Rome (dpa) - Forty years after the Second Vatican Council Pope
Benedict XVI has made a decision to significantly enhance the status
of the Latin Mass in an attempt to reconc...
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Rome (dpa) - The Vatican plans to issue a papal document at the
weekend on the subject of the Latin Mass, Italy's Corriere della Sera
reported Thursday, citing Vatican sourc...
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A Vatican official has confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI plans to loosen restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving a rite that was essentially swept away by the revolutionary reforms ...
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VATICAN CITY, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict has decided
to modify a controversial prayer for the conversion of Jews, an
Italian newspaper reported on Friday. Il Giornale newspaper said this wou...
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The house where Pope Benedict XVI was born in religious rural Bavaria is open to the public.The house opened Sunday, a day before the pontiff's 80th birthday.At the pope's urging, the foundation th...
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Vatican City (dpa) - A Vatican document has reaffirmed the
supremacy of the Catholic Church over alternative Christian churches
by labelling them "defective."
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VATICAN CITY, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict has ordered
changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at Good Friday services by
traditionalist Catholics, deleting a reference to their
"blindness" over Chr...
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Nov 6 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict met Saudi Arabia's King
Abdullah on Tuesday -- the first meeting between a Pope and a
Saudi monarch, custodian of two of Islam's holiest shrines. Here are some rece...
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Berlin (dpa) - Cardinal Karl Lehmann, 71, announced Tuesday his
resignation as chairman of the German Conference of Catholic Bishops
on health grounds, but said he would con...
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