Pope Benedict XVI News

Church officials in Italy's Bolzano-Bressanone diocese report that Pope Benedict XVI will have the company of a black cat named Milly during his 2-week stay there, the ANSA news service reports.

Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Monday with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests, ending a pilgrimage to the country with a gesture of contrition and concern over a scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic church.

The pontiff held prayers and spoke with four representatives of abuse victims _ two men and two women _ in the last hours of his 9-day visit to Australia for the church's global youth festival.

The victims did not speak publicly after the meeting. Support groups for other victims dismissed the gesture as a public relations stunt.

By Robert Conkling ROME, JULY 24, 2008 .- Had it not been for "Humanae Vitae," much of the natural reproductive medicine practiced today might not exist, says the co-founder of Natural Procreative Technology .

"I don't know how you got there"...Captain John Bartels inspects the hole in the jet yesterday.

Sydney, Jul 20, 2008 .-Pope Benedict XVI met four victims of child sex abuse this morning at a private mass held at St.

By Philip Pullella

ROME (Reuters) - More than 50 dissident Catholic groups published an unusually frank open letter to Pope Benedict on Friday saying the Church's ban on contraception has been "catastrophic" and urging him to lift it.

The letter was published as a paid half-page advertisement in Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper, on the 40th anniversary of the late Pope Paul VI's controversial encyclical "Humanae Vitae," which enshrined the ban.

While criticism of the Vatican and its views is fairly common in articles and editorials in Italian newspapers, it is unusual for a group to take out paid advertising against the pope, particularly in a large-circulation mainstream newspaper.

Indigenous Grandmas Nearly Kicked out of Vatican ROME - A group of North American tribal grandmothers failed in their quest to get Pope Benedict XVI to rescind three Christian doctrines of "discovery" and ...

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ARANJUEZ, Spain, JULY 23, 2008 .- The Church can have great hope in the youth of today who are showing themselves to be young, committed leaders, according to the archbishop of Toledo, Spain.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, JULY 23, 2008 .- Following his 10-day international trip to Australia, Benedict XVI is spending the rest of the week at the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, some 19 miles south ...

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SYDNEY, Australia, JULY 20, 2008 .- The 23rd World Youth Day in Sydney was a "wonderful experience," Benedict XVI says.

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Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 23 Jul 2008 More than 500 members of the group NoToPope Coalition on Saturday protested the Roman Catholic ...

SYDNEY, Australia, JULY 21, 2008 .- Cardinal George Pell said the private pastoral visit Benedict XVI had with victims of sexual abuse by clergy was positive and particularly moving.

A leading animal rights groups is launching an internet petition to demand Pope Benedict XVI stop wearing fur during religious ceremonies at the Vatican.

Tony Blair's globetrotting farewell tour cost the taxpayer more than 750,000, Government figures showed yesterday.

SYDNEY, Australia, JULY 21, 2008 .- Benedict XVI has shown that World Youth Days are an ordinary part of the Church's life, not just an invention of Pope John Paul II.

Forty years after the Vatican upheld the ban on birth control, the U.S.-based Catholics for Choice, which has affiliates around the world, is urging Catholics to press their bishops to help end the prohibition.

The Vatican has declined an invitation for Pope Benedict XVI to address the European Parliament at Strasbourg, according to a report by the London Times.