1. Science is just one gene away from defeating religion
(Religion/Atheism)

... is a gift from God has frequently been used as a justification, or an excuse, for scientific inquiry. Pope Benedict XVI has gone further. In a speech read at La Sapienza University in Rome last year ...

2. Vatican rejects adoption of Italy's laws in historic shift
(Religion/General)

...Until now this had rarely been applied. But under a new Vatican statute which was signed in October by Pope Benedict XVI and comes into force on 1 January 2009, all Italian laws would be closely exami...

3. The Mind-Altering Role of Incense in Religion
(Religion/General)

...ass, the priest would grab the brass incense burner from the alter boy and wave it at the congregation as a benediction, spewing smoke in my direction. Little did I, or my parents, know that the pries...

4. Pope Benedict to test secular ground at UN
(Religion/General)

New York - Pope Benedict XVI's half-day visit on April 18 will be the fourth by a head of the Roman Catholic Church in the UN's 62 years in New York. He is certainly welcome at United Nations

5. More Americans leaving religious ties of their youth
(Religion/General)

...ates sources from The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. The survey also lays out, just weeks before Pope Benedict XVI's first papal visit to the United States, the Catholic Church's challen...

6. Exorcism undergoes a revival across Europe
(Religion/General)

...orts began under Pope John Paul II -- himself an occasional demon chaser -- and have accelerated under Pope Benedict XVI. A Catholic university in Rome began offering courses in exorcism in 2005 and h...

7. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...hat the clash between theism and atheism changes none of the constituents of the human condition. What Pope Benedict XVI said in Spe Salvi specifically of Karl Marx can be extended to most other athei...

8. The Catholic Church's devillish practice of exorcism
(Religion/General)

...of children is being aggressively promoted today by one of the most powerful men in the Western world, Pope Benedict II, in only slightly watered-down form. Presidents and Prime Ministers fawn over th...

9. Vatican calls on the faithful for mass apology for sex scandals
(Religion/General)

...nsecrated host representing the body of Jesus. The initiative has all the hallmarks of the thinking of Pope Benedict, and would certainly not have been launched in this way without his full support. ...