2010年4月16日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Pope's fifth anniversary mired in controversy (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 08:25 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI is presented with a birthday cake by members of the Papal Foundation, an American Catholic fundraising organization for papal charities, during a private audience at the Vatican, Friday, April 16, 2010. The Vatican doesn't officially celebrate popes' birthdays. But on Monday, the fifth anniversary of Benedict's election as pope, cardinals who live in Rome will offer him a luncheon in an ornate hall of the papal palace. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)AP - Soon after becoming pope, Benedict XVI flew to Germany to keep a promise to attend a church youth festival. Upon arrival, strong winds blew off his skull cap. The same day, on a boat bringing the pope down the Rhine, gusts toppled a cross from the bow, breaking one of its arms.

Pope Benedict XVI turns 83, gets a cake (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 07:20 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves from the popemobile during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The Vatican has gone into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first foreign trip since it erupted. Officials are promising surprising new initiatives. The pope's personal secretary is speaking out. And bishops around the world are being told to report abuse cases to the police. The revved-up strategy comes as the Vatican tries to stem the damage from weeks of revelations about priests who raped and molested children, and the church officials who kept it quiet — before the pontiff's visit to Malta this weekend. Abuse victims on that majority Roman Catholic Mediterranean island are seeking a papal audience and apology. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI asked for prayers for the church Friday as he spent his 83rd birthday quietly working, treated to a cake but otherwise keeping to his schedule ahead of a weekend pilgrimage to Malta.

Federal judge: National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 06:05 PM PDT

Frank Martinez holds his Bible in the air as he takes part in the National Day of Prayer at city hall in San Antonio, Texas, in this May 4, 2006 photo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)The Christian Science Monitor - A federal judge in Wisconsin declared Thursday that the US law authorizing a National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.

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