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Well, I for one think things have gotten a little too serious lately. Time for a party to honour the good and evil in the world. Throw a saints and sinners party and dress up as your favourite good guy, bad guy, or in betweener.Well, I for one think things have gotten a little too serious lately. Time for a party... more
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Thousands have witnessed the Pope's beatification of 19th Century churchman Cardinal John Henry Newman, before the pontiff's departure by air for Rome.
link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11360529Thousands have witnessed the Pope's beatification of 19th Century churchman... more
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Pope Benedict XVI ended 2009 much as he began it -- with a major gaffe that angered Jews.
He started the year by welcoming a Holocaust-denying bishop back into the fold, and ended it by putting the controversial World War II-era Pope Pius XII one step closer to sainthood. Both caused uproars.
Whatever gaffes may cause problems between the Vatican and the Jewish community, Gruber said, there is little chance of a complete rupture in relations.
"Dialogue with the Jews is now embedded in Vatican doctrine," she said. "It's a loud dialogue. There's shouting. But if you don't have opposing views, it's not dialogue -- it's an echo chamber."Pope Benedict XVI ended 2009 much as he began it -- with a major gaffe that angered... more
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It can't be easy covering a speech by The Pope when you're a massive American TV channel with ratings to smash. The Pontiff wheezing about using condoms isn't likely to bring the viewers in unless... look! A spider's crawling up his arm! Scoop!
Rather than just run the footage by itself, an over-excited CNN opted to splice in YouTube clips of kids dancing along to Itsy Bitsy spider and Obama swatting flies out of the air. In their defence, even The Vatican got caught up in arachnomania, issuing a statement, saying "the Pope had no problem that a spider wanted to take a walk on him."
Click the link above to watch the video.It can't be easy covering a speech by The Pope when you're a massive... more
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AOSTA, Italy (WABC) -- A hospital spokesman says Pope Benedict XVI is undergoing surgery after breaking his right wrist in a fall during his vacation in the Italian Alps.
Tiziano Trevisan, a spokesman at the Umberto Parini hospital in Aosta, says surgeons were operating Friday on the wrist to reduce the fracture, a procedure to realign the broken bone fragments.
He said they were giving 82-year-old Benedict "light sedation," though heavier anesthesia may be given as the surgery progresses.
A Vatican statement says the pope fell in his room in a nearby chalet overnight and despite the accident, celebrated Mass and had breakfast before going to the hospital.AOSTA, Italy (WABC) -- A hospital spokesman says Pope Benedict XVI is undergoing... more
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Pope Benedict's fondness for fur trim on his hats and capes has come under fire from an Italian animal rights group, which has launched an online petition to persuade the pontiff to switch to synthetics.
Benedict has taken a traditional approach to papal formal wear to match his conservative views on liturgy and theology, reviving the camauro, an ermine-trimmed red velvet hat favored by 17th-century popes and last worn by Pope John XXIII in the 1960s, as well as donning a cape trimmed with ermine, which is the white winter coat of the stoat.
But his use of ermine, long favored by kings, judges and nobles, has drawn the ire of the Italian Association for the Defense of Animals and the Environment, which had by yesterday gathered 2,260 signatures for its petition. "The pope has often talked about protecting the environment and we are asking that he acknowledges that animals, as God's creation, also deserve respect," said the organization's head, Lorenzo Croce.
Benedict's use of fur was defended yesterday by Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo. "Aren't there more important battles to wage?" he asked. "There are human beings who merit more urgent assistance that no one is taking care of. And if we eat animals, we can wear them."
Animal lovers signing the petition may be hoping that a pope known for his fondness for cats may eventually extend his love of animals to stoats and weasels.
In an interview in 2000, before becoming pope, Benedict said he opposed factory farming and the fattening of geese to make foie gras. "Animals too are God's creatures," he said, "creatures we must respect as companions in creation and as important elements in creation."
Pope Benedict's fondness for fur trim on his hats and capes has come under fire... more
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