Pope's Butler Vows To Help Vatican Scandal Probe
VATICAN CITY — The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confident...
VATICAN CITY — The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confident...
Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012
VATICAN CITY, May 28 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Monday denied Italian press reports that a cardinal was among those being investigated in a scandal ...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.28.2012
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's investigation into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.09.2012
In today's overpopulated world, in which sexually-transmitted diseases are a scourge, few points about good and evil can be plainer than that contraception is good and opposition to contraception is evil. Yet the Pope remains willfully blind to this.
Posted 03.28.2012
SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE CAPTIONS We spend most of our days coming up with funny things to say about ridiculous photos, so it's only fair that we pu...
AP | Posted 03.18.2012
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has asked for prayers for his upcoming trip to Mexico and Cuba. Sunday marks the last time Benedict will greet the ...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.12.2012
Moderates and women are fleeing the Republican Party. Between rush Limbaugh and the Roman Catholic bishops' war on women's access to contraception the Democratic Party is sitting pretty for 2012.
Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.29.2012
Either you are willing to support and participate in a culture in which men, refusing to accept women as equals, use a perverted claim of divine right to control women and their bodies, or you don't.
Walt Hawkins | Posted 03.25.2012
I recently had to attend a corporate code-of-conduct seminar. Upon exiting the seminar, I began thinking about some of the public figures who could have benefited from a class on proper on-the-job behavior.
AP | Posted 01.09.2012
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has remembered the "numerous victims" of religiously motivated terrorism during an annual reception for diplomats. ...
Jeff DeGraff | Posted 03.07.2012
I was in a positively ebullient mood as I went off to Christmas Mass at St. Mary's with my family in tow. The senses were amped up for the big production. And that's when "it" happened.
Posted 01.06.2012
The Pope celebrated the Mass for the Epiphany of our Lord, a feast of light, marking the end of the Vatican's Christmas celebrations. To see mo...
AP | By PAUL HAVEN | Posted 12.26.2011
HAVANA -- Cuban faithful celebrating Christmas say they have plenty to cheer this year as they prepare for the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI, the first...
Michele Somerville | Posted 01.31.2012
Her World AIDS Day contribution emerged from her own hope, even as she was living suffering similar to that she depicted through paint. If that was not the Holy Spirit at work, I don't know what might be.
Posted 11.17.2011
The same day United Colors of Benetton released its "Unhate" campaign, which depicted unlikely pairs of world leaders locking lips, the clothing compa...
Posted 11.15.2011
By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI will make his second papal trip to Africa on Friday (Nov. 18), visi...
AP | By VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 12.19.2011
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday named an Italian prelate who has served in Vatican diplomatic missions in Iraq, Britain and Nigeria as ...
AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 11.22.2011
BERLIN — Pope Benedict XVI addressed Germany's parliament in the historic Reichstag building Thursday, warning that politicians must not sacrifi...
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 11.18.2011
Where did we become convinced that the faux is any more acceptable than the real? And why do we so readily buy into the idea that the images everyone else is presenting are any more real than our own?
AP | Posted 09.23.2011
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called on people to renounce hatred in the face of the "deep sorrow" felt over the terror attack...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 08.02.2011
NEW YORK -- Speaking for just a few seconds as he greeted television host Matt Lauer on during Thursday's broadcast of NBC's "Today" show, Pope Benedi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 07.31.2011
In its first visit to the papal state since the death of Pope John Paul II, NBC’s "Today" show will broadcast live from Vatican City on Thursday in ...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican will unveil the latest installment in its social media transformation next week – a Facebook page dedicated to ...
AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that the Vatican felt "offended" that Ireland failed to respect Holy See "sovereig...
Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011
As I helped an 18-year-old check items off her bucket list, I realized that just because I live here in Manhattan, there's no reason to take the city's great tourist attractions for granted.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.29.2012