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• First beatification ceremony held in Cuba
Jose Saraiva, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Vatican's saint-making office, traveled to Cuba from Rome for the ceremony. "In the face of a materialist culture that we see imposing itself everywhere and that pushes ...
• Laser technique produces bevy of antimatter
In the upcoming film "Angels and Demons," based on the best-selling Dan Brown book, a gram of stolen antimatter, or about 10 with 26 zeros after it, threatens to blow up the Vatican. Right now the physicists can only produce about 10 with nine zeros ...
• Need a luxury gift? Try a $100,000 book
... stage curtains at The Metropolitan Opera and Milan's Teatro Alla Scala. The book is filled with photographs of Michelangelo's drawings and sculptures. The text is by Michelangelo biographer Giorgio Vasari, with essays by the director of the Vatican ...
• Hollywood priest considered for sainthood
... the investigating process. Then, three priests from the archdiocese will spend the coming years reviewing documents and examining witnesses who say they were healed after praying to Peyton. The results will be reviewed by a commission at the Vatican.
• Priest facing excommunication will appeal
ALBANY, Georgia - A Georgia priest facing excommunication for supporting the ordination of women said Friday he plans to visit the Vatican with a contingent of fellow priests and a bishop to appeal the decision. Roy Bourgeois, 69, a Maryknoll priest ...