Tag: Vatican

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is greeted by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, left, as he arrives for a consistory inside the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb.22, 2014. Benedict XVI has joined Pope Francis in a ceremony creating the cardinals who will elect their successor in an unprecedented blending of papacies past, present and future. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Benedict denies he was pressured to resign

Nicole Winfield · February 26, 2014 10:18 am

Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez speaks during the presentation of the book, to which he contributed, "Poor for the poors, the mission of the Church" by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, background, in Vatican City, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Gutierrez is considered the father of the Liberation theology for his 1971 book "Teologia de la liberation. Prospectivas" (Theology of Liberation. Perspectives). (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Founder of Liberation Theology hailed at Vatican

Nicole Winfield · February 25, 2014 10:51 pm

Pope’s envoy for Legion ends mandate

Nicole Winfield · February 25, 2014 6:19 pm

Australian Cardinal George Pell.

Pope makes first overhaul of Vatican in 25 years

Nicole Winfield · February 24, 2014 3:41 pm

Pope Francis arrives to celebrate a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. Pope Francis elevated 19 new cardinals Saturday, from some of the world's smallest, most remote and poverty-wracked nations to help him run the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope to prelates: no intrigue, favoritism, gossip

Frances D'emilio · February 23, 2014 12:31 pm

Pope Francis Pope drinks from a mate gourd, a traditional South American cup, we was offered as he is driven through the crowd in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, prior to his general audience, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. At public appearances, people offer Pope Francis gifts, and personal belongings to be blessed. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope talks poverty, eyes finance branch overhaul

Nicole Winfield · February 19, 2014 3:06 pm

In this file picture provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano on Dec. 23, 2013, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, left, welcomes Pope Francis as they exchanged Christmas greetings, at the Vatican. It was a holiday at the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI was speaking in Latin at an arguably boring ceremony announcing new saints, so few people were paying much attention. But what Benedict said a year ago Tuesday changed the course of the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church and paved the way for the historic papacy of Pope Francis. In his soft voice and in a Latin that the cardinals present strained to understand, Benedict announced that he no longer had the "strength of mind and body" to be pope and would retire at the end of the month, the first pope to step down in more than half a millennium. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

1 Year ago, Benedict’s announcement changed church

Nicole Winfield · February 10, 2014 10:43 pm

Vatican hits back at UN committee for abuse report

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2014 11:36 am

Legion elects superior, Vatican names top advisers

Nicole Winfield · February 6, 2014 9:42 pm

Pope pressured to act on abuse after UN rebuke

Nicole Winfield · February 5, 2014 11:01 pm

Vatican surveys find Catholics reject sex rules

Nicole Winfield · February 5, 2014 12:49 am

FILE - In this Monday, June 10, 2013 file photo, Ernst von Freyberg, president of the Vatican Bank I.O.R. (Istituto per le Opere Religiose), talks with the Associated Press during an interview at his office in Vatican City. The Vatican bank's much-publicized financial reform has hit a small glitch: The bank told dozens and perhaps hundreds of widows and Vatican pensioners that they had to close their accounts or risk losing access to their money as part of Pope Francis' reform efforts. Only the bank now says these account-holders were targeted as a result of a "technical error" and are being kept on as clients after all, an embarrassing rollback that comes as the Vatican seeks to mend ties with Italian authorities who have long suspected Italians were using the Vatican as an off-shore tax haven, The Associated Press has learned. Bank President Ernst Von Freyberg penned a letter to these clients Sept. 19, telling them to come to the bank before Nov. 30 to transfer their money out because they no longer fit the criteria of account-holders set by the board. He warned that if they didn't meet the deadline, their money would become subject to the "internal dispositions" of the bank, according to a copy of the letter obtained by AP. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

Vatican bank admits widows victims of crackdown

Nicole Winfield · January 30, 2014 6:56 pm