Vatican: pope to meet Anglican chief
(Vatcican City) The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury next month in the leaders’ first encounter since the Catholic church moved to make it easier for disenchanted Anglicans to convert to Catholicism.
Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said in a telephone interview Friday evening …
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(Vatican City) Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the early retirement of a U.S. bishop who has denounced nuns for sponsoring lectures by gay-rights advocates and directed priests to deny communion to abortion backers, the Vatican said Monday.
The brief announcement, keeping to Vatican tradition, did not say why the staunchly conservative …
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Oscar Wilde once said, ‘We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars’ and in a heavenly way the gay playwright found praise today from an unlikely source - the Vatican.
In its second U-turn in a week, the official mouthpiece of Pope Benedict XVI, L’Osservatore Romano, wrote that he was a man ‘always looking for the beautiful and the good but also for God’.
It also added that: ‘Wilde was a fortunate man, as more than 100 years after his death his works had not been forgotten and continue to fly off the shelves.’
The eulogy comes just days after the Vatican changed its stance to give its approval to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter - who it had once described as the ‘wrong kind of hero’.
Wilde, who converted to Roman Catholicism as he lay dying in a Paris hotel bed in 1900, served two years in prison for acts of gross indecency with men, and his behaviour shocked strait-laced Victorian England.
Given his homosexual tendencies and the Catholic Church’s strict view of homosexuality, the fact that it had now embraced him was all the more surprising.
The article praising the Irish-born writer was headlined ‘When Oscar Wilde met Pius IX’ and was a review of a new book on him called ‘A Portrait of Oscar Widle’ by Italian author Paolo Gulisano.
L’Osservatore Romano wrote: ‘Oscar Wilde was a man constantly looking for the beautiful and the good, but also for a God that he never challenged, respected and who he fully embraced after his dramatic experience of jail, concluding with his communion in the Catholic Church.’
Monda also noted how Dublin-born Wilde had said that ‘Catholicism was the only religion to die in’ and also recalled his little remembered audience with Pope Pius IX in 1877.
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Vatican accuses AIDS groups of intimidation
(Vatican City) The Vatican on Friday denounced the criticisms of the pope’s comments about condoms and AIDS during his trip to Africa, saying they marked an unprecedented attempt to intimidate him into silence.
Pope Benedict XVI said last month that condoms weren’t the answer to Africa’s AIDS epidemic and could make …
Tags: Africa Aids, aids, Aids Epidemic, Aids Groups, Benedict Xvi, Condoms, Intimidation, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict Xvi, Silence, Trip To Africa, Unprecedented Attempt, Vatican, Vatican CityVatican dismisses criticism of Pope’s HIV views
(Yaounde, Cameroon) The Vatican defended Pope Benedict XVI’s rejection of condoms as a way to stop HIV after international criticism Wednesday that he was weakening the fight against the disease.
France and Germany sharply critiqued Benedict’s declaration that distributing condoms “increases” the AIDS problem. The French foreign ministry said the statement …
Tags: aids, Aids Problem, Benedict Xvi, Condoms, French Foreign Ministry, Germany, hiv, International Criticism, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict Xvi, Rejection, VaticanPope: Condoms not the answer to fighting AIDS
Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday that the distribution of condoms is not the answer in the fight against AIDS in Africa.
Benedict has never before spoken explicitly on condom use although he has stressed that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. The Vatican encourages …
Tags: aids, Aids Africa, Aids In Africa, Benedict Xvi, Condom Use, Condoms, Forefront, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict Xvi, Roman Catholic Church, VaticanPope rescinds promotion of ‘Katrina’ pastor
(Vatican City) — Pope Benedict XVI on Monday formally rescinded the promotion of an ultraconservative priest who came under fire for suggesting that God punished New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina.
The Vatican announcement confirmed a previous decision by the priest, Rev. Gerhard Maria Wagner, to give up the promotion.
In January, Benedict …
Tags: Benedict Xvi, God Punished New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict Xvi, Vatican, Vatican City, WagnerVatican promotes priest who blamed Katrina on gays
(Vatican City) An Austrian pastor who has been quoted as calling Hurricane Katrina God’s punishment for sin in New Orleans is being promoted to the rank of bishop.
The Vatican announced Saturday that Pope Benedict XVI has tapped the Rev. Gerhard Wagner, 54, to be …
Tags: Benedict Xvi, Gays, Gerhard Wagner, God, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict Xvi, Vatican, Vatican CityGay foes rally in Madrid
(Madrid) Tens of thousands of people attended a Mass in central Madrid just before Christmas designed to promote traditional family values in a predominantly Roman Catholic country that has legalized gay marriage and made it easier for people to divorce.
The service began with a message from Pope Benedict XVI, who …
Tags: Benedict Xvi, Catholic Country, Central Madrid, christmas, Foes, Gay Madrid, gay marriage, Madrid Madrid, marriage, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict Xvi, Rally, Tens Of Thousands, Traditional Family ValuesPope celebrates Human Rights Day while opposing gay rights
(Vatican City) At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; but elsewhere, LGBT civil rights groups were denouncing the pope’s opposition to expanding the 60-year-old United Nations document to include gays.
“The dignity of every man is really guaranteed only when all his fundamental …
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