Vatican opens files and hopes to change a perception on prewar papacy
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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican yesterday opened its secret archives on the papacy of Pius XI between 1922 and 1939 and said ``unjust opinions" concerning the Holy See's relations with Jews in the years leading up to World War II would be overturned.
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Pope John Paul II hopes for reconciliation as a precious icon goes back to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Vatican has come calling for one of the paintings at the Columbia Museum of Art.
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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 John Paul was spied on by Vatican   informers working for the Polish secret services in the   communist era, a Polish cardinal was quoted as saying on   Tuesday.
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Pope Benedict XVI briefly expanded on the Vaticanâs increasing focus on the environment at the end of a three-day visit to Austria.
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Da Vinci Code fans, get ready. The Vatican is about to release its official chronicle of the last years of the Crusader knights whose power has inflamed the imagination of conspiracy theorists for centuries
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A Roman Catholic archbishop was listed as an agent for the former communist-era secret service, according to an official from a government institute that is making the service's files public.
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With Pope John Paul II hospitalized Wednesday with the flu and breathing problems, most of the Vatican's day-to-day operations are handled by the Curia &#151; a well-oiled bureaucracy with centuries-old roots.
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Pope Benedict will meet Muslim   ambassadors to the Vatican and Italian Islamic leaders on   Monday to try to calm anger over his use of a medieval text   which says their religion was spread by violence.
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The Vatican opens the part of its vast collection of archives covering the run-up to World War II.
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A special commission of Poland's Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday that documents in secret police files showed "about a dozen" living bishops had ties to the communist-era secret services.
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The Vatican issues new guidelines which will make the process of verifying saints more rigorous.
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The Vatican's foreign minister said Wednesday that misunderstanding between cultures is breeding a "new barbarism" and expressed hope that reason and dialogue would stop those who use their faith as a pretext for attacks.
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ROME - Pope John Paul was spied on by Vatican informers working for the Polish secret services in the communist era, a Polish cardinal was quoted as saying on Tuesday.Cardinal Joseph Glemp, archbishop of ...
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Pope Benedict will meet Muslim   ambassadors to the Vatican and Italian Islamic leaders on   Monday to try to calm lingering anger over his use of a   medieval text saying their religion was spread by violence.
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The Pope's latest illness has forced the Vatican to face new questions and may even provoke a constitutional crisis.