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• Work begins on Nativity scene in St Peter’s Square

  Sunday, November 13th, 2011

  The scene will be unveiled shortly before Christmas Day

• Lord Alton: Mother Teresa inspires my fight for human rights

  Sunday, November 6th, 2011

  Crossbench peer says the Blessed’s words encourage him

• Pope celebrates Vespers with pontifical university students

  Saturday, November 5th, 2011

  Event marks start of the academic year in Rome

• General audience: Pope speaks about fear of death

  Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

  ‘Faith teaches us that the fear of death is lightened by a great hope, the hope of eternity’

• Pope condemns witchcraft during meeting with bishops of Angola and Sao Tomé

  Monday, October 31st, 2011

  Benedict XVI also told the bishops that the low number of Catholic marriages in some areas showed a lack of spiritual maturity

• Hollywood prepares for a new era of biblical epics

  Saturday, October 29th, 2011

  New films about Noah, Moses and Judah Maccabee are in the works

• Pope Benedict XVI’s speech in Assisi

  Thursday, October 27th, 2011

  Full text of Pope’s speech in Assisi: ‘The Catholic Church will not let up in her fight against violence, in her commitment for peace in the world’

• Vatican proposes a world government to stabilise the financial system

  Monday, October 24th, 2011

  The Holy See has released a new document with ambitious proposals to tackle the world’s debt crisis

• Man climbs colonade and burns Bible during canonisation ceremony

  Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

  Iulian Jugarean arrested after staging protest in St Peter’s Square

• Vatican prepares for triple canonisation ceremony

  Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

  Guido Maria Conforti, Luigi Guanella and Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro will be canonised tomorrow