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Vatican priest has a problem with gay
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Sunday, 13 December 2009
 Vatican suspended the priest from the Congregation for the Clergy, because it admitted that he is an active homosexual. Now denies this. Message reported in the Saturday newspaper "La Repubblica" and the Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, once it was confirmed.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 January 2010 )
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Vatican published a document process Templar
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Sunday, 13 December 2009
 The Vatican presented a collection of documents from the trial of the Knights Templar, held for 700 years in the secret archives. It is stressed that all currently published texts were already known. Also new is the fact that for the first time they appear in their entirety in the form of photocopies, along with historical commentary arousing great interest for researchers and fans of mysteries of the Knights Templar.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 January 2010 )
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Vatican: Muslims are already more than Catholics
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Sunday, 13 December 2009
 Number of Muslims in the world exceeded the number of Catholics - is apparent from the data, published in the recent Pontifical Yearbook, published by the Vatican. Muslims are 1 billion 322 million, and the Catholics - 1 billion 130 million.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 January 2010 )
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Vatican vs. Madrid
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Sunday, 13 December 2009
 Holy See criticized the announcement of the new law on abortion, and calls the leftist government of Spain to the dialogue. Last Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega announced the appointment of a committee of experts to prepare a new law, and on Friday, Cardinal William Levada, the President of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke in Santiago de Compostela - makes me sad for this project, because it is a sign that behind it is not a vision of life now, precious dignity of every person conceived. It is an authoritarian project.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 January 2010 )
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Vatican: The surprise and pain after the death of Alexius II
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Sunday, 13 December 2009
 The "surprise and pain" at the Vatican accepted the death of Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II - announced on Friday, the Italian agency ANSA. This is the first reaction of the Holy See on the death of head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 January 2010 )
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He informed the director and radio papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican, the first time in the history of Vatican Radio will be forced to broadcast advertising spots. The station signed an agreement with Italian multinational energy company ENEL. Spots to appear on radio, in five languages, from July 6 to September 27. Until now, Vatican Radio claimed that the ads will not be emitted. History of radio reaches 78 years.

Vatican City is a place of countless monuments.

Sights of the Vatican are great tourist attractions for visitors to Rome, the capital of Italy, in which the city is just the Vatican. Every year, many tourists come to see the tourist sights of this beautiful miniature state. The largest monument of the Vatican can include, inter alia, Gardens of the Vatican Observatory Vatican Pinacoteca, the Sistine Chapel or at least the Basilica of St.. Peter in the Vatican. St Mark's Basilica. Peter is the second largest church in the world. It stands in the place of death and crucifixion of St. Peter. The Vatican also include monuments outside of its borders, is one of them even contained Lateran Basilica in Rome. 5 pontifical university located in Rome is also against the historic Vatican min. University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope's Salesian University, etc. All these attractions draw crowds of pilgrims, the Vatican, whose main objective is the audience at the Vatican with the Pope. Interest in the place of the most important head of the church is becoming more and more.

Vatican City is the place of office and selection of the most important head of ecclesiastical authority.

Pope, exercises supreme authority there legislative, executive and judicial branches. Pope performs its function for life and is elected by an electoral college. Currently, the pope is Benedict XVI, who will perform his office from April 19, 2005. It replaced the late pope John Paul II. Every year, the Vatican crowds staying faithful to a meeting with the Pope. They can do this by taking part in a mass at St Peter's Square. Peter in the Vatican, or take part in a private audience. Audiences at the Vatican held in every Wednesday and were initiated by Pope Pius XI, who wished in this way closer to the faithful. Among the pilgrims are thousands of Poles who, in addition to meeting with Pope Benedict XVI arrived in St. Peter's Basilica. Peter in the Vatican to visit the tomb of the Polish Pope John Paul II and pay tribute to him.