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Pope’s synagogue visit splits Italy’s Jews over stand on Pius XII

Rabbi Giuseppe Laras, president of Italy’s rabbinical assembly, announced he will not attend the visit on Sunday to protest at what he said were a series of Vatican moves seen as disrespectful to Jews, including the pope’s decision to start the ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, Reuters Blogs,  16 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Pius XII,  Richard Williamson,  Pope Benedict XVI

Rome’s chief rabbi says only God can judge Pius XII on Holocaust

Pope Pius XII in an undated file photo from the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano Only God can judge whether war-time Pope Pius XII did enough to save Jews and whether he should have spoken out more forcefully against the Holocaust, according to ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, Reuters Blogs,  14 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Pius XII

Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who tried to kill Pope John Paul

Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who tried to kill Pope John Paul in 1981, is due to be released from prison in Turkey on January 18.  In a rambling statement issued by his lawyers on Wednesday, he called for a “new American Empire” championing peace and ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, Reuters Blogs,  13 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Pope John Paul II,  Virgin Mary

Pope says gay marriage threat to creation

Pope Benedict on Tuesday linked the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage to concern about the environment, suggesting that laws undermining the differences between the sexes were threats to creation. Creatures differ from one another and ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, Reuters Blogs,  11 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Roman Catholic Church,  Supreme Court of the United States

Woman in red knocks down pope, cardinal at Vatican Mass

VATICAN CITY -- A woman the Vatican described as unstable jumped over a barricade, lunged at Pope Benedict XVI and knocked him to the floor at the start of his Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. The 82-year-old pope was apparently not harmed ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, The Washington Post,  25 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II moves closer to sainthood

T he late Pope John Paul II moved closer to sainthood in the Catholic Church on Saturday when Pope Benedict approved a decree recognizing that his predecessor had lived the Christian faith heroically. The Vatican said Benedict approved the “heroic ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, Globe and Mail,  19 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Pope John Paul II

Tens of thousands march on Rome for ‘No Berlusconi Day'

T ens of thousands of Italians chanting “resign, resign” marched through Rome on Saturday demanding that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who they accused of corruption, step down. The national demonstration, called “No B Day,” was organized by ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, Globe and Mail,  5 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Silvio Berlusconi,  Dario Fo,  David Mills,  Paolo Borsellino

For cashmere capitalist, dignity is bottom line

M otivated at age 15 by the tears in his father's eyes when the former farmer was forced to accept a factory job, Brunello Cucinelli is anything but an orthodox capitalist. His colourful cashmere brand is defying recessionary shrinkage across the luxury ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Hermes (designer),  Louis Vuitton,  Loro Piana,  Neiman Marcus

Crucifix ruling sparks uproar in Italy

The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that Italian schools should remove crucifixes from classrooms, sparking uproar in Italy, where such icons are embedded in the national psyche. “This is an abhorrent ruling,” said Rocco Buttiglione, a ...

From GILBERT REILHAC AND PHILIP PULLELLA, Globe and Mail,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Rocco Buttiglione,  Silvio Berlusconi,  Alessandra Mussolini,  Benito Mussolini

Scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin

A n Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere the burial cloth of Jesus Christ is a medieval fake. The shroud, measuring 4.4 metres by 1.2 metres bears the ...

From PHILIP PULLELLA, Globe and Mail,  5 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Pope John Paul II

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