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		<title>Pope Francis Confirms &#8216;Gay Lobby&#8217; at Work at Vatican</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(VATICAN CITY) Pope Francis lamented that a &#8220;gay lobby&#8221; was at work at the Vatican in private remarks to the leadership of a key Latin American church group — a stunning acknowledgment that appears to confirm earlier reports about corruption and dysfunction in the Holy See. The Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious — the regional organization for priests and nuns of religious orders — confirmed Tuesday that its leaders had written a synthesis of Francis&#8217; remarks after their June 6 audience. The group, known by its Spanish acronym CLAR, said it was greatly distressed that the document had been published and apologized to the pope. In the document, Francis is quoted as saying that while there were many holy people in the Vatican, there was also corruption: &#8220;The &#8216;gay lobby&#8217; is mentioned, and it is true, it is there &#8230; We need to see what we can do &#8230;&#8221; the synthesis reads. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Tuesday the audience was private and that as a result he had nothing to say. In the days leading up to Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s Feb. 28 resignation, Italian media were rife with reports of a &#8220;gay lobby&#8221; influencing papal decision-making and Vatican policy through blackmail, and suggestions that the scandal had led in part to Benedict&#8217;s decision to resign. (MORE: For First Time, the Vatican Enters Prestigious Venice Biennale) The unsourced reports, in the Rome daily La Repubblica and the news magazine Panorama, said details of the scandal were laid out in the secret dossier prepared for Benedict by three trusted cardinals who investigated the leaks of papal documents last year. Benedict left the dossier for Francis. At the time, the Vatican denounced the reporting as defamatory, &#8220;unverified, unverifiable or completely false.&#8221; Francis&#8217; remarks on the matter, as reported by the CLAR leadership, were published Tuesday in Spanish on the progressive Chilean-based website &#8220;Reflection and Liberation&#8221; and picked up and translated by the blog Rorate Caeli, which is read in Vatican circles. In the synthesis, Francis was quoted<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89618&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For First Time, the Vatican Enters Prestigious Venice Biennale</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/16/for-first-time-the-vatican-enters-prestigious-venice-biennale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Faris / Rome</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing visitors will see when they enter the Vatican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale—an art show dedicated to the modern and cutting edge—will be a nod to the past: a three-paneled triptych on which the 20th-century Italian artist Tano Festa reproduced details from Michelangelo&#8217;s Sistine Chapel. The paintings, in tones of tan and ocher, serve two functions. They remind viewers of the Vatican&#8217;s past importance as a sponsor of art, and they serve as a frame for the rest of the show inside. The theme for the pavilion, the Holy See&#8217;s first at the Biennale, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 24, is the same subject Michelangelo depicted in his famous ceiling: the opening chapters of Genesis. Spanning the history of biblical creation, from “Darkness on upon the face of the deep” through the collapse of the Tower of Babel, the events include the forming of the earth and the animals, the stories of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel and Noah&#8217;s flood. (MORE: Venice Biennale &#8211; Summer Entertainment Preview 2011) Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, who has been leading the effort, is careful to stress that the works are not liturgical—meaning they aren&#8217;t meant to be used as part of on altarpiece or otherwise be used in a religious ceremony. But it&#8217;s clear that he sees the art as serving a religious function, if only to offer a counterbalance to blasphemous iconic works of contemporary art like Andres Serrano&#8217;s Piss Christ or the Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka&#8217;s depiction of the Last Supper as a gay bacchanal—works that Ravasi argues demonstrate the continued power of religious symbols. “They found it necessary to attack them, to try to rub them out,” he says. The Biennale itself is no stranger to controversial works. In 1990, the American artist collective Gran Fury exhibited a piece titled &#8220;The Pope and the Penis,&#8221; a critique of the Vatican&#8217;s approach to AIDS. The 1991 sculpture by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was even more direct, depicting Pope John<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86636&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Pope Shows Eye for Symbolism</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/16/new-pope-shows-eye-for-symbolism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Faris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio didn&#8217;t always have the smoothest relations with the press. Said to be shy, he gave few interviews, preferring to address his congregation directly. Journalists in his native Argentina accused him of silent complicity during the country&#8217;s so-called Dirty War — charges he denounces as &#8220;slander.&#8221; In an interview with La Stampa’s Vatican Insider shortly before his election to the papacy, Bergoglio bemoaned the media&#8217;s focus on negativity and scandal. “Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia,&#8221; he said then. Yet when he addressed a group of several thousand journalists and their families on Saturday as Pope Francis, he opened with the words, &#8220;My dear friends.&#8221; Seated on a chair on stage in an audience hall next to St Peter&#8217;s Basilica, the Pope was greeted by the assembled journalists with applause and a few cries of &#8220;Viva.&#8221; Whether performing mass or giving an address, Francis&#8217; speaking style is more like that of an actor than a preacher: his tone is intimate, with touches of humor and folksiness, but he never loses command of his audience. In his delivery, if there&#8217;s a politician he resembles, it&#8217;s Ronald Reagan. During one passage in his address thanking the media for their &#8220;service&#8221; covering the conclave, Francis broke from the text, looked up and said with a smile: &#8220;You&#8217;ve worked, eh? You&#8217;ve really worked.&#8221; (MORE: The New Pope and Argentina’s ‘Disappeared’ of the Dirty War) There&#8217;s every indication that the new Pope knows how to work the media himself. When, a few days after the election, questions about his role during Argentina&#8217;s bloody military dictatorship threatened to derail the narrative of renewal, the Vatican responded with uncharacteristic speed and force, releasing a statement that described the accusations as slanderous, defamatory and motivated by leftist anticlericalism. &#8220;That was his first communications crisis, his first bump in the road,” says Dennis Redmont, a professor of international media at the University of Perugia in Rome, who covered three papacies as a journalist for the Associated Press. &#8220;When someone makes an accusation, it dangles. And in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75817&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Francis Criticized Britain over Falkland Islands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorcha Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today signals the first day of Pope Francis’ reign as the new leader of the Catholic Church, and already the pontiff is faced with a challenge.  As Argentines and Catholics across the globe celebrate the election of the first ever Latin American pope, comments made by the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio regarding the Falkland Islands dispute have emerged. Last April, at a memorial mass in Buenos Aires marking the 30th anniversary of the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict, Cardinal Bergoglio told his followers that they had come together to “pray for those who have fallen, the sons of our homeland who went out to defend their mother country, to reclaim what is theirs of the homeland, that which was usurped from them.” He also spoke of the many young Argentines who never returned from the war, while others “came back but were never able to forget,” writes AciPrensa. Whether or not they fought in the battleground, these young people were scared for life, the Cardinal said. Three years earlier, Cardinal Bergoglio told families of Argentine soldiers killed in the conflict to “go and kiss this land which is ours, and seem to us far away,” notes the Independent. (MORE: Pope of the Americas) His words echo those of Cristina Fernández Kirchner, President of Argentina, who in January sent an open letter to the British Prime Minister David Cameron calling on him to honor a United Nations resolution that dates back to 1960 and “end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations,” writes the Guardian. She wrote in the letter that the “Malvinas” (as the islands are known in Argentina) are 8,600 miles away from London and claimed that the Royal Navy had expelled Argentines living on the islands and replaced them with British settlers, a move that, she says, was a “blatant exercise in nineteenth-century colonialism.” Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands have expressed surprise at the election of Pope Francis. Monsignor Michael McPartland from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Stanley admitted this morning that he had never actually heard of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio until his election as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75358&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner greets Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio at the Basilica of Lujan, December 22, 2008.</media:title>
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		<title>Pope of the Americas</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/13/pope-of-the-americas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habemus Papam Franciscum came the tweet, the first official word from the @Pontifex account, after the white smoke curled from the copper chimney watched by hundreds of thousands in St. Peter’s Square, by millions and millions on every imaginable 21st century technology around the world. And there it was, old and new, past and present, the arrival of a Pope who for the first time hails from “the most unequal part of the world,” as he once called Latin America, who cooked his own dinners and rode the bus and took his regnal name from the sainted champion of the least among us. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, brings to the throne of St. Peter a concern about the “spiritual sickness” that can afflict a church if it seems to care more for its priests than its people. “I want you to bless me,” he told the crowd, before it was his turn to bless them. He noted that his brother Cardinals had gone “to the end of the earth” to find the new Bishop of Rome. But there was a kind of subtle, rounded—perhaps divine—justice to it all. And by the time his brief debut was over, it was already clear that a profound change had occurred in an institution famously resistant to it. The accession of a new Pope is always cause for wonderment—if only because the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church has managed to survive more trials than almost any other kingdom in history. No other institution can claim to have withstood Attila the Hun, the ambitions of the Habsburgs, the Ottoman Turks, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler, in addition to Stalin and his successors. Every new Pope faces fresh crisis and challenges. And in the 21st century, he does so at the head of a spiritual empire that touches more than 1.2 billion souls and whose influence crosses borders and contends with other great powers. Stefano Dal Pozzolo / Contrasto / Redux (PHOTOS: Pope and Circumstance: the Road to the Papacy) Francis, the first New<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75116&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pope and Circumstance: the Road to the Papacy</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/13/pope-and-circumstance-the-road-to-the-papacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikko Takkunen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scenes from St. Peter&#8217;s Square at the Vatican. (MORE: Habemus Papam: Francis, the First Pope from the Western Hemisphere) (MORE: Pope of the Americas) (PHOTOS: The Rise of Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio) (PHOTOS: Catholics in Latin America Rejoice Pope Francis)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74883&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notorious Cardinals: A Rogue&#8217;s Gallery of Powerful Prelates</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/13/notorious-cardinals-a-rogues-gallery-of-powerful-prelates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Popeology 101: How to Interpret the Sistine Chapel Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: March 13, 2013, 2:15 p.m. EDT When a plume of white smoke emerged from the Vatican&#8217;s chimney around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday evening, the masses gathered in St. Peter&#8217;s Square erupted in cheers. But what happens now? Once the new Pope is elected, he will be led to the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, just above the main door of Baroque architectural masterpiece. On that so-called Loggia of the Blessings, Cardinal Proto-Deacon Jean-Louis Tauran of France will announce in Latin: “Habemus Papam!”, pronounce the given name of the elected Pontiff and declare the name he has chosen under which to reign. The Vicar of Christ and the leader of the Roman Catholic Church will then emerge and give his first traditional Urbi et Orbi — the papal blessing saluting and praying for the city of Rome and the wider world. The personality of the Pope and his biography will be paramount in judging what to expect from his rule over a spiritual empire that touches more than 1 billion souls and whose influence crosses borders and contends against other principalities and powers. But there is much to be gleaned about how the new Pope will administer his kingdom from what went into the Sistine Chapel with the 115 Cardinal electors charged with discerning God’s will for the leadership of the church. As the absolute ruler of the Roman Catholic Church, a Pope can do as he pleases. Yet, the ideological and political position he occupied among his fellow princes of the church will stamp his reign from the get-go. The ideology may have already been preordained since, before his abdication, Pope Benedict XVI basically packed the College of Cardinals with prelates who apparently agreed with his conservative agenda. As Pope Emeritus, his presence will also be a constant reminder to the new Pontiff not to stray too far from the Benedictine prescriptions — if only not to embarrass the retired ruler of the church living in the Vatican garden. (MORE: Benedict XVI&#8217;s Second Act) Still, the politics of the Holy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74428&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s Legacy: Most Europeans Say He Was &#8216;Not Influential&#8217; in New Poll</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/28/pope-benedict-xvis-legacy-most-europeans-say-he-was-not-influential-in-new-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ollie John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Pope Benedict XVI steps down today as head of the Roman Catholic Church, a new survey shows that most people across Europe feel that the outgoing pontiff has made little difference to their lives. According to market research firm YouGov’s latest Eurotrack survey—which monitors public opinion in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland—a majority of people in every country polled feel that their politicians have paid little or no attention to the views of Pope Benedict or local Catholic bishops. In France, which is predominantly Roman Catholic, 61% of people believe Benedict has not been influential. And a majority of people in almost every country say their leaders were right to not pay much attention to the Pope’s views. The exception is Germany—Benedict’s country of birth—where 43% believing the Pope should be listened to and 40% saying he should be ignored. (MORE:  Benedict Promises Obedience to Successor) Generally, people have a more positive than negative view of Benedict’s performance during his eight years as Pope, the poll shows. But most say that he was right to resign, the survey shows &#8212; echoing the support his decision has received, in light of his failing health, from Cardinals and Vatican officials. Support for his resignation was highest in Germany, at 82%. On issues such as women priests, homosexuality and birth control, most people feel that Pope Benedict has been “too conservative and changed things too little”. A majority of people across the six countries said they “would be delighted” if the Cardinals choosing the next Pope selected a pontiff who wanted to permit Catholic couples to use contraception. The Eurotrack survey was conducted Feb. 21-27 via an online survey of some 6,600 European adults. MORE:  What Lies Ahead for the Pope Post-Abdication  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=71934&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life After the Papacy: What Lies Ahead for the Pope Post-Abdication</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/26/life-after-the-papacy-what-lies-ahead-for-the-pope-post-abdication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alessandro Speciale / Rome</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED With an emotional signoff Thursday from the highest balcony of his temporary home at Castel Gandolfo, Benedict XVI became the first pope in 600 years to relinquish his title, leaving the Vatican without a leader as the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new Pope. The gathered onlookers were filled with cheers and tears as Benedict, calling himself &#8220;just a pilgrim,&#8221; announced his crossing back into private life. Effective 8 p.m. Vatican time Thursday evening, Benedict XVI becomes known as &#8220;Pope Emeritus&#8221; and abdicates the rights and responsibilities that come with being the pontiff of the Catholic Church. He promised his unconditional support and reverence during a day of meetings in the Vatican, where he discussed the selection of his successor. Later, he was loaded into an Italian air force helicopter, en route to the papal summer home at Castel Gandolfo, in the hilly, picturesque Roman suburbs. As the chopper hovered over the Vatican, church bells rang out loudly. His piano and his beloved books followed the ex-Pontiff on the short trip Thursday afternoon from the Apostolic Palace — Sixtus V’s majestic palazzo that has served as the Popes&#8217; living quarters and main office since the 16th century — to Mater Ecclesiae, which despite a name that means the Mother of the Church in Latin, is the small Vatican convent where he will spend his last years. All the other papal paraphernalia — the Renaissance masterpieces on the walls of his study, the ancient cabinets and tapestries, the gifts from heads of state and Cardinals who visited from all over the world, the files and documents that detail the thousand issues the leader of the world&#8217;s largest church must face every day — all these will remain where they are. And the man who once was Pope Benedict XVI probably won&#8217;t miss them. (MORE: Pope Benedict&#8217;s Second Act) Joseph Ratzinger was 78 when he was elected to the papacy, and he had never been shy about saying that after serving as Pope John Paul II&#8217;s doctrinal enforcer for almost<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70693&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path of Pope Benedict XVI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hinderaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Declaring that he lacks the strength to do his job, Pope Benedict XVI announced he will resign Feb. 28 &#8211; becoming the first pontiff to step down in 600 years. His decision sets the stage for a mid-March conclave to elect a new leader for a Roman Catholic Church in deep turmoil.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68398&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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