The Vatican

Pope Tells Pelosi To Reject Abortion Support

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 03.21.2009 | World


VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI received Nancy Pelosi, one of the most prominent abortion rights politicians in America, and told her Wednesday...

The Vatican's Response to Holocaust Denial Must Be Holocaust Education

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 03.15.2009 | World


Menachem Rosensaft

It is outrageous that Pope Benedict did not immediately respond to Bishop Williamson's stalling tactics by reinstating the renegade bishop's excommunication.

The Blindness Of A Pope Led By His Bureaucrats

The Independent | Andreas Whittam Smith | Posted 03.09.2009 | World


Pope Benedict must have thought he knew exactly what he was doing when, on 21 January, he lifted the excommunication of four bishops, among them a Hol...

Vatican Condemns Italy's Decision In Right-To-Die Case

ANSA.it | Posted 03.06.2009 | World


A woman who has been in a vegetative state for 17 years has been moved to a clinic here where her feeding tube will be removed in accordance with an I...

The Jewish Reaction to the Pope's Welcoming Back Holocaust Denying Bishop: Disproportionate!

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living


Rabbi Irwin Kula

How is it that the view of some cranky powerless bishop evokes calls of a crisis in Catholic -Jewish relations, despite the revolutionary changes in Church teachings regarding Jews since Vatican II?

The Pope's New YouTube Channel

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Matthew Filipowicz

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Pope Launches YouTube Channel

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media


VATICAN CITY — Puffs of smoke, speeches in Latin and multipage encyclicals have all been used by the Vatican to communicate with the faithful. N...

The Pope's Green Streak (VIDEO)

CBS News | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green


The Vatican has gone solar and the Pope has declared environmental waste a cardinal sin. Eco-celebrity stuff doesn't often mean a whole lot, but in th...

Da Vinci Code movie banned from filming in church

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 06.24.2008 | Entertainment


ROME — Rome's diocese said Monday it has barred the producers of "Angels & Demons" from filming in two churches for the prequel to the "The Da V...

Tom Hanks Barred: The Vatican Bans "Angels & Demons" From Rome Churches

The Times | Posted 06.24.2008 | Entertainment


The Vatican has banned the makers of Angels & Demons, the latest Dan Brown thriller to be filmed, from shooting scenes not only in the Vatican but in ...

Vatican: It's OK To Believe In Aliens

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.22.2008 | 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 ...