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Vatican City, Feb 7, 2010 / 01:31 pm (CNA).- Following the recitation of the Angelus on a crisp, clear winter day in Vatican City, Pope Benedict expressed his solidarity with the Italian bishops in celebrating the “National Day for Life.” The Holy Father reiterated his call for integral human development in the fight against poverty.
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AP – Pope Benedict XVI says he is worried about support in Scotland for euthanasia as he prepares for a visit there later this year.
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The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano republished an interview on Wednesday detailing current research on a new source of stem cells that is being called “the future of medicine,” reports Catholic News Agency.
According to the Vatican newspaper, the pioneering research is presently taking place at the Biocell Center of Busto Arsizio in Milan and involves using stem cells taken from amniotic fluid to create a retinal regeneration therapy. This stem cell source is considered morally licit… >>
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AP – Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday blamed indifference as the fundamental cause of hundreds of millions of deaths in the world from lack of food, water and medicine.
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Pope Benedict XVI sends blessings to Vancouver for peaceful Olympics
ESPN The pope also made reference to the Paralympics in his message released Thursday. The Vancouver Games open Feb. 12 and the Paralympics will be held in the … Pope wishes good luck to Winter Olympics athletesMontreal Gazette Winter Olympics are 'building block of peace and friendship,' declares Pope …Catholic News Agency Pope: "Sport a Building Block of Peace and Friendship Between Nations"Vatican Radio Earthtimes (press release) all 112 news articles » |
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The Director-General of the BBC has had high-level discussions about coverage
of the Pope’s forthcoming visit to Britain, amid criticism of the quality of
the corporation’s religious broadcasting.
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LONDON • British low-cost airline easyJet offered on Wednesday to fly Pope Benedict XVI to Britain for free after a controversy erupted over the high cost of the pontiff’s visit.
The airline seized on a clash that emerged after the pope criticized British laws seen as friendly to gays, prompting critics to point out that the visit would reportedly cost British tax payers £20-million.
“We are confident that once he has tried easyJet, His Holiness will never look back,” easyJet said in a statement.
The airline said it contacted the Vatican on Wednesday to extend the invitation and was waiting for a response.
Pope Benedict, who usually flies with Italian airline and easyJet rival Alitalia, confirmed on Monday plans to visit Britain later this year in what would be the first such trip in 28 years.
But he sparked controversy in a letter to the bishops of England and Wales, saying new British equal opportunities legislation “violates the natural law upon which the equality of all human beings is grounded.”
Observers said the pontiff was referring to legislation that took effect on Jan. 1, 2009 preventing adoption agencies — including Catholic ones — from discriminating against gay couples.
Photo: Pope Benedict XVI talks to journalists onboard an Alitalia airplane in 2006. (Patrick Hertzog/AFP/Getty Images)
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Twenty days after Haiti was ravaged by the 7.0 earthquake, the Vatican has released its intial assesment of the number of male and female religious who died in the cataclysmic event. The report also lists buildings that were destroyed or damage in the disaster, reports Catholic News Agency.
According to Fides, the news agency of the Vatican’s Congregation for Evangelization, the list of dead religious shows that the quake inflicted “irreparable damage” on the Catholic Church in Haiti, wit… >>
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Vatican City, Feb 1, 2010 / 12:05 pm (CNA).- Pope Benedict once again commented on the theme of Anglican-Catholic relations, this time as he met with Welsh and English bishops at the Vatican on Monday. During their meeting Pope Benedict confirmed the importance of his recent Apostolic Constitution “Anglicanorum Coetibus.”
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The Italian left-wing terrorist group the Red Brigades plotted to kidnap Pope John Paul II, according to a new book released this week by the Vatican-appointed advocate for John Paul's canonization. The book, Why He Is a Saint, also reveals that the late pope personally confronted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev about possible Kremlin involvement in the 1981 attempt on the pope's life, an attack unrelated to the Red Brigades.
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LifeSiteNews.com’s (LSN) editor-in-chief, John-Henry Westen, was given a standing ovation last week in Washington, D.C., by an audience of international pro-life activists, after he shared with them the stories of successful interventions by LSN readers. Speaking on the morning of the March for Life to a conference hosted by Human Life International (HLI), Westen talked about two notorious cases in which LSN readers, acting on information from this news service, brought about significant resul… >>
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) A Polish Catholic bishop who has been denounced for calling the Holocaust a “Jewish invention” distanced himself from the statement on Tuesday (Jan. 26), saying that he had been misunderstood.
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AP – Pope Benedict XVI has marked Holocaust Remembrance Day by denouncing the “horror” of the Shoah and the “unheard of brutality” of death camps created by Nazi Germany.
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Pope 'used to whip self'
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ROME — Pope Benedict XVI decried Monday what he called "growing aversion" to the Christian faith in the world. The pontiff in his homily in a Rome basilica didn't single out any geographic area, but his worry about the plight of the Christian minority in the Middle East will shape discussions Mideast bishops will hold later this year at a special meeting at the Vatican.
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Vatican City, Jan 25, 2010 / 06:56 pm (CNA).- Despite its good showing at the box office, Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” has failed to impress the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, which echoed the disappointment of some reviewers who found the sleuth to be too “modernized.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s protagonist is difficult to recognize “between one fistfight and another,” the paper said.
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Vatican City, Jan 23, 2010 / 07:28 pm (CNA).- Pope Benedict XVI welcomed the election of the new Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in a letter on January 22. In it, the Holy Father expressed his prayer that the new leader have the "inner strength to consolidate the unity and spiritual growth of the Serbian Orthodox Church."
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AP – Pope Benedict XVI has a new commandment for priests struggling to get their message across: Go forth and blog.
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(AP) – VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is seeing signs of improvement for its finances this year, despite problems caused by the global economic crisis. Top prelates met this week to discuss the financial outlook for 2010. The Vatican said in a statement Friday that “despite the general situation” there are signs of “a slight improvement.” Most of its expenses…
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AP – Pope Benedict XVI has blessed two lambs whose wool will be shorn to make shawls for newly appointed archbishops to wear.