[There are spoilers in this post.] 24 isn’t the first thing most people would think of when looking for a pop-culture representation of papal guidance, but if you’ve been watching 24 this season, you’ve seen a taste of what Pope
AP: The Vatican’s attempts to keep the Pelosi visit low-profile displayed its obvious unease with the new U.S. administration. Benedict and Bush had found common ground in opposing abortion, an issue that drew them together despite their differences over the
AP: Sunday evening Italy’s RAI state TV began to show the pope reading the opening verses of the holy text for a weeklong special program called ‘The Bible Day and Night.’ The marathon will feature more than 1,200 people reading
AFP: Benedict XVI is heading to France on Friday, starting his four-day visit in Paris before moving on to the sanctuary town of Lourdes, in southwestern France. But will the German pontiff win the hearts of the French?
A sculpture depicting a frog being crucified has been condemned by the Vatican. Pope Benedict has condemned as blasphemous a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg. Despite the pope’s disapproval, the
AP: Pope Benedict XVI has left the Vatican and is now on his way to the United States. It will be his first visit to the U.S. as pontiff. President Bush will greet the pope when he lands at Andrews
AP: Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-1268006,.html Kate and Gerry McCann traveled to the Vatican to receive the blessings of Pope Benedict XVI. The McCann’s 4-year-old daughter Madeleine disappeared May 3rd on a family trip to Portugal.
