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Vatican probes claims of apparitions at Medjugorje
Mar 17, 2010 13:54 EDT
VATICAN CITY (Reuters Life!) - The Vatican has opened an investigation into reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the small town of Medjugorje in southern Bosnia which have drawn more than 30 million pilgrims and divided the Catholic Church.
Vatican studies visions of Virgin at Medjugorje
Mar 17, 2010 11:12 EDT
Vatican investigates reported apparitions of Virgin Mary at Medjugorje shrine in Bosnia. The Vatican has begun formally investigating reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the Medjugorje shrine in southern Bosnia.
Vatican denies celibacy rule led to sex scandal
Mar 14, 2010 15:17 EDT
Vatican newspaper defends pope, denies celibacy requirement is cause of clerical sex abuse. The Vatican on Sunday denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again defended the pope's handling of the crisis.
German minister critical of Vatican rule on abuse
Mar 08, 2010 15:24 EST
German minister cites Vatican secrecy as factor in "wall of silence" over abuse. Germany's justice minister said Monday that a Vatican secrecy rule has played a role in a "wall of silence" surrounding sexual abuse of children.
Religion News in Brief
Feb 24, 2010 11:27 EST
Religion News in Brief. The Vatican's top bioethics official dismissed calls for his resignation following an uproar over his defense of doctors who aborted the twin fetuses of a 9-year-old child who was raped by her stepfather.
Vatican official dismisses calls for resignation
Feb 22, 2010 19:08 EST
Vatican's top bioethics official dismisses calls for resignation over abortion article. The Vatican's top bioethics official on Monday dismissed calls for his resignation following an uproar over his defense of doctors who aborted the twin fetuses of a 9-year-old child who was raped by her stepfather.
Vatican official dismisses calls for resignation
Feb 22, 2010 16:52 EST
The Vatican's top bioethics official on Monday dismissed calls for his resignation following an uproar over his defense of doctors who aborted the twin fetuses of a 9-year-old child who was raped by her stepfather.
Irish bishop: no resignations on agenda with pope
Feb 14, 2010 14:59 EST
Irish bishop: no resignations planned during summit with pope over sexual abuse scandal. Irish bishops one-by-one will give an accounting to Pope Benedict XVI of their views, actions or knowledge about decades of sexual abuse by clergy, a participant said Sunday, but resignations were not on the agenda for the Vatican's extraordinary summit over the scandal.
Pope defends invitation to Anglicans to convert
Jan 15, 2010 10:14 EST
Pope defends invitation to Anglicans to join Catholic Church as 'ultimate aim' of ecumenism. Pope Benedict XVI defended his decision to invite disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Church en masse, saying Friday it was the "ultimate aim" of ecumenism.
Vatican seeks to clarify review of US sisters
Nov 03, 2009 15:01 EST
Vatican seeks to clarify review of US sisters amid criticism of secrecy, true aims. The Vatican defended its review of U.S. women's religious orders on Tuesday amid criticism from the sisters that the process is secretive and amounts to a crackdown.
Vatican aims to reintegrate traditionalists
Oct 25, 2009 11:00 EDT
Vatican seeks to reintegrate traditionalists after storm over Holocaust-denying bishop. The Vatican begins talks Monday to bring a group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics back under its wing, nine months after the pope created an uproar by rehabilitating one of their bishops despite his denial of the Holocaust.
Vatican seeks to lure disaffected Anglicans
Oct 20, 2009 21:31 EDT
Surprise Vatican plan would welcome Anglicans unhappy with gay, female clergy. The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism ? a surprise move designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.
Vatican talks with traditionalists set to open
Oct 15, 2009 15:07 EDT
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican Thursday announced the imminent start of talks with a traditionalist splinter group that includes a bishop prosecutors in Germany want fined for denying the Holocaust.
Swedish TV: Vatican knew about Holocaust-denier
Sep 23, 2009 09:45 EDT
Swedish TV says Vatican knew about Holocaust-denying bishop when ex-communication lifted. A Swedish TV program to be aired Wednesday claims that top Vatican officials knew that an ultraconservative British bishop was a Holocaust-denier when his excommunication was lifted in January.
AP Impact: Italy grapples with priest sex abuse
Sep 14, 2009 00:01 EDT
AP Impact: After decades of silence, reports of priest sex abuse in Vatican's own back yard. It happened night after night, the deaf man said, sometimes in the priest's bedroom, sometimes in the bathroom, even in the confessional.
AP IMPACT: Italy grapples with priest sex abuse
Sep 13, 2009 12:16 EDT
AP IMPACT: After decades of silence, reports of priest sex abuse in Vatican's own back yard. It happened night after night, the deaf man said, sometimes in the priest's bedroom, sometimes in the bathroom, even in the confessional.
Vatican replaces cardinal in Holocaust controversy
Jul 08, 2009 15:01 EDT
Vatican replaces cardinal in Holocaust denial flap, tightens control of reconciliation effort. Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday replaced the cardinal responsible for lifting the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop as part of the Vatican's effort to reconcile with an ultraconservative group.
Pope shakes up office blamed for Holocaust denier
Jul 08, 2009 09:44 EDT
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict Wednesday effectively removed the Vatican official who was widely blamed for a controversy involving a bishop who denied the Holocaust.
Vatican: Conservative group's ordinations illicit
Jun 17, 2009 10:04 EDT
Vatican: New ordinations of priests by ultraconservative group are illicit. Priest ordinations planned by an ultraconservative group won't be legitimate even though Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunications of the organization's leaders, the Vatican said Wednesday.
Vatican warns traditionalists not to ordain priests
Jun 17, 2009 09:12 EDT
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican warned a rebel ultra-traditionalist order on Wednesday not to go ahead with plans to ordain new priests this month, saying the move could incur disciplinary action.
