Vatican clarifying Latin Mass rules
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The Vatican has begun drafting a document to elaborate on Pope Benedict XVI's recent liberalization of the old Latin Mass because some bishops are either ignoring his move or misinterpreting it, Vatican officials said.
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Cardinal Martini continues to embody the Catholic Church's more liberal spirit  -  and he doesn't mind voicing his differences with Pope Benedict
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The Vatican said yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI will soon issue a document providing for wider use of the Tridentine Mass, the centuries-old Latin rite that was largely supplanted in the 1960s by a new liturgy, usually translated into modern languages.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing popes, making it potentially harder to name a successor but ensuring that when the white smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel, the new pontiff will have broad support among cardinals.
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Blog: Luxury carmaker responds to Vatican's driving commandment against buying enviable cars
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Pope Benedict XVI tells pilgrims at the Vatican that his remarks on Islam last week were misunderstood.
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Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing a new pope, returning to the traditional requirement that two-thirds of the cardinals in the conclave agree on a candidate, the Vatican said Tuesday.
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Pope Benedict has ordered changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at Good Friday services by traditionalist Catholics, deleting a reference to their "blindness" over Christ, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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Pope Benedict XVI removes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Tridentine Mass, despite concern from Jewish groups.
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Security is tightened in Rome ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first appearance since making comments angering Muslims.
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Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI is to issue a decree tomorrow allowing greater use of the traditional Latin Mass, part of his efforts to reconcile with followers of an ultratraditional excommunicated bishop and bring them back into the Vatican's fold.
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The Catholic Church has issued guidelines on what Filipinos should wear to mass in Manila after some parishioners complained about distracting skimpy attire.
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The Pope's latest illness has forced the Vatican to face new questions and may even provoke a constitutional crisis.
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A decree this month by Pope Benedict allowing wider use of the old Latin mass has spawned a veritable cottage industry in helping Roman Catholic priests learn how to celebrate the centuries-old rite.
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Vatican theologians are leaning toward revising centuries-old teaching that babies who die without baptism go to limbo instead of heaven, officials said Friday.
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The official Vatican translation of Pope Benedict XVI's remarks, delivered in Italian Sunday about his Sept. 12 speech that sparked anger among Muslims.