The Gift of Infallibility: The Official Relatio on Infallibility of Bishop Vincent Ferrer Gasser at Vatican Council I
Truth In Our Time (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Tupac, who has deep ties to the militant Black Panther Party will now have his "music" played on the Vaticans Myspace page. How far does mainstream Christianity have to go before you realize there is nothing Christian about it? Music from late rapper Tupac Shakur has been included as part of the Vatican's official MySpace Music playlist. The seat of the Catholic Church...
XXL Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | yesterday
The playlist, taken from The Vatican’s Myspace Music page : CNN : Music from late rapper Tupac Shakur has been included as part of the Vatican’s official MySpace Music playlist. The seat of the Catholic Church released a list of 12 songs onto the social networking Web site’s streaming music service this week when the site launched in the United Kingdom. Among...
CNN (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Music from late rapper Tupac Shakur has been included as part of the Vatican's official MySpace Music playlist.
CNN (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Music from late rapper Tupac Shakur has been included as part of the Vatican's official MySpace Music playlist.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The Holy See and the Russian Federation have vowed to establish full diplomatic ties, the Vatican said Thursday, following a meeting at the Vatican between Pope Benedict XVI and Russia’s president, Dmitri A. Medvedev. In a statement, the Vatican called the meeting “cordial.” Ties between the Vatican and Russia have historically been strained, because of...
Queerty (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
We felt sooo slighted when Mexican Cardinal Javier Barragan, a retired Vatican official, made the grand pronouncement that gay and transgender human beings won't be let into heaven. As if this guy holds the keys, or even has a cousin who has a friend who's sister's father knows the password. Barragan's comments. That conclusion was [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
By George Conger, CEN It is not the Vatican’s fault that ecumenical relations with the Anglican Communion have soured, Cardinal Walter Kasper has declared. The Anglican Communion’s civil wars over women and gay bishops are the primary obstacles to Catholic-Anglican ecumenical dialogue Cardinal Kasper said in an interview published in L’Osservatore Romano. Cardinal Kasper, the...
Berto: Philosophy Monkey (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
I don't know whether it's just a coincidence that just as reports uncovering the institutionalized cover-up of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Ireland became public, Vatican officials gathered to discuss the significance that the discovery of alien life might present for Christianity. The bad news might be that the whole religion is demonstrated to be a sham... the...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Popes longer in the tooth than the Papa Ratzi were able to stay awake until midnight ; either his hunky assistant needs to put him to bed for a nap that afternoon or Benedict needs help the world out and step aside and retire to the Alps. The announcement prompted rumours that the pontiff's health was poor, but the Vatican dismissed such fears, saying the break with tradition was simply to...
nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate Midnight Mass at 10pm this year, the Vatican said on Monday. The announcement prompted rumours that the pontiff's health was poor, but the Vatican dismissed such fears, saying the break with tradition was simply to ensure the 82-year-old was not too tired to deliver his crucial "Urbi et Orbi" message on Christmas Day. The aim was to "alleviate...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
MORE THAN one Irish bishop may submit their resignation to the pope this week, as Vatican officials confirmed Cardinal Sean Brady and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin have been asked to a meeting with the pope on Friday to discuss “the painful situation” in the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Whispers in the Loggia (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
In comments that -- no surprise here -- were widely reported in little time, a retired Curial cardinal told an Italian website that "transsexuals and homosexuals will never enter the kingdom of heaven"... and notably earned a quick retort from the Vatican's official spokesman. The Holy See's lead hand on health-care until his April retirement as president of the Pontifical Council...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... Javier Lozano Barragan, in comments quoted by an Italian news agency. Lozano is one of the top Vatican officials. Subscribe to Joe.My.God.
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
John Laughland writes: The liberal outrage against the perceived insult delivered by the Swiss electorate to its Muslim minority on Sunday, when it voted to ban minarets, has not cooled. Vatican officials and Catholic bishops, fresh from celebrating 40 years since the introduction of the New Mass, have been in the forefront of the campaign against the referendum result. Meanwhile activists...
