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Pope Benedict XVI Resigned Partly Because Of Powerful Vatican Gay Lobby, Italian Paper Claims The Huffington Post - By Meredith Bennett-Smith \l "Posted: 02/21/2013 6:09 pm EST |- Updated: 02/22/2013 11:07 am EST An article published by Italian newspaper La Repubblica claims that Pope...

Pope Benedict XVI to resign, first to do so in six centuries By Elisabetta Povoledo & Alan Cowell, New York Times - Feb 11, 2013, 05.37 PM IST ROME: Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who took office in 2005 following the death of his predecessor, said on Monday that...

Pope Benedict XVI has delivered his traditional Christmas message at the Vatican, hours after a woman vaulted a barrier and knocked him to the ground. The Pope spoke in a firm voice in front of thousands of pilgrims, appearing undaunted by the earlier incident. The 82-year-old pontiff was...

The Catholic Church (and Pope Benedict XVI) were presented with a public relations powder keg last March when news broke that a nine-year-old Brazilian girl underwent an abortion after she'd been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather. Catholics from Sao Paolo to Paris were...

Pope Chastises Europe for "Excluding" God From Life and Taking Life From God http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Christianity/SIG=12gebpoje/*http%3A//abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=866643&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312