New Benetton ads for its “Unhate” campaign, featuring world leaders kissing each other, have angered the Vatican. The ads feature American President Barack Obama kissing both Chinese President Hu Jintao and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. The New York Daily News reports: But Benetton’s so-called “Unhate” ad campaign, launched Wednesday, generated an immediate and angry rebuke […]
From the New York Times: ROME — Pope Benedict XVI spoke on Thursday of the need for the faithful to do “penance” in light of “the attacks of the world that talks to us of our sins,” in an off-the-cuff portion of a homily that was his most direct reference to the sex abuse crisis […]
From New York Times: ROME — After a week of angry counterattacks by the Roman Catholic Church against its critics over clerical sex abuse, the Vatican changed course on Friday with a conciliatory statement from its spokesman, who implicitly raised the possibility that Pope Benedict XVI would again meet with victims. The spokesman, the Rev. […]
From the New York Times: ROME — A senior Vatican priest speaking at a Good Friday service compared the uproar over sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church — which have included reports about Pope Benedict XVI’s oversight role in two cases — to the persecution of the Jews, sharply raising the volume in the […]
VIA: Voice of America News African bishops ended their assembly or synod at the Vatican Sunday with a call on corrupt African leaders to repent or resign. The bishops specifically singled out Catholics in high offices to either show remorse for their misdeeds or quit their public offices and stop giving Africa and the Church […]
