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Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano (), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The Vatican on Tuesday sought to put the widening scandal over leaked documents into a very different light, saying the stolen papers didn't just concern matters of internal church governance but represented the thoughts of people who in writing to the pope believed they were essentially speaking before God.
As a result, Pope Benedict XVI feels particularly pained over the leaks and wants to get to the bottom of the scandal to heal the breach and re-establish a sense of trust among the faithful, according to the Vatican's undersecretary of state, Archbishop Angelo Becciu."I consider the publication of stolen letters to be an unprecedentedly grave immoral act," Becciu told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "It's not just that the pope's papers were stolen, but that people who turned to him as the vicar of Christ have had their consciences violated."The so-called "Vatileaks" scandal has tormented the Vatican for months and represents one of the greatest breaches of trust and sec...One of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades appears to be widening with reports that an Italian cardinal may be involved in a power struggle involving leaked do...
The largest umbrella group for U.S. nuns said Friday that the church-ordered overhaul of their organization is based on unsubstantiated claims from a flawed investig...
Pope Benedict XVI will attend a concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim at La Scala on the first of three days of events focused on the f...
Pope Benedict XVI's decision to attend a concert at La Scala demonstrates the pontiff's interest in culture and is a great honor for the venue, the theater's music d...
The Vatican has denounced as "criminal" a new book of leaked internal documents that shed light on power struggles inside the Holy See and the thinking of its embatt...
Pope's butler agrees to cooperate after being arrested for allegedly having confidential documents
The president of the Vatican bank has effectively been ousted after receiving a unanimous vote of no-confidence from bank overseers for having leaked documents and f...
Spokesman says the Pope is not concerned about what might emerge in the investigation
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI , often under fire for political missteps on foreign trips, is heading into a potential diplomatic storm when he visits Cyprus ...
The Vatican insisted Saturday it has done everything possible to try to resolve the 1983 disappearance of an employee's teenage daughter and has no objections to all...
Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most en...
Pope Benedict XVI's ability to reform the troubled Legion of Christ has again been thrown into doubt following revelations that a half-dozen priests are under Vatica...
The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home, agreeing ...
Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence Wednesday over the leaked documents scandal that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal but grateful t...
Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence Wednesday over the scandal of leaked documents that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal but gratefu...
An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope's own butler had been arrested after docu...
An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope's own butler had been arrested after docu...
The Vatican confirmed Saturday that the pope's butler had been arrested in its embarrassing leaks scandal, adding a Hollywood twist to a sordid tale of power struggl...
The Vatican's investigation into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the investigation is continuin...
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