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Catholics cannot accept gay marriage, pope says
(Reuters) – Pope Benedict said on Saturday the Catholic Church could not accept gay marriage and urged young people to root out evil in society and shun a “lukewarm” faith that damages their Church. The 84-year-old pope ended the third day in his homeland with a rally for more about…
Pope ‘shaken’ by talks with sex abuse victims
Pope Benedict XVI met victims of sexual abuse by clergy on the second day of his visit to his German homeland, an encounter that left him “deeply shaken”, Vatican officials said. He also held joint prayers with members of the Protestant faith in Germany, in a bid to build bridges…
Berlin police detain two terror suspects in bomb plot
Berlin police arrested two men Thursday on suspicion of acquiring chemicals for a planned bomb attack and searched a mosque in the German capital, a spokesman told AFP. The arrest of a 24-year-old German of Lebanese origin and a 28-year-old from the Gaza Strip, comes ahead of the 10th anniversary…
Hackers attack site of Catholic youth celebrations
MADRID — Hackers temporarily blocked the official World Youth Day site Thursday just as Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Madrid to preside over the festivities, a spokeswoman for the event said. The site (www.madrid11.com) was taken down for about an hour at around midday (1000 GMT) and the event’s computer…
New technologies confuse reality and fiction: Pope
Pope Benedict XVI said on Thursday that the media’s increasing reliance on images, fuelled by the endless development of new technologies, risked confusing real life with virtual reality. “New technologies and the progress they bring can make it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion and can lead to confusion between…
SCOTUS: No immunity for you, Papa Ratzi
SCOTUS is busy with the rulings today and it has now dealt a huge blow to the protectors of child-raping priests in the Vatican as a ruling came down today that could result in Pope Benedict taking the stand. (Raw Story): Allowing a federal appeals court ruling to stand, the…
More Vatican damage control; Papa Ratzi’s ‘personal secretary’ weighs in
The bizarre, feeble attempts to beat back the scandals that are collapsing the Catholic Church continue, and in this piece by the AP’s Nicole Winfield, we get a peek at the man closest to Pope Benedict, a man with him for over a decade, who rarely turns up in the…
Breaking: Benedict’s signature on letter requesting delay of defrocking of pedophile priest
The Pope can’t blame a NYT conspiracy or rumor-mongering this time. Whatever “woes” the Catholic Church is experiencing is a result of the multitude of cases of child-raping priests left free to run amok mount, leaving the church looking more like a crime syndicate than a bastion of faith. And…
NYT: Pope Benedict tied to coverup of predator priest molestation of 200 deaf boys
How can the Pope extricate himself from this evil? There’s nothing else to call it. The New York Times has extensive coverage and — there’s a document trail a mile long. Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as…
Irish Cardinal under cloud of scandal: I will only resign if the Pope asks me to
Oh man, it’s getting ugly now. How do you like the gauntlet that Cardinal Sean Brady, leader of the Catholic Church’s Irish flock, has thrown down at Pope Benedict. Why? It’s because Brady is under his own cloud of abuse scandal, and smells blood in the water now that Papa…
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