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Ghanaian to head top Vatican office
Khartoum :: Sudan | about 1 month ago
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The pope appointed Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana to head the Vatican's justice and peace office on Saturday, a high-profile post that cements his reputation as a possible future papal candidate. The office is responsible for promoting the church's social...
Tags: Vatican, peace office
Catholic bishops slam corrupt African leaders
Vatican City :: Vatican City | about 1 month ago
Credibility Roman Catholic bishops have blasted corruption among politicians in Africa. The region needs "saintly politicians who will clean the continent of corruption," the bishops declared Friday at a meeting about Africa at the Vatican. "Many Catholics in high...
Tags: Africa, Catholic News Service, Catholic Church, african leaders, catholic leaders, Vatican, corrupt african, having fallen, woefully short, saintly politicians
What Does Vatican Plan Mean For Celibate Priests?
Bexley :: OH :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Vatican is welcoming Anglicans to return to Catholicism centuries after their ancestors left. The Vatican said it will permit married Anglican priests to become ordained Catholic priests. John Allen, senior correspondent for the National Catholic...
Tags: Roman Catholic Church, Vatican, National Catholic Reporter
Vatican plan would ease Anglican conversion
Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago
Credibility The plan announced yesterday would allow groups of Anglicans to join new non-geographic dioceses, called "personal ordinariates," usually headed by former Anglicans. It got a tepid response from the Episcopal Church and a welcome from the Anglican Church...
Tags: Roman Catholic Church, Vatican, allowed anglican, Rome, Church of England
Benedict Strives for Ecumenical Mark
Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago
Credibility Despite his reputation as a hard-liner on Catholic doctrine, Pope Benedict XVI is emerging as the pontiff of inter-church relations. The 82-year-old pope's decision on Tuesday to amend Vatican laws to make it easier for Anglicans to unite with Roman Catholicism...
Tags: Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, Roman Catholicism, Rome
Even the 'Spies' Are Getting 'Spied' On...
The CIA has just made a sizeable investment into "Visible Technologies" a company that writes software that monitors social sites, blogs and websites that get loads of traffic, like Youtube, Amazon, Flick'r, Twitter, etc... But then again "turn-a-bout"...
Tags: Spies, CIA, Visible Technologies, YouTube, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, Wikiscanner, Wikipedia, Vatican
Vatican summons Anglicans back into the fold
Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago
Credibility After 475 years, the Vatican is calling Anglicans back into the fold. In a move that sent shock waves to the very top of the Church of England, the Vatican on Tuesday announced a new structure within the Catholic Church – sort of a church within a church...
Tags: Vatican, Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Anglican, Pope Benedict XVI, anglican worldwide, Park City
Roman Catholic church to receive Anglicans
Vatican City :: Vatican City | about 1 month ago
Credibility More than half a million Anglicans are set to join the Roman Catholic church following an announcement from the Vatican today that Pope Benedict XVI had approved a decree setting up a new worldwide institution to receive them.
Tags: Vatican, Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI
Vatican wishes Hindus well for Diwali festival
Mumbai :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility Religious festivals enable us to revitalize our relationship with God and one another,' the message began. 'May this Festival of Lights, while elevating our minds and hearts towards God, the Supreme Light, strengthen fellowship among us and bless us all...
Silverman to the Pope: 'Sell the Vatican'
Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago
Credibility Comedian Sarah Silverman has a message for Pope Benedict XVI: "Sell the Vatican: Feed the world." A young man punched singer Leona Lewis in the head as she signed autographs and posed for photographs at a book-signing in central London. The assault...
Tags: Sarah Silverman, Vatican, comedian sarah, Pope Benedict XVI, YouTube, Pope Benedict XVI
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