London: Shun 'arrogant' artificial fertilisation treatment; sex is the 'only acceptable' way to conceive - that's Pope Benedict's message to infertile couples across the world. According to the Pontiff, artificial methods of getting pregnant, like the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), were simply "arrogance" and matrimony was the "only place worthy of the call to existence of a new human being". Speaking at the end of a three-day Vatican conference on infertility...
12:45 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict, putting his stamp on the future of Roman Catholicism, named 22 new cardinals on Friday, the red-hatted "princes of the Church" who are his closest aides and will one day choose his successor. One of the most prominent on the list is Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York. Others are from Italy, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, India, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Germany, China, Romania,...
06:27 PM, Jan 06, 2012
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: Pope Benedict ushered in Christmas for the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics, urging humanity to see through the superficial glitter and commercialism of the season and rediscover the real significance of the humble birth of Jesus. The 84-year-old pope, celebrating the seventh Christmas season of his pontificate, also urged that those marking the holiday in poverty, suffering or far from home not be forgotten. At the start of...
09:02 AM, Dec 25, 2011
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
Los Angeles: Actress and social activist Susan Sarandon was reported to have called Pope Benedict a Nazi during a public discussion at a U.S. film festival in New York, provoking criticism from both Catholic and Jewish groups. The movie star, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1995 anti-death penalty film 'Dead man Walking' actress, said she had sent a copy of the book, on which the movie...
02:12 PM, Oct 18, 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 is taking a leap into the world of new media on June 29 with the launch of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put online with a papal click. Vatican officials said Saturday that Benedict has been following the development of the portal - http://www.news.va - which will for the first time aggregate information from the Vatican's various print, radio and television...
08:09 AM, Jun 27, 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: The shuttle Endeavour and space station crews gathered on Saturday for an unprecedented conversation with Pope Benedict, who asked how the space program can promote peace and if the astronauts pray while in orbit. "I think it must be obvious to you how we all live together on one Earth and how absurd it is that we fight and kill each one," the pope said. "When you are...
07:14 AM, May 22, 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
Rome: A new, modernist sculpture of Pope John Paul II is turning into a monumental bust. The Vatican on Friday slammed the giant artwork outside Rome's Termini Train Station, saying it doesn't even resemble the late pontiff. Some Romans and tourists say the bronze statue looks more like Italy's wartime dictator Benito Mussolini than the widely beloved pope. "How could they have given such a kind pope the head of...
09:09 AM, 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 celebrated Easter on Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square, packed with about 100,000 pilgrims and tourists and ablaze in the bright colors of spring flowers as the faithful marked the church's most joyous day of the year. While choir voices rang out across the cobblestone square in late morning, thousands of people were still arriving, streaming up the boulevard leading from the Tiber to the...
05:08 PM, Apr 24, 2011
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