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Church and State in JFK's America

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, New York Times, Patrick J. Kennedy, Jfk, Thomas J. Tobin, Separation of Church and State, Vatican, Politics News

Whatever happened to the America that JFK believed in? The America in which "no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials"?

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Facebook, Wikipedia Coach Vatican About The Internet

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 11.12.2009 | Technology

Read More: Vatican YouTube, Vatican Facebook, The Vatican, Youtube, Pope Technology, Vatican Technology, Facebook, Vatican Google, Wikipedia, Vatican, Google, Vatican Web, Vatican Social Media, Technology News

VATICAN CITY — Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the ...

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Vatican Joins Search For Alien Life

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: UFO Resarch, Vatican Observatory, Astrobiology, Vatican Research, Alien Vatican, Vatican and Alien Life, Vatican Aliens, Aliens, Alien Life, Vatican Extraterrestrial Life, Alien Research, Ufos, Vatican, Vatican City, Extraterrestrials, Extraterrestrials Vatican, Vatican E.T., Technology News

VATICAN CITY — E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe...

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Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight

Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, Gop, Social Justice, Communion, Catholic Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Lobbyists, Obama, American Catholics, Bishops, John Kerry, White House, Universal Health Care, Vatican, Health Care, Abortion, Church, Poverty, Public Option, Lobbying, Catholic, Democrats, House, Catholics, Religion, Senate, Catholic Church, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Christianity, Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Republicans, Politics News

Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...

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Crucifix Banned From Italy's Schools By New EU Court Ruling

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Public Schools, Islam, Crucifixes Banned, Atheism, EU Courts, Catholicism, Italy Schools, Immigration, Italy, Eu, Catholics, Religion, Education, Italian Schools, Courts, Vatican, Pope, Separation of Church and State, Faith, World News

ROME — The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public sch...

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Pope Brings Anglicans Into The Fold

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism – a surprise move desig...

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Freedom of the Press!

Laura Kiss | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Italy, Berlusconi, Vatican, Media News

In Italy there is an urgent need for a strong and unite movement to stop this barbarity. For this to happen everyone should make an improvement, even a small one, just thinking that the country belongs to the Italians and not to the government.

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Pope's Cast Removed From Broken Wrist

AP | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Pope Surgery, Pope Broken Wrist, Italy, Vatican, Pope Cast, Rome, The Pope, World News

VATICAN CITY — Doctors on Friday removed Pope Benedict XVI's cast five weeks after he broke his right wrist in a fall and said they were pleased...

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RU-486 Abortion Drug To Be Allowed In Italy Despite Vatican's Protests

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

ROME — Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, capping years of debate and defying opposition from the Vatican, which warned of ...

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Pope: My 'Guardian Angel' Let Me Down

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

LES COMBES, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that his guardian angel was clearly acting "on superior orders" when he let the pontiff fal...

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Vatican Investigates Legionaries Of Christ

Global Post | Jason Berry | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Religion, Priest Allegations, Vatican Investigation, Investigations in the Vatican, Bishops Appointed to Investigate, Religious Investigations, Religious Allegations, Vatican News, Pope Benedict, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church Investigation, World News

ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed five bishops from as many countries to investigate the Legionaries of Christ, a religious order founded i...

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Pope 'Can't Pray' With Wrist In Cast

AP/Huffington Post | By COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 08.18.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Vatican, Pope Benedict, Pope, Prayers, Pope's Broken Wrist, Pope Benedict XVI, World News

LES COMBES, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI spent a calm night after breaking his wrist in his Alpine vacation chalet and is learning to cope with the cast...

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Vatican: Harry Potter Film Shows Good Vs Evil

AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Harry Potter and the Vatican, Vatican Lauds Harry Potter, Vatican News, Pope Benedict, Vatican Speaks About Harry Potter, New Harry Potter Film, Vatican, Pope and Harry Potter, JK Rowling Films, JK Rowling, Vatican and JK Rowling, Harry Potter 2009 Film, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, World News

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican lauded the latest Harry Potter film on Monday, saying "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" made the age-old debat...

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Obama, Pope To Meet Today In Italy

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: G8 Summit, Obama Pope, The Pope, Ghana, Obama, Italy, Vatican, Obama Pope Italy, Pope, Obama Ghana, The Real Housewives, World News

L'AQUILA, Italy — Lasting worldwide recovery "is still a ways off," President Barack Obama declared Friday, but he also said at the conclusion o...

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Pope On Economy: World Needs New Financial Order

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Catholic Church, The Pope, Charity in Truth, Vatican, The Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Business News

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing ...

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Vatican Runs Deficit Amid Global Economic Crisis

AP | Posted 08.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Vatican, Vatican Runs Deficit, Vatican Deficit, Global Financial Crisis, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope, Vatican City, Italy, Business News

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Saturday it ran a deficit in 2008 as its finances and donations from across the world were hit by the global eco...

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Michelangelo Self-Portrait Revealed (Possibly)

AP | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Self-Portrait, Rome, Vatican, Pope, World News

VATICAN CITY — The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize _ a previously unkno...

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U.S. Nuns Face Vatican Scrutiny, Fear Doctrinal Inquisition

nytimes.com | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Doctrinal Inquisition, Church, American Nuns, Vatican, u.s. Nuns, World News

The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...

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U.S. Nuns Facing Sweeping Vatican Investigation

The New York Times | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Vatican Council, Catholic Church, Religion, Apostolic Visitation, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, Catholic Nuns, Inquisition, Vatican, Pope, Jesuits, Pope Benedict XVI, Politics News

The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...

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Free Linux Software Bridges Brazil's Digital Divide

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Casas Bahia, Carter Center, Microsoft, Pro Info, Wal-Mart, Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates, Brazil, Linux, Fnac, Debian, Va, Veterans, Obamacare, Obama Health Care, Veterans Affairs, Ware, Vatican, Rerum Novarum, World News

Fifty million Brazilian students will have Christmas in July when software Santa slips down the chimney to give them a free ticket on the information highway.

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OLDEST ST. PAUL IMAGES (Photo) Found

The Post Chronicle | Posted 07.30.2009 | Home

Read More: St. Paul, Oldest St. Paul, Churche, Vatican, Pope, Home News

Vatican archaeologists using laser technology have discovered what they believe is the oldest image in existence of St Paul the Apostle, dating from t...

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Vatican Rejects Conservative Group's Ordinations

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Society of St. Pius X, Christianity, Vatican Conservative Ordinations, Vatican, Catholic Church, World News

VATICAN CITY — Priest ordinations planned by an ultraconservative group won't be legitimate even though Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommu...

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Vatican China Envoy Joseph Zen Takes Tougher Stand On Freedoms

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: China, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, China Religious Freedom, Vatican, Joseph Zen, The Vatican, Vatican China Envoy, Catholic Church, Vatican China, Pope China, World News

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's top envoy for China says the time has come for the Holy See to get tough with Beijing and not compromise over relig...

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Wanda Poltawska, John Paul II Book Author, Responds To Church Criticism

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

WARSAW, Poland — To him, she was "My Dear Dusia" and he signed his letters "Br" _ short for brother. She was one of a handful of people by his ...

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A Muppet in President Obama's Court

Russ Baker | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Japan, Vatican, Muppets, France, Obama Appointments, Barack Obama, Politics News

Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why a man associated with the Muppets should be ambassador to France?

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