Vatican

VATICAN - A Vatican official has slammed the decision to award the British in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) pioneer Robert Edwards with the Nobel Prize for medicine, saying it is "completely out of order".

VATICAN - Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, who has reportedly dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession over the past 25 years, has said the Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church.ather Amorth said the consequences of satanic infiltration included power struggles as well as "cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon".

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI late Thursday led the Vatican's Christmas celebrations with the traditional midnight Mass, which this year began two hours earlier than usual.