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Following custom, Pope Benedict performed several baptisms today. But he broke with recent custom in at least one significant way, according to this report: Pope Benedict XVI baptized 13 babies in the Sistine Chapel during a Sunday Mass celebrated at the altar at the foot of Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” wall fresco. In a departure from…

Details are trickling out about the papal trip to America this spring — and the Washington Post has some intriguing behind-the-scenes nuggets about his visit to the nation’s capital: Which position will the pope take up at Nationals Park? Second base or center field? Curious questions face organizers preparing for the arrival of Pope Benedict…

There’s been a lot of buzz about our eco-friendly pope, and now the Vatican is poised to make a little bit of history with solar power: A German solar company has given Pope Benedict XVI something special for Christmas: an electricity-generating solar rooftop for the Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall. The Bonn-based SolarWorld is donating…

…I’d fit right in at the Vatican’s nativity scene. A couple weeks ago, I posted an item about the nativity scene going up in St. Peter’s Square, and noted that it would be very different, because it would be set not in a stable or a cave, but in Joseph’s carpentry workshop in Nazareth. I…
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