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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Vatican stories: 152 news summaries

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Vatican Blasts Obama Policy
on Abortion

Backers say plan promotes women's health, fights AIDS

Jan 25, 09 2:24 PM CST
(Newser) - The Vatican today condemned President Obama's move to give federal funding to international groups that include abortions and abortion counseling with health care, the BBC reports. A Vatican official said the policy dealt a blow to those fighting "the slaughter of the innocents." Supporters of the move say... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • women's health • Vatican • Obama administration • President Obama • gag rule • family planning

Jews Rip Pope for Reinstating Holocaust Denier

Pope's reinstatement of controversial leader threatens Jewish-Catholic relations

Jan 25, 09 5:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Jews across the globe are reacting with fury to Pope Benedict XVI's reinstatement of an excommunicated bishop who denies the Holocaust, the Guardian reports. Former British bishop Richard Williamson, excommunicated in 1988 for his membership in an extremist Catholic sect and defiance of church authority, claims that no Jews died... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Holocaust • Jews • Vatican • anti-Semitism • Roman Catholic Church • Richard Williamson

Pope Benedict Makes His YouTube Debut

Vatican begins
series of weekly
video updates

Jan 23, 09 2:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI began his planned series of YouTube video releases today. The pope’s official channel already includes clips from the Vatican media service, and will later offer weekly updates featuring Benedict’s meetings with dignitaries, papal audiences, and recordings of daily events, reports the Italian news agency ANSA.... More »

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YouTube • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican

 Vatican Goes 
 Viral With 
 YouTube 
 Channel 

Viewers can watch Pope and church events

Jan 17, 09 9:35 AM CST
(Newser) - The Vatican is teaming with Google to get more tech-savvy: It will soon have its own YouTube channel, Reuters reports. Visitors to the page will have a front-row seat to church events and papal appearances. More details will emerge at a Friday press conference with Vatican leaders and a Google... More »

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Google • Internet • YouTube • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican

Vatican, Israel Scrap Over
Gaza Remark

Cleric defends calling Palestinian enclave 'concentration camp'

Jan 8, 09 12:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel slammed a Vatican official today for calling Gaza “a big concentration camp,” Reuters reports. Israel denounced the comparison by Cardinal Renato Martino as “the vocabulary of Hamas propaganda.” “We are astounded to hear from a spiritual dignitary words that are so far removed from... More »

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Israel • Pope Benedict XVI • Gaza • Vatican • Israel and Palestinians • concentration camp • Palestinians • Cardinal Renato Martino

 'Vati-Con' Agrees to Pay $3.6M 

Ann Hathaway's ex says he wants to repay fraud victims, but may be too broke

Dec 16, 08 4:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Raffaello Follieri, the jailed ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway who used alleged connections to the pope to scam investors, has agreed to return $3.6 million to victims, including two priests and celeb-billionaire Ron Burkle. It’s a small chunk of the $13 million the “Vati-Con” is accused of... More »

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fraud • Catholic Church • Ron Burkle • Vatican • real estate development • money laundering • Anne Hathaway • Raffaello Follieri

Vatican Condemns Cloning, Morning-After Pill

Get out of here with your fancy science, church says

Dec 12, 08 8:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Embryos deserve “the dignity proper to a person,” the Vatican declared today in an uncompromising doctrinal declaration on reproductive science, its first in more than 20-years. The long-awaited document condemns everything from embryonic stem-cell research to human cloning to the morning-after pill, which falls “within the sin... More »

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stem cell research • abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Vatican • cloning • morning after pill • artificial insemination

(Newser) - Douglas Kmiec’s possible appointment by Barack Obama as ambassador to the Vatican shouldn’t raise any hackles and—pro-lifers' views to the contrary—would not be an insult to the church, Henry Farrell writes on Crooked Timber. “Kmiec continues to state his opposition to abortion,” Farrell writes.... More »

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Barack Obama • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • Doug Kmiec • transition • ambassador • Election 2008 • President Obama • Douglas Kmiec

 Cell Phones 
 Bad for Soul, 
 Warns Vatican 

Technology may be bad for the soul

Nov 28, 08 3:36 AM CST
(Newser) - The Vatican has warned that cell phones and the internet threaten the soul, reports the Daily Telegraph. “In the age of the cell phone and internet it is more difficult than before to protect silence and nourish the interior dimension of life,” said a spokesman for the Pope.... More »

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(Newser) - Alleged victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests can move ahead with a lawsuit against the Vatican, the Wall Street Journal reports. A federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled that the Vatican can be held liable for negligence in the thousands of such cases reported in the US. A Vatican... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • sexual abuse • priest sex abuse • Catholic

John, You Are Forgiven—and You Could Sing

Vatican pardons Lennon for infamous Jesus comment

Nov 22, 08 5:53 PM CST
(Newser) - The Vatican forgave John Lennon today for saying the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, Reuters reports. Calling the 1966 remark "a boast,” the Vatican's newspaper said it was made "by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success." The paper also praised the... More »

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music • Paul McCartney • Rome • Vatican • John Lennon • Beatles • Jesus Christ • Roman Catholic Church

Hathaway's Ex 'Deteriorates'
in Prison

Con man Follieri can't handle 'filthy, smelly' conditions, bad food

Nov 13, 08 9:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Moving from his $37,500-a-month Trump Tower apartment into a windowless dorm room shared with 120 other inmates has not been good for Raffaello Follieri’s health, the New York Post reports. The convicted con man’s lawyer told a judge that Anne Hathaway’s ex has blood in his... More »

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prison • Italy • Vatican • celebrity • Anne Hathaway • Raffaello Follieri • con man

Catholics, Muslims Seek Common Ground at Vatican

Christian-Muslim talks emphasize common belief

Nov 4, 08 2:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Clerics of the world’s two largest faiths are meeting at the Vatican this week to improve relations between the long-divided communities. Muslim clerics invited Christians to dialogue after comments Pope Benedict made in 2006 that implied Islam was violent and irrational. The mostly male Vatican members and imams will... More »

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Islam • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • Catholicism • interfaith dialogue

 Vatican Will Root Out
Gay Priests With Sex Tests

New guidelines keep gays from priesthood

Oct 31, 08 1:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Catholic Church plans to screen gay men out of the priesthood with psychological tests aimed to detect "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" in seminary candidates, the Scotsman reports. Under the new guidelines, issued yesterday by the Vatican, potential priests will also be screened for "grave immaturity" and “imbalances”... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • gay priests • Vatican • sexual abuse • gays • Roman Catholic Church • priesthood

 'Hitler's Pope' 
 Closer to 
 Sainthood 

Benedict XVI prepares to beatify controversial Pius XII

Oct 10, 08 1:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The most controversial pope of modern times may soon be a step closer to sainthood, reports Der Spiegel. Pius XII—known by many as "Hitler's Pope" because of his lack of action during the Holocaust or criticism of the Nazis—is about to be beatified, despite decades of dispute.... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Holocaust • Jews • Vatican • beatification • sainthood • Nazis • Pope Pius XII • John Cornwell

glossies

 Organ Donors 
 Breathe Life 
 Into Death 
 Debate 

Bioethicists weigh ethical, organ-transplant concerns

Oct 5, 08 8:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The art of extracting human organs has revived a debate about when a person is actually dead, the Economist reports. Forty years ago, the Catholic Church agreed with scientists that brain dead meant dead. But now that doctors are skirting that rule, harvesting organs from horribly brain-damaged donors who are... More »

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organ transplants • Vatican • bioethics • cardiac-death organ donations • brain-death organ donations

  Vatican Gets Back in the Art Biz 

Project aims to revive church's role as a sponsor of the arts

Sep 13, 08 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican was the world's biggest buyer of modern art in the days when modern art meant Michelangelo, but its influence on art has ebbed in recent centuries. The church now plans to put itself back in the forefront of the art world, Newsweek reports. A commission of critics and... More »

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Catholic Church • art • modern art • Vatican • artist • Holy See • Michelangelo

 Hathaway's Ex Cops a Plea

Admits laundered money used to fund his lavish lifestyle

Sep 10, 08 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wearing prison attire, Raffaelo Follieri pleaded guilty today to 14 federal counts of fraud and money laundering, Reuters reports. "I knew what I was doing was wrong," actress Anne Hathaway's ex said as he admitted misrepresenting his ties to the Vatican and using investors' money to fund his... More »

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fraud • Ron Burkle • Vatican • court • Anne Hathaway • Raffaello Follieri

Hathaway's Ex Considers Copping Plea 

High-living Follieri weighs deal with feds on fraud charges

Sep 9, 08 10:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian entrepreneur Raffaello Follieri may plead guilty as soon as today to fraud and money-laundering, the Wall Street Journal reports. Anne Hathaway's ex could still opt for a trial. He faces federal charges that carry a sentence of up to 5 years, even with the plea deal, but the government's... More »

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fraud • Catholic Church • Ron Burkle • Vatican • real estate development • money laundering • Anne Hathaway • Raffaello Follieri

Vatican Blasts Attacks on Christians

Official: India killings underscore spread of 'Christianophobia'

Aug 29, 08 5:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican warned against the spread of "Christianophobia" today following attacks in India that left 13 Christians dead, Reuters reports. Thousands fled their homes this week as mobs rioted in retaliation for the murder of a Hindu leader. The Pope condemned the violence, and Italy's foreign ministry will demand... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • India • Reuters • Vatican • Christians • riots • religious violence • Christians in Iraq

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