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• Vatican surprised by bank's credit card block
• Vatican criticizes gay adoption, topless women protest
• Vatican denies flaws that led to credit card block
• Vatican surprised by Bankitalia credit card block
• 4 women strip, protest Vatican gay marriage stance

Vatican surprised by bank's credit card block Posted: 13 Jan 2013 10:39 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — A senior Vatican official says he is "truly surprised" that the Bank of Italy ordered credit card payments suspended in the tiny city-state and insists the Vatican has taken adequate measures to fight money laundering.

Vatican criticizes gay adoption, topless women protest Posted: 13 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican underlined its opposition to gay adoption on Sunday as same-sex marriage supporters staged a topless protest in front of the pope in St. Peter's Square. The Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano published a response to an Italian court's rejection of an appeal by a father who feared his son would not have a balanced upbringing if he lived with his mother and her female partner. The Court of Cassation ruled it was "mere prejudice" to assume that living with a homosexual couple could be detrimental for a child's development. ...

Vatican denies flaws that led to credit card block Posted: 13 Jan 2013 08:17 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican insisted on Sunday that it had taken adequate measures to combat money laundering and so could not understand why the Bank of Italy had blocked the use of credit and debit cards inside Vatican City. The central bank stopped Deutsche Bank Italy from providing electronic payment services for the Vatican on January 1 because the Holy See was seen as lacking anti-money-laundering controls and oversight, a move that left thousands of tourists visiting the Vatican museums and gift shops in the lurch, forcing them to use cash. ...

Vatican surprised by Bankitalia credit card block Posted: 13 Jan 2013 06:40 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — A senior Vatican official says he is "truly surprised" by the Bank of Italy's decision to enforce the suspension of credit card payments in the tiny city-state and insists the Vatican has taken adequate measures to fight money laundering.

4 women strip, protest Vatican gay marriage stance Posted: 13 Jan 2013 04:37 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Four women have gone topless in St. Peter's Square to protest the Vatican's opposition to gay marriage.

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