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Vatican 2.0: the search for a 21st century leader
Pilgrims believe the church is in need of re-energising and that a younger Pope who can speak to the secular world could be what is now sought after
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As the Catholic church copes with the aftermath of another sex scandal – this time involving Cardinal O’Brien, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric – the celibacy of priests is back up for debate.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor tells Jon Snow he was “very sad” to hear about allegations against Cardinal Keith O’Brien and that the next Pope will continue to “assert the teachings of the church”.
A call for priests to be allowed to wed by the UK’s most senior Roman Catholic will “raise some eyebrows” in the Vatican in the run-up to the election of the next Pope.
Pilgrims believe the church is in need of re-energising and that a younger Pope who can speak to the secular world could be what is now sought after
As Catholics worldwide react to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Jon Snow talks to the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, the most senior Catholic in England and Wales.
If we are to believe the Mayan calendar, the end of the world is due on 21 December. But sceptics say climate change or a global pandemic is far more likely to wipe us all out.
The UN vote on changing Palestine’s status represents a strange moment for one of its biggest financial backers – the UK.
After years of tortured debate that has polarised factions within the Church of England, the General Synod rejects legislation that would allow women to be ordained as bishops.
Britain’s UFO watchers will debate the future of research into extra-terrestrial activity as alien sightings take a downward spiral.
Police raid the underground catacombs of a Russian Muslim sect based in the city of Kazan, in Tatarstan, and release dozens of devotees, including several children.
Channel 4 News Health and Social Care Correspondent, Victoria Macdonald, blogs on Hillary Clinton’s pledge that the government is working towards an “Aids-free generation”.
The death of His Most Blessed Beatitude Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Shenouda III comes at a perilous time for Egypt’s Christian minority.
Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow gave the Hugh Cudlipp lecture at the London College of Communication. You can read the full text of his speech here.
World leaders join Czechs in an emotional tribute to the nation’s first democratically-elected president, Vaclav Havel, at a pomp-filled funeral ceremony.
Channel 4 News Washington Correspondent Matt Frei writes about Newt Gingrich’s peccadilloes