Vatican to celebrate Galileo's discoveries
San Francisco Gate
Sunday, October 18, 2009 Rudimentary telescopes, celestial globes and original manuscripts by Galileo are going on view at the Vatican Museums as part of an exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the astronomer's first celestial observ...
Upheaval lifts Vatican bank’s veil of secrecy
Financial Times
Originally founded in 1887 and housed within a medieval bastion at the heart of the papal state, the closely guarded secrecy of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione, the Vatican ’s bank, is slowly being prised open, although the surprise ...
Oslo's Calling
San Francisco Gate
Trigger an announcement from the Vatican? Causing a nuke to be tossed at Uranus. Detonative planetary creep. You could say, this is a "most likely to succeed" sort of deal. Not so much a pro- Obama message as much as it is "thanks for rescu...
Silva tells pilgrims 'Damien cast out demons of despair'
Honolulu Advertiser
VATICAN CITY — Some 530 Hawai'i pilgrims gathered this morning in the largest church in the world, in this religious and political seat of the Roman Catholic Church, to celebrate Father Damien because "he not only went, but he stayed." "Tha...
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of State
Daily Press Briefing Press Releases Foreign Press Centers Afghanistan Climate Change Food Security Iran Iraq Sudan More... Note: The Holy See is the universal government of the Catholic Church and operates from the Vatican City State, a sov...
Vatican scrutiny puzzles some nuns
Buffalo News
As the Vatican takes a close look at what might be done about the rapidly diminishing number of Catholic nuns in the United States, some women religious are questioning the motives behind the sudden interest in their congregations. The firs...
'Father Damien' among new Vatican saints
CNN
(CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints Sunday, including a 19th-century priest who worked with ostracized leprosy patients in Hawaii before contracting the disease himself and dying from it. Pope Benedict XVI canonized five ne...
NY poll: Suburban views of Obama vary by race
Tulsa World
Kennedy was supposed to let the vatican rule the government, and so on and so on. Maybe we could be a little more concerned with tha problems of the country and how we are or are not delaing with those specifically. I don't care if he has r...
DIARY - Germany - to November 13
Reuters
- JERUSALEM- ECB Governing Council member Axel Weber gives a speech on "Introductory Statements for the Plenary Session on the Global Economic Crisis" at "Tthe Israeli Presidential Conference: facing 2009"- MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 VATICAN CITY- ...
Robin Williams brings the funny
Florida Times-Union
... Williams spent the first 5 minutes of the show focusing on Jacksonville, joking about everything from the fact that the St. Johns River runs north ("Some would say it's because Georgia sucks") to Northeast Florida's Tim Tebow fetish ("I...
Pope Pays Tribute to Persecuted Priests
FOX News
Pope Pays Tribute to Persecuted Priests Sunday, October 18, 2009 Print VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is paying tribute to priests, nuns and other missionaries persecuted as they spread the Catholic faith. Benedict cited the example ...
Raphael Drawing May Sell for Record $19.7 Million (Update1)
Bloomberg
... 12-inch-high black chalk drawing, to be auctioned by Christie’s International in its Dec. 8 sale of Old Masters and 19th-century art, is a study for the head of a muse in Raphael’s fresco of Parnassus in the Stanza della Segnatura in th...
The Holy Land in Washington
Baltimore Sun
It's also the place where Good Friday collections from U.S. Catholic churches are sent before the Vatican distributes the money to support the Franciscans' work. In the Holy Land, they try to foster peace and reconciliation among Muslims, J...
Pope recalls 'persecution' of missionaries
Earthtimes
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI recalled Sunday the dangers faced by Catholic missionaries around the world, citing the recent murder of an Italian priest in Brazil and the abduction of an Irish priest in the Philippines. Benedict spoke be...
