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Pope Benedict XVI stories: 191 news summaries

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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

 Vatican Splits Off 
 From Italian Law 

Vatican will no longer rubber stamp Italian laws before adopting them

Jan 2, 09 1:59 AM CST
(Newser) - The Vatican is getting a divorce from Italian law. The Pope has decreed his city-state within Rome will no longer automatically endorse Italian legislation, but will scrutinize bills for conflicts with Roman Catholic doctrine before adopting them. It's the first time the Vatican has distanced itself from Italy's laws—and... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican City • gay marriage • divorce • Italy • euthanasia • Lateran treaties • Bill Maher Grid

 Pope Calls for Peace 
 in Christmas Speech 

Middle East, Africa conflicts must be resolved: Benedict

Dec 25, 08 10:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI passionately called for peace in the Holy Land during his annual Christmas message, delivered from the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica. “The horizon seems once again bleak for Israelis and Palestinians,” he said, praying for hope against war, terrorism, and injustice. He also appealed... More »

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Africa • Middle East • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • children • Rome • Christmas • sermon

(AP) - Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Christmas as midnight struck at the Vatican, leading the celebration of Midnight Mass in the splendor of St. Peter's Basilica. Thousands of pilgrims, Romans, and tourists packed the basilica for the midnight service given by the 81-year-old pope. For those unable to enter, giant screens... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • St. Peter's Basilica • Mass

 Critics Rip Pope's 
 'Homophobic' Speech 

Pontiff's call for defense of gender roles seen as stoking homophobia

Dec 24, 08 7:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Gay and Christian groups have slammed Pope Benedict XVI's remarks that defending the “natural order” of man and woman is as important as protecting the rainforests, the Times of London reports. British Catholic leaders have countered that the pontiff didn’t explicitly mention homosexuality in his annual Christmas speech,... More »

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gender • Pope Benedict XVI • homophobia • Catholic Church • homosexuality • Catholicism • gender roles • clergy • gays

 Pope: Save Rainforest 
 —and Heterosexuality, Too 

Benedict's Christmas message decries erosion of 'traditional' gender roles

Dec 23, 08 8:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI used a Christmas address today to call for a defense of heterosexuality, which he suggested was as endangered as the rainforest.  He called homosexuality and deviance from gender norms "a destruction of God's work." The pontiff said "the tropical forests do deserve our... More »

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gender • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • transexualism • religion • homosexuality • gender roles • gays

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

(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

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

Ga. Won't Stay Execution Despite Witness Reversals

Carter, clergy, NAACP have asked for life sentence for Troy Davis

Sep 23, 08 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man sentenced to die tonight in Georgia is looking to the US Supreme Court after the state’s parole board and top court rejected clemency yesterday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Troy Anthony Davis was convicted in 1991 for murdering a police officer, but seven prosecution witnesses have since recanted... More »

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death penalty • Pope Benedict XVI • Jimmy Carter • murder • Georgia • NAACP • Troy Davis

Pope Calls for Holding Line
on Divorce

Benedict, in France, urges bishops to ignore trends

Sep 14, 08 5:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI urged bishops to uphold the Catholic tradition of marriage today during a 150,000-strong mass in Lourdes, the French town where apparitions of Madonna reportedly appeared in 1858, AFP reports. Benedict pledged not to allow divorced Catholics into the church and told bishops to "uphold firmly,... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • France • Catholicism • Lourdes Leon

 Madonna
 Dedicates
 'Virgin'
 to Pope

Ruffles pontiff's feathers during Rome concert

Sep 8, 08 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - During a performance in Rome Saturday night, Madonna dedicated her hit single "Like a Virgin" to the Pope, Reuters reports. "I dedicate this song to the pope, because I'm a child of God. All of you are also children of God," the 50-year-old announced on the stage... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Rome • celebrity • Madonna

Betancourt: Pope, Faith Saved Me

Ex-hostage thanks pontiff for support during 7-year captivity

Sep 1, 08 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ingrid Betancourt realized her dreams today when she met privately with Pope Benedict, Reuters reports. The freed French-Colombian hostage says she was overcome with emotion after hearing the pope appeal for her release on the radio during her 7 years in captivity. The 46-year-old Catholic had never read the Bible—... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Colombia • FARC • Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia • Ingrid Betancourt

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

Vatican Objects to Image of Frog on Crucifix

Calls it 'desecration,' but Italian museum won't take it down

Aug 28, 08 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite objections from the pope, a sculpture of a crucified frog will continue to hang in an Italian museum, board officials said today. The Vatican slammed the work, called Feet First, as a blasphemous attack on Christianity. But museum officials cited artistic freedom and said its German creator considered the... More »

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art museum • Pope Benedict XVI • art • Italy • Vatican • sculpture • Catholicism

Vatican Debates Paying Tribute
to Galileo

Heretic remains a touchy subject in Catholic Church

Aug 28, 08 12:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Galileo Galilei is riling the Catholic church yet again, the Wall Street Journal reports, as an anonymous donor has offered to pay to erect a statue in the Vatican of Catholicism’s most famous heretic. But though the church has come around on science, Galileo remains a touchy subject. He’... More »

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astronomy • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • science • Vatican • Galileo • Pope John Paul II

Knights Templar Heirs Sue Pope for $150B

Group wants money, apology—and its
good name back

Aug 19, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A group claiming to be descended from the ancient Knights Templar want Pope Benedict XVI to right a 700-year-old wrong, NPR reports. The group has filed a lawsuit in Spain seeking $150 billion in compensation for property seized by the church. It also wants the church to apologize and restore... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Christianity • Vatican • lawsuit • heresy

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