The Pope has called for a series of meetings to "restore trust" in the church after documents exposing corruption in the Catholic Church were leaked.
US Catholic nuns have rejected a Vatican assessment that they have fallen under the sway of feminism and needed to hand control to a trio of bishops.
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/ 23 December 2011
Nuns should be given the contraceptive pill to reduce the high death rates from breast, ovarian and uterine cancer a result of their childlessness.
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/ 14 December 2011
Victims of sexual abuse by priests in Belgium should be able to claim up to €25 000 in compensation from the Church, a new commission has found.
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/ 8 December 2011
The Catholic Church should pay for nuns to go on contraceptive pills to cut the cancer risk that comes with a life of celibacy, cancer experts say.
Pope Benedict XVI gives mass at a stadium hosting tens of thousands in Benin, wrapping up a visit detailing his vision for his church’s future.
Pope Benedict XVI has labelled Aids an "ethical problem" and condemned corruption as he laid out a vision for his church’s future in Africa.
Bavaria-born Pope Benedict XVI faces a resounding call for changes in the Catholic Church as he heads "home" to Germany on an official state visit.
Pope Benedict XVI warned against "false gods" as he celebrated mass in Madrid’s cathedral on a final weekend of dazzling Catholic festivities.
A vial containing the late pope John Paul II’s blood will soon be winging its way to Mexico in a bid to help bring down crime in the country.
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/ 29 November 2010
When Pope Benedict XVI sat down with a German journalist, he probably never imagined that his cautious remarks about condoms would spark excitement.
Groups representing victims of clerical abuse expressed outrage this week after the pope criticised raids on the Catholic church by Belgian police.
Joker in foreign office forces a grovelling official apology to a defensive Catholic Church.
The Vatican was forced into a climbdown after remarks by a senior cardinal linking homosexuality with paedophilia caused an international outcry.
France on Wednesday condemned the Vatican for blaming gay priests for the paedophile scandal, saying it was "unacceptable" to lump the two together.
A furious transatlantic row has erupted after a retired bishop suggested Jews were behind criticism of the Catholic church’s record on sex abuse.
Fresh pedophilia cover-up claims hit Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday in the case of a US priest who allegedly molested up to 200 deaf boys.
The pope attempted to defuse growing anger in Ireland over sex abuse scandals on Wednesday by acknowledging the church had been "severely shaken".
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/ 20 December 2009
Australians are rejoicing after Pope Benedict cleared the way for a nun who lived more than 100 years ago to become their first Roman Catholic saint.
The correct Roman Catholic sexual position is not, as many might imagine, missionary, infrequent and with the lights out, but "saucy and surprising.
Almost a year after lodging a complaint, John McCann still does not know what the Catholic Church knows about the cleric who abused him as a boy.
United States Catholic bishops believe alternative therapy ”lacks scientific credibility” and may cause ”insurmountable problems”.
According to student Ayogu, ”he is the Holy Father, and our spiritual leader, his words carry a lot of weight in all aspects of your life.
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/ 30 September 2008
University and hospital are seen as an attempt by controversial Catholic group Opus Dei to dispel myths and fears. Riazat Butt reports.
Pope Benedict on Thursday told a huge gathering of young people that they were inheriting a planet whose resources had been scarred and squandered.
Pilgrims on Monday bore a giant wooden cross through the streets of Sydney, where Pope Benedict XVI will preside over World Youth Day.
John Crace meets the Jewish studies professor dubbed the greatest Jesus scholar of his generation
Australia’s Catholic church has taken a swipe at foul-mouthed British chef Gordon Ramsay and demanded his reality television shows be either taken off air or shown at a later time. One episode broadcast recently featured Ramsay using a four-letter expletive more than 80 times, while he also shouts at a chef saying: ”You French pig.”
The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it went on display 40 years after his death. Padre Pio is one of the Catholic Church’s most popular saints and during his lifetime the Italian monk was said to have had the stigmata.
Such was the mania gripping New York as the pope’s visit to the United States reached its emotional culmination that at least one busload of visitors erroneously mobbed what turned out to be a life-sized cardboard cut-out, propped in front of the Mount Carmel Catholic bookshop on 187th Street.
Pope Benedict, celebrating a stadium Mass for 45 000 people, acknowledged on Thursday that the United States paedophile priests scandal caused ”indescribable pain and harm” to victims but asked Catholics to love their pastors. ”No words of mine can describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse,” he said.
They knew it would be risky to exhibit a homoerotic version of Christ’s Last Supper, but curators at the museum of Vienna’s Roman Catholic cathedral weren’t ready for a barrage of angry messages and calls to be shut down. The source of the dispute is a retrospective honouring Austria’s cherished artist Alfred Hrdlicka.