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Demonstration against Vatican's policy towards homosexuality
1. Wide of trucks with banner and protesters at anti-Vatican demonstration in Ostiense square in Rome
2. Various of demonstrators carrying banners
3. Close up of demonstrator wearing mask
4. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Nicoletta, Italian...
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Maria Bello talks Catholicism
SHOTLIST (including transcript):-SOUNDBITESAP EntertainmentNew York, 27 Oct. 20151.SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Bello, actress - on a priest she befriended in college:"One of my very dearest partners was a Catholic priest who every day at...
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Preview to gay pride march, look at changing attitudes
Rome - 9 June 2011
1. Wide of Gay Pride village in Rome's Piazza Vittorio
2. Gay couple walking with arms around each other
3. Wide of man with child carrying pink balloon walking through Gap Pride village
4. Visitors chatting and having...
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IRELAND: DIVORCE REFERENDUM: REACTION TO VOTE
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Some anti-divorce activists in Ireland are considering mounting a legal challenge to block its legalisation.
The threat comes after the republic's weekend referendum in which the change was approved by a wafer-thin...
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Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that condoms can be justified for male prostitutes seeking to stop the spread of HIV, a stunning comment for a church criticized for its opposition to condoms and for a pontiff who has blamed them for making the AIDS crisis worse.
HEADLINE: Pope: condoms can be justified in some cases
CAPTION: Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that condoms can be justified for male prostitutes seeking to stop the spread of HIV, a stunning comment for a church criticized...
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Trump: Clinton Team Attacked Catholics in Emails
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4060277Donald Trump railed against Hillary Clinton during a rally in Florida on Wednesday, saying newly released emails show "members of the Clinton team viciously attacking Catholics and...
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Clergy sex abuse victim vents anger at Cardinal Law
Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was...
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Italy - Hiroshima Concert At Vatican
The Pope told the audience at a Saturday night (5/8) concert at the Vatican that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki half a century ago were a nightmare for the conscience of humanity. The Pope did not attend the concert. His...
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The Vatican is putting on display a replica of the letter sent to the pope in 1530 beseeching him to grant King Henry VIII a divorce from his first wife
HEADLINE: The most important letter in English history?
CAPTION: The Vatican is putting on display a replica of the letter sent to the pope in 1530 beseeching him to grant King Henry VIII a divorce from his first wife. (June...
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Pope meets Syrian and Iraqi refugees, disabled youngsters
Pope Francis denounced arms dealers and appealed on Saturday for an urgent end to the Syrian civil war as he began his three-day trip to the Middle East with an emotional meeting with refugees from Syria and Iraq who have fled to...
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Reax as Vatican publishes ruling on gays joining priesthood
1. Statue in Saint Peter's Square
2. Wide shot of St Peter's Square
3. Various close-ups of the "instruction" document, with page reading "Homosexuality and the ordained ministry"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Orazio Petrosillo, Vatican...
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Groups denounce Vatican's inaction on sexual abuse scandal
8 October 2002
1. Wide shot St Peter's Square
2. Statues in St Peter's Square
FILE: 23 April 2002
3. Various of American cardinals during their visit to the Vatican
4. Mid shot, zoom out to wide shot of Pope John Paul II speaking to US...
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Catholics celebrate end of Christmas with traditional mass
1. Wide of crowd outside church for Candelaria (Candlemas)
2. Women walking towards church carrying figure of the baby Jesus
3. Wide of worshipers inside church during mass
4. Priest officiating mass
5. Wide of people inside church,...
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Unrest marks anniverasry of Battle of the Boyne
1. Wide of riot police in front of smoke
2. Close up of riot police in front of vehicles
3. Wide as missile hits vehicle, pan to missile hitting ground
4. Mid shot of riot police in front of vehicles with smoke filled sky
5. Ambulance...
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WRAP Pope arrives in Fatima, visits shrine, pilgrims; ADDS reax
1. Wide of Pope Benedict XVI arriving in Popemobile to Fatima Sanctuary and Basilica
2. Pope waves from Popemobile
3. Pope waving to pilgrims
4. Pan of crowd
5. Top shot of pope arriving at Chapel of Apparitions
6. SOUNDBITE:...
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Vatican prepares to promote 19 bishops to "Princes of the Church" on Saturday
In a formal ceremony at the Vatican on Saturday, the pope will induct 19 prelates into the College of Cardinals, placing the three-cornered red silk biretta on the heads of the new "princes of the church".
This is Pope Francis' first...
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Vatican says talks with breakaway traditionalists will continue
1. Wide of St.Peter Basilica
2. Mid shot, Saint Peter dome
3. Pan left from Saint Uffizio gate to Saint Uffizio palace
4. Swiss guards
5. Wide of Saint Uffizio gate
6. Lefebvrians delegation coming out of meeting inside Vatican
7....
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WRAP Former UK PM converts to Catholicism ADDS Vatican analyst
22 December 2007
1. Wide shot exteriors of St Peter's square
2. Close up cross on the cupola
3. Father John Wauck, Professor of Communications at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, talking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) John...
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Vatican lays out teaching on social issues
1. Wide shot St. Peter Basilica
2. Mid shot Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, sourrounded by journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino:
"This a proposal that the church makes to everybody and so it is up to...
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Traditional lighting of the tree in St Peter's Square
1. Wide of Christmas tree in St Peter's Square before being lit up
2. Various of decorations on tree
3. Tilt down of tree
4. Mid of children who lit up tree
5. Wide of children lighting up tree, tilt up
6. Pull focus from tree to...
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EGYPT: POPE JOHN PAUL II ARRIVES IN CAIRO (2)
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Pope John Paul II praised Egypt as a cradle of learning, religion and unity as he started a pilgrimage to retrace some of the most epic passages from the Bible.
The trip is also an opportunity to promote closer dialogue with...
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POLAND: COURT OVERTURNS LAW ALLOWING ABORTIONS
Italian/Eng/Nat
Poland's Consitutional Court has overturned a law allowing abortions in Poland on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II.
The law had only been in effect for five months, and had been opposed by the Catholic Church....
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Traditional Easter procession by penitents attracts thousands of tourists
1. Penitent kneeling down on floor, flogging himself on the back
2. Close of blood
3. Penitent flogging himself
3. Wide of religious procession
4. Mid of devotees and tourists watching procession
5. Tilt up of penitent carrying bundle...