Friday 03rd of September 2010

Posts taged as ‘ pope ’



Don’t take “holy” water onto pope plane

Friday, August 29th, 2008 | Por admin | Category Religion News

The Vatican has warned journalists who will travel with Pope Benedict to Lourdes next month not to put the revered water from the shrine in their hand luggage on the papal plane or it may be confiscated.
The pope will travel Sept 12-15 to Paris and the site in southern France where the Madonna is said [...]



Italian museum defies pope over crucified frog

Friday, August 29th, 2008 | Por admin | Category Lead Articles, Religion News

An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous. The board of the Museion museum in the northern city of Bolzano decided by a majority vote that the frog was a work of art and would stay in place for the remainder of an exhibition.