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Celebrations are taking place all over Europe to mark the end of 2008 and usher in the New Year.
From Rome to London and Athens to France, revellers greeted 2009 with stunning pyrotechnic shows and heartfelt appeals for compassion. … Read More »
Pope Benedict XVI delivered his traditional Christmas Midnight Mass to a huge congregation at the St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
As midnight neared, Pope Benedict, in white and gold-threaded vestments, walked up the main aisle of the flood-lit St Peter’s Basilica, smiling and stopping several times to shake outstretched hands and bless children. … Read More »
An Italian Catholic priest is facing severe criticism from parents, as a prize meanie, for telling their children that Father Christmas does not really exist.
Father Dino Bottino, the parish priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Novara, Northern Italy, let out the secret at a children’s mass earlier this month. … Read More »
No immediate reports of dancing in the streets in Europe — wrong time of day for all that — but clear signs of happiness over the election of Barack Obama, in America, (4.11.08, USA). … Read More »