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Millions of fans around the world are just now almost dying with anticipation at the thought they will soon get to see the sequel to the 2008 hit “Twilight,” “New Moon.” The Vatican, though for one, is none too happy about the blockbuster film that details the romance between a vampire and a m... |
20 November 2009
03:17 GMT |
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Scientists at a laboratory in Paris believe they may have discovered another one of Leonardo da Vinci's works, when they have assessed that a fingerprint retrieved from a painting is “remarkably similar” to another one, found on a Vatican art piece. The second painting has been directly tied to the I... |
13 October 2009
09:02 GMT |
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At a UN conference on race that took place on Wednesday, the message that the Vatican had to send was pretty clear – the Catholic Church feared that genetic alterations of babies could spawn a new type of racism worldwide. Pope Benedict XVI argues that the ability to alter traits in unborn babies could lead to ... |
23 April 2009
08:32 GMT |
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The Pontifical Gregorian University will host a series of scientific meetings on the origin of life and its evolution, for five days, a move meant to mark 150 years since the death of British naturalist Charles Darwin, the one who first proposed that theory of evolution. But the organizers have not invited the very o... |
6 March 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Coming to settle the century-old question of why people sin, an article in the Vatican’s official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, called “The Unsuspecting Resources of Weakness” offers a simple and straightforward answer. In the piece, Monsignor Wojciech Giertych, the Pope’s personal theo... |
19 February 2009
14:41 GMT |
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The Vatican has again proved that its moral percepts and stance on science is based on an obsolete understanding of scientific knowledge, when the host of a talk show on the radio refused to accept a guest that he himself had invited, on account of the fact that he just learned the man's pharmaceutical company p... |
6 February 2009
08:46 GMT |
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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
04:19 GMT |
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Rev. Paolo Padrini, a “technology” priest, created an iTunes version of the Breviary, which he then made available for download to the Italian people, for a free trial. The new way of spreading the word of the Lord was ratified by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which says that the use o... |
23 December 2008
02:26 GMT |
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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
08:51 GMT |
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Every year the Vatican receives a Christmas tree from some corner of the world, as part of its tradition, and this year the Holy See got a 33-meter high, 120-year old tree from the Southern forest of Austria, which will decorate the state's square until Christmas passes. Officials have announced that the wood th... |
15 December 2008
04:45 GMT |
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The Pope and the Holy See expressed their dissatisfaction and critics of human stem cell research – which uses viable embryos for harvesting cells – cloning and “designing babies,” saying that they found these acts immoral and repulsive. The Vatican has been a long-term opponent of these field... |
13 December 2008
05:12 GMT |
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The Nervi Hall in the city-state of Vatican has been outfitted with some 2,400 photovoltaic cells, which will supply the 10,000-people capacity dome and some of its surrounding buildings with approximately 300,000 kilowatts-hour (KWH) of electricity throughout the year, thus reducing the state's dependency on It... |
26 November 2008
05:36 GMT |
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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
07:07 GMT |
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An ongoing five-day scientific gathering on themes of evolution housed by the Vatican provided a clash of titans during the close encounter of the 3rd kind which is always the result of religion and science sharing the same space. During the meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Benedict... |
3 November 2008
07:33 GMT |
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