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Papal Itinerary Shows A Concern For Spain
Edward Pentin’s Vatican Notebook A ll the media attention given to Benedict XVI’s eagerly awaited visit to Britain has somewhat obscured what promises to be another challenging......
Benedict Gives Translators His Second Book On Jesus
POPE BENEDICT XVI has handed his editors the final draft of the second volume of his book Jesus of Nazareth , but the Vatican has said it will be months before the work is......
Belgian Cardinal Files Complaint
CARDINAL Godfried Danneels, former president of the bishops’ conference of Belgium, has lodged a civil complaint after the Belgian press reported that a picture of a naked girl......
Priest And Nun Killed In China
THE VICAR general of Ningxia diocese and a nun have been murdered in their rooms at a Churchrun home for the aged where they worked in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia. The Asian Church......
Musical To Celebrate Saint
THE LIFE of Blessed Mary MacKillop is to be turned into a musical in Australia. The musical, which will feature 80 singers, dancers and gymnasts, will be put on in Melbourne and......
Vatican To Tighten Its Norms On Child Abuse
BY JOHN THAVIS THE VATICAN is preparing to update the 2001 norms that deal with child sex abuse by clergy, in effect codifying practices that have been in place for several......
Pope Names Canon Law Expert As Interim Head Of The...
BY CAROL GLATZ POPE BENEDICT XVI has named Italian Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, an expert in Church law who specialises in religious institutes, to be his personal delegate......
Vatican £6.5m In The Red Despite Rise In Donations
BY CAROL GLATZ MAJOR renovations, infrastructure upgrades and a sluggish global economy have left the Vatican City State with a deficit of £6.5million, it emerged this week. The......
Cardinal: World Cup United All Of Africa
BY BRONWEN DACHS CARDINAL WILFRID Napier of Durban has said the football World Cup created solidarity among Africans. He told the Southern Cross newspaper that it was a......
New Ipad Application Is Unveiled
AN ITALIAN priest has developed an application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman Missal. Fr Paolo Padrini, a consultant......