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Video shown at a Vatican news conference showed workers preparing the Sistine Chapel for the secretive conclave.
" A section seems to blame Christians for everything from the Opium Wars to abetting the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s -- which prompted the Vatican news agency to brand it a "distortion of the truth.
Relations between Israel and the Vatican have become tense in recent months, after news leaked out that the Vatican was considering making the wartime Pope Pius XII a saint, reports the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
Under a logo which reads "News.va, The Vatican Today", the new portal offers "an exclusive, multimedia presentation of all the other communications websites of the Holy See", including Vatican Radio, the newspaper l'Osservatore Romano and the Misna missionary news agency.
The U.S.-based group SNAP, or the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, reacted with skepticism to the news from the Vatican.
The investigation would cover every branch of the Vatican administration, the AFP news agency cites Giovanni Maria Vian, director of L'Osservatore Romano, as saying.
BBC: Vatican launches criminal probe into unauthorised leaks
Speaking to BBC News, the Vatican's official spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the Holy See "firmly condemns the horrible crimes of sexual abuse of minors, " adding it considered the Savile revelations as "very grave".
Alessandro Speciale, Vatican correspondent for the Religion News Service, told CNN the pope was not so much aiming to debunk myths as trying to show that the Jesus depicted in the Gospels is a real historical figure, who walked on earth and talked to people like anyone else.
Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said at a news conference.
CNN: Pope Benedict to resign at the end of the month, Vatican says
At a news conference at the Vatican, Father Lombardi confirmed that the batteries in the pacemaker, which had been fitted several years ago, had been replaced in the routine operation.
The Catholic network also has a social-media editor who tweets news coming out of the Vatican.
The pope could actually be dead for hours, and the world fully informed of the fact, before the news came officially from the Vatican press office.
The Vatican healed its absence in the universe of online news when its news site started in 2011 ( www.news.va).
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Last year, the Pope sent his first tweet from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See's news information portal.
Last year, the Pope sent his first tweet last year from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See's news information portal.
The yards and meters labels on the scale of a map of Vatican City, which was contained in a World News graphic on Saturday about the papal conclave, were incorrectly reversed.
The Vatican does not often react to science in the news this rapidly, and certainly not to be as positive as it was about a ground-breaking development in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
Thavis recently retired from his job as a chief of the Rome Bureau for Catholic News Service, where he has covered the Vatican since 1983.
The newly-appointed Vatican communications strategist, Greg Burke, formerly a Fox News TV correspondent, admits that the Pope has personally been very upset about the Vatileaks scandal.
Benedict received a 300-page report in December detailing the possible blackmail, la Repubblica newspaper and the Panorama news weekly reported, citing an unidentified senior Vatican official and dozens of unnamed sources.
The next step was to source the news to the Italian wire agency ANSA or Vatican Radio releasing a bulletin that read: VATICAN CITY -- ANSA REPORTING POPE DEAD at a lower wire speed priority.
"An attack against life is an attack against God, who is the author of life, " Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's office for sainthood, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
Proof of the Vatican's irritation came with a stinging statement Saturday complaining of "unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories, " even suggesting the media is trying to influence the election of the next pope.
As the world reeled with the news that Pope Benedict XVI was to resign, another bolt from the blue was to hit the Vatican within hours.
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