Vatican VIP Experience: Exclusive Breakfast at the Vatican with Early Access to Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel — Rome, Italy 6.
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VATICAN CITY — It was not the warmest of Vatican welcomes.
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The Vatican on Monday released the conclusions of the second Vatican-Mexico conference on international migration, held last week at the Vatican.
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Vatican The Vatican has secret rules for the children of priests.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Friends, Romans and Latin lovers - lend the Vatican your ears.
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Vatican Pope Francis has abolished Vatican secrecy rules for cases of sexual abuse.
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Not surprisingly, the U.N. committee dismissed the Vatican&aposs argument and urged the Vatican to not only make good on protecting children inside Vatican territory but globally.
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VATICAN CITY(Reuters) - The Vatican has its own vehicle license plates and telephone code.
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The government of the Vatican City State earns revenue from the lucrative Vatican museums.
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Rome (CNN)A former diplomat at the Vatican Embassy in Washington has been indicted by a Vatican court on allegations he possessed child pornography, the Vatican said Saturday.
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On the eve of his visit to Morocco, Francis issued a new law for Vatican City — characterized by Vatican officials as a model for the wider Roman Catholic Church — that requires clerics and Vatican officials to report credible abuse allegations to Vatican prosecutors.
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Tauran, who was born in Bordeaux, served in various Vatican embassies before being named chief Vatican archivist, foreign minister and then prefect of the Vatican office of interfaith relations.
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VATICAN CITY — A Vatican tribunal on Saturday sentenced a former Vatican diplomat to five years in prison and a fine of about $5,800 for possessing and distributing child pornography.
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Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the meeting took place in the Vatican embassy in Santiago.
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Vatican condemns attackers On Saturday the Vatican sharply rebuked the gunmen and urged a resolution.
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The Vatican said the priest would face an investigation and potential trial in Vatican City.
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The Vatican defrocked Mr. Wesolowski in 2014, then sought to try him in Vatican City.
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The Vatican procedure could choose to use information from the Australian court, Vatican sources said.
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He is being investigated by Vatican prosecutors and will stand trial in the Vatican if indicted.
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Vatican City: The city-state's first coronavirus patient led the Vatican to sanitize its medical facilities.
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Vatican employees have long complained that the church's lofty rhetoric about social justice and workers' rights aren't always respected inside the Vatican itself, said CNN's Vatican analyst, John Allen of Crux.
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VATICAN CITY, March 21 (Reuters) - Monsignor Dario Vigano, the head of the Vatican communications department who was caught up in the so-called "Lettergate" scandal, has resigned, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
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However, the law only covers Vatican City State, a county within Rome, and Vatican diplomats working abroad.
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The conference, organized by the Vatican and Mexico, was attended by many ambassadors accredited to the Vatican.
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Raphael's tapestries were on view from February 17–23 at the Sistine Chapel (Vatican Museums, Vatican City).
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemetery.
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VATICAN CITY — Ashes to ashes is fine, the Vatican says, as long as you don't spread them around.
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Francis blessed and baptized 34 babies, all children of Vatican employees, in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
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The comments, which were reported by Vatican Radio, came as the pontiff baptized 28 babies at the Vatican.
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Each year, 6 million people visit the Vatican Museums, located in the Vatican State, according to Lonely Planet.
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The Vatican said Hungarian President Janos Ader attended the Mass at the Sumuleu-Ciuc shrine, the Vatican said.
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The organisation was welcoming a decision by the Vatican to ban the sale of cigarettes in Vatican City.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has commuted the jail sentence of a Spanish priest who was convicted of leaking Vatican documents and ordered that he be released from jail, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican is working on a papal document that would establish procedures for Catholics to report bishops suspected of sexual abuse or negligence in sexual abuse cases, according to Vatican sources.
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And like many Latin American bishops, Francis had embraced the collegial message of the Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II. "This is a pope acting like a Vatican II pope," Mr. Vallely said.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican prosecutor on Tuesday asked that two priests who served in a "pre-seminary" that housed altar boys inside the Vatican be ordered to stand trial on charges of sexual abuse.
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VATICAN CITY-IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR GEORGIEVA AND ARGENTINE ECON MINISTER GUZMAN HELD DEBT TALKS ON SIDELINES OF VATICAN CONFERENCE
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VATICAN CITY — Vatican City has been governed by men since it was established as an independent state in 1929.
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The Vatican had no immediate comment on the Italian magistrates' order or on who the former Vatican officials were.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal George Pell will remain on a leave of absence from the Vatican after an Australian court ordered him to stand trial on charges of historical sexual offences, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A former president of the Vatican Bank has been ordered to stand trial on charges of embezzlement and money laundering, the Vatican said, the highest ranking Holy See financial official to be indicted.
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Still, the "spirit of Vatican II," or its overall ecumenical ethos, is cited by proponents and critics alike to refer to post-Vatican-II liberalizing tendencies that exceed the remit of Vatican II's more narrow reforms.
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"It's not every day that a senior Vatican official is facing criminal charges," CNN Senior Vatican Analyst John Allen said.
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Wenzel Wirth, 6, darted over to the Pope in the Vatican audience hall in Vatican City, the Associated Press reported.
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Last year, after conducting its own inquiry, the Vatican told Mr. Figari not to return to Peru, Vatican documents show.
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The Vatican said those two events would continue to be shown by livestream on the Vatican News website through Easter.
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A high-ranking Vatican official disgraced by the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandals has died, the Vatican has confirmed.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican bank has started legal proceedings in Malta against those it holds responsible for the loss of millions of euros in investment funds based on the Mediterranean island, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican and China have held new talks on the naming of bishops and the Holy See raised concerns over a tightening of restrictions on religious practice, Vatican and diplomatic sources said on Friday.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a former Holy See diplomat and sentenced him to five years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in the first such trial of its kind inside the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was invited to speak at an April 15 Vatican event by the Vatican, a senior papal official said on Friday, denying a report that Sanders had invited himself.
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Tests were done on 170 people in the Vatican and six showed positive, including one of the several dozen permanent residents of the Santa Marta guesthouse on the Vatican grounds, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement.
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In April this year, the Vatican launched Unite to Cure: A Global Health Care Initiative at the Fourth International Vatican Conference.
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Last week, a fake electronic edition of the Vatican daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, was sent anonymously to Vatican officials and journalists.
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At the time, a Vatican official said the move was a "slap in the face" for the pope and the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholic women say there's a clerical stained glass ceiling in the Vatican, and they want to shatter it.
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According to a Vatican source, the Vatican bank in 2014 froze about a million euros in suspect funds held by postulators.
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The Vatican press office said Pope Francis will have presidents of the Catholic bishops conferences convene at the Vatican from Feb.
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VATICAN CITY, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The spokesman for the Vatican and his deputy resigned suddenly on Monday, an official statement said.
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Vatican officials said then that the hatchbacks, which were adorned with small Vatican flags, had not been handpicked by the pope.
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In 2011, when he ran the Vatican City State, the Italian churchman clashed with his superiors, accusing Vatican officials of corruption.
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"Nobody ever said Vatican diplomacy is infallible," the Vatican spokesman, Greg Burke, said at a news briefing here on Wednesday evening.
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Though it was composed for the Second Vatican Council, "Vatican Rag" fits gracefully into a debate about liberalism in the current papacy.
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VATICAN WARNS TRUMP ON CLIMATE: The Vatican is asking Trump to listen to "dissenting voices" and change his views on climate change.
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Photographers had visited Vatican City, where they spent 29 nights capturing the paintings under the supervision of Vatican Museum Director Antonio Paolucci.
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Vatican City, March 6 (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Friday that a patient in its health services had tested positive for coronavirus.
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He called Mr. Festing to the Vatican and asked for him to step down, a move the Vatican announced the next day.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An Argentine bishop working in a top Vatican financial department is under preliminary investigation for alleged sexual abuse, the Vatican said on Friday, in what could become another setback for Pope Francis over sex scandals pervading the Church.
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Cover: Pope Francis Leads The Celebration Of The Sacrament Of Penance at St. Peter's Basilica on March 29, 2019 in Vatican City, Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Thursday rebuked a well-known Italian journalist who quoted Pope Francis as saying hell does not exist.
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The Vatican said the letter was handed over by Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, who heads the Vatican department for promoting human development.
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A Christopher Columbus letter that was stolen from the Vatican Library has been returned thanks to the efforts of U.S. and Vatican investigators.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has closed all of Italy's ancient catacombs normally open to the public because of the country's coronavirus outbreak.
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A Vatican official said at the time that the U.S. move was a "slap in the face" for the pope and the Vatican.
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Furthermore, the rules will cover both children and vulnerable adults, matching Pope Francis' recent reporting requirements for Vatican personnel and Vatican City diplomats.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholic bishops from China will for the first time attend a major Vatican meeting starting this week, the Vatican said on Monday, the first concrete sign of a thaw between the Holy See and Beijing following a landmark agreement.
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VATICAN CITY, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Pope Francis has summoned the heads of national Catholic bishops conferences from around the world to the Vatican in February for a meeting to discuss the protection of minors from sexual abuse, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
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Tuesday's developments followed an exclusive report by Reuters in November, 2015 about a Vatican investigation into Nattino's accounts at the Vatican bank, known as the Institute for Works of Religion, and at APSA, an office that oversees Vatican real estate and investments. reut.
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has recalled a high-ranking priest working as a diplomat in the Holy See's embassy in Washington after American authorities sought to strip his immunity and potentially charge him with possession of child pornography, the Vatican said Friday.
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Vatican City (CNN)Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders met with Pope Francis on Saturday during his visit to the Vatican, the senator told CNN.
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But Francis has been known to flout Vatican protocol, and the meeting with Sanders was evidence that his personal desires often trump Vatican diplomacy.
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Vatican officials said the service had the heaviest security checks ever for a public event at Vatican City because of threats against the pontiff.
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Francis has also received a request to pardon seven state-authorized Chinese bishops whom the Vatican considered illegitimate, according to the senior Vatican official.
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The Vatican has come under fire for its role in McCarrick's tenure in the church after a 2006 letter from a top Vatican official came to light in September, revealing that the Vatican was aware of allegations of sexual misconduct against the former Cardinal.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican newspaper on Friday branded U.S. President Donald Trump's reported comments about African countries and Haiti as "particularly harsh and offensive".
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VATICAN CITY – A Vatican court has indicted on child pornography possession charges a diplomat recalled from Washington last year amid ongoing investigations in three jurisdictions.
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Pope Francis signed new legislation on Friday intended to protect children from sexual abuse in the Vatican, Vatican City and around the world, Reuters reports.
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Vatican police have arrested a topless Femen protester who attempted to steal a statue of baby Jesus from a Vatican Nativity scene on Christmas Day.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is expected to visit the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during his visit to Poland in July, the Vatican said.
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In 2011, Dublin stunned the Vatican by closing its embassy to the Vatican, bringing relations between the once ironclad allies to an all-time low.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has authorized an investigation into possible financial irregularities in the world-renowned Sistine Chapel Choir, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
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Vatican protest Well, you don't see this everyday: a topless protester at the Vatican, trying to steal a baby Jesus doll from a nativity scene.
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Sanders was invited to speak at the Vatican event by the Vatican, a senior papal official said, denying a report that Sanders had invited himself.
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The Vatican drew criticism for protecting its own by whisking the priest away, but said he would face investigation and perhaps trial in Vatican City.
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VATICAN CITY, March 3 (Reuters) - Pope Francis only has a cold and is "without any symptoms related to other pathologies," the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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He will serve his sentence inside the Vatican prison, at the Vatican police barracks where he has been held since his arrest on April 7.
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Carlo Alberto Capella was arrested by the Vatican police on a warrant issued by the Holy See's chief magistrate, the Vatican said in a statement.
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VATICAN CITY, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The Vatican has closed all of Italy's ancient catacombs normally open to the public because of the country's coronavirus outbreak.
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The Pope will meet the presidents of the Catholic bishops conferences from around the world in the Vatican from February 21-24, the Vatican said.
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Capella, a high-ranking priest in the Vatican&aposs diplomatic corps, was the subject of investigations by the Vatican and in the United States and Canada.
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Vatican sources said the Secretariat of State, the top department in the Vatican bureaucracy, sent letters last week to all departments informing them of the suspension.
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The big picture: Previous lawsuits against the Vatican have failed because the Vatican is covered by immunity as a sovereign state, per the Catholic newspaper Crux.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Workers have discovered human bones at the Holy See Embassy to Italy and police are investigating the matter, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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Pope Francis called last year for the Vatican to create a tribunal on judging bishops accused of negligence, but the Vatican has yet to do so.
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In order to facilitate it, the Vatican-recognised bishop Guo was being asked to become an auxiliary to the government-appointed Zhan, the Vatican source said.
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The Vatican has stressed the deal is strictly about the appointment of bishops and has nothing to do with Taiwan, which the Vatican still recognizes diplomatically.
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In the interview, Francis said a Vatican court was now judging the bishop and he sought to explain why he brought Bishop Zanchetta to the Vatican.
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Vatican: The leaders of a Vatican women's magazine have quit, saying that a hierarchy dominated by men was marginalizing them and did not value their work.
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In 2009, he was installed by Pope Benedict XVI as secretary of the governorate of Vatican City State, a position similar to mayor of Vatican City.
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The Vatican said the meeting, called "Reinventing the Global Educational Alliance," will take place on May 14 at the Vatican and be preceded by thematic conferences.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Thursday denied a German magazine report that former Pope Benedict was suffering from a paralyzing disease of the nervous system.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will travel to Egypt next month, the Vatican said Saturday, giving him another opportunity to promote better relations between Catholics and Muslims.
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VATICAN CITY — Less than 10 days after Vatican officials said they found no evidence that the daughter of an employee who disappeared 19803 years ago had been buried in a cemetery inside Vatican City, a new foray there unearthed two ossuaries Saturday that contained unidentified human bones.
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VATICAN CITY — Less than 10 days after Vatican officials said they found no evidence that the daughter of an employee who disappeared 19803 years ago had been buried in a cemetery inside Vatican City, a new foray there unearthed two ossuaries Saturday that contained unidentified human bones.
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Image 2 of 2 VATICAN CITY – The Latest on the Vatican&aposs response to a clergy sex abuse scandal in Chile (all times local): 8:00 p.m.
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Then the pontiff radically changed his view after he invited to the Vatican abuse survivors, including one who had lobbied the Vatican for years to take action.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will meet victims of the dictatorship of the late Augusto Pinochet when he visits Chile next week, the Vatican said on Thursday.
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Only a handful of women hold senior positions in the Vatican hierarchy, including Barbara Jatta, who last year became the first woman to head the Vatican Museums.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will visit the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau during a visit to Poland on July 29, the Vatican said on Thursday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Human rights lawyers and gay rights advocates urged the Vatican on Friday to issue a clear and unequivocal statement against the criminalization of homosexuality.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Guam archbishop accused of sexually abusing minors in the 1970s was found guilty by a Vatican tribunal on Friday, the Holy See said.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Tuesday signaled its concern over the results of Italy's national election, which saw sharp gains for populist and anti-immigrant parties.
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The Vatican commissioned 10 chapels that can be dismantled for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, marking the first time the Vatican has ever participated in the exhibition.
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A letter from the Vatican&aposs doctrine office was published by the L&aposEspresso blog and confirmed Tuesday in a report on the Vatican&aposs news portal.
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The Vatican had by then already received an official request from the Chinese to recognize the seven state-authorized Chinese bishops whom the Vatican had considered illegitimate.
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VATICAN CITY, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pope Francis, who the Vatican says is still "slightly unwell," has postponed all official audiences for Friday but is working from home.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Pope Francis for "very substantive" talks on Thursday, a day before Ukraine's Catholic leaders were due at the Vatican.
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Photo: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images2014: A 4K camera and a 3D camera are set on the St. Peter's colonnade as the CTV (Vatican Television) is preparing for a 4K and 3D coverage of the Canonisation of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII in Vatican City, Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who has used his absolute authority in the Vatican to decentralize power from Rome, made a widespread change Saturday to the ways, and words, in which Roman Catholics worship by amending Vatican law to give national bishop conferences greater authority in translating liturgical language.
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But thousands of children pass through the Vatican walls every day, touring the Vatican Museums, attending papal audiences and Masses and visiting St. Peter&aposs Square and basilica.
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Since then, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has refused to submit the local Catholic Church to Vatican authority, and the Vatican has refused to recognise the PRC.
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Vatican personnel and Vatican City diplomats must now immediately report allegations of sexual abuse to authorities "without delay," thanks a new law issued by Pope Francis on Friday.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will elevate to sainthood martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero alongside Pope Paul VI in a ceremony on Oct. 14.
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In June, the Vatican's first auditor general resigned, and last week, the Vatican bank's deputy director general was fired under circumstances that the Vatican has not made clear.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Friday made it compulsory in law to report the sexual abuse of children within the Vatican and in its diplomatic missions worldwide.
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Israel has previously called the Vatican accord a hasty move that could damage prospects for advancing a peace agreement and impact its future diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis says he is at peace with himself and not taking "tranquilising pills" while dealing with corruption in the Vatican and clergy sexual abuse.
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" Trump on Democrats saying the wall is immoral: "Well then you got to do something about the Vatican, because the Vatican has the biggest wall of them all.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will visit Chile and Peru in January, the Vatican said on Monday, the latest in a series of trips to his home continent.
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Which just happened, by the way: The Vatican recalled Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella to Vatican City and sentenced him, at the end of June, to five years imprisonment.
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The Vatican, which is a sovereign state, and Myanmar established full diplomatic relations in May when its de facto civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, visited the Vatican.
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Vatican City reported its first coronavirus case on Friday, and the Vatican dispelled reports that Pope Francis had been tested for coronavirus, saying he only had a cold.
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After the Second Vatican Council, in the early 1960s, Pope Paul VI created the Synod of Bishops, an assembly to promote better dialogue among clerics and the Vatican.
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Francis recently replaced the editor of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano and named a new director of editorial content for all Vatican media, the Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli.
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The Vatican also declared that St. Peter's Basilica (seen below) will be closed to tourists until April 3 — when the lockdown is scheduled to be lifted (Vatican News).
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Vatican City (CNN)Pope Francis rebukes narrow-minded Catholics and warns the world about the devil in a new document about modern holiness unveiled Monday by the Vatican.
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She dubbed the Vatican "a nest of devils," calling for the creation of an "alternative church'," and lamenting that "Christ is being murdered by liars" in the Vatican.
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The Vatican has offered a place to stay to a homeless woman who gave birth on a piece of cardboard near St. Peter's Square in Vatican City early Wednesday.
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The McDonald's opened Friday in a Vatican-owned building in the Pio Borgo district of Rome, about 100 yards from the Vatican State, the Catholic Press Agency reported Sunday.
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A Vatican exorcist, Gabriele Amorth, once alleged that he had discovered during his exorcism work that she had been seized by Vatican insiders and used as a sex slave.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has sent 100,000 euros ($106,090) to the poor in the ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo, a Vatican spokeswoman said in a statement on Friday.
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Dominican Republic, 2014 Jozef Wesolowski, a former Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic was found guilty of sexual abuse of minors by a Vatican tribunal and defrocked in 2014.
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This is a concern to Taiwan, because a Beijing-Vatican official diplomatic rapprochement would require the Vatican to drop official diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favor of the PRC.
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A 2006 letter from a top Vatican official to a New York priest reveals that the Vatican had knowledge of allegations of sexual misconduct against then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
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Pope Paul VI appointed him prelate di anticamera, an advisory position under the chief chamberlain of the Vatican, and expert to the Second Vatican Council, after Pope John's death.
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VATICAN CITY — A Vatican court on Thursday found two former members of a papal oversight commission guilty of having conspired to leak confidential information and documents to the press.
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The Vatican statement said Capella, who was recalled from the Vatican embassy in Washington last August, was arrested according to articles of a 2013 law signed by Pope Francis.
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He then explained that there had been an electrical power problem in the Vatican and that he had been stuck in the elevator until freed by Vatican fire officers.
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One Vatican source with knowledge of the Vatican proceedings said it would be stunning if the pope did not dismiss McCarrick from the clergy, a process known as "laicization".
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VATICAN CITY, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Monday that Rene Bruelhart, the head of its financial regulator, would be leaving, and Bruelhart told Reuters he had resigned.
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Carlo Alberto Capella, a former Vatican diplomat in Washington, was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison by a Vatican tribunal for possessing and distributing child pornography.
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"It is fortuitous that their miracles were approved the same day," said Andrea Tornielli, who covers the Vatican for the Italian daily La Stampa and its website, Vatican Insider.
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He then explained that there had been a electrical power problem in the Vatican and that he had been stuck in the elevator until freed by Vatican fire officers.
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Friedkin used a hand-held camera to film an interview with Father Amorth, the chief Vatican exorcist, who worried that "Satan rules the world" and was in the Vatican.
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The Vatican said the Holy See's chief prosecutor, the promoter of justice of the Vatican Tribunal, had begun investigating and was engaged in an "international collaboration" to obtain evidence.
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"I think maybe he was getting bad advice" from Cardinal Burke, said one senior Vatican official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak by the Vatican.
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The sourcing of much of "In the Closet of the Vatican" is vague, and other Vatican experts told me that the 80 percent figure is neither knowable nor credible.
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Cover image: Pope Francis celebrates the Holy Mass on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, in St. Peter's Basilica on February 02, 2019 in Vatican City, Vatican.
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Today, the public can freely enter some parts of Vatican City, including St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Square and the Vatican Museum (which charges for the price of a ticket).
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is drafting guidelines to help Catholic dioceses find appropriate ways to decommission unneeded churches so they don&apost end up as discos, gymnasiums or gelato shops.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Wednesday acknowledged the Australian court decision to uphold Cardinal George Pell's conviction on sexual abuse but said he has a right to another appeal.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican and China will exchange paintings, vases and sculptures in a bid to mend often strained ties through "the diplomacy of art", officials said on Tuesday.
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Following an anonymous tip-off, the Vatican earlier this month opened two tombs to see if the body of Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican clerk, was hidden there.
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"When they say the wall is immoral, well then you better … got to do something about the Vatican, because the Vatican has the biggest wall of them all," he said.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will seriously consider the possibility of an unprecedented visit to North Korea but some conditions will have to be met, a senior Vatican official said.
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The statement comes a month after a 2006 letter from a top Vatican official came to light, revealing that the Vatican was aware of allegations of sexual misconduct against McCarrick.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will visit Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in September in the first papal visit to the Baltic states in 25 years, the Vatican said on Friday.
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Washington has had full diplomatic relations with the Vatican since 1984, when President Ronald Reagan saw the Vatican under Pope John Paul, a Pole, as a crucial ally against communism.
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The McCarrick ruling was announced ahead of next week's meeting at the Vatican between the heads of national Catholic Churches and Vatican officials, including Scicluna, on the global abuse crisis.
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She told the official Vatican website Vatican News that her appointment was "unprecedented" though "the responsibility is connected to the job, rather than to the fact of being a woman".
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis' trip to Egypt this month is expected to go ahead despite twin attacks on Christian churches that killed 44 people, Vatican officials said on Monday.
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In a statement, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke also said the Catholic Church "must learn hard lessons from its past", and that the Vatican vowed to hold abusers and enablers accountable.
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He has a monthly column in the Catholic magazine, The Tablet, writes regularly for the Vatican house organ, the Osservatore Romano, and manages the Vatican Observatory's blog The Catholic Astronomer.
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Before the pope's public remarks to the faithful at the Vatican on Wednesday, he met privately with a group of Palestinians participating in interfaith dialogue with officials at the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will make a trip to Egypt next month, the Vatican said on Saturday, giving the pontiff another opportunity to promote better relations between Catholics and Muslims.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of two more Chilean bishops, the Vatican said on Friday, in his latest move to confront a widening worldwide sexual abuse scandal.
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The Vatican Museums, which are part of the State of Vatican City, are headed by Barbara Jatta, the first woman to hold the high-profile post which oversees nearly 1,000 employees.
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Later that month, a former Vatican official accused Pope Francis of knowingly reversing Vatican sanctions against McCarrick placed by Francis's predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, despite knowing of McCarrick's conduct with adults.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican investigator sent to take testimony from Chilean sex abuse victims says the Holy See is "making history" with Pope Francis&apos emergency summit of the Chilean hierarchy.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Domenico Giani, the Vatican's longtime security chief and Pope Francis' main bodyguard, resigned on Monday over leaks related to an investigation into alleged financial wrongdoing in the Vatican.
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He told Vatican Insider that he drives ten or 11 homeless people residing near Vatican City to a beach around 20 miles away, where they are able to swim and sunbathe.
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Last October, a Vatican court convicted the former president of a Vatican-owned hospital of abuse of office for diverting nearly half a million dollars of funds to renovate Bertone's apartment.
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The Vatican, which is home to the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums as well as the pope, is a must-see — but a lot of people think so.
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"There is corruption in the Vatican but I am at peace," he told leaders of religious orders he met last November in the Vatican, according to a transcript published on Thursday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the Holy See's ambassador to France, who has been accused of sexual molestation, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has voiced optimism for improved ties between the Vatican and China, rejecting criticism that the Holy See may be selling out Catholics to Beijing's communist government.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - It might be called Cappuccino Catholicism.
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Rome appreciates that if he refused to bow to Vatican orders, it would show the Chinese government that Rome does not fully control the underground Catholics, according to Vatican and Church officials.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican is willing to offer technical restoration know-how to help rebuild and restore the devastated cathedral of Notre-Dame, the Holy's See's culture minister said on Tuesday.
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While DiNardo blamed the Vatican, the letter from Ouellet suggests that the Vatican thought DiNardo had tried to pull a fast one by intentionally withholding legally problematic texts until the last minute.
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According to a Vatican source (Vatican justice is not exactly transparent), one of the trials concerns the renovation of a penthouse apartment for Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, formerly the Vatican's most senior official.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Environmentalists and aid agencies urged executives of the world's top oil companies attending a Vatican conference on climate change on Friday to heed Pope Francis's warnings about global warming.
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Senior Vatican sources have said Francis is willing to meet Xi and that intermediaries had made overtures to the Vatican, but the Chinese side had not yet formally asked for a meeting.
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Gabriel Quicke, a Vatican official who works to promote unity with other Christian churches, said relations with the Armenian Apostolic Church have been strong since the Second Vatican Council 50 years ago.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged China's leaders on Wednesday to move ahead with "trust, courage and farsightedness" after Beijing and the Vatican struck a landmark agreement on the appointment of bishops.
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But the law did not make clear whether Vatican diplomats working in embassies abroad should report to the local authorizes there, and the Vatican did not respond to a request for clarification.
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The last time this many Vatican garments made their way across the ocean, in 1983 for "The Vatican Collections," the exhibition became the third-most-visited in museum history, with 896,743 attendees.
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VATICAN CITY — With pews emptying and clouds of scandal hanging over the church, the Vatican on Wednesday opened a three-week assembly to discuss how to bring young people into the fold.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican court on Thursday cleared two Italian journalists who had been charged with publishing leaked documents that claimed the headquarters of the Catholic Church was riddled with graft.
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The Vatican statement called for a negotiated solution following the same guidelines the Vatican set out last year when it brokered talks between the government and the opposition which later broke down.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has removed from his group of close advisers two cardinals hit by sexual abuse scandals, including his economy minister, Australian George Pell, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
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"I'm taking it and it does me good," he told the pontiff during a brief encounter prior to the Vatican City meeting on economic and social issues, a sort of Vatican think tank.
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Vatican sources say it still has not been decided if the Vatican will issue a detailed institutional response to Vigano's accusations, which they say have caused consternation among many members of the faithful.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican newspaper has criticized French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for depicting God as a Kalashnikov-carrying killer, saying it was "woeful" and disrespectful to true believers of all faiths.
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VATICAN CITY, May 12 (Reuters) - A drive to tighten financial governance at the Vatican bank after years of alleged wrongdoing has made it "impossible to launder money" there, its chairman said on Thursday.
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Rome Where: Vatican City When: May 24Key religious moment: Meeting Pope Francis When Trump visits the Vatican Wednesday, it will be the most highly anticipated meeting between Pope and President in recent memory.
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In 2014, Milano froze millions of euros in bank accounts owned by two former Vatican bank managers and a lawyer as part of an investigation into the sale of Vatican-owned real estate.
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Portera is working on behalf of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican citizen who vanished at age 15 after she left her family's Vatican City apartment for a music lesson in Rome.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican takeover of an elite Catholic society in Peru whose founder is accused of sexually and physically abusing children and former members of the group.
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From rural Australia to the Vatican Pell's ascent was a source of pride for many Catholic Australians, as he quickly rose from a rural parish priest to the highest offices of the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Pope Francis was upset to hear that two former nuns had married in a civil ceremony in Italy, Vatican Deputy Secretary of State Archbishop Angelo Becciu said Friday.
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But Vatican officials pointed out that McCarrick continued to lead a public life even during Benedict's papacy while he was supposedly under sanctions, traveling many times to the Vatican and meeting Benedict himself.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg brought her campaign to the Vatican on Wednesday and met Pope Francis, who sees eye-to-eye with her on the dangers of climate change.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Disgraced former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick is almost certain to be defrocked in the next few weeks over allegations against him, including sexual abuse of minors, two Vatican sources said.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican asked China's communist government on Friday to stop intimidating Catholic clergy who want to remain unequivocally loyal to the pope and refuse to sign ambiguous official registration forms.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance in four days following what the Vatican has called a "slight indisposition" that forced him to cancel some audiences and activities.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance in four days following what the Vatican has called a "slight indisposition" that forced him to cancel some audiences and activities.
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"The Vatican can't be seen as selling out people who have suffered and gone to jail for their faith," said a Vatican official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the secretive talks.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, in its first response to a damning report by a U.S. grand jury on sexual abuse of children by priests in Pennsylvania, on Thursday expressed "shame and sorrow".
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VATICAN CITY — The Roman Catholic Church will allow priests throughout the world to grant absolution for abortion, the Vatican said on Monday, making permanent a policy that Pope Francis announced a year ago.
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The New York Times reports that the last time a cardinal resigned was in 163, over political disagreements with the Vatican, suggesting that the Vatican is taking the allegations of McCarrick's abuse seriously.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Vatican said on Saturday.
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But while Liberty Counsel later produced pictures of Davis and her husband in the Vatican Embassy, neither the group nor the Vatican ever released pictures of a private meeting between Davis and Francis.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Pope Francis next month, the Vatican said on Thursday, an encounter that could help pave the way for an historic papal trip to Russia.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will travel to Cuba on Feb.
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Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said at a news conference.
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Let it be, that they invade the Vatican City next.
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Barbara Jatta was appointed the Vatican Museums' first female director.
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"We don't expect any support from the Vatican," Zebari said.
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The Vatican and Russia only established diplomatic ties in 2009.
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Are there any listings that seem political, besides the Vatican?
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Grab your cassocks, because we're going back to the Vatican.
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A small group of demonstrators gathered outside a Vatican gate.
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The Vatican had no comment on the situation in India.
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Many other countries, including Israel, have embassies in Vatican City.
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You've heard of Southern hospitality, but what about Vatican hospitality?
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Talks brokered by the Vatican failed to reach any agreement.
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The Vatican has not provided further comment on McCarrick's case.
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The Vatican has diplomatic relations with both Ukraine and Russia.
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When Francis expects resistance from Vatican diehards, he sidesteps it.
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He also has stops planned in Israel and the Vatican.
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Marine Le Pen reacted with delight, the Vatican with dismay.
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The Vatican condemned what it said was a "barbarous killing".
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"What they (Vatican negotiators) are doing is unfaithful," Zen said.
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North Korea and the Vatican have no formal diplomatic relations.
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For the Vatican, dealmaking with China will be fraught indeed.
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Hollande made an official visit to the Vatican in 2014.
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Even the Vatican has gotten involved in the Venezuela crisis.
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Both travel with the pope when he leaves the Vatican.
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He also is expected to visit Israel and the Vatican.
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The Vatican said he received ice treatment and was fine.
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Trump will also stop at the Vatican later this week.
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At the Vatican, though, Trump insisted his mind was open.
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In October, Vatican Radio described "Spotlight" as "honest" and "compelling."
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There are other clues: He smokes moodily in the Vatican.
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Pope 'loves China', Vatican official says on trip to China
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The socks are from the Vatican store in Rome: Gammarelli.
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Only 19 countries, along with the Vatican, officially recognize Taiwan.
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The Vatican is facilitating talks with the opposition on Sunday.
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All walled cities, including the Vatican, had a similar purpose.
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The Vatican only has diplomatic ties with Taiwan, China's rival.
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Dolan notified the Vatican and then initiated an internal investigation.
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News of the search struck a chord in the Vatican.
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The Vatican initially declined to rule, but then changed course.
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"The ball is on their side," another Vatican source added.
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"The ball is on their side," said another Vatican source.
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I mean, they sang at a Vatican Christmas carol concert.
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The Vatican and Israel established full diplomatic relations in 1994.
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A Vatican official declined to speculate on the pope's response.
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A source in the Vatican confirmed the report was genuine.
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The others are Malta, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Vatican City.
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The Vatican tribunal to try bishops was never set up.
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" The Vatican, he added, understood "that we were well intentioned.
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Under the deal, the Vatican would make two key concessions.
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The response from the Vatican, however, has been somewhat muted.
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The names of candidates will be sent to the Vatican.
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The Vatican has been staging cultural exchanges with Chinese museums.
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The Vatican announced Archbishop Gregory's appointment in its daily bulletin.
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The Vatican did not respond to a request for comment.
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They are incensed that the Vatican has invited the Rev.
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A Vatican spokeswoman said the envoy who was sentenced, Msgr.
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A cafeteria inside the Vatican for employees would also close.
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The Vatican, including Pope Francis, has also not done enough.
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VATICAN CITY — Two modern-day American suffragists had a plan.
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The Vatican had no immediate comment on the Spiegel report.
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The Vatican gave no details on who would be invited.
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The others will take place in Italy and the Vatican.
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Following the pope's lead, the Vatican has gone on lockdown.
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The American bishops, too, sought concrete measures from the Vatican.
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At least one priest warned the Vatican against the appointment.
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VATICAN CITY — Archbishop Georg Gänswein said yes to the dress.
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Two top Vatican officials are also to be elevated: Msgr.
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Joseph gifting it to him in Vatican City on Thursday.
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And he then met with Pope Francis in the Vatican.
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A Vatican official identifies it as the converted Harrods depository.
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Yet it has never been incorporated into the Vatican constitution.
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The Vatican talk will probably be about refugees and immigration.
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The cardinal is a member of several powerful Vatican offices.
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I was a student when I went to the Vatican.
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It was sent to the Vatican in the 7th century.
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A Vatican spokesman later said Francis was concerned about hygiene.
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The Vatican said it would review security procedures after that.
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Vatican officials said the pope completed the Exhortation on Dec.
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At the Vatican, Mr. Trump will meet with Pope Francis.
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Both of those steps would take approval from the Vatican.
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The Vatican had urged him to stay in the accord.
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It's like the dark web, but it's -- it's the Vatican.
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The Vatican announced that Pope Francis has accepted Malone's resignation.
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The Vatican declined to comment on the grand jury's findings.
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The Vatican has not directly responded to Lopez Obrador's request.
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Radios (albeit older ones) and iPads appear throughout the Vatican.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger met with Pope Francis Wednesday at the Vatican.
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A preliminary Vatican investigation found the allegation to be credible.
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And we happen to have diplomatic relations with [the Vatican].
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Saturday's announcement comes at a strange time for the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is calling for courageous proposals to cope with a shortage of priests in the Amazon, and says Catholic leaders must also identify new "official ministries" for women in the region.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An unholy war of words has broken out among Vatican and Catholic officials over the Holy See's rapprochement with Communist China, with cardinals, archbishops and priests caught in an undiplomatic crossfire.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican team of investigators that uncovered wide-scale priestly sexual abuse and cover-up in Chile is going back to the country on a pastoral mission to the diocese of Osorno.
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He said he had become bishop without the mandate of either the Chinese authorities or the Vatican, and he has so far refused to clarify the circumstances of his ordination, even to the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has approved new statutes for the Vatican Bank, making an external audit obligatory and introducing other changes to bolster reforms that have turned around the once scandal-ridden institution.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis renewed a commission on clergy sexual abuse on Saturday, confirming a U.S. cardinal as its head, as the Vatican promised to give victims a greater say in its work.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican magazine denounced widespread exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labor in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, saying the male hierarchy should stop treating them like lowly servants.
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VATICAN CITY – The United States is returning to the Vatican Library a letter written by Christopher Columbus in 1493 announcing his discovery of the New World that was stolen and replaced with a forgery.
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VATICAN CITY/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A top adviser to Pope Francis was charged with multiple historical sex crimes in his native Australia on Thursday, bringing a worldwide abuse scandal to the heart of the Vatican.
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The senator told supporters he was looking forward to his coming trip Vatican City, where he is attending a conference hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a scholarly association in Vatican City.
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Saturday's Vatican statement appeared to be a partial response to the U.S. bishops' request for an investigation as well as to Vigano's demands that the Vatican release documents in its archives related to McCarrick.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican demanded on Tuesday that the leaders of the Knights of Malta, a worldwide Catholic chivalric and charity group, cooperate with an inquiry into alleged irregularities ordered by Pope Francis.
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And he stayed behind in Florence, whereas in 1508 Raphael went to Rome to the Vatican to paint highly innovative frescoes, and Michelangelo was called to the Vatican, too, to paint the Sistine Chapel.
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When visiting the Vatican Gardens of Vatican City, you'll come across a slab of the Berlin Wall that was allegedly won by former Ferrari motor sport director Marco Piccinini during an auction in 1990.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The first visit by a pope to the Arabian peninsula will take place in February when Francis travels to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Vatican said on Thursday.
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VATICAN CITY — A Vatican official has been acquitted by a Holy See tribunal of charges leveled by a former nun that he had solicited sex from her a decade ago while hearing her confession.
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It has pursued diplomacy toward Roman Catholics, forging a deal with the Vatican that would have Rome recognize government-appointed bishops in exchange for the Vatican gaining some say in how they are appointed.
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Instead, the Vatican Museums have advised on an immersive multimedia show (with a soundtrack by Sting) is to open in March in an auditorium near the Vatican, illustrating the story of the Sistine Chapel.
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"I know that already," the pope interrupted, according to a high-ranking Vatican official familiar with the details of the conversation, who asked that his name not be used while discussing internal Vatican deliberations.
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The Hill's 12:30 Report: Pompeo, Barr drawn into Ukraine web Gorka travels with Pompeo on trip to Vatican MORE is traveling with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his trip to the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis came to power promising not only to create a more inclusive church and to clean up an ossified Vatican bureaucracy, but also to remove the stain of child sex abuse.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis named Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle on Sunday to a major global Vatican post in a move likely to increase the Filipino's chances of one day being elected pope himself.
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And this week, a sensational book titled "Sodoma" in Europe ("In the Closet of the Vatican" in the United States) is being released that claims to expose a vast gay subculture at the Vatican.
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A touring show that originated in New York and later made stops in Chicago and San Francisco, "The Vatican Collections" featured more than 200 works of art borrowed from the Vatican Museum in Rome.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican is opening its own investigation into accusations against Cardinal George Pell, who was found guilty of sexual abuse of minors in his native Australia, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Reforming the IOR and other Vatican departments that deal with Church finances has been one of the most sensitive issues facing the pope as he seeks to overhaul the complex Vatican administration called the Curia.
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Because secular media and photographers are often barred from Vatican events (or invited in a limited capacity), it often relies on images coming directly from the Vatican itself, a trust that has now been broken.
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Although the Vatican did not elaborate on how it would crack down, the warning seemed a pre-emptive move to explain why the Vatican is going after the unauthorized commercial uses of the pope's image.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Reports of suspicious financial activity in the Vatican reached a six-year low in 2018, an internal watchdog report showed on Tuesday, continuing a trend officials said showed reforms were fully embedded.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A top Vatican official on Sunday issued a scathing open letter accusing an archbishop who launched an unprecedented attack on Pope Francis of mounting a "political frame job devoid of real foundation".
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will host the divided leaders of South Sudan at the Vatican next week to help them solidify a faltering peace agreement ending the civil war in the world's youngest country.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is sending his two top sexual abuse investigators back to Chile to gather more information about the crisis that has hit the Catholic Church there, the Vatican said on Thursday.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is denying it is protecting the founder of a Peru-based conservative Catholic community who is accused of sexual and psychological abuse against minors and is being sought by Peruvian prosecutors.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Forensic experts extracted bones from two ossuaries within the walls of the Vatican on Saturday as part of an investigation aimed at resolving the case of a girl who vanished in 1983.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A top Vatican official says China's government should not fear "distrust or hostility" from the Roman Catholic Church, writing amid speculation over whether President Xi Jinping will meet Pope Francis this week.
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VATICAN CITY, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Vatican newspaper has criticised French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for depicting God as a Kalashnikov-carrying killer, saying it was "woeful" and disrespectful to true believers of all faiths.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Two former senior managers of the Vatican bank have been found liable for mismanagement and ordered to pay damages by the city state's court, the bank said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Friday it was paying close attention to the developments and exchanges between China and the Vatican, adding that Taiwan and the Vatican had long been friends and had "firm" relations.
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The Swiss Guards and Vatican gendarmes stood by Wednesday and gamely let 6-year-old Wenzel Wirth run around Francis as monsignors read out his catechism lesson in various languages in the Vatican audience hall.
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"Putin represents a medieval, pre-enlightenment Christianity or at least pre-Vatican II view of Christianity," said Mr. Introvigne, referring to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which brought modern reforms into the church.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Thursday the search for peace between Israelis and Palestinians had been put at risk after the United States backed Israel's building of settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told Vatican Radio the pope's comments, in response to a reporter's question on Trump, were an affirmation of his longstanding belief that migrants should be helped and not shut out.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican called on Friday for Venezuela's government to suspend its new legislative superbody and made a direct appeal to the security forces to avoid excessive force in dealing with opposition protests.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican court on Thursday cleared two Italian journalists charged with publishing leaked documents that claimed the Church was riddled with graft, ruling that the Holy See had no jurisdiction over them.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis regularly meets with victims of sexual abuse, the Vatican said on Thursday, a disclosure that follows intense criticism of his defense of a Chilean bishop accused of covering up abuse.
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"The pope said what we well know, when we follow his teaching and his positions: that one mustn't build walls, but bridges," a Vatican spokesperson said on Vatican Radio on Friday, according to NBC News.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Microsoft President Brad Smith met Pope Francis on Wednesday to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence and ways to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations, the Vatican said.
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The decree also allows victims or their representatives to report alleged abuses by bishops directly to the Vatican or a Vatican ambassador, bypassing diocesan procedures that have been discredited by multiple instances of cover-ups.
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Viganò says the allegations were an open secret within the Vatican.
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When you're in the Vatican but still thinking about the orb.
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And just like the Vatican, he&aposs famous for his mass.
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A Vatican spokesman had no comment on the situation in India.
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The case was dismissed and the Vatican has denied the claims.
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Francis may pay tribute to her, according to a Vatican source.
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The Vatican already has a verified Instagram with about 78,900 followers.
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The Vatican has invited scrutiny by Moneyval, an international financial watchdog.
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The funniest place that happened was outside the Vatican in Rome.
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Viquez and the Vatican could not immediately be reached for comment.
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It felt comparable to Catholics going to the Vatican for mass.
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Callista Gingrich, Trump's pick to be US ambassador to the Vatican.
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Both the opposition and Maduro's party respect the Vatican, he said.
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The founder wins powerful friends and prestigious honours at the Vatican.
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The Vatican said Vigano's accusations were riddled with "calumny and defamation".
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The statement added that the Vatican would care for those families.
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Relations between the Vatican and Beijing have been strained for decades.
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On Friday, the Vatican said Francis had accepted Pineda&aposs resignation.
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Shapiro first made the allegations against the Vatican during an Aug.
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Yes, the Vatican does have walls, and some are quite large.
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It also participated in a recent hackathon hosted by the Vatican.
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The Vatican had no comment on the new accusations by Vigano.
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The scandals have reached the upper echelons of the Vatican itself.
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While in Italy, Pruitt made stops in Rome and the Vatican.
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Witness Trump's visit on Wednesday with Pope Francis in Vatican City.
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Vatican officials with knowledge of the negotiations have rejected Zen's accusations.
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And the Vatican, in turn, has refused to recognize the China.
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The Vatican accepted McCarrick's resignation on Saturday, according to multiple reports.
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A Vatican spokesman said it is not on the pope's schedule.
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Vatican, rumors circulated that Brazil had sent agents to Rome to
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The Vatican launched a smart wearable eRosary this week, Engadget reported.
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In this case: What did the Vatican do with Ciolek's accusation?
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It was presented on Vatican Radio in seven languages, including Albanian.
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They had dressed for the occasion, like tourists at the Vatican.
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Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, the Vatican mentioned
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Op-Ed Contributor MANILA — This is the Philippines, not Vatican City.
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Her credentials do not seem to have impressed the Vatican court.
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Five of the resignations have been accepted, according to the Vatican.
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A former Vatican ambassador urged the Pope himself to step down.
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Even New York Fashion Week and the Vatican have hosted hackathons.
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Building ties with the Vatican requires values including freedom and democracy.
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It was the the first Vatican-imposed sentence of its kind.
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The Vatican did not identify the miracle in the Sheen case.
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Efforts to reach the Vatican by phone and email were unsuccessful.
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MARBLE-FLOORED ROOMS The Vatican has owned the estate since 1596.
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The Vatican has been silent on whether the pope will accept.
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But critics say Vatican action has lagged behind the pope's words.
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He was defrocked and died in the Vatican before facing justice.
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Known as parsimonious, he turned Vatican City's deficit into a surplus.
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The Vatican was at the forefront of astronomical research for centuries.
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It was the Jesuit General Curia in Rome, not the Vatican.
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Paul VI abolished the pontifical court and simplified the Vatican administration.
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Over time, the Vatican approved most of these locally appointed clergy.
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The archbishop has figured in a series of Vatican power struggles.
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Here's the latest: • A power struggle is brewing in the Vatican.
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There was even Vatican gossip that Francis might meet the queen.
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The change signals a shift in Vatican power away from Rome.
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James Lara, was laicized by the Vatican for sexually abusing children.
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The Vatican did not comment on Francis' reaction to the offer.
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A spokesman from the Vatican had no immediate comment, reported Reuters.
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Vatican tradition had called for the pontiff to eat by himself.
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They were looking for "documents and electronic devices", the Vatican said.
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He made her think of a Swiss Guard at the Vatican.
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The Vatican has not specified what the pope is suffering from.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Some saints wear halos, other saints wear helmets.
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The Vatican did not specify what the pope was suffering from.
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The Vatican has not specified what the pope is suffering from.
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The Vatican has said he is suffering from a "slight indisposition".
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It wasn't until 1973 that a Coptic pope visited the Vatican.
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Vatican City (CNN)In the beginning, there were signs and wonder.
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The Vatican ranked 186th out of 195 countries in the survey.
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The Vatican maintains that Pius chose to work behind the scenes.
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"In the Vatican we have already banned plastic," he pointed out.
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Under Vatican law, he has the right to appeal the verdict.
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Mr. Sorrentino said he had long been fascinated with the Vatican.
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The Vatican declined to comment on the report at the time.
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Stick with CNN and our Vatican correspondent, Delia Gallagher, for developments.
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A top Vatican official has confirmed the essay's authenticity to CNN.
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Wuerl recently went to Vatican City to meet with Pope Francis.
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Fernando Karadima, whom the Vatican found guilty of child sex abuse.
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He plans to meet with Vatican officials in Rome this month.
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Clergy must possess a licentiate degree or PhD, the Vatican said.
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So far, only Guyana, Thailand and the Vatican have done so.
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Some Vatican ambassadors have also come under fire for lavish lifestyles.
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The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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From 1962 to 1965, this Second Vatican Council debated Catholicism's future.
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During a meeting with Kagame Monday at the Vatican, the Pope expressed "solidarity with the victims and with those who continue to suffer the consequences of those tragic events," according to a statement from the Vatican.
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Image 2 of 2 VATICAN CITY – South Korean taekwondo athletes have performed for Pope Francis, after a planned show of Korean unity at the Vatican fell apart when the North pulled out at the last minute.
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Forty works from the Vatican will go on show in Beijing's Forbidden City and 40 from China in the Vatican Museums in unprecedented simultaneous exhibitions in March, art chiefs from both countries told a news conference.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday the participation of North Korean athletes in the Olympics raised hopes for reconciliation on the Korean peninsula and that the Vatican was ready to back any peace initiative.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis decried "malevolent" internal resistance to his campaign to reform the Vatican bureaucracy on Thursday and said lay men and women should get top jobs if they are more qualified than clerics.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in a decision affecting Vatican officials and bishops around the world, on Thursday ordered them to lead simple lives and renounce any desire for power after they retire from senior positions.
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Financial organisations had long criticised the Vatican for providing a tax haven for well-connected Italians by allowing them to hold accounts in the Vatican bank, formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR).
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, addressing a Vatican conference on social justice on Friday, decried the "immoral" gap between the world's rich and poor that he said was worse than a century ago.
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The accord, which Vatican sources said could be signed in Beijing as soon as next week, would give the Vatican a say in the naming of bishops and give the pope final veto power over candidates.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican called for more regulation of markets and financial systems on Thursday, saying economic crises showed they were not able to govern themselves and needed a strong injection of morality and ethics.
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The pastoral guidelines drafted for Vatican City are considerably shorter than those drafted by bishops' conferences around the world, given that there are only two parishes in Vatican City and few children residing there, he noted.
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The meeting, which was expected and was held in private at the Vatican Embassy, lasted an hour and half "with eight Irish survivors of clerical, religious and institutional abuse," according to a Vatican spokesman, Greg Burke.
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VATICAN CITY, March 3 (Reuters) - A second international conference that was to have been held with Pope Francis taking part has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak around the world, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Ultra-conservative Catholic militants admitted they stole statues they consider to be Amazon pagan idols from a church near the Vatican on Monday and dumped them from a bridge into the Tiber River.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Vatican officials acknowledged on Friday that bishops in about 10 countries still have no guidelines for dealing with sexual abuse cases, as it unveiled a new "task force" to help them and others.
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VATICAN CITY, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Pope Francis is slightly indisposed and has cancelled an event at a Rome basilica but is carrying out the rest of his schedule in his residence, the Vatican said on Thursday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In a highly unusual move, the Vatican has postponed the beatification of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of U.S. Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and pioneer in religious media.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro told NBC's "Today" show Tuesday that the Vatican knew about the sex abuse allegations in churches across his state, though he did not say when the Vatican learned of the allegations.
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Hours after the hearing, the Vatican said that it would conduct its own investigation of the cardinal, who had been a top adviser to Pope Francis, and that he no longer held a powerful Vatican post.
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VATICAN CITY, March 28 (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday that tests carried out in the residence where Pope Francis lives showed that the 83-year-old pontiff and his closest aides do not have coronavirus.
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Central to their disagreements were their perceptions of the effects of Vatican II (formally known as the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965), which explored if and how the church should adapt to a changing world.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Callista Gingrich, wife of the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, on Friday became U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, which is at odds with Washington over immigration, climate change and Jerusalem.
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Image 2 of 2 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis and French President Emmanuel Macron held talks Tuesday in a private meeting that went overtime at the Vatican, with sharp European tensions over migrants the backdrop for the encounter.
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VATICAN CITY/CARACAS (Reuters) - Envoys for Venezuela's self-declared caretaker leader Juan Guaido met Vatican officials and lobbied the Italian government for support on Monday in their quest to keep international pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The all-female staff of the Vatican newspaper's monthly magazine on women's issues have resigned abruptly en masse, saying the new editor was trying limit their autonomy and put them "under direct male control".
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis's suggestion that Donald Trump was "not Christian" because of his views on immigration was not a personal attack on the U.S. Republican presidential candidate, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Friday.
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She was free during the trial but the other key defendant, Spanish monsignor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda, who was the number two at a Vatican financial office before his arrest, was held in a Vatican jail cell.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A homeless woman gave birth on a cardboard box just outside St. Peter's Square early on Wednesday in near-freezing temperatures and later received an offer of one year's hospitality in a Vatican institution.
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VATICAN CITY/SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of three Chilean bishops following sex abuse scandals, including Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, the city at the center of the uproar, the Vatican said on Monday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The former president of a Vatican-owned hospital in Rome on Saturday was convicted of abuse of office for diverting nearly half a million dollars of funds to renovate a top cardinal's luxury apartment.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The order of the Knights of Malta has refused to cooperate with a Vatican investigation ordered by Pope Francis, in the latest twist of a public spat between two of the world's oldest institutions.
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Almost since the moment that Mr. Sanders announced last week that he was "delighted to have been invited" to what his campaign called a "high-level meeting" at the Vatican, the visit has prompted typical Vatican politicking.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Tuesday rebuked a senior cardinal who said its diplomats were "selling out" Chinese Catholics loyal to the pope as part of a deal aimed at normalising ties with Beijing's communist government.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Tuesday it had scrapped tentative plans for Pope Francis to make a visit this year to South Sudan, which has been hit by civil war, famine and a refugee crisis.
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The Vatican had eyes and ears in the killing fields: tens of thousands of parish priests who sent letters and reports to their bishops, who in turn forwarded them to the secretary of state in Vatican City.
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"When they say the wall's immoral, well then you got to do something about the Vatican, because the Vatican has the biggest wall of them all," Trump said during remarks at a meeting with his Cabinet members.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Two men who used to run a Vatican-owned children's hospital were put on trial on Tuesday, accused of diverting nearly half a million dollars of funds to renovate a top cardinal's luxury flat.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday its police had arrested a monsignor who worked as a diplomat at its embassy in Washington and is suspected of possessing child pornography in the United States and Canada.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will almost certainly visit Myanmar and Bangladesh, two countries caught up in a crisis over the Rohingya Muslim minority, before the end of the year, a senior Vatican source said on Wednesday.
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Raphael didn't live long enough to see the tapestries in situ, but for one week last month, the Vatican exhibited all ten tapestries in the Sistine Chapel, as part of the Vatican Museums' homage to the artist.
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And as Dacome remarks upon, this earlier collection included Vatican-approved casts of the Apollo of the Belvedere, Venus de' Medici, the Laocoön, and many other classical sculptures from Rome, many from the vast Vatican art collection.
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Mr. Zanardi welcomed, for example, the establishment inside the Vatican of a structure that would provide medical and psychological help to abuse victims, but wondered whether they had to travel to the Vatican to get the support.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, holed up in the Vatican by Italy's coronavirus epidemic, held his first virtual general audience on Wednesday, thanking medical staff but urging the world not to forget the plight of Syrian refugees.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, holed up in the Vatican by Italy's coronavirus epidemic, held his first virtual general audience on Wednesday, thanking medical staff but urging the world not to forget the plight of Syrian refugees.
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VATICAN CITY — A monsignor who had been recalled to the Vatican as a diplomat in the Holy See's Washington Embassy was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of possessing child pornography in the United States and Canada. Msgr.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests at a school for the deaf in Argentina staged a protest at the Vatican on Friday to bring attention to an upcoming trial of more alleged abusers.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A 525-year-old copy of a letter by Christopher Columbus that was stolen from the Vatican was returned on Thursday after joint sleuthing by U.S. Homeland Security agents and Holy See antiquity experts.
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"We are returning it to its rightful owner," said U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Callista Gingrich, at a handover ceremony in a frescoed room of the Vatican Library, which houses tens of thousands of rare, historic items.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will visit Azerbaijan and Georgia in the autumn, the Vatican said on Saturday, one day after combatants in the region agreed to cease fighting that has killed dozens in the past week.
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Shortly after the conference, the Vatican said it would enact a law to protect minors and vulnerable adults within the Vatican City - the tiny enclave surrounded by Rome which is one of the few countries without one.
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But the Russian Orthodox Church has long resisted overtures from the Vatican.
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Perry was in Vatican City during the "United to Cure" international conference.
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However, the Vatican hierarchy may have more pressing concerns at the moment.
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"Vatican itself must take the situation into its hands," Givovich told reporters.
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It was hand delivered to the pontiff at the Vatican in February.
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Capella was a high-ranking priest in the Vatican&aposs diplomatic corps.
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The new restaurant, whose opening in a Vatican-owned building on Dec.
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Vatican culture minister Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi was another victim of the cyberattack.
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China and the Vatican agreed to share responsibility for appointing Chinese bishops.
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The Vatican hopes that persecution of Catholics in China will now ease.
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Vatican officials later appointed him to run a major basilica in Rome.
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READ: Why is Bernie Sanders in Vatican City not New York City?
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The Vatican announced the launch of the "Click to Pray eRosary" Wednesday.
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Pope Francis has said the Vatican could mediate if both sides asked.
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THE Pacific island of Guam is more than 12,000km from Vatican City.
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It is no secret that he has little sympathy with the Vatican.
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She traveled to The Vatican last July to meet with Pope Francis.
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In particular, Moreno highlights the leak of Vatican documents in January 22019.
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A Vatican spokesman said he had no immediate comment on the matter.
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Benedict, as "pope emeritus", moved to a monastery inside the Vatican walls.
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The Vatican helped arrange the rapprochement between Cuba and the United States.
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Venezuela's leftist government and the opposition began talks mediated by the Vatican.
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A Vatican spokesman said the Pope wasn't talking in particular about Trump.
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The Vatican communications department has been working overtime the past few weeks.
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It's a rambling neo-noir taking in sex, drugs, and the Vatican.
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The Vatican strongly opposes executions, which have increased since Rouhani took office.
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Saudi Arabia, Israel, Vatican City, and Belgium are all on the cards.
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As Washington archbishop, McCarrick was a major power broker in Vatican-U.
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It spans over 55 hectres and is larger than the Vatican City.
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"One mustn't judge before justice judges," Francis said, according to Vatican Radio.
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Vatican City is an independent city-state that's actually located in Rome.
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He'll visit the birthplace of Islam, the Jewish homeland and the Vatican.
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Burhans recently traveled to Rome to participate in the Vatican Youth Symposium.
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Vatican diplomatic missions have also been involved in scandals in the past.
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump met with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
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They are scheduled to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on Tuesday.
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He's the second American president to visit the Vatican under Francis' papacy.
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The Vatican said Thursday that four women and eight men took part.
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A Vatican spokeswoman said the meeting would take place Feb. 21-24.
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The absurd nature of Vatican intrigue is matched by Sorrentino's absurd style.
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A diplomat from the Vatican this month cancelled a trip to Venezuela.
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Since then, much has changed both in the Vatican and in China.
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Still, Mr Xi has appeared open to improving relations with the Vatican.
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The Vatican, once again, refused to comment on the Pope's private remarks.
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The pontiff's most unambiguous success has been in handling the Vatican Bank.
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The Vatican denies this and says he was spying on co-workers.
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He is on leave from the Vatican while he contests the claims.
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The Vatican says that the device should be accessible to all ages.
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The idea that the Vatican, with its doctrine of papal infallibility, would
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In Brazil, Vatican II ushered in a new spirit of change and
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McCarrick visited the Vatican with other U.S. bishops, where he attended a
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Among Erdogan's delegation was the Mehmet Pacaci, Turkey's ambassador to the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY — Her accusers call her an ambitious schemer, even a spy.
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But that is no longer the case, the Vatican announced on Thursday.
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That prompted the Vatican to recall its ambassador in Ireland for consultations.
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The members of his church, he said, felt "betrayed by the Vatican".
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The Vatican statement appeared to reject the order's claim of total sovereignty.
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Cruz says Vatican officials assured him his words would not be censored.
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At the cardinal's request, the Vatican began an inquiry into her work.
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Duterte subsequently said he wanted to visit the Vatican to apologize personally.
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The nun in a letter said she wanted the Vatican to intervene.
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The Vatican, which tried to distance the Pope from Davis, was displeased.
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The Vatican has taken steps to root out some offending clergy members.
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The Vatican statement did not explicitly address the accusations by Archbishop Viganò.
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Still, there is some resistance in the Vatican to taking concrete measures.
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The pope instead delivered his message from inside the Vatican and online.
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"The Vatican understood that our work is always celebrating values," he said.
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Mr. Balich first began discussing his idea with the Vatican in 2015.
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Pope Pius XI championed Guglielmo Marconi to establish Vatican Radio in 1931.
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After that, the Vatican named Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin to monitor Sodalitium.
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Their ideal of faith-infused architecture wasn't Vatican City (or Trump Tower).
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Fernando Karadima, whom the Vatican found guilty of sexual abuse in 2011.
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The Vatican will in no way oppose Peruvian efforts to detain Figari.
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His nominee to the Vatican is Callista Gingrich, wife of Newt Gingrich.
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Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said he had no comment on the report.
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If the Vatican agreed, that would be a major victory for China.
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The Vatican accepted limitations to operate under Communist governments such as Vietnam's.
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Many people in Rome have bought cigarettes through acquaintances at the Vatican.
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In Rome, the Vatican confirmed that the pope does not have coronavirus.
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Francis imposed his own sanctions on the cardinal, the Vatican has confirmed.
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He traveled to China and to the Vatican for several church dinners.
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A Vatican spokesman said Father Vergari had never worked at the embassy.
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Archbishop Viganò's initial letter was a remarkable broadside against the Vatican hierarchy.
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Contradictions in Washington, pressure on Russia and fashion inspiration from the Vatican.
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"Vatican Chapels," as the pavilion is called, presents the finished buildings themselves.
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A number of items refer to Vatican-funded investigations to find her.
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Mr. Bolton received authorization from senior Vatican officials to borrow the vestments.
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In fact, the Vatican has rejected the entire notion of transgender people.
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Vatican City, Pope Francis receives U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (1100 GMT).
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President Trump met with an occasionally dour Pope Francis in the Vatican.
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Last time I checked, the Vatican is in the middle of Rome.
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A Vatican spokesman confirmed the meeting would take place on Saturday morning.
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The Vatican has not responded to requests for comments about Vigano's accusations.
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Go deeper: Sexual abuse survivors sue the Vatican over predatory U.S. priests
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Vatican analysts said the church had recognized that its future lay elsewhere.
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It's hard to tell light-hearted stories about the Vatican these days.
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But in accordance with Vatican protocol, they chose to cover their hair.
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A Vatican spokesman has not responded to requests for information from CNN.
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Scalia despised Vatican II and lamented the loss of the Latin Mass.
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Church officials said the Vatican will release an official report in 2020.
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It was unclear whether Malone was forced to resign by the Vatican.
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Only a handful of women hold positions of authority in the Vatican.
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The Vatican says this teaching is an infallible part of Catholic tradition.
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Vatican-led talks between the government and the opposition have broken down.
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They will be held without general public participation from inside the Vatican.
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Outside the Vatican walls, abuse survivors marched and held rolling news conferences.
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"Ravenous wolves," he called them in his speech to the Vatican gathering.
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Italian politicians vie to stay on the good side of the Vatican.
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On Monday, a Vatican spokesman declined to answer when asked if Msgr.
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But Vatican officials say legal and cultural barriers make that virtually impossible.
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More than half have been convicted in court or by the Vatican.
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A Vatican investigation in 2011 found Father Karadima guilty of sexual abuse.
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On Sunday at the Vatican, he will become a Roman Catholic saint.
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Because as far as actions go, the Vatican is still anti-gay.
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The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, put the picture on its front page.
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The Vatican said only that Law had died after a long illness.
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I'm at the Vatican, looking up at another painting of a crucifixion.
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They usually have dual-citizenship, so they can flee to the Vatican.
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By spring, the message was clear: The Vatican would support the cardinal.
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Ukraine remains a difficult issue in relations between the Vatican and Russia.
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This was "a turning point for Francis' papacy" a Vatican official said.
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Read more:Suspicious bones were found in a Vatican building while investigators were digging into the case of a girl who disappeared in 1983Empty tombs at the Vatican add a new twist to the case of a girl missing since 1983The Vatican is opening tombs to search for the remains of Emanuela Orlandi, the teen daughter of a prominent church official who disappeared in 1983Mystery surrounding the disappearance of Italian teen Emanuela Orlandi grows as the age of the bones found at the Vatican embassy fuels wild speculation she was held captive
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden took his crusade against cancer to the Vatican on Friday and heard Pope Francis call for an "economic paradigm shift" where medical research is dictated by need rather than profit.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former pope Benedict made one of his rare public appearances on Tuesday to be feted by his successor Pope Francis, two days after Francis denied reports that Benedict was still exercising influence in the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no-one pressured him to resign but alleges that a "gay lobby" in the Vatican had tried to influence decisions, a leading Italian newspaper reported on Friday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict has acknowledged he was a better professor than a leader, revealing in a new book that he sometimes struggled to take decisions during his time in charge of the scandal-plagued Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal John Henry Newman, one of the most influential and controversial Christian figures of the 19th century and a leading Anglican before converting to Catholicism, will be made a saint, the Vatican said on Monday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican "Lettergate" scandal came to a head on Saturday when the Holy See, under pressure from the media and conservatives, released a full text by former Pope Benedict that before was cited only selectively.
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VATICAN CITY – A group of Chilean church sex abuse victims is making its voice heard as the country&aposs Catholic leadership meets with Pope Francis, demanding that the Vatican recognize crimes, cover-ups and the need for reparation.
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VATICAN CITY – An Italian journalist who was put on trial by the Vatican for divulging confidential documents is coming out with a new book promising to reveal fresh secrets about sex, crimes and money in the Holy See.
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As David Gibson, director of Fordham University's Center for Religion and Culture, told Vox last month, Vatican defenders have traditionally treated clerical sex abuse as an "American phenomenon, or an Anglo phenomenon" — something divorced from the Vatican itself.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican needs to bring cases of suspected money laundering to trial, a European finance watchdog urged on Friday, saying the good progress made by its financial regulators needed to be matched by judicial muscle.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican expressed concern over the status of Jerusalem on Monday as Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held their first meeting since the United States stirred international anxiety by moving its embassy there.
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In addition, a group of concerned American Catholics reportedly travelled to the Vatican in 2000 to warn Vatican officials of McCarrick&aposs harassment and misconduct, but he was still appointed Washington archbishop and made a cardinal in 2001.
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Vatican sources said the pope was furious over the leak of the notice, issued to guards at gates telling them the five could not enter the Vatican because they had been "preventively suspended", and had ordered an investigation.
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Francis' appointment of Pell, dogged for many years by victims' allegations that he shielded abusers and had himself molested two young boys in the 1960s, underscores a lack of sufficient vetting for top Vatican posts, Vatican sources said.
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"There really is no structured vetting process for top Vatican jobs as there is for when a priest is made a bishop or when a bishop is made a cardinal," said a Vatican source who follows abuse cases.
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, the outspoken former bishop of Hong Kong, has said the Vatican was "selling out" the Catholic Church in China and suggested that there was discord between the pontiff and Vatican diplomats doing groundwork in China.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will appoint a personal delegate to run the Knights of Malta temporarily following the resignation of the embattled head of the Rome-based Catholic chivalric and charity institution, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis appointed women on Friday to a key Vatican department for the first time since it was founded more than 50 years ago, a move welcomed by Catholic women's groups as a significant advance.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Nigerian bishop whom Pope Francis had fiercely defended has resigned after a five-year, sometimes violent, standoff with rebel priests and faithful who rejected him as an ethnic outsider, the Vatican said on Monday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Tayyip Erdogan made the first visit by a Turkish president to the Vatican in 59 years on Monday, discussing the status of Jerusalem with Pope Francis, as scuffles broke out between police and demonstrators nearby.
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VATICAN CITY, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The Catholic Church has become its "own worst enemy" for concealing clergy sexual abuse and not listening enough to victims, a leading archbishop said on Sunday as a landmark Vatican conference was ending.
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To counter Vatican opposition to this theology, now published documents from the Soviet and East German archives show "active measures" were undertaken to undermine the Vatican and the pope — key barriers to a Soviet influence in Latin America.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis met on Monday the grand imam of Egypt's highest Islamic authority, Al-Azhar, looking to heal Vatican relations with the influential center of Sunni Muslim learning after dialogue was frozen five years ago.
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Wednesday took over a Peru-based Catholic movement whose founder has been accused of abusing its members sexually, physically and psychologically, just days before Pope Francis starts a trip to Chile and Peru.
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"Make no mistake: There is a political battle underway in Catholicism today over child sexual abuse," a veteran Vatican watcher, John L. Allen Jr., recently wrote in Crux, a website that specializes in the Vatican and Catholic Church.
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On a rooftop outside the Vatican, where sea gulls have ripped to shreds peace doves released out the pope's window, I watched as a pair ominously swooped above the purple zucchetto, or skullcap, of the Vatican foreign minister.
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The disclosures are raising new questions about how the Vatican handled allegations against the powerful cardinal and how McCarrick rose through the Church's ranks despite allegations of his misconduct making it to the Vatican as early as 2000.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An imbroglio over former Pope Benedict's involvement in a book has sparked calls by some Vatican officials for clear rules about the status of any future pontiffs who may resign rather than rule for life.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An imbroglio over former Pope Benedict's involvement in a book has sparked calls by some Vatican officials for clear rules about the status of any future pontiffs who may resign rather than rule for life.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican prelate on Monday admitted in court he had leaked confidential documents to the media and said he had been manipulated into it by a woman co-defendant who claimed she was a spy.
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VATICAN CITY, March 7 (Reuters) - Pope Francis has cancelled his main public appearances to avoid crowds gathering to see him and will stream them on the internet from inside the Vatican because of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy.
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VATICAN CITY, March 25 (Reuters) - A person who lives in the same Vatican residence as Pope Francis has tested positive for coronavirus and is being treated in an Italian hospital, the Rome newspaper Il Messaggero reported on Wednesday.
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On Wednesday, Pope FrancisPope FrancisThe Hill's Morning Report - Biden delivers another devastating blow to Sanders The Hill's Morning Report - US urges calm over coronavirus; Italy on lockdown Vatican reports first case of coronavirus MORE held his weekly general audience on Wednesday in his private audience at the Vatican rather than at St. Peter's or the Vatican auditorium before thousands of people (The Associated Press).
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and Mexico are lamenting how children "are suffering the most" from forced migration, as the Trump administration comes under increasing criticism for its policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis elevated five senior clerics from outside Italy and the Vatican to the top rank of cardinal on Wednesday, urging them to be humble and not forget refugees and victims of war, terrorism and injustice.
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Magistrates in both the Vatican and Italy found that the bank, which is supposed to serve Vatican employees, Church officials and religious orders of priests and nuns, had been used by outsiders to either launder money or evade taxes.
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The subsequent leak and publication in Italian media of an internal police notice bearing pictures of five Vatican employees, including the number two at AIF and a monsignor in the Secretariat of State has left the Vatican in turmoil.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is studying how to speed up the handling of allegations of sexual abuse by clergy, the Vatican said on Wednesday, after a high-profile case in Chile put a new spotlight on the scandal.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday it had opened an investigation into reports that a former teenage altar boy, who allegedly repeatedly forced a dormitory mate to have sex with him, went on to become a priest.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Friday condemned a right-wing Catholic radio station that said a series of earthquakes that hit Italy in the past three months was "God's punishment" for the country approving same-sex civil unions.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The trial of a former head of the Vatican bank and an Italian lawyer on charges of money laundering and embezzlement began on Wednesday with the court hearing of missing documents and secret funds in Switzerland.
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Archbishop Tobin, who previously served in the Vatican, became known there as a supporter of American nuns who were being investigated by other Vatican officials on claims of deviating from church doctrine — an inquiry some American bishops had encouraged.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - There have been 13 popes named Leo in the history of the Roman Catholic Church but perhaps none of them was as famous as the Leo who entered the Vatican on Thursday - Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Francesco Sisci, a senior researcher in Beijing at Renmin University of China who has closely followed Vatican affairs, said that despite Mr. Yu's emphasis on patriotism, the government seemed less critical of the Vatican over all at the meeting.
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To restore the trust of its faithful and its standing in the world, the Vatican needs to make a more vigorous and sincere effort to acknowledge the damage done by abusive priests and Vatican officials who perpetuated the abuse.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters.
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After his retirement in 2006, Cardinal McCarrick acted as an unofficial ambassador for the Vatican, traveling the world to countries where the Vatican could not send official ambassadors "whether it was China, or the Middle East," said the Rev.
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The Vatican was advised of the theft in 2012, a year after United States Homeland Security Investigations got a tip from a rare book and manuscript expert who had seen the Vatican copy and raised doubts about its authenticity.
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VATICAN CITY, March 15 (Reuters) - All of Pope Francis' Easter services next month will be held without the faithful attending due to the coronavirus outbreak, Vatican said on Sunday, in a step believed to be unprecedented in modern times.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday that tests carried out in the building where Pope Francis lives after one resident tested positive for coronavirus showed that the pontiff and his closest aides do not have the disease.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has put Satan in his place, citing the devil repeatedly in a document published on Monday following a Vatican rebuke last month of a journalist who quoted him as saying hell does not exist.
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VATICAN CITY, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The Vatican has been fully re-admitted to the Egmont Group of world financial intelligence units after a suspension two months ago sparked by an investigation into the purchase of luxury London real estate.
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He was serving as the second-highest official in the Vatican office that dealt with priests, brothers and nuns in religious orders as the Vatican conducted two investigations of American nuns over accusations that they had strayed from doctrine.
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The Vatican did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
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The pope and Kiir discussed the return of refugees, the Vatican statement said.
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Vatican officials admitted last week to doctoring a photograph sent to the media.
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That thought is as relevant in Rome as in its Vatican City enclave.
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The Vatican rarely if ever, however, imposes such a penalty on elderly prelates.
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The Vatican Museum returned a shrunken head to Ecuador following months of negotiations.
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Seven German bishops wrote the Vatican to request a ruling on the document.
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Pope Francis with different heads of state during their visits at the Vatican.
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To recommend to the Vatican only proposed bishops "truly suited for the episcopacy."
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Legally speaking, the U.S. bishops didn't need Vatican approval prior to the vote.
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There is an official Vatican News account, but that's not the same thing.
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In 2005, the Vatican shelved the planned beatification of French priest the Rev.
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On the Vatican website, one can buy Francis medals, icons and rosary boxes.
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Some changed their names after Vatican II, others when they left the order.
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Francis said the Vatican should study the possibility of ordaining women as deacons.
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Manuel Noriega, Panama's leader, sought refuge in the Vatican nunciature in Panama City.
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The Vatican police, the Gendarmeria, has hired officers with experience in the field.
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Vatican officials say the archbishop was called to Rome and rebuked for that.
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The Vatican also said that Pope Francis joins the victims' families in prayer.
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The Vatican was apparently not pleased with the resulting showiness, or the selfies.
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On a recent Saturday night near the Vatican, four extra volunteers showed up.
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Milan's Duomo is the second largest cathedral in Italy, right after the Vatican.
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The Vatican learned about the investigation from the media, spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said.
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Several nuns have senior roles in Vatican departments that look after religious issues.
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Nevertheless, there are still some government-backed bishops whom the Vatican finds intolerable.
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The pontiff is shown waving in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sept.
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But to start: how one becomes a Vatican astronomer in the first place.
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But in the context of the infighting in the Vatican, they're downright incendiary.
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Reuters was unable to independently verify his assertions, which the Vatican strongly contested.
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The Vatican is set to mediate talks between the opposition and the government.
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The latest to go was a high-ranking Vatican prelate, Cardinal Peter Turkson.
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The episode prompts the Vatican to dispatch Father Garcia (Marcelo Alonso) to investigate.
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If they uncover enough material, they submit the candidate's case to the Vatican.
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As if often does, the Vatican downplayed security concerns about the Pope's trip.
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"The Vatican almost never moves at this speed," said Terence McKiernan, of BishopAccountability.org.Inc.
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The Vatican eventually found the priest guilty and removed him from his post.
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The Vatican scoffed at the latter charge but pleaded guilty to the former.
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She partnered with the Vatican to hold a stem cell conference last year.
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The video below shows a Vatican aide lifting her to greet the Pope.
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The Vatican has always denied suggestions it dragged its feet over the investigation.
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"He realizes he has a pretty big wall around the Vatican," Robertson joked.
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He heads a sovereign state -- Vatican City -- and meets regularly with world powers.
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Vatican spokesman Greg Burke came out a minute later to confirm it all.
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A Vatican spokesman said they were the first women members in its history.
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But no President has included the Vatican, Catholicism's holy headquarters, on the itinerary.
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The trip also included a discussion with Vatican officials about Latin American issues.
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"Vatican II was a good thing, but it had its casualties," Betts said.
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EDT: Vice President Pence had a call with the Vatican secretary of state.
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Capella is set to face a trial at the Vatican starting June 22.
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The Vatican is the self-ruled island's last remaining diplomatic ally in Europe.
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The Vatican is the self-ruled island's last remaining diplomatic ally in Europe.
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Rome (CNN)Callista Gingrich will be the next US ambassador to the Vatican.
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Pell no longer has any position in the Vatican but remains a cardinal.
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Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, former president of the Vatican bank, is also a signee.
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She smiled and said that my report had been sent to the Vatican.
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A church investigation of McCarrick is reportedly being fast-tracked at the Vatican.
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The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, put the photo on its front page Wednesday.
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One door that the Vatican hopes is still open is on climate change.
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United States from 2011 until 2016, alleges that the Vatican learned as early
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The Vatican said the pope had issued a decree adding a fourth path.
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Law died early Wednesday in Rome following a long illness, the Vatican said.
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Instead of being given a Vatican funeral, Law should just "disappear," he said.
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The Vatican, meanwhile, now regards American bishops as masters at handling abuse allegations.
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Trump donned a Vatican flag on his jacket along with the American standard.
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Fernando Karadima, whom the Vatican found guilty of child sex abuse in 2011.
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You don't end up painting the Vatican ceiling without kissing the pope's ass.
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Mother Teresa is set to become a Catholic saint, the Vatican announced today.
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In April 2014, by accident, I rediscovered the Galatians fragment in Vatican City.
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If Capella is indicted, he will stand trial in the Vatican, per Reuters.
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But the track team marks the first officially recognized team within Vatican City.
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Read: The Vatican Says Catholics Shouldn't Spread Their Dead Relatives' Ashes Around Anymore
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"When you get invited by the Vatican, I think you go," Weaver said.
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The Vatican retaliated by excommunicating three of these bishops in 2011 and 2012.
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In total, there are eight bishops whom the Vatican has refused to recognize.
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The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, identified the parents as Nick and Jodi Solomon.
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The pilgrimages, she noted, ceased after a Vatican II directive in the 1960s.
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In June, the Vatican said Pope Francis was sending investigators back to Chile.
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The next week the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Wilson's resignation.
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Bishop Jenik, 74, denied the allegation, which will be investigated by the Vatican.
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But when it met resistance in the Vatican, the pope dispensed with it.
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But, according to the Vatican, Cardinal Bo also suggested that Francis meet Gen.
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The Vatican did not respond to an email seeking comment late Wednesday night.
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Some letters were penned, but the Vatican blinked first: the bishop stepped aside.
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To this day these questions have not been fully addressed by the Vatican.
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Still, she said that if the Vatican recognized Bishop Zhan, she would obey.
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The Vatican press office repeatedly declined to shed more light on the situation.
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Even the Vatican sent a delegation to talk about conscious and inclusive capitalism.
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The Vatican finally acted in April 2015, sending a Peruvian bishop to investigate.
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Her appointment was something the Vatican of old would do — a cynical ploy.
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When the deal was rejected, Vatican diplomats urged the Colombians to save it.
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The walled city-state is surrounded by Rome, where most Vatican employees live.
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Sunday's mass at the Vatican was presented by livestream, and crowds were light.
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The Vatican said employees could purchase a maximum of 50 packs a month.
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They could still vote on it, and let the Vatican rescind the votes.
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