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ROME — The first solar panels were installed Monday on top of the papal audience hall at Vatican City. Workers began putting photovoltaic cells...
ROME — The first solar panels were installed Monday on top of the papal audience hall at Vatican City. Workers began putting photovoltaic cells...
AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 09.13.2008 | Home
PARIS — Pope Benedict XVI condemned unbridled "pagan" passion for power, possessions and money as a modern-day plague Saturday as he led more th...
AP | DANIELA PETROFF | Posted 08.03.2008 | Home
BRESSANONE, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI sent greetings to China on Sunday before the Olympics and said he hoped the Games would offer an example o...
Edward Lozzi | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living
Pope Benedict is in Australia about to pull the same media stunt of faux concern for the victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy that he pulled in the United States in April of this year.
The Hill | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Thursday night that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) could do anything she wants now that her presidentia...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living
There they go again. The old men in Rome are continuing their historic (and hysteric) misogyny. A week ago the Vatican reaffirmed yet again its ban on the ordination of women.
Jerusalem Post | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
Iran says it would consider a meeting between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Italian officials and the pope on an upcoming trip to Italy if they in...
Kate Clinton | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home
The Pope and his faithful boy pals would reason that if Alf were gay, the church would love him, but not if he married Mork.
AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.14.2008 | Living
VATICAN CITY — Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an ...
Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Hasn't torture always belonged in the same "intrinsically evil" moral category like rape, like slavery? If it's still in that category, the pope surely would have taken a stand on torture, right?
Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home
An article in the Washington Post in response to their question: In his speech to U.S. bishops last week, Pope Benedict XVI said: "Any tendency to tr...
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living
In the three years since Pope Benedict assumed his role as shepherd of the world's more than 1 billion Roman Catholics, he has not ruled with the iron fist that some Catholics anticipated.
The New York Times | Andy Newman | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living
Along with an enormous entourage and a message of peace, the Pope brought with him to the United States a lifelong love of cats. Benedict's kindness ...
Bill Press | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living
Even though for the first time he expressed regret at the way the Church covered up the priest pedophile scandal, he still refuses to recognize what lies at the heart of the problem.
Stacey Lawson | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living
At a core level, somewhere beyond our religious ideology and distinctions, the Pope's visit has stirred something sacred. It has stirred our faith. ...
AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 04.20.2008 | Home
NEW YORK — Pope Benedict XVI arrived in storied Yankee Stadium on Sunday for his final Mass in America, cheered by a joyous crowd after making a...
Nina Burleigh | Posted 04.19.2008 | Living
An expression of regret can begin the process of re-constructing trust in the once mighty man-made institutions that have been brought low by individual men (and women).
Denver Post | Anne Mulkern | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
As thousands packed into a Washington, D.C., stadium to see Pope Benedict XVI, U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo attacked the pontiff for statements about immigr...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.18.2008 | Living
Dear Pope Benedict XVI: As an American Catholic, I want to take the opportunity of your visit to our country to call upon you to reverse some of the m...
Kathleen Kennedy, T. O'Neill III & J. Roosevelt Jr | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast organizers bring Rovian style tactics to our faith, perpetuating the sharpening of religious differences on a narrow selection of social issues.
Al Eisele | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living
As a Catholic, I'm watching with great interest the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the U.S., even though I had only a glimpse of him as he left the White House after his meeting with President Bush.
AP | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
Pope Benedict XVI praised America as a land of opportunity and hope Thursday as he celebrated the first public Mass of his U.S. pilgrimage, but he la...
Hilary Rosen | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Washington is agog with celebrations of the Holy Father, so I hate to be a pooper at the papal party but...it is worth pointing out a visit by another holy man to the U.S. last week.
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living
The big news this week is that Pope Benedict XVI is here for a visit. (Whee! His spiritual journey coincides with my spiritual journey!) And as it tur...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living
The Pope must take action to revive a Church in desperate need of revolutionary reform in the area of its largest failings: policies concerning women and sex.
Saturday Night Live's sketch about the vice presidential debate starred Queen...
At a rally on Saturday in California,...
WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around...
The McCain campaign is all set to roll out...
About a year ago, I had a memorable chat with a high-ranking Republican operative. ...
The following are my comments from the stage at yesterday's Vote...
In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts...
Katie Couric was out shopping in midtown with her daughters...
Actor and activist Alec Baldwin appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night. At several points...
WASHINGTON — The now-bankrupt...
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed...
Last week's post began an exploration into what style is today and how this relates to each of us. If we...
Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention...
AP | Posted 09.29.2008 | Green