A group of faith leaders and officials at the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, have recently extended an invitation to Pope Benedict XVI to visit the Cathedral at the university. If the pontiff accepts, then this could be the first ever papal visit to the North East of England, which would mark a historic mo... |
31 October 2009
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Pope Benedict XVI was recently accused by a famed international scientific publication of falsifying and distorting scientific facts to forward the Catholic religious doctrine. The Pontiff said that condoms actually helped promote HIV and AIDS, and that the international efforts that were underway in Africa at the mo... |
27 March 2009
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Pope Benedict XVI plans to get his own Google channel, featuring video capabilities, in order to promote the word of God to Internet users as well. According to the Vatican, the Holy See's TV Center and the Vatican Radio are working with Google to make sure that everything is set up without a hitch. The press of... |
19 January 2009
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Some 400 years after Galileo Galilei made his work on the movement of planets public, the Catholic Church, through the words of Pope Benedict XVI, apologized for its mistake, namely accusing the scientist of heresy and sentencing him to house arrest for the rest of his life, in light of the fact that the Earth indeed... |
22 December 2008
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The leader of the Catholic Church announced in a recent press release that he had asked a conference of Catholic priests and doctors to come to a consensus regarding the issue of death, one that would also incorporate the latest scientific discoveries and medical techniques. The main topic was deep coma, when patient... |
8 November 2008
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