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Newfoundland: Mourners Gather at Prayer Service

"Bells at the largest church in Newfoundland and Labrador tolled Wednesday evening for the 17 people lost last week when an offshore oil helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean." The Roman Catholic Basilica of...

Pope Benedict XVI starts off marathon Bible reading

On Sunday Pope Benedict celebrated a huge mass to open a worldwide meeting of prelates at the Vatican. Over 200 bishops are attending that meeting, which is discussing the modern relevance of the bible. It will...

Sir Paul McCartney visits Palestinian site during Israel visit

"Sir Paul McCartney said he was carrying a message of peace for Israel and Palestine as he toured the West Bank town of Bethlehem ahead of his planned concert in Tel Aviv. By Tim Butcher in Bethlehem Last...

Fake priest heard confessions at Vatican

No doubt his punishment was ten "Hail Mary's""A fake priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St Peter’s Basilica, a Vatican judge said today. Judge Gianluigi Marrone, who is a member of the court system...

Pagan Tomb Under St. Peter's Basilica Reopened

An amazing pagan tomb built by slaves during the second half of the second century underneath St. Peter's Basilica in Italy has been reopened today after nearly a year of restoration work. Built for the Valeri...

Pope Benedict XVI tells bishops to fight sexual abuse

Pope Benedict XVI has surprised many with his explicit move to address the sex abuse scandals within the Catholic church in the United States. These directives to bishops come shortly after the pope said he was...

Pope's Midnight Mass ushers in Christmas

Get your Pope on..."VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful to set aside time in their lives for God and the needy, as he ushered in Christmas early Tuesday by celebrating Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. Echoing a theme he has raised about an increasingly...

Mexico’s Faithful Make Annual Pilgrimage On Dia de la Virgen

"Mexico’s Faithful Make Annual Pilgrimage On Dia de la Virgen December 12, 2007 · No Comments Video thumbnail. Click to play Click to Play Formats available: Windows Media (.wmv) Tags: mexicoreporter, basilica...

Rome halts mosque conversion plan

"Rome halts mosque conversion plan BBC News, RomeRome says it has many applications for religious centres Authorities in Rome have refused to allow a building next to a Catholic church to be converted into a...

Storm Knocks Off Notre Dame Basilica Spire

A powerful storm hit the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., killing one person and knocking over the spire of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.""That's a fairly significant amount of damage to one of...

Clericus Cup: Soccer for the God-fearing set

The Clericus Cup, a Vatican-sponsored and Catholic-specific soccer tourney, continues until June with 16 teams and 311 players. My question is, who's watching the "flock" and hearing confession while these guys...

Police Blow Up Church Porn CDs

This is a follow-up to alaaron's earlier posting. Maybe detonating the offending CD players was a bit excessive. The "off" switch would have sufficed, no?"Three CD players hidden under a cathedral's pews blared sexually explicit language in the middle of an Ash Wednesday...

Ash Wednesday Mass Interrupted by Porno Recordings

"The Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi was evacuated during noon Mass on Ash Wednesday when three CD players duct-taped to the bottom of pews began blaring sexually explicit language. The players were set to turn on at 12:22 p.m. as parishioners were...

Frightening picture of Pope Benedict XVI at Christmas midnight mass

"POPE Benedict has ushered in Christmas at midnight mass, saying the image of the baby Jesus born in a manger should remind everyone of the plight of poor, abused and neglected children the world over. The 79-year-old Benedict, marking the second Christmas season of his...

Remains of St. Paul May Have Been Found

Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica.

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