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cardinals stories: 6 news summaries

Vatican Plans Major Overhaul of Secretive Bank

Pope shakes up management at little-regulated Vatican bank

Sep 24, 09 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican bank—so secretive it makes Swiss bankers seem chatty—is getting a major revamp as part of Pope Benedict XVI's campaign for transparency. Italian economist Ettori Tedeschi has been appointed the new chief executive—replacing someone who's been in the post 20 years—and the bank's supervisory board... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican City • Vatican • Banco Santander • cardinals • banking

(Newser) - Ireland’s Catholic leader is urging the faithful to engage social networking to spread the word of God, the Times reports. “Make someone the gift of a prayer through text, Twitter, or e-mail every day,” Cardinal Sean Brady said. “Such a sea of prayer is sure to... More »

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social networking • Internet • Catholic Church • religion • Ireland • prayer • cardinals • Irish Catholicism • Twitter • Sean Brady • Father Patrick Peyton

 Cardinals Slam 
 Isolated Pope's 
 'Errors' 

Recent decisions fuel rare discord

Feb 22, 09 9:35 AM CST
(Newser) - In an unusual public display of church disharmony, cardinals are pushing back against the pope for being out of touch as controversies swirl over recent decisions, the Times of London reports. The pope spends too much of his day in solitude with his books, critics charge. “People feel that... More »

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Cardinals Blast Pope on Holocaust Denier

Decision to re-instate bishop a 'disaster'
says Germany's top cardinal

Feb 4, 09 5:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XIV's reinstatement of a Holocaust-denying bishop has received some unusually harsh criticism from within the church, the Guardian reports. Germany's top-ranking cardinal has labeled the decision "a disaster" and called for the Pope to apologize. Cardinal Walter Kasper, who oversees the Vatican's relations with Judaism, says the... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Holocaust • Vatican • Catholic • cardinals • Richard Williamson

After Pope Meets Victims, Vatican Considers Change

Canon law, particularly on statute of limitations, evolving with sex scandal

Apr 18, 08 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just a day after a Washington meeting where Pope Benedict XVI talked with victims sexually abused by Catholic priests, a Vatican official said the church would consider changes to canon law dictating how the church deals with such offenses, the New York Times reports. Cardinal William Levada holds Benedict’s... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Vatican • sexual abuse • clergy abuse scandal • Canon • cardinals • Pope Benedict's US visit

Pope's New Cardinals: Still Old & European

But elevation of Houston archbishop reflects Southern shift

Oct 18, 07 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI has named a new batch of cardinals, generally preserving the "princes of the church" posts for aging Europeans, reports Time magazine. There is, however, a new cardinal in Baghdad. And in recognition of the southward and Spanish-language shift of Catholicism in the United States, the pope... More »

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