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Pope Names New Head for Disgraced Order

(July 9) -- Pope Benedict XVI has appointed an outsider to revamp one of the Catholic Church's richest, most conservative and most disgraced orders, the Vatican announced today. Velasio De Paolis, the archbishop of Thelepte in Tunisia and president of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See, will assume...

Supreme Court Declines Vatican Sex-Abuse Appeal

(June 28) -- The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to review a lawsuit that challenges the Vatican's immunity from prosecution in clerical sex abuse cases. Minnesota lawyer Jeffrey Anderson, who filed the case in 2002, called the high court's decision to allow the lawsuit to go forward "an enormous breakthrough for the...

Which Leaders Rock Our World? Drumroll, Please ...

(April 23) -- President Barack Obama is still the world's most respected leader, according to a new six-country poll. Released today by France 24 and Radio France Internationale, the Harris Interactive Poll asked 6,135 adults between the ages of 16 and 64 who live in the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany or...

Pope Sued in Wisconsin Clergy Sex Abuse Case

MILWAUKEE (April 22) -- A man who says he was molested by a priest while a student at a Catholic school for the deaf filed a federal lawsuit today against Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican and senior church officials, saying the Vatican knew the priest was a pedophile and could have stopped the sexual abuse. The plaintiff...

Debate: 4 Things the Pope Needs to Do

(April 20) -- My entry for the topic "pedophilia" in the 2007 Encyclopedia of Catholicism states: "Nothing has damaged the Catholic Church at the turn of the millennium more than the pedophile scandal. Many observers remain perplexed by the Vatican's continuing obtuseness toward the seriousness of the scandal." Unabated,...

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Mexico Gang Flies Banners Ahead Of Pope's Visit To Leon

A drug gang unfurled banners in a Mexican city that Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit next month, telling rival traffickers to keep out and keep the peace during the papal visit.

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Shhh: Pope urges silence to communicate better

VATICAN CITY -Pope Benedict XVI is asking everyone to quiet down.

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We've Got to Make This Journey Together

On April 25, 2004, I stood with 1 million other pro-choice supporters on the National Mall for the historic March for Women's Lives.

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Neocatechumenal Way, Controversial Lay Group, Approved By Pope

VATICAN CITY (RNS) After a 15-year process, the Holy See on Friday (Jan. 20) gave its final approval to the Neocatechumenal Way, a lay movement that has been criticized for its unorthodox liturgical practices but that has been successful in attracting followers.

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Pope on Gay Marriage: "A Threat to Humanity"

On January 9th, Pope Benedict XVI told a gathering of diplomats that family is only "based on the marriage of a man and a woman" and then went on to say that "policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself."

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02/10/12 Vatican Fears Assassins May Target Pope in 2012 - Paper Source: RIA Novosti - Russia An assassination attempt against Pope Benedict XVI may be carried out before November 2012, Italian Il Fatto Quotidiano daily reported on Friday, citing a confidential document that was delivered to the Holy See in January by Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos.
02/09/12 Congo cardinal to preach Lenten Retreat at Vatican Source: Catholic World News Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to preach the annual Lenten Retreat for the Roman Curia.
02/09/12 Railing Against Pollution Standards, Conservative... Source: Climate Progress A conservative religious organization with ties to the oil industry is lashing out at health-conscious evangelical leaders for supporting new federal rules on mercury.
02/09/12 Pope: America âIncreasingly Hostileâ to... Source: Anglican Mainstream Pope Benedict XVI received a group of prelates from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at the Vatican and told them America is becoming "increasingly hostile" to Christianity, according to Zenit.
02/09/12 Archbishop Dolan: government must stop intrusion in... Source: Catholic World News New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan has indicated that he would welcome any sign that the Obama administration is prepared to back away from its mandate requiring coverage of contraception and sterilization in employers' health plans.

Background on PopeBenedictXvi

Benedict XVI (; ; ; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See.

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