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Girl fights to play in Catholic football league

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:27 PM PST

In this 2012 photo provided by Marycecelia Pla, her daughter, Caroline Pla, foreground, carries the ball during a Catholic Youth Organization league football game. The 11-year-old girl who's been playing football since kindergarten wants Philadelphia's Roman Catholic archdiocese to overturn a boys-only rule. (AP Photo/Pla Family)DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia doesn't need another public relations headache after years of priest-abuse and school-closure headlines, but it's got one in the form of a pony-tailed 11-year-old athlete.

Cardinal: Married Catholic priests a possibility

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:51 AM PST

FILE - A Thursday Sept. 16, 2010 photo from files showing Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien speaking to the media in Edinburgh, Scotland. Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry and have children, Britain's most senior Catholic cleric said Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who heads the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, said the requirement for priestly celibacy is "not of divine origin" and could be reconsidered. He told BBC Scotland that "the celibacy of the clergy, whether priests should marry _ Jesus didn't say that." (AP Photo/Scott Campbell, File)LONDON (AP) — Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry and have children, Britain's most senior Catholic cleric said Friday.

Pope clears decks with appointments, tweaks

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:44 AM PST

FILE - This July 18, 2012 file photo shows Vatican Undersecretary for the Relations with States, Mons. Ettore Balestrero speaking during a press conference at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 transferred a top official from the Vatican's secretariat of state to Colombia amid swirling media speculation about the contents of a confidential report into the Vatican's leaks scandal. Mons. Balestrero was named undersecretary of the Vatican's Foreign Ministry in 2009. Benedict XVI on Friday named him ambassador, or nunzio, to Colombia. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, files)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI is clearing the decks of his pontificate, tweaking the rules of the conclave, finessing the religious rites used to launch the next papacy and making some eyebrow-raising final appointments before he retires next week.

Vatican denies sinister motives behind diplomat's transfer

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 09:02 AM PST

A calendar with a picture of Pope Benedict XVI on its cover is seen in front of his summer residence of Castel GandolfoVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican denied on Friday that Pope Benedict's decision to send a senior official to a new post in Latin America was linked to a secret report about leaked papal papers. Since Benedict announced his resignation on February 11, Italian newspapers have been full of rumors about conspiracies, secret reports and lobbies in the Vatican that they say pushed the pope to abdicate. ...

Did a Secret Vatican Report on Gay Sex and Blackmail Bring Down the Pope?

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:04 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI has claimed that he's resigning the papacy next week because of old age. But according to the major Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the real reason he resigned is because he did not want to deal the repercussions of a secret 300-page Vatican dossier that allegedly found, among other things, an underground network of high-ranking gay clergy, complete with sex parties and shady dealings with the already scandal-ridden Vatican bank. Here's what we know:

Czech Republic's deal with religious groups signed

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:55 AM PST

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government signed deals with representatives of 16 religious groups on Friday to pay them billions of dollars in compensation for property that the country's former Communist regime seized from them.

Pope moves top official amid leaks fallout

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:00 AM PST

FILE - This July 18, 2012 file photo shows Vatican Undersecretary for the Relations with States, Mons. Ettore Balestrero speaking during a press conference at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 transferred a top official from the Vatican's secretariat of state to Colombia amid swirling media speculation about the contents of a confidential report into the Vatican's leaks scandal. Mons. Balestrero was named undersecretary of the Vatican's Foreign Ministry in 2009. Benedict XVI on Friday named him ambassador, or nunzio, to Colombia. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, files)VATICAN CITY (AP) — In one of his last appointments, the pope on Friday transferred a top official from the Vatican's secretariat of state to Colombia amid swirling media speculation about the contents of a confidential report into the Vatican's leaks scandal.

Czech government signs church compensation deal

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 05:18 AM PST

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government has signed deals with representatives of 16 churches to pay them billions of dollars in compensation for property that the country's former totalitarian Communist regime seized from them.

Special Report: The loneliness of the short distance pope

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 11:07 PM PST

File photo of Pope Benedict XVI waving as he arrives to lead the Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square at the VaticanVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In Havana last March, when Pope Benedict sat down with Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader jocularly asked his fellow octogenarian: "What does a pope do?" Benedict proceeded to tell Castro, who had stepped down as president in 2008 for health reasons and had to be helped to walk into the room, about his duties as leader of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church. Little did Castro know that Benedict was himself contemplating retirement. ...

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