New Book Compares Power of White House and Vatican
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Rafael Navarro-Valls, professor at Madrid's Complutense University and Secretary General of the Royal Spanish Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, has just published a book entitled "On Power and Glory." ...
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The Bush administration has broken new ground in its &quot;faith-based&quot; initiative, this time by offering federal employees a Catholic health plan that specifically excludes payment for contraceptives
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In an unexpected about-face, Pope Benedict will restore power and prestige to the Vatican department that oversees dialogue with Islam a year after he controversially downgraded it.
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U.S. President George W. Bush met Italy&#39;s  president on Saturday, and was due to see Pope Benedict for the  first time for talks expected to centre on their differences on  Iraq and their common stand against abortion.
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A new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author, describes a White House riven by dysfunction and division over the war.
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Pope Benedict XVI. Photograph: AFP. Gordon Brown will have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI today during a trip to Rome to launch a vaccination scheme for children in the developing world.Comment
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The White House is turning to the Supreme Court for help as the administration fights a challenge to its aggressive promotion of federal financial aid for religious charities
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Pope John Paul II's weakening health, underscored this past week by his hospitalization with complications from the flu, has left the world's largest religious denomination without a strong chief executive, but with an iconic leader who can unify the church symbolically even as he is increasingly unable to do so administratively, church leaders and scholars who study the Vatican say.
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At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers. One at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians to the White House to join him in the search.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Pope Benedict in a new effort to heal the Vatican-Orthodox rift.
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Pope Benedict told U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday that the Vatican would like a "regional and negotiated" solution to Middle East conflicts, as anti-U.S. protesters converged on Rome.
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Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of Italy, a longtime aide to Pope Benedict XVI and the first major church official to speak out against &quot;The Da Vinci Code,&quot; was appointed Thursday as secretary of state, the Vatican&#039;s No. 2 official.
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The National Academy of Sciences has released a book explaining the differences between science and religion, and asserting that acceptance of evolution does not require abandoning belief in God.
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VATICAN CITY -- A Vatican handbook released yesterday laid out Roman Catholic Church teaching questioning preventive war and denouncing the ''horrendous crime&quot; of abortion. But Vatican officials sidestepped questions on whether the war in Iraq was illegal or whether Catholics can vote for candidates who back laws permitting abortion.
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Pope Benedict XVI expressed concerns to President Bush about the Middle East, according to the Vatican.
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New papers cast doubt on Vatican claims about when it learned of the atrocities at Auschwitz.
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In a surprising about-face, Pope Benedict has decided to restore power and prestige to the Vatican department that oversees dialogue with Islam a year after he controversially downgraded it.