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Topic: The Vatican

May 16, 2013
7:06 pm

Attendees at the Venice Biennale international art festival in 2007 (photo credit: CC BY 3.0, by Renatomarto, Wikimedia Commons)

Vatican to present Torah-themed art exhibit

‘Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation,’ based on Genesis 1-11, will be displayed at Venice Biennale international art festival

March 31, 2013
2:22 pm

Faithful pass by the Shroud of Turin that went on display for a special TV appearance Saturday, March 30. (photo credit: AP/Alessandro Di Marcol)

Shroud of Turin on display amid new claim of authenticity

In book, researchers date cloth to the 1st century; Pope Francis hails the ‘icon,’ but tellingly doesn’t describe it as a relic

By Nicole Winfield

March 19, 2013
10:59 am

Pope Francis waves to crowds as he arrives at his inauguration Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis urges protection of nature, weak

St. Peter’s square in Vatican City fills for new pontiff installation Mass

By Nicole Winfield

March 17, 2013
2:44 pm

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Pope breaks with tradition on first Sunday in office

Francis pops out to meet worshipers, delivers informal remarks, shakes hands, kisses babies

March 12, 2013
1:26 pm

From left, US Cardinals Justin Francis Rigali, Donald Wuerl, Timothy Dolan, Francis George and Roger Mahony leave the North American College to go to the Vatican's Domus Sanctae Martae, the Vatican hotel where the cardinals stay during the conclave, in Rome, on Tuesday March 12, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican cardinals begin conclave to select new pope

Successor to Benedict XVI could be selected by 8 p.m.

By Nicole Winfield

March 12, 2013
1:02 pm

(photo illustration: Flash90/Times of Israel)

Lapid cracks a pope joke on Facebook

Yesh Atid leader, frustrated by lengthy coalition negotiations, casts an envious eye at the selection process for the new pontiff

By Asher Zeiger

February 22, 2013
6:51 pm

Former pope's butler Paolo Gabriele is received in a private audience by Pope Benedict XVI, at the Vatican, in December 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Italy gripped by conspiracy theories over pope’s resignation

Speculation over secret dossier submitted to Catholic leader on the day before he announced his decision to step down

By Times of Israel staff and AP

February 11, 2013
2:16 pm

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful from his studio's window overlooking St.Peter's square at the end of the Angelus noon prayer, at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Text of Pope Benedict’s resignation announcement

‘I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry’

February 11, 2013
1:31 pm

Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 (photo credit: AP/Andrew Medichini)

Pope resigning on February 28, conclave in March

Benedict XVI, 85, is the first pontiff to voluntarily leave the post in nearly 600 years; cites failing strength at ‘advanced age’

December 22, 2012
5:17 pm

Former pope's butler Paolo Gabriele is received in a private audience by Pope Benedict XVI, at the Vatican, in December 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Christmas pardon for pope paper purloiner

Benedict forgives his jailed aide for leaking private documents to expose Catholic church corruption

By Nicole Winfield

December 4, 2012
8:12 pm

Pope Benedict XVI (left) and President Shimon Peres (photo credit: Shimon Peres/Facebook)

Peres welcomes pope to Twitter

President greets new papal envoy to Israel, praises bilateral relations with the Vatican

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 28, 2012
9:15 pm

Israel's Ambassador to the Holy See, Dr. Zion Evrony, presents his Letter of Credence to Pope Benedict XVI at the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo on Thursday. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel’s envoy to the Holy See presents credentials to Pope

Ambassador Evrony hails Vatican’s good relations with Israel

By Times of Israel staff

September 22, 2012
4:45 am

This Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University shows a fourth century fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife (photo credit: AP Photo/Harvard University, Karen L. King)

Harvard says more research needed before publishing report on Jesus having wife

Mystery shrouds ownership of ancient papyrus fragment in which Jesus uses the words ‘my wife’; some believe document to be a forgery

By Jay Lindsay

June 11, 2012
2:12 pm

South Sudan migrants gather in Tel Aviv to protest against Israel's immigration policy (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

All the news that fits in print

Everything from Syrian battles to accidental chemo is smushed into today’s papers

By Joshua Davidovich