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Vatican stories: 152 news summaries

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 Vatican Historian: 
 Shroud of Turin 
 Is Authentic 

Barely visible writing has Jesus' name, she says

11 hours, 13 minutes ago
(AP) - A researcher at the Vatican archives claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. Author Barbara Frale says computer-enhanced images of faint Greek, Latin, and Aramaic words show the name "Jesus Nazarene" in a writing style... More »

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Vatican • Catholicism • Jesus Christ • Shroud of Turin

 ET, Phone Rome: 
 Vatican Holds 
 Alien Conference 

Astrobiology experts ponder big picture

Nov 11, 09 2:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Does intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe and if so, is it Christian? Those and other weighty questions are up for discussion this week at a Vatican conference on astrobiology. Religious leaders and a range of scientists—including some non-Catholics—have been called in to discuss the possibility of... More »

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astronomy • Catholic Church • Vatican • extraterrestrial life • aliens • Catholicism • outer space • theology

 Anglican Deal May Lead 
 to Married Priests 

Vatican's gesture
cracks door to
ending celibacy

Oct 22, 09 4:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican's attempts to heal the centuries-old rift with the Anglican Church may have a consequence nobody intended: an end to celibacy for priests. By offering a new Anglican rite under the umbrella of Catholicism, Pope Benedict XVI has invited married Anglican clergy into the fold—and cracked open... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Anglican Church • Vatican • Orthodox Christianity • priest • Catholic priest

Vatican Slams Sex Abuse in Other Religions

Pedophilia statement charges that most abusers are gay

Sep 29, 09 5:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican hit out at critics of its handling of the church's sexual abuse crisis yesterday, maintaining that most of its abusive clergymen were gay men and not pedophiles. The Holy See's UN representative cited "available research" that only 5% or less of its clergy were involved in... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • sexual abuse • homosexuality • clergy abuse scandal • priest sex abuse • homosexual clergy • pedophilia • gay men

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

OPINION

 Most Controversial 
 Music Videos 

Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, incestuous Gainsbourgs make list

Sep 12, 09 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - With MTV's Video Music Awards set for Sunday (not that you'll see many videos on the channel these days), Oddee.com takes a look at some of the form’s most controversial:
  • Closer, Nine Inch Nails: To go along with the explicitly sexual lyrics, this 1994 piece includes
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entertainment • MTV • Vatican • domestic violence • Pearl Jam • Museum of Modern Art • music videos • Madonna • Nine Inch Nails • Columbine school massacre • Trent Reznor • Garth Brooks • Jay-ZTV • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Serge Gainsbourg • Closer • Jeremy • Lemon Incest • Like A Prayer • MTV Video Music Awards • The Thunder Rolls

(Newser) - An editor of a Catholic newspaper criticized for a gay affair in a publication owned by the brother of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is out of a job, reports the New York Times. He resigned just days after he slammed the randy head of state in an editorial for... More »

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newspaper • Italy • Rome • Vatican • Catholic • Silvio Berlusconi • homosexual • gay • Il Giornale

Vatican Snubs Berlusconi Over Cheeky News Article

Scandal-ridden Italian premier disinvited from pardoning religious ceremony

Aug 30, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - He may still be beloved by Italian voters, but there’s clearly no love lost between Silvio Berlusconi and the Vatican, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Holy See has disinvited the scandal-ridden Italian premier from a religious service and dinner after a newspaper owned by his brother ran a... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • Rome • Vatican • Silvio Berlusconi

(Newser) - Italy has legalized the abortion drug RU-486, drawing the ire of the Vatican, which threatened to excommunicate doctors who prescribe the medication and women who take it. A church official said using the pill is "a sin in a moral and juridical sense," but a politician who is... More »

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abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Italy • Vatican • morning after pill • mifepristone • abortion pill • Roman Catholic Church • abortion pills • RU-486

 Pope Plans Christmas Album 


Jul 31, 09 1:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI has joined Guns n' Roses and Snoop Dogg on Geffen  records' roster of artists and plans to have an album out in time for Christmas, the Guardian reports. The pontiff won't be crooning holiday standards, however. The album will feature Benedict singing a prayer and reciting litanies... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • Christmas • prayer • recording contract

(Newser) - A newly released audio tape apparently captures Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a graphic sexual conversation with a female escort, reports the Daily Telegraph. Two voices on the tape discuss orgasm and a just-ended satisfying sexual encounter, with the man recommending that the woman "touch" herself "often.... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • sex scandal • Italy • Vatican • escort • Silvio Berlusconi • Patrizia D'Addario

(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI's broken wrist kept him from joining his hands in prayer as he celebrated Mass today, AFP reports. "What pains him the most is to be no longer able to bless with his right hand and to be no longer able to clasp his hands together,"... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • Mass • prayer

OPINION

 Vatican 
 Warms 
 to Wilde 

Paper praises writer's 'lucid' analysis of his world

Jul 17, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican long regarded Oscar Wilde as a “dissolute homosexual,” but things have changed, writes Richard Owen in the Times of London. A review in the Vatican newspaper of a study on the Irish writer celebrates him as “one of the personalities of the 19th century who... More »

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England • religion • Vatican • literature • history • Catholicism • Britain • Roman Catholic Church • playwright • Oscar Wilde • drama • L'Osservatore Romano

(Newser) - Though rarely a fan of wizards and witches, the Vatican has declared the latest Harry Potter film a positive tale of “friendship, altruism, loyalty" that achieves the "correct balance" in depicting teen romance, reports the Guardian. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, opening today, makes clear that... More »

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Harry Potter • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • Daniel Radcliffe • action movie • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince • Emma Watson

(Newser) - President Obama told Pope Benedict XVI yesterday that he would make every effort to reduce the number of abortions in the US, according to a Vatican spokesman. Bioethics and life issues were the focus of the men's 40-minute talk yesterday. The pontiff gave the president a booklet explaining the church's... More »

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stem cell research • Barack Obama • abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • abortion rights • Vatican • bioethics • President Obama

Obama Brings Pope Letter From Ailing Kennedy

President asks Benedict to pray for ill senator

Jul 10, 09 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama delivered a letter from Ted Kennedy to Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican today, CNN reports. Obama met with the pontiff for about a half hour before leaving Rome for Ghana. The contents of Kennedy’s letter were personal, an Obama aide said, and “not known to... More »

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cancer • Barack Obama • Pope Benedict XVI • Ted Kennedy • Rome • Vatican • Massachusetts • Catholic • Holy See • senator • Denis McDonough • brain cancer • brain tumor • President Obama • letter

(Newser) - President Obama met with Pope Benedict for the first time today at the Vatican, the AP reports. The White House press secretary predicted a “frank discussion. I think that there's a lot that they agree on that they'll get a chance to discuss,” said Robert Gibbs. Though the... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Italy • G8 summit • Vatican • Obama administration • President Obama • meeting • state visit

(Newser) - Pope Benedict delivers a broad criticism of contemporary capitalism in his latest encyclical, the Washington Post reports. The biggest problem with businesses today is that “they are almost exclusively answerable to their investors,” Benedict writes in the 144-page document. He proposes a radically different economic model in which... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • economics • G8 summit • Vatican • socialism • capitalism • economic crisis

Vatican Steps Up Scrutiny
of American Nuns

Nuns fear church heirarchy is seeking to return them to strictly traditional ways

Jul 2, 09 1:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican has launched two major probes into the lives of America's 60,000 nuns, the New York Times reports. Many nuns have stopped wearing habits, moved out of convents, and found work in academia or political advocacy in the last few decades, and some fear the investigations are part... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • nuns • Catholic

Confession Isn't Therapy, Church Warns

Priests told to get tough on sinners instead of providing counseling sessions

Jun 4, 09 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican plans a campaign to remind priests that the confessional isn't a psychiatrist's couch, the Guardian reports. A handbook will be issued to emphasize that sinners are in confession to be given penance, not counseling sessions. The number of Catholics going to confession has slumped in recent years and... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • Catholicism • Catholic • confession

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