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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican released an official schedule for Pope Francis March 17-24, but if his first two days as pope were any indication, the schedule was only an outline destined to expand at a moment’s notice. The only event on the new pope’s schedule March 15 was an audience with the world’s cardinals. […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – More than 2.3 million pilgrims and visitors joined Pope Benedict XVI for an audience, liturgy or prayer at the Vatican or Castel Gandolfo in 2012, the Vatican said. The Prefecture of the Papal Household, the Vatican office that coordinates the audiences and distributes the free tickets to papal audiences and liturgies, said […]
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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The Italian television journalist who set off the “VatiLeaks” controversy by releasing private letters to Pope Benedict XVI and between Vatican officials has published a large collection of leaked documents in a new book called “Your Holiness.” In a statement May 19, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, called the publication of […]
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The U.S. government has put the Vatican on a list of countries that are vulnerable to money launderers, though not as vulnerable as the United States itself. It was the first time the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs included the Holy See in its annual report. The Vatican was […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s official website suffered an attack by computer hackers March 7, cutting off access by users for several hours. Italian media outlets reported that the website, vatican.va, became unresponsive around mid-afternoon local time, just as several other websites carried messages taking credit for the disruption in the name of the hacking […]
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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and the Italian fashion house Benetton reached an out-of-court settlement after the Vatican took legal action against an ad campaign that depicted Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim leader. The settlement included the fashion company making an unspecified donation to a Catholic charity and a promise to stop the image […]
National
By Catholic News Service
PEORIA, Ill. – The Vatican’s June 28 decree that U.S. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen lived a life of heroic virtues and should be considered venerable – advancing his sainthood cause – prompted much rejoicing in his home state of Illinois. “This is a great day for the Catholic Diocese of Peoria and the Catholic Church […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Hugo Chavez, a socialist president who transformed Venezuela while acting as chief protagonist in what was one of the worst Catholic Church-government relationships in Latin America, died March 5. He was 58. Chavez died of complications from a respiratory infection nearly two years and four surgeries after his cancer diagnosis […]
National
By Catholic News Service
DANVILLE, Ky. – In a vice presidential debate full of tangling between Democratic Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Republican candidate, the topic of abortion got the same treatment. Both candidates are Catholic, a first in major-party history. Biden, who supports keeping abortion legal, said Oct. 11: “I accept […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
HANOI, Vietnam – Government authorities from a district in Vietnam’s Central Highlands forced ethnic villagers to remove Catholic pictures and items from their chapel, and authorities replaced them with images of the late communist leader Ho Chi Minh. A church source told the Asian church news agency UCA News that government authorities from Kon Thuc […]
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Pope Leo XIV
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