Mexican death saint blasphemous, says Vatican
The cult of Santa Muerte or "Holy Death" in Mexico is "blasphemous" and worshipping it was a "degeneration of religion", a senior Vatican official has said.
May 10 2013, 8:18 pm
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The cult of Santa Muerte or "Holy Death" in Mexico is "blasphemous" and worshipping it was a "degeneration of religion", a senior Vatican official has said.
May 10 2013, 8:18 pm
Read MoreThe Vatican is denying there are any internal divisions over its crackdown on the largest umbrella group of US nuns.
May 8 2013, 1:01 am
Read MoreEmeritus Pope Benedict XVI is expected to take up residence inside a renovated ex-monastery inside the Vatican, according to sources within the Holy See.
May 3 2013, 10:08 am
Read MoreOn his first foreign trip as pontiff, Pope Francis will tour a Rio de Janeiro slum in July and meet juvenile offenders, the Vatican said.
May 9 2013, 6:23 pm
Read MorePorn films have been downloaded from an IP address in the Pope`s place of residence, it has emerged.
April 9 2013, 1:00 pm
Read MoreThe Vatican once dismissed reports of massacres by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as "Communist propaganda", according to US diplomatic documents.
April 8 2013, 4:05 pm
Read MorePope Francis on Saturday appointed the leader of the main Franciscan order in his first nomination to the scandal-hit Vatican bureaucracy.
April 6 2013, 5:24 pm
Read MoreIndia`s Oswald Gracias was among eight high-ranking cardinals from around the world who were on Saturday appointed by Pope Francis in an advisory council to look into ways of reforming the Vatican bureaucracy.
April 13 2013, 6:32 pm
Read MorePope Francis on Sunday completed his installation as pontiff at an emotional ceremony in which he formally took possession of Rome`s St John Lateran basilica -- the official seat of the city`s bishop.
April 7 2013, 11:24 pm
Read MoreThe renovations on the papal apartment are finished, but Pope Francis has decided to stay put in the Vatican hotel for the time being.
March 26 2013, 11:51 pm
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