Pontifical University to Take on the Devil
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Forget the new "Exorcist" film, the  Vatican is offering the real thing.
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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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Evangelicals in Kenya want to radically alter one of the world's most important exhibits of fossils recording the ascent of man from primates. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- When university professor Khalid al-Dakhil was growing up, clergymen had a say in everything.
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Al Qaeda militants in Iraq vowed war on "worshippers of the cross" and protesters burned a papal effigy on Monday over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam, while Western churchmen and statesmen tried to calm ...
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On the eve of his much-anticipated trip to Turkey, Benedict XVI hosted the Archbishop of Canterbury and got a glimpse of the perils of running a worldwide religion like a democracy
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The Vatican releases the text of a speech that the Pope was due to have at a visit to Rome University.
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The stories, and faces, of molested altar boys and abused seminarians seem to dart and flicker like lightning bugs on a summer's night on the broad face of Jason Berry &#151; the reluctant muckraker who took on the Vatican and his own faith.
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ROME The Vatican said Monday that anti-Christian elements were ravaging Europe with a new Inquisition that had claimed a devout Roman Catholic Italian minister because he expressed his faith and called homosexuality a sin.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI plans to restore a Vatican office that specializes in relations with Muslims a year after he was criticized for disbanding it.
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Papal observers are again remarking on the dual role of the pope's flesh and blood person. They see in this double existence the key reason why the suffering pope, at age 84, will persevere in office until death.
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Drew Gilpin Faust is a historian who runs a research institute at the university.
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The Vatican is worried its opposition to abortion, embryonic stem cell research and gay marriage could one day land it before an international court of justice, a senior Vatican official said in an interview published Wednesday.
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Italian police want to set up a special unit to tackle the growth of new religious sects, particularly violent Satanists.
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If the Pope exerts such authority, why is the Holy See impervious to predatory priest lawsuits?
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI faced a growing chorus of demands yesterday for an unequivocal apology for remarks seen as portraying Islam as a violent faith, despite attempts by Western leaders and church officials to defuse the crisis.
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