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....... it turns out the Mexicans have quite a few racism problems of their own. Fresh off Vatican Radio, which takes this sort of news from the United Nations seriously, the Mexicans have been told to clean up their act on all the rampant racism against their indigenous peoples, something that has been going on as long as there's been a Mexico.

Radio Vatican Promoting Women's Ordination Women at the altar - This is obviously what the German-speaking department of Radio Vatican wants and has published strange pictures on its Facebook page. After protests by Catholics the pictures were removed - PHOTO Vatican (kath.net) The German-speaking department of Radio Vatican yesterday, again, provoked Catholics with a strange selection of pictures and caused a certain ideological headlines to flash on their website. For example, on the Facebook site, with reference to an article on the Holy Eucharist and the phrase "How was the bread and wine again?" "What is the Body and Blood...

Vatican Radio - the voice of the Roman Catholic church - is going commercial in July to meet rising costs.It is one of the world's oldest broadcasters, first going on the air as long ago as 1931. But the station now costs about $30m (21.4m euros, £18.8m) a year to run and the Vatican has been looking for ways of raising new funding. An advertising agency is to vet the radio ads to make sure they are in keeping with moral standards. Vatican Radio's first transmitter was designed by the Italian who carried out the world's first long distance...

In a first, Pope Benedict's ad limina speech to the bishops of Ontario this morning was recorded -- and chunks of it have already been broadcast on Vatican Radio. What does this mean, you ask? Well, it's not rocket science.... Especially as the address was probably the most strident cultural message Joseph Ratzinger has given since the now-famous "dictatorship of relativism" homily at the Mass immediately preceding the conclave that elected him to Peter's chair. The package also features insight from Bishop Richard Smith of Pembroke, head of the Ontario Bishops Conference, who greeted the pontiff in the name...