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Wanted: CEO pope to clean up unholy mess at Vatican
With the voting now underway in the election of a new pope, the College of Cardinals will seek a prayerful, joyful pastor and a savvy enough manager who could bring order to the medieval chaos of church bureaucracy. A CEO pope,...
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A new pope, a new name: Here’s some popular picks to choose from
One of the first acts of the new pope will be to chose a new name. The choice is entirely up to him, but it typically carries symbolic (even political) weight.
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Pope Benedict XVI leaves mixed legacy on clergy sexual abuse
(RNS) In 2001, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger urged Pope John Paul II to create a central system to further the Vatican’s investigations of sexual abuse under priests. He shifted control of the disposition of the cases fr...
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Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop of Canterbury to meet
Despite differences over women’s ordination and a controversial Vatican initiative to woo back disgruntled Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will pray together in Rome on Saturday (M...
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Attorney drops abuse suit against Vatican
A prominent sex abuse lawyer has dropped a high-stakes lawsuit that sought to hold Pope Benedict XVI and other top church officials responsible for a clergy sexual abuse case. The Vatican’s U.S. attorney, Jeffrey S. Lena,...
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Pope Benedict XVI’s cardinals: More Roman, less ‘catholic’
For Americans who take note of the pomp and circumstance — and politics — at the Vatican, the big news on Friday (Jan. 6) was that Pope Benedict XVI had included New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, and former Baltimore Archbisho...