VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize _ a previously unkno...
nytimes.com | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011
The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...
The Post Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011
Vatican archaeologists using laser technology have discovered what they believe is the oldest image in existence of St Paul the Apostle, dating from t...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — Priest ordinations planned by an ultraconservative group won't be legitimate even though Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommu...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011
Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why a man associated with the Muppets should be ambassador to France?
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Festivities in Rome this weekend for the dedication of an Orthodox church on the grounds of the Russian Embassy near the Vatican attest to a surprisin...
AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — Web surfers can now send virtual postcards of Pope Benedict XVI to their Facebook friends or follow the pontiff's travel on their...
Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no poking or hugging and you cannot send a flower or throw a sheep, but in an attempt to bridge the digital divide between the church and its...
AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 05.25.2011
ANKARA, Turkey — The man who shot Pope John Paul II says he would like to convert to Christianity at a baptism ceremony at the Vatican soon afte...
AP | RYAN LUCAS | Posted 05.25.2011
WARSAW, Poland — The Rev. Ksawery Knotz has a message for all married Catholic couples out there: there's nothing wrong with a steamy sex life. ...
Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011
The Vatican blundered into a fresh public relations fiasco on Tuesday after seeking to rewrite the biography of Pope Benedict XVI by denying that he w...
Posted 05.25.2011
VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Associated Press JERUSALEM — Pope Benedict XVI pledged Monday to remember the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, se...
AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011
AMMAN, Jordan — Pope Benedict XVI began his first trip to the Middle East on Friday, expressing his "deep respect" for Islam and hopes that the ...
Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011
Angels and Demons, the Da Vinci Code sequel starring Tom Hanks, has received a surprisingly good review from the Vatican....
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
After more than five centuries protecting popes, the Swiss Guard may consider opening the ranks of the world's smallest army to women, its commander s...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI named five new saints Sunday, including Portugal's 14th century independence leader and a priest who ministered...
AP | JAMAL HALABY | Posted 05.25.2011
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday demanded Pope Benedict XVI apologize ahead of his Mideast tour for his previous ...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — Critics of the Catholic Church's social teachings are trying to intimidate Pope Benedict XVI into silence, the Vatican charged Fr...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has launched a doctrinal investigation into the leadership of Catholic sisters in the United States, reportedly becau...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011