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Chilean bishop suspected of abusing minors resigns
The pope on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a Chilean bishop who is under investigation by the Vatican for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor.
Leaks author defends pope's butler, seeks clemency
The author of the book of Vatican secrets that earned the pope's former butler an 18-month sentence for stealing private papal correspondence has set ...
Pope opens bishop synod, names 2 church doctors
Pope Benedict XVI urged the world's bishops on Sunday to try to bring back Catholics who have left the church as he opened a three-week meeting to ...
Papal pardon expected for butler after conviction
A painful and damaging chapter in Pope Benedict XVI's papacy closed Saturday with the conviction of his former butler on charges he stole the ...
Anatomy of Vatican scandal: How the butler did it
He had the trust of Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals, monsignors and priests who run the Roman Catholic Church. And because of his privileged ...
Protester gives up St. Peter's protest
An Italian man gave up his protest atop the St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday evening, after more than 24 hours perched on the 130-meter-high ...
Vatican police testify in trial of pope's butler
Vatican police said Wednesday they found thousands of documents hidden inside the home of Pope Benedict XVI's former butler, including original ...
Evidence tossed at start of papal butler's trial
The pope's once-trusted butler went on trial Saturday for allegedly stealing papal documents and passing them off to a journalist in the worst ...
Did the butler do it? A Q&A on the Vatican trial
The Vatican has never seen anything like it. Pope Benedict XVI's trusted butler, who dressed the pontiff each morning, attended his daily Mass and ...
Vatican paper weighs on 'Jesus' Wife' scrap: fake
The Vatican newspaper has added to the doubts surrounding Harvard University's claim that a 4th century Coptic papyrus fragment showed that some early ...
Pope's ex-butler goes on trial for leaked papers
There was a time when a Vatican trial could end with a heretic being burned at the stake. Paolo Gabriele doesn't risk nearly as dire a fate, but he ...
Theft trial for papal butler starts next week
Pope Benedict XVI's ex-butler and another Vatican lay employee will go on trial next week in the embarrassing theft of papal documents that exposed ...
US judge rules in favor of Legion in will dispute
A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit contesting the will of an elderly widow who gave some $60 million to the Legion of Christ, the disgraced Roman ...
Pope's Lebanon visit made urgent by Syria's war
The brutal civil war in Syria and the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya have given a sense of urgency to Pope Benedict XVI's trip this week to ...
Vatican insists on interreligious dialogue
The Vatican underlined Pope Benedict XVI's push for dialogue among religions in the aftermath of the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya by a mob ...
Pope goes green with electric car
Pope Benedict XVI is now a bit greener. The 85-year-old pontiff was presented with his first electric car Wednesday, a customized white Renault Kangoo ...
Cardinal Martini, liberal papal contender, dies
Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, a rare liberal within the highly conservative Catholic Church hierarchy who was nevertheless considered a papal ...
Lawyer for pope's ex-butler quits over strategy
A lawyer for the pope's former butler resigned Thursday, just weeks before his client was due to go on trial for his role in the scandal over leaked ...
New papal envoy to Israel hopes to foster peace
Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto as a new envoy to Israel, who will also serve as apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and ...
Pope's butler, 2nd layman face trial in theft case
A Vatican judge on Monday ordered the pope's butler and a fellow lay employee to stand trial for the alleged pilfering of documents from Pope Benedict ...