Behind Benedict's Vatican Overhaul
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Though eyes are on his trip home, the Pope is (gradually) launching big changes back in the Roman Curia
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By lifting restrictions on a rite out of favor since the 1960s, Benedict is signaling the limits on Catholic reform
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A decree this month by Pope Benedict allowing wider use of the old Latin mass has spawned a veritable cottage industry in helping Roman Catholic priests learn how to celebrate the centuries-old rite.
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Normally a sanctuary of scholarly meditation, the Vatican Library has been the scene of unusually hectic activity lately, as word has spread that it will close in July for a three-year renovation.
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Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
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VATICAN CITY, July 7 -- Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday removed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving a rite that was all but swept away by the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
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As Christianity begins to reshape the nation, TIME learns new details about a crackdown on one church
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Film director Franco Zeffirelli says Pope Benedict has an image problem and offers his services as a makeover expert.
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Pope Benedict has ordered changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at Good Friday services by traditionalist Catholics, deleting a reference to their "blindness" over Christ, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing a new pope, returning to the traditional requirement that two-thirds of the cardinals in the conclave agree on a candidate, the Vatican said Tuesday.
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With Pope John Paul II hospitalized Wednesday with the flu and breathing problems, most of the Vatican's day-to-day operations are handled by the Curia &#151; a well-oiled bureaucracy with centuries-old roots.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI plans to restore a Vatican office that specializes in relations with Muslims a year after he was criticized for disbanding it.
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On the eve of his much-anticipated trip to Turkey, Benedict XVI hosted the Archbishop of Canterbury and got a glimpse of the perils of running a worldwide religion like a democracy
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The Vatican said yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI will soon issue a document providing for wider use of the Tridentine Mass, the centuries-old Latin rite that was largely supplanted in the 1960s by a new liturgy, usually translated into modern languages.
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Pope Benedict and the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians held a solemn prayer service together on Thursday and re-committed their Churches to the quest for unity to patch up a nearly 1,000-year-old schism.
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Pope Benedict is coming under mounting criticism from his former German theologian colleagues who liken the Catholic Church's doctrinal office, which the pontiff once headed, to a 19th century censorship bureau.
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The Vatican is making it tougher to become a saint.