Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI marked the end of 2011 with prayers of thanks and said humanity awaits the new year with apprehension but also with hope for a better future. "Another year approaches its end, while we await a new one, with the trepidation, desires and expectations of always," Benedict said at the traditional New Year's Eve vespers service, as he delivered his homily from the central altar of...
09:27 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Vatican City: The Benetton clothing company withdrew an ad on Wednesday featuring a fake photo of Pope Benedict XVI kissing a top Egyptian imam on the lips after the Vatican denounced it as an unacceptable provocation. Benetton had said its "Unhate" campaign launched on Wednesday was aimed at fostering tolerance and "global love". The campaign's fake photos feature a half-dozen purported political nemeses in lip-locked embraces, including President Barack Obama...
03:55 AM, Nov 17, 2011
Washington: The US Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour appeal from Troy Davis to prevent Georgia authorities from executing him for the murder of an off-duty police officer. The court did not comment on its order on late Wednesday, four hours after receiving the last-ditch request. The filing by Davis' lawyers came after state officials refused to grant Davis a reprieve in the face of calls for clemency from former...
08:04 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Vatican City: The Vatican, whose communications problems are no secret, is taking a leap into the world of new media with the launch next week of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put online with a papal click. Vatican officials said on Saturday that Benedict has been following the development of the portal, which will for the first time aggregate information from the Vatican's various print,...
08:17 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Rome: The next popemobile could be green. The Vatican says Mercedes-Benz is making a study of a hybrid, energy-saving popemobile that would replace the current Mercedes vehicle used when the pope travels abroad. "It won't be ready for the September trip to Germany, but maybe at the end of the year or early 2012," said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi. Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to make his first...
01:14 AM, Jun 23, 2011
Cape Canaveral: Pope Benedict XVI had a direct line to the heavens Saturday, with NASA's help. Speaking from the Vatican, the pontiff bestowed a historic blessing upon the 12 astronauts circling Earth during the first-ever papal call to space, wishing a swift recovery for the shuttle commander's wounded congresswoman wife and condolences for a station astronaut mourning his mother's death. The "extraordinary" conversation, as Benedict described it, occurred after the...
10:22 PM, May 21, 2011
Vatican City: Pope John Paul's coffin was exhumed on Friday ahead of his beatification as tens of thousands of people began arriving in Rome for one of the biggest events since his funeral in 2005. The Vatican said the coffin was removed from the crypts below St Peter's Basilica while top Vatican officials and some of the late pope's closest aides looked on and prayed. Those present at the ceremony...
06:52 PM, Apr 29, 2011
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI will be in satellite contact with two Italian astronauts aboard the International Space Station in what would be the first papal call to space. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported Friday that the hookup will happen on May 4 after shuttle Endeavour docks with the station. Liftoff is set for next Friday. Two Italian astronauts will be meeting up on the space station. Roberto Vittori...
01:10 PM, Apr 23, 2011
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI is praying that the assassination of Pakistan's sole Christian minister last week will spur efforts to safeguard religious freedom for all people. Benedict had met at the Vatican last year with Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's minority affairs minister. Bhatti, a Catholic, was battling to stop abuses under Pakistan's blasphemy laws. The pope had appealed for the release of a Christian woman in Pakistan facing the death...
07:28 PM, Mar 06, 2011
New York: An iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith has been sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the United States. Confession: A Roman Catholic app, thought to be the first to be approved by a church authority, walks Catholics through the sacrament and contains what the company behind the program describes as a "personalized examination of conscience for each user"....
11:23 AM, Feb 08, 2011
London: Warning about the dangers of popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, Pope Benedict XVI has said that online communication between people must not stop face-to-face conversations. "It is important to always remember that virtual contact cannot and should not be a substitute for direct human contact with people at all levels of our society," he said in a message to mark World Communications Day, which was...
10:53 AM, Jan 26, 2011
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11:23 AM, Jul 20, 2008
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