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Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday called for ethnical business conduct saying it is important to give people hope in the current economic crisis. The pope made the comments at the end of a general audience attended by members of the Italian farmers' association...
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi is suing Italian newspaper L'Unita' for libel. Berlusconi's lawyers sent the left-leaning daily a letter Wednesday asking for two million euros in damages for allegedly vilifying his personal life and performance as premier.
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A Picasso painting that Iraqi police proudly announced they had found this week appears to be a fake, officials at the Louvre in Paris and the National Museum in Kuwait said. Officers had said that the painting was stolen during Iraqi dictator Saddam...
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Pope Celestine V issued a papal bull, or edict, in 1294 granting a plenary indulgence to anyone who entered L'Aquila's basilica between the nights of Aug. 28 and 29 and was "truly repentant and had confessed." Each year, thousands of the faithful flock...
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The blasphemy law in Pakistan, often used by Muslim extremists to foment violence, hangs like "the sword of Damocles" over Christians and members of other minority religions, a Vatican official said. Archbishop Adolfo Yllana, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio...
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Senate has confirmed two Minnesotans appointed by President Obama to fill ambassador posts overseas: Minneapolis attorney and DFL fundraiser Sam Kaplan is heading to Kingdom of Morocco, while theologian Miguel Diaz is headed to the Vatican. Neither appointment...
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Ahead of the decision on Thursday evening, the Vatican warned that women who take the pill and doctors who prescribe it would be automatically excommunicated. Pontifical Academy of Life President Emeritus Msgr Giulio Sgreccia said the pill ''isn't a drug...
Tags: Italy, abortion drug, abortion pill, Vatican, Roman Catholic Church, European Union
Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday his guardian angel failed to stop him falling and breaking his wrist recently because God wanted to make him humbler. Taking his leave of this northern Italian mountain village where he has spent a summer break, the pope...
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Pope Benedict underwent a medical examination on his broken wrist on Saturday which showed the injury is healing well, the Vatican said. The 82-year-old Catholic leader slipped in the bath and broke his right wrist eight days ago while on holiday in...
Tags: Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, Israeli