As the Catholic Church marks a key anniversary of a traditionalist
ascendancy, its leader is still keen to grapple with doubters
Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Monday with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests, in a gesture of contrition and concern over a scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic church.
An Italian appeals court rules that a father can cut off life support to his comatose daughter in a case that has echoes of a U.S. controversy three years ago
Pope Benedict XVI urged religious leaders of all kinds to unite against those who use faith to divide communities
Pope Benedict XVI praised the Australian government Thursday for its "courageous' apology to the country's indigenous Aborigines for past injustices, saying it offered hope to all the world's disadvantaged peoples.
Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Sydney to lead hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at the Roman Catholic church's youth festival.
Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that he is praying there will not be any more rifts in the Anglican community following the recent Church of England decision on women bishops.
Benedict XVI's handling of the U.S. priest-pedophile crisis won praise. Now Catholics in other countries want the same. Next stop: Australia
The Vatican said Tuesday it regrets the decision by the Church of England's governing body to allow the ordination of women as bishops.
Italy's leader joins other prominent divorced and remarried Catholics in asking the Pope to reconsider the ban on their taking the sacrament
As the Catholic Church marks a key anniversary of a traditionalist
ascendancy, its leader is still keen to grapple with doubters
Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Monday with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests, in a gesture of contrition and concern over a scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic church.
An Italian appeals court rules that a father can cut off life support to his comatose daughter in a case that has echoes of a U.S. controversy three years ago
Pope Benedict XVI urged religious leaders of all kinds to unite against those who use faith to divide communities
Pope Benedict XVI praised the Australian government Thursday for its "courageous' apology to the country's indigenous Aborigines for past injustices, saying it offered hope to all the world's disadvantaged peoples.
Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Sydney to lead hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at the Roman Catholic church's youth festival.
Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that he is praying there will not be any more rifts in the Anglican community following the recent Church of England decision on women bishops.
Benedict XVI's handling of the U.S. priest-pedophile crisis won praise. Now Catholics in other countries want the same. Next stop: Australia
The Vatican said Tuesday it regrets the decision by the Church of England's governing body to allow the ordination of women as bishops.
Italy's leader joins other prominent divorced and remarried Catholics in asking the Pope to reconsider the ban on their taking the sacrament
Catholic Bishops shut Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and the movie prequel to The Da Vinci Code out of shooting on location in Rome's churches
Just days before his death, the newsman took his family on a Roman holiday
The new Da Vinci Code flick cannot shoot inside any of Rome's Catholic sites
It was back in April when Pope Benedict XVI came to Washington. The Rev. David O'Connell, the president of The Catholic University of America, was hosting the pope for a large meeting with bishops.
The Vatican announced Thursday in a general decree that it will excommunicate anyone who would attempt to ordain a woman as a priest and the woman herself.
The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian
tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new
warning that women taking part in ordinations will be
excommunicated
Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday
Pope Benedict's visit may have pulled the plug on a movement that helped define the faith here for almost a half-century
Benedict dealt forthrightly with the sex-abuse scandal, but his US tour was more pastoral than policy oriented
In an unusually small gathering, the Pope offers a blessing and private comfort to victims and survivors of 9/11
Viewpoint: No, we are not the Da Vinci Code heretics the Vatican might suspect. We look instead to the Boccaccio Code
A top official suggests that the Vatican may be reconsidering canon laws concerning sex abuse, giving victims more latitude
Three victims of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Roman Catholic Church described an emotional, frank and ultimately hope-filled meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday.
A private meeting with victims of priest sex abuse is the surprise culmination of Benedict's effort to confront the scandal
Catholic academics in the US had expected Benedict to take them to the woodshed. Instead, they were let off easy
His first Papal visit to the U.S. gives Benedict a chance to define his role in global affairs
Pope Benedict's first trip to the United States as pope begins Tuesday -- a five-day visit to Washington and New York, including a speech at the United Nations
Benedict XVI has decided to address the church's pedophilia crisis on his trip to the U.S. But will it be enough to satisfy disillusioned American Catholics?
Lawyers for a polygamist sect that is the subject of a massive child-abuse investigation argued in court Wednesday that although its members' multiple marriages and cloistered ways may be unusual, they have a right to their faith and privacy
Scoring bargain accommodations in Rome can be as tricky as deciphering ancient ruins. But you're in luck: We've done the homework and unearthed nine charming, affordable hotels.
The Vatican's No. 2 official says Pope Benedict XVI recognizes the damage and pain caused by the clergy sex abuse crisis and will seek healing during his U.S. trip
Arrested on a bad-check charge, Raffaello Follieri also has faced a number of lawsuits
Pope Benedict XVI may not have the charisma of John Paul II but don't discount his staff -- especially Fr. Georg Gänswein, the gatekeeper-in-chief
Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday
Pope Benedict himself performed the baptism, in a rite with reverberations for Church relations with the Muslim world
Other faiths have long been banned from operating openly in Islam's birthplace. A Vatican-Saudi dialogue may change that
Fifteen hundred years after the Roman Catholic Church introduced the original list of seven deadly sins, a Vatican official last week suggested an updated roster for a new age.
A prominent cleric dies in captivity, provoking a complaint from the Pope and highlighting the plight of the Muslim world's Christians
The new U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See is an old Vatican hand. Now she gets to usher the Pope into his first official visit to the U.S.
Pope Benedict XVI plans to meet with Muslim scholars and religious leaders this autumn at a Catholic-Muslim seminar in Rome, the Vatican said Wednesday.
The fast-tracking of the sainthood process for the nun who, as a child, encountered the Virgin Mary at Fatima reflects the importance of that apparition to Pope John Paul II
The Pope's Secretary of State is the first important figure to visit Cuba, part of the Catholic Church's attempt to mediate a post-Fidel transition
The Pope has revised a section of the old Latin liturgy that castigated the Jews. But it still calls for their conversion. Jewish leaders are up in arms
The Jesuits elect a little-known priest to lead one of the most powerful organizations in the Roman Catholic Church
Pope Benedict XVI has canceled a planned visit to a prestigious Italian university after a protest by academics and students attacked his views on Galileo, the Vatican confirmed Tuesday.
After days of rising protests from students and professors, Pope Benedict XVI has pulled out of a visit to La Sapienza University
Football should be used to teach young people moral lessons, Pope Benedict XVI said during an audience with representatives from the Italian football league and lower division clubs.
All the incense and intrigue of another papal conclave is upon us again. Well, sort of
Some are comparing his speech on Mormonism to the one JFK gave in 1960 on his Catholicism. But there are differences
As a showdown with the US looms, Tehran is looking to the Pontiff to intervene -- and is finding a lot of sympathy
Chicago Cardinal Francis George, a defender of Catholic orthodoxy with extensive experience in Rome, was elected Tuesday as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Da Vinci Code fans, get ready. The Vatican is about to release its official chronicle of the last years of the Crusader knights whose power has inflamed the imagination of conspiracy theorists for centuries
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