Now there's a mini-movement to make Caroline the ambassador to the Vatican, which, given the Kennedys' place in the history of American Catholicism, is rather a nice touch.
Times Of London | Richard Owen | Posted 05.06.2009 | World
Medieval knights hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, the Vatican said today in an announce...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
As part of the widespread outcry against the Vatican in the wake of Pope Benedict's Africa trip -- where the Pontiff made official his position on con...
AP | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
ROME — The Italian Senate approved a bill Thursday to ban caregivers from suspending food and water to any patient _ a move that comes after a r...
AP | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has named a San Diego clergyman to be bishop of Oakland, California. A brief statement by the...
AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 04.22.2009 | World
LUANDA, Angola — Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass for the largest gathering of his African pilgrimage Sunday, telling a crowd on the outskirts ...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 04.21.2009 | World
Is it too much to hope that Pope Benedict XVI might see the light?
hollywoodreporter.com | Posted 04.21.2009 | Entertainment
The Vatican could be gearing up for an official call for a boycott of "Angels & Demons," Ron Howard's big-budget follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code." ...
The Australian | Dennis Shanahan | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
THERE is growing apprehension within the Vatican over the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI after one insider labelled his gaffe-prone reign a disaster....
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
Pope Benedict's statement yesterday that condoms are not the solution to the AIDS crisis in Africa elicited strong reactions from both sides of the po...
AP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — A top Vatican official for bioethics on Tuesday criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to fund broader research into s...
AAP | Posted 04.07.2009 | World
A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being r...
The Independent | Jerome Taylor | Posted 03.29.2009 | World
When Bishop Richard Williamson sat down last year in an oak-panelled seminary in the picturesque Bavarian village of Zaitzkoven and agreed to an inter...
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...
New York Times | RACHEL DONADIO and NICHOLAS KULISH | Posted 03.20.2009 | World
ROME -- Close on the heels of the pope's rehabilitation of a group of schismatic bishops, including one who denied the Holocaust, a second scandal has...
Jerusalem Post | HAVIV RETTIG GUR | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
The furor between world Jewry and the Catholic Church appears to be on the mend since the church moved to distance itself from an ultra-conservative b...
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...
Spiegel Online | Posted 03.08.2009 | World
Pope Benedict XVI made it clear on Wednesday that he regrets the uproar caused by bringing a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson, back into t...
Michael Wolff | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The Pope is on a tear. First, he promoted a Holocaust-denying priest, now he's hyping a bishop who says Hurricane Katrina was God's will.
Don Parker | Posted 03.05.2009 | Comedy
According to a highly placed source who can see the Vatican from his front porch, Pope Benedict XVI plans to extend his "big tent" reconciliation reun...
Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
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?
AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — A bishop recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI expressed regret Friday to the pontiff for the "distress and problems" he ca...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
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 Independent | Jerome Taylor and Simon Caldwell | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
Catholics who claim they have seen the Virgin Mary will be forced to remain silent about the apparitions until a team of psychologists, theologians, p...
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics