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Charlotte Observer Online
| 12 months ago
Reams of private Vatican correspondence published in a new Italian best-seller reportedly include a plea by Chicago's Cardinal Francis George, urging the Vatican to halt an award to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn for abolishing the death penalty. George...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs A few days ago the Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, had the audacit... As the Eurozone crisis has teetered along the edge of disaster thanks to continued political and eco... I know...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 12 months ago
Monday, Jun. 04, 2012 The head of one of the U.S. nuns groups rebuked by the Vatican for radically feminist views will appear in Charlotte on Saturday...Her topic: the economic, political and spiritual challenges to Catholic social action and...
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Reuters
| 12 months ago
Topics Related Video Pope Benedict XVI waves at the Linate airport in Milan June 3, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI has been in Milan, northern Italy for the 2012 World Family Meeting. Pope Benedict will not be frightened by a leaks scandal that has shaken...
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Newyork Times
| 12 months ago
Vatican Denounces Nun Over Book on Sexuality Published: June 4, 2012 The Vatican's doctrinal office on Monday denounced an American nun who taught Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School for a book that attempted to present a theological rationale...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Vatican Denounces Nun Over Book on Sexuality Published: June 4, 2012 The Vatican's doctrinal office on Monday denounced an American nun who taught Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School for a book that attempted to present a theological rationale...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Franco Origlia/Getty Images The Vatican has condemned a leading American nun for writing a book in which she praises female masturbation and approves divorce and gay sex and marriage, warning that the book must not be used by catholic educators.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
The Vatican criticised a popular American nun on Monday, saying her book on sexual ethics, including topics such as masturbation and homosexuality, contradicted Catholic teaching and must not be used by Catholic educators. The Vatican's doctrinal...
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AKI
| 12 months ago
The Vatican on Monday admonished an American nun's book for containing ethic lessons on masturbation and other sexual acts that are "not in conformity with the teaching of the Church.'' Sister Margaret A. Farley's "book contained erroneous...
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AKI
| 12 months ago
In an apparent reference to the deepening scandal of leaked private Vatican documents that led to the arrest of his butler last month, Pope Benedict XVI has claimed the Catholic Church is a victim of 'ruthless' enemies but that God is watching. "If...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
The Vatican has sharply criticized a book on sexuality written by a prominent American nun, saying she has a "defective understanding" of certain core church teachings on issues like masturbation, homosexuality and marriage.
The Vatican'...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Just 10 days after the pope's butler was arrested in an investigation into Holy See leaks, an Italian daily yesterday published fresh whistleblower letters, suggesting the scandal is far from over. Three new documents filched from the Vatican were...
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Towleroad
| 12 months ago
Until April, America's nuns were minding their own business, feeding the poor, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless; all of the good things that nuns are wont to do while their male counterparts are misbehaving. Then the Vatican labeled them "...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Vatican leaks Pope Benedict XVI waves at followers at Linate airport in Milan, Italy, as the disclosures show no sign of abating. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo/EPA Pope Benedict XVI may have been hoping for some respite from the scandal which has...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput was on hand, and, according to tweets from Catholic News Agency, was up on the podium chatting up a storm. The every-three-year event brings a faith focus to all things family life, promoting traditional...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Pope Benedict got no rest on Sunday from a leaks scandal when an Italian newspaper published documents showing that his butler was not the only person in possession of confidential correspondence indicating a Vatican in disarray. Benedict, 85, ended...
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Reuters
| 12 months ago
Topics The Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele (bottom L), arrives with Pope Benedict XVI (R) at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican in this May 23, 2012 file photo. Pope Benedict got no rest on Sunday from a leaks scandal when an Italian newspaper published...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
Pope Benedict XVI celebrated an open-air Mass on Sunday for a million followers, capping three days of activities in Milan aimed at showing support for the family.
Fitting his theme of strengthening the institution, the pope recalled...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 12 months ago
THE Pope said traditional family values and Sunday rest were key to escaping the ills of modern society and reached out to divorced people today at a mass to close the World Meeting of Families in Milan. Welcomed by 850,000 flag-waving pilgrims...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
Pope Benedict XVI has celebrated an open-air Mass before some 850,000 followers as part of three days of activities in Milan aimed at showing support for families.
The pope in his homily Sunday took issue with modern economic thinking...
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China Post
| 12 months ago
Pope Benedict XVI praised the role of the traditional family as he was cheered by thousands of faithful in the city of Milan on Friday, leaving behind a scandal-hit Vatican. Speaking at the square outside the city's cathedral for the 7th World...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Gregorio Borgia/AFP The Vatican 's official newspaper is for the first time in its 150-year history publishing an all-colour women's supplement "to give voice to the value that women bring to the church". Women, Church, World will be edited by women...
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Mail and Guardian
| 12 months ago
The pope, who left the scandal-hit Vatican for the Church-sponsored World Meeting of Families, appeared cheered by the raucous welcome that the 80 000 young believers gave him. And during a colourful spectacle at the city's famous San Siro football...
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GMA News
| 12 months ago
The pope insisted Saturday that celibacy is central to the priesthood, amid increasing calls for clergy to be allowed to marry and claims that abstinence may have contributed to sex abuse scandals. "The shining light of pastoral charity and a...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
June 2, 2012 The scandal over leaked documents that has been engulfing the Vatican is the biggest breach of confidence and security at the Holy See in recent memory. Known as Vatileaks, the crisis has shed light on a Vatican gripped by intrigue and...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Closely guarded guidelines on how to deal with divine apparitions of the Virgin Mary and "supernatural phenomena" have now been released by the Vatican. The "norms" on how the Roman Catholic Church handles mystical apparitions were drawn up in 1978...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
The Roman curia, the Vatican's bureaucracy, runs on a model that is hierarchical and designed to suit the needs of 600 years ago...It badly needs reform, but that is never going to happen when you have a system where all the senior figures are...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 12 months ago
Representatives of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will go to Rome to discuss their concerns before deciding whether to cooperate with a mandated reform. "Board members concluded that the assessment was based on unsubstantiated...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
The largest umbrella group for U.S. nuns on Friday broke weeks of near-silence on a stinging Vatican report that they had undermined Roman Catholic teaching, saying the inquiry was "flawed" and based on "unsubstantiated accusations" that were causing...
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Canada.com
| 12 months ago
Catholic nuns on Friday rejected a Vatican assessment that they had fallen under the sway of radical feminism and needed to hand control of their group over to a trio of bishops. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, whose members represent...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 12 months ago
News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Seattle and King County government and more The nation's largest organization of Catholic nuns has hit back at a toe-the-line probe by the Vatican,...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
Catholic nuns on Friday rejected a Vatican assessment that they had fallen under the sway of radical feminism and needed to hand control of their group over to a trio of bishops. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, whose members represent...
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Ansa
| 12 months ago
Roughly one million pilgrims were expected in Milan Friday for the first day of the Catholic Church's 7th World Meeting of Families. Over 100 speakers from 27 countries are scheduled to speak at the event through Sunday, when Pope Benedict XVI will...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
Roman Catholic nuns says the Vatican crackdown on their organization is based on unfounded claims and has hurt the church.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious says they are sending their top administrators to Rome in two weeks...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Pope Benedict XVI will attend a concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim at La Scala on the first of three days of events focused on the family. The pope will greet the faithful in the square outside Milan's cathedral after...
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Newsbusters
| 12 months ago
CBS made little effort to hide that it was siding with liberal dissenters inside the Catholic Church on Wednesday's CBS Evening News and Thursday's CBS This Morning . Scott Pelley hyped that there was a Vatican " crackdown on America's 57,000 nuns."...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 12 months ago
News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Seattle and King County government and more A new poll in New York, the first to test Catholic bishops' much-ballyhooed religious liberty war, finds a...
