese has criticised the Catholic Church hierarchy for covering up the abuse. The report investigated how Church and state authorities handled allegations of child abuse against 46 priests. " I thought that this had...
On October 20, Pope Benedict XVI approved a plan wherein the Pope will issue an apostolic constitution, a form of papal decree, that will lead to the creation of "personal ordinariates" for Anglicans who convert to Rome.John Hooper of the UK Guardian reports: "More than half...
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Third Call, Still Deaf Ears Would any of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) correct me if I say, "More and more Iglesia ni Cristo members shout and even ask, Where is Sir Erano Manalo, also known as Ka Erdie Manalo,...
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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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Pope Benedict XVI has canonized five new saints: Father Damien (Jozef De Veuster), who tended to sufferers of leprosy on Molokai Zygmunt Szcezesny Felinski, who defended the Catholic Church as Poland was annexed...
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"The Roman Catholic Church is urging whistleblowers to speak out against bishops, clergy, monks and nuns who they suspect might be guilty of sexual or other abuse. Alleged abusers who do not merit a criminal prosecution are to be subject to independent investigation by a...
"The Vatican has lashed out at criticism over its handling of its paedophilia crisis by saying the Catholic church was "busy cleaning its own house" and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches were as big, if not bigger." I'm not sure why the Vatican has...
The Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said that the British and American governments knew about Nazi's extermination plan but did nothing to stop them. In contrast, L'Osservatore claimed, the wartime Pope Pius XII tried to save as many Jews as he could in secrecy....
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Pope Benedict XVI signs with a major record label to record an album of prayers to the Virgin Mary. Pope Benedict XVI signed a deal with a music label Geffen Records to record Alma Mater, an album of songs and prayers to the Virgin Mary. The same label signed artists like...
"Pope Taken To Hospital Following Fall " Pope Taken To Hospital Following Fall 9:24am UK, Friday July 17, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI has been taken to hospital in northern Italy after slipping and falling during his...
Prior to returning home from his G8 meeting, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada had about a 30 minute audience with the Pope Benedict. During their meeting they discussed how the G8 progressed,...
Updates: After a meeting with Presidents from Argentina, Ecuador and Paraguay at El Salvador, the ousted Honduran Head of State Manuel Zelaya asked the army to stop inflicting violence on his countrymen. In...
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Since taking office, President Barak Obama and his allies in Congress have careened into the headlines and pummelled Republicans still reeling from defeat and dissent within their own...
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