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Reuters
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Pope Benedict on Saturday condemned genetic engineering and other scientific practices that allow people to select so-called "designer babies" by screening them for defects.
In a speech to the Pontifical Academy for Life, a Church body of experts, the..
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Reuters
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Pope Benedict was baptized at birth and will most likely be baptized again one year after his death, not by his Roman Catholic Church but by a Mormon he never met...
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USA Today
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Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday formally made the majestic, complex and controversial millennial-old Latin Mass more accessible to Catholics, who have said the Mass in their modern local languages for four decades.
"What earlier generations held as sacre..
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MSNBC
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Pope Benedict XVI summoned his bishops from across Latin America to Brazil’s most holy shrine Sunday, urging them to be zealous missionaries to maintain Catholicism as the dominant religious force in the region.
“This is the faith that has made Lat..
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News.com.au
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POPE Benedict XVI has given Brazil its first saint, canonising Friar Antonio de Sant'Ana Galvao, a Franciscan monk still credited with miracle cures nearly 200 years after his death.
Friar Galvao, who lived from 1739 to 1822, founded monasteries and co..
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CNN
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Pope Benedict XVI departs Wednesday on his first pilgrimage to Latin America -- a test of the 80-year-old pontiff's stamina and how he intends to deal with pressing challenges to his church in the region.
The Vatican is promising he will deliver a toug..
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USA Today
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Pope Benedict XVI has reversed centuries of traditional Roman Catholic teaching on limbo, approving a Vatican report released Friday that says there were "serious" grounds to hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven.
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CNN
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Pope Benedict thanked God and his own earthly family for his papacy and his life on Sunday at a mass that began celebrations marking his 80th birthday and the second anniversary of his election as Roman Catholic leader.
Tens of thousands of pilgrims jo..
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Reuters
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Pope Benedict, elaborating his views on evolution for the first time as Pontiff, says science has narrowed the way life's origins are understood and Christians should take a broader approach to the question.
The Pope also says the Darwinist theory of e..
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Independent
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"How much suffering there is in the world!" Pope Benedict XVI lamented in his Easter sermon yesterday, naming Darfur, Iraq, Somalia, the Congo, Lebanon and other trouble spots around the globe.
But there was no space in his list for the abused women of..
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SF Gate
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In his Easter message on Christianity's most joyous day, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday decried suffering in the world, lamenting the "continual slaughter" in Iraq and expressing worry over unrest and instability in Afghanistan.
"In the Middle East, besid..
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SF Gate
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Soon after he died two years ago, Pope John Paul II was practically declared a saint by vox populi. Banners demanding "Santo Subito!" (sainthood now) crowned the crowds of people who filled St. Peter's Square to mourn the late pontiff.
Today, on the se..
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USA Today
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Pope John Paul II will move a step closer to possible sainthood with the imminent closure of a church investigation into his life and the delivery to the Vatican of a dossier detailing the purported miraculous cure of a nun who prayed to him.
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CNN
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Pope Benedict XVI, in his Palm Sunday Mass, opened the Roman Catholic Church's most solemn week by urging young people to live pure, innocent lives.
This year, Holy Week also includes the second anniversary of the April 2, 2005, death of Pope John Paul..
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FOX News
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I don’t remember the last time I heard a sermon on the eternal pains of hell. My parents and their contemporaries tell me fire and brimstone from the pulpit used to be commonplace in both Protestant and Catholic churches.
What has happened? Has there..
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FOX News
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Hell is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanize the faithful, the Pope said.
Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI said that in the moder..
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New York Times
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Two days after graduating from high school last June, Jonathan Pope left his home in Miamisburg, Ohio, to join a traveling magazine sales crew, thinking he would get to “talk to people, party at night and see the country.” Over the next six months..
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