vatican

Frontline this week had an excellent expose on the Vatican - Secrets of the Vatican (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/). I'm wondering what other thought. I think for me one of the takeaways was how much control the Vatican Curia exercised despite the Pope technically being an absolute...

http://news.uk.msn.com/blog/trending-blogpost.aspx?post=9b41f8c0-6434-42c6-8112-ac16a6f40891&_nwpt=1 Several questions that I have are: How often does lightning occur over the Vatican City? And Is the top of that building made out of any particular materials, let's say metal, to make it more...

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Vatican upset over Belgian child abuse investigation. Calls it "unprecedented" BBC story In another BBC story the Vatican even calls the Belgian ambassador to the Vatican to complain. and one more I agree that holding people for nine hours without food or drink is a clear violation of...

So funny: Foreign Office makes apology to Pope after officials' mock memo about 'Benedict' brand condoms It's their front-page story too. One of the comments seems to get the flavour about right the story doesn't: I wonder if this storm in a thimble will stop the visit and hopefully...

Just when you think they couldn't get any worse, the Vatican displays whole new levels of douche-baggery. Oh no, they don't have any responsibility for covering up decades of systematic child-rape - it's just all the godless abortionists & gays trying to smear the Pope... Vatican blasts critics...

Well I never was much into the Simpsons TV show but it got a thumbs up from the Vatican newspaper. http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2009/12/simpsons_vatican_losservatore.html

Discovery Institute Miffed by Vatican Snub So, the Vatican is essentially admitting that the Bible isn't really true? :popcorn1

Link I am so screwed. I drove to work today - pollution. I eat genetically altered food. And I'm an American, so I obviously commit social and economic injustice with my every breath. Plus I'm not Catholic, so I can't go get my soul sandpapered by confessing my sins to a priest and saying a...

I hear all the crazy anti-Jones kooks saying that the European Union's official religion is Roman Catholicism, and the Pope is the head of the EU. Now we all know why Jones isn't talking about this, to get Catholic listeners. What I want to know is where did this Vatican=EU theory come from?

I'm not sure if this came up in another thread at the time of publication, but a January 2007 article by former Romanian spymaster Ion Mihai Pacepa gives a fascinating, largely first-hand account of what the author calls the KGB's "super-secret plan for destroying the Vatican's moral authority...

Apparently Father Amorth has performed over 30 000 exorcisms in his career. Busy man. Busy, busy man. If he's been doing one exorcism a day, he's been at it for slightly over 82 years! That's one exorcism a day, every day, no break for Sunday... Now, I don't actually know how long it takes to...

Could be a reflection on glass, hard to tell. Anyone ever been inside St. Peter's basilica in Rome? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7MjM0v7vsE

Devil in the detail: Vatican exorcises Harry Potter THE Vatican has never been a fan of Harry Potter, but its chief exorcist has gone one step further and condemned J. K. Rowling's fictional boy wizard as downright evil. "Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the...

Well its about time..... http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=674042006 quote:BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican...

I've read this piece on the beeb a couple of times. Am I missing something? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4972004.stm The Vatican has expressed "deep displeasure" over China's appointment of two Roman Catholic bishops. The appointment of the bishops without the Vatican's approval...

I read this in the paper the other day. For some reason I don't think the big fans of "intelligent design":rolleyes: are going to let this stop them. It's nice to see that the cult, ah, religion i used to belong to show some signs of reason. Comments? One other thing. This is my first thread...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=news&start=0&num=2&q=http://today.reuters.com/sponsoredby/amex/article.aspx%3Ftype%3DinnovationNews%26storyID%3D2006-01-19T155619Z_01_L19111788_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CATHOLIC-EVOLUTION.xml&e=50179 Yeah to some at the Vatican for standing up

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_evolution;_ylt=AlI44xV2cWI0fZBVwospYJB0bBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051119/NEWS/511190315/1024/NEWS04 Love them or hate them, good on ya, Rev. Coyne.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_evolution Behe should find the assertion intersting, isn't he a practicing catholic?

THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally. Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis...

New book tackles these questions and more. http://www.indcatholicnews.com/et.html

This BBC new item has me oscillating between two points of view. On the one hand the thought of 2 senior RC priests nearly going to jail is rather gratifying, but on the other I'd love to see the evidence on which they were convicted. Does anyone have any further background on this case?

One thing that I observe about the Vatican clergy is the over the top trouble they feel they have to go though in this transvestite tendency to were such expensive frocks. They are more preoccupied with making appointments with the exclusive and elite Vatican tailors than spreading the message...

It is amazing that television (e.g., CNN) and radio (e.g., public radio) still use terms like "developments from the Vatican" or "breaking news from the Vatican" and the like. WHAT developments? WHAT breaking news? The pope is still dead, isn't he? Weren't the post-death procedures mostly...

From CNN: Vatican expected to announce JPII's death. I guess he's about to get first hand proof that his religion is a fraud. I wonder if he'll come back and tell us via JE or Sylvia?? It's almost time to stick a fork in the old boy. :( -z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4350625.stm Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Archbishop of Genoa, has broken the Catholic Church's official silence on the book. .. ..The cardinal told an Italian newspaper: "It astonishes and worries me that so many people believe these lies."...

"Vatican University Debuts Satanism Classes" "...A major theme of the first day's course was how to differentiate between a person who is possessed and someone who is simply suffering psychological problems..." "...Among the signs of possession by the devil, according to church teaching, are...

Should Jewish children, hidden from the Nazi's by Christians and who were baptized remain secret? Apparently a storm of controversy is erupting regarding the release of baptismal records which the Vatican, apparently, is refusing to do......over 50 years after the fact. I frankly don't...