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Hilary White, Rome Correspondent

Organizer hopes astonishing growth of Rome March for Life will kick-start public debate

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Apr 17 16:55 EST Comments (3)

ROME, April 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organizers hope that the 3rd annual Italian Marcia per la Vita Nazionale (National March for Life), set for May 12th in Rome, will kick-start a public debate on abortion that has remained tightly locked…

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Tags: abortion, march for life, rome

Rome’s March for Life will promote 1 million signature EU pro-life campaign

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Mon Apr 15 16:22 EST Comments (1)

ROME, April 15, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This year’s National March for Life (Marcia per la Vita) in Rome is coinciding with an international effort to have the European Union ban funding for embryo research and declare that all human beings have…

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Tags: abortion, march for life, rome

Vatican stem cell conference hopes to overcome ‘prejudice,’ promote adult stem cell trials

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Apr 10 17:01 EST Comments (0)

ROME, April 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican has said that a conference it is sponsoring this week on ethical stem cell research will help to correct the public misperceptions of the burgeoning scientific field. The conference, spokesmen…

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Tags: stem cells

Homosexual activists excited by softer tone of U.S. cardinals

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Thu Apr 04 17:02 EST Comments (49)

Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl.

ROME, April 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Experts say, despite an apparently softer tone on homosexuals from two leading American cardinals, the Roman Catholic Church will not and cannot shift its moral teaching on same-sex "marriage" or the grave…

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Tags: catholicism, donald wuerl, same-sex 'marriage'

Harvesting eggs from aborted babies to create IVF babies? Ten years later the story still horrifies

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Apr 03 16:19 EST Comments (13)

A proposal by fertility researchers to “harvest” female gametes, “ova,” from the dead bodies of aborted children to create in vitro embryos in the lab has created a small buzz among the pro-life websites, blogs and Facebook in the last couple of…

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Defence of family transcends left-right political divide: Vatican family chief

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Thu Mar 28 11:18 EST Comments (3)

Vincenzo Paglia

ROME, March 28, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Efforts “to defend the poor, to defend those on death row, to defend human life at its earliest stages” are all part of the same “social justice” work for the Catholic Church, a top-level Vatican official…

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Tags: catholic, vincenzo paglia

Second Chimney-Watch Day: black smoke this morning

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Mar 13 11:59 EST Comments (0)

This morning, I took an early train into the City and met up with some friends to walk around the Piazza, look up at the chimney and chat with the many hundreds of people in the Piazza. The Second Ballot of the conclave was scheduled for 9:30 or…

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First ballot: black smoke

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Tue Mar 12 18:54 EST Comments (0)

Tonight was my first time. Nearly everyone I know in Rome has been in the Piazza for at least one papal election, so even though we knew there would be no white smoke tonight, it was an exciting moment.

As my friend and I were heading down…

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The conclave-watcher’s lexicon: what do they mean when they say that?

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Mon Mar 11 17:53 EST Comments (3)

The media and pundits, as well as churchmen, use a lot of jargon that many ordinary readers, unaccustomed to romanità, the carefully encoded diplomatic language used by the Vatican and its cadre of experts, will not be familiar with. A lot of the…

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Dark Horses II: An Italian and two more Germans

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Fri Mar 08 12:44 EST Comments (5)

ROME, March 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The secular media, with its obession with sex and politics, scandals and hidden agendas, often misses stories that would be of real interest to their audience. This week, as we all wait for the announcement…

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Tags: papal conclave

'Gloomy, bored and restless' – secular media put in their place by Vatican 'reserve'

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Thu Mar 07 14:39 EST Comments (11)

ROME, March 7, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – As each day passes without a date set by the cardinals for the start of the conclave, the more than 5,000 journalists accredited to the Holy See in the last few weeks are growing more gloomy, bored, and…

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Tags: catholicism, media

‘Dark horse’ cardinals: their positions on life and family and faith issues - Part I

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Mar 06 13:41 EST Comments (62)

ROME, March 2, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the evening of October 16, 1978, thousands of people filled the Piazza San Pietro waiting to hear the name of their new pope. But when it came, there was reportedly a muted response from puzzled…

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Tags: benedict xvi, conclave

Cardinal O’Brien admits sexual misconduct, apologizes

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Mon Mar 04 17:16 EST Comments (10)

Cardinal Keith O'Brien

ROME, March 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The former head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, after resigning amid a flurry of controversy last week, has admitted to sexual misconduct in his past and apologised. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the former…

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Tags: benedict xvi, catholic, keith o'brien

“Resta con noi” – Pope Benedict’s final moments as pope

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Thu Feb 28 20:19 EST Comments (5)

The last goodbye from Castel Gandolfo
Swiss guards salute at Castel Gandolfo

CASTELGANDOLFO, February 28, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two hours before the end of Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate, the live feed from Vatican Radio’s webcam of the piazza shows that the lights are already off in the papal apartments. In the last…

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Edinburgh cardinal bows out of conclave after unspecified, anonymous accusations

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Tue Feb 26 21:45 EST Comments (9)

Cardinal Keith O’Brien

ROME, February 26, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The abrupt resignation of the cardinal archbishop of Edinburgh, and his announcement that he will not be attending the conclave, has come as a surprise to most veteran Vatican observers. Cardinal Keith…

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