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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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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
Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols describes the government’s plan for gay marriage as undemocratic and a “shambles”.
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.
Religion must be given a greater role in public life to push back a wave of “intolerant secularisation”, Baroness Warsi will argue during an official visit to the Vatican.
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
Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports from Athens as the Greek debt crisis fuels further global pleas for concerted action from Europe’s political leaders.
A convicted murderer who was the subject of a worldwide campaign for clemency has been executed in the United States.
Bishops in England and Wales ask Catholics to avoid meat on Fridays, reviving the church’s tradition of fasting as an act of penance.
The Vatican rejects “unfounded” accusations made in the Irish parliament in July that it tried to cover up child sex abuse by priests and interfered in Irish laws.
Croatia is expected to join the European Union in July 2013, the European Commission announced on Friday.
Belgium’s Justice Minister calls on the Catholic Church to punish a former Bishop who appeared on TV to deny he was a paedophile but admit abusing two young nephews.
Prejudice against Muslims has “passed the dinner table test” and is seen as socially acceptable in Britain, Baroness Warsi – the first Muslim woman in the Cabinet – will say.
The beatification of Pope John Paul II would not be affected if it emerges he knew of a letter to Irish bishops advising them not to report child sex abuse claims, Channel 4 News has been told.
The latest WikiLeaks cable reveals fears of anti-Catholic violence in the UK after the Pope offered to accept conservative Anglicans into the Roman Catholic church.