2012年9月28日星期五

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Trial of Pope Benedict's former butler to start on Saturday

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 04:01 PM PDT

File photo of Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele with Pope Benedict XVI at St. Peter's Square in VaticanVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, goes on trial on Saturday in one of the most embarrassing episodes in recent Vatican history. The trial of the 46-year-old man who served the pope his meals and helped him dress is due to start at 9:30 a.m. (4.30 p.m. EDT) in the Vatican's little-used tribunal, a small room with rich paneled wood and a papal emblem on its ceiling. ...


No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levy

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:20 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, a woman prays under a statue depicting Jesus and Mary, in the cathedral of Frankfurt, Germany. The road to heaven is paved with more than good intentions for Germany's 24 million Catholics. If they don't pay their religious taxes, they will be denied sacraments, including weddings, baptisms and funerals. A decree issued last week by the country's bishops cast a spotlight on the longstanding practice in Germany and a handful of other European countries in which governments tax registered believers and then hand over the money to the religious institutions. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)The road to heaven is paved with more than good intentions for Germany's 24 million Catholics. If they don't pay their religious taxes, they will be denied sacraments, including weddings, baptisms and funerals.


No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levy

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levyThe road to heaven is paved with more than good intentions for Germany's 24 million Catholics. If they don't pay their religious taxes, they will be denied sacraments, including weddings, baptisms and ...


"Gospel of Jesus' wife" fragment is a fake, Vatican says

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 08:11 AM PDT

Handout image of an ancient papyrus written in ancient Egyptian CopticVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said on Friday. "Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery," the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial by its editor, Gian Maria Vian. "In any case, it's a fake. ...


Vatican Says Papyrus Mentioning Jesus' Wife is 'Fake'

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Vatican Says Papyrus Mentioning Jesus' Wife is 'Fake'The Vatican is speaking out on the discovery of a fragment of papyrus containing a reference to Jesus' "wife" in Coptic. Its blunt verdict? Don't get so excited everyone, it's not real. Naomi O'Leary of : "Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery." It continued:  "In any case, it's a fake." 


Did the butler do it? A Q&A on the Vatican trial

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 05:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, May 2, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI arrives in St. Peter's square at the Vatican for a general audience as his then-butler Paolo Gabriele, bottom, and his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein sit in the car with him. Pope Benedict XVI's ex-butler Paolo Gabriele and another Vatican lay employee, Claudio Sciarpelletti, are scheduled to go on trial Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in the embarrassing theft of papal documents that exposed alleged corruption at the Holy See's highest levels. Gabriele was arrested May 24 after Vatican police found what prosecutors called an "enormous'' stash of documents from the pope's desk in his Vatican City apartment. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)The Vatican has never seen anything like it.


Mormon website editor's church discipline hearing suspended

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:14 PM PDT

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - The Florida-based editor of a Mormon-themed website facing disciplinary action and possible excommunication over his writings said on Thursday his Orlando-area church leaders had suspended a hearing to decide his fate. David Twede's posts on MormonThink.com offer his account of the history of the church's political involvement, criticism of fellow Mormon and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and the author's take on Mormon beliefs about the nature of God and temple ceremonies. Twede, a 47-year-old, fifth-generation Mormon and MormonThink. ...

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