Tag: Vatican

• Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 07:40 UTC

  Cardinals’ conclave to elect new pope begins; a first non-European in the cards

  

  Roman Catholic Church cardinals will file into the 15th-century Sistine Chapel on Tuesday to begin their secret election of a successor to retired Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinals under the voting-age limit of 80, totaling 115 are scheduled to begin their conclave at 4:30 p.m. in Rome after asking for God’s guidance at a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

• Saturday, March 9th 2013 - 04:32 UTC

  Cardinals begin conclave Tuesday for new Pope; demands for more transparency

  

  Catholic cardinals gathered in Rome voted Friday to begin the conclave, to elect a new pope next Tuesday afternoon, the Vatican said. The 115 cardinal-electors taking part in the conclave will enter the closed-door process after a morning Mass and only cardinals younger than 80 are eligible to vote.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2013 - 08:27 UTC

  On Monday congregation of cardinals begins process to vote for a new Pope

  

  On the first day that the Church is without a Pope, Cardinal Angelo Sodano announced that the first general congregation of cardinals will take place next Monday morning. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, made the date public in an official letter sent to the world’s cardinal on Friday March first.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 06:00 UTC

  Benedict XVI admits deep trouble in the Church; next Pope before Palm Sunday

  

  Bidding an emotional farewell to a huge crowd gathered in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI indirectly acknowledged Wednesday that his nearly eight years as head of the Roman Catholic Church have not always been easy.

• Monday, February 18th 2013 - 06:39 UTC

  Scandal-hit Vatican bank tries to make clean start but again stumbles

  

  The Vatican appointed a German lawyer to head its bank, but the bid to turn the fortunes of the scandal-hit institution was clouded by his business links to a military shipbuilder.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 07:42 UTC

  Pope’s former butler and a computer expert to stand trial for “aggravated theft”

  

  Vatican magistrate ordered Pope Benedict's former butler to stand trial on charges of aggravated theft for leaking documents alleging corruption in the Vatican. In a 35-page document on the case which has rocked the Holy See since Paolo Gabriele was arrested last May, the Vatican also charged a computer expert who worked in the Vatican bureaucracy with involvement in the case, the first mention of a second man.

• Tuesday, July 24th 2012 - 01:21 UTC

  Vatican strips leading Peruvian university of the title “Catholic” and “Pontifical”

  

  The Vatican has withdrawn the titles “Catholic” and “Pontifical” from a university in Peru after decades of discussions over the school's Catholic identity and after tensions between university officials and the local cardinal over control of the school's assets.

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 - 06:20 UTC

  The Vatican bank opens up to show it is not involved in ‘sinful’ activities

  

  Vatican bank, one of the more secretive institutions of the secrecy-obsessed Vatican, opened itself up to a little external scrutiny in a bid to show it is serious about fighting money-laundering and being more financially transparent.

• Monday, May 28th 2012 - 04:23 UTC

  Secrets from the Vatican walled citadel leak out and rock the Church

  

  The Vatican faces a widening scandal that in one short week has seen Pope Benedict's butler arrested, the president of its bank unceremoniously dismissed and the publication of a new book alleging conspiracies among cardinals.

• Thursday, March 29th 2012 - 03:56 UTC

  Bendict calls for “authentic freedom” in Cuba and has cordial chat with Fidel Castro

  

  Pope Benedict urged Cubans to search for “authentic freedom” and met with revolutionary icon Fidel Castro as he wrapped up a visit in which he said Cuba must change.