Pope Benedict XVI News

Sister Mary is 91 but clearly remembers the days when 'Alphonsamma', annointed a saint by the Pope Sunday, would join the youngsters in mowing the lawn and cutting vegetables in the kitchen at a convent.

It was announced on July 3, 2008, that Damien is to be canonized by the Catholic Church in 2009 by authority of Pope Benedict XVI.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to join Christian and Muslim scholars for the start of a conference aimed at promoting understanding between the two faiths.

The Indian government will issue a commemorative coin in honour of Sister Alphonsa, who will be canonized by the Pope as a Saint at the Vatican Sunday, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram announced Saturday.

Iraq's Christians face "liquidation," the Chaldean archbishop of the northern city of Kirkuk told AFP in an interview, urging Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to guarantee the minority's safety.

A vision of a Catholic Church as a mass gathering of the faithful from countries around the world still lingers with a number of local students even months after they attended World Youth Day in Sydney, ...

After working most of his life in Spanish-speaking communities, the Most Rev Neil Tiedemann was assigned to come to Jamaica and become the Roman Catholic bishop for the Diocese of Mandeville.

From Communications Department Date Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:11:46 -0400 SCOBA The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas 8 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075-0106 Press Release ...

In Pope Benedict's hands, Christian joy becomes the antidote to modern meaninglessness.

Nearly 10,000 people, mostly Keralite Christians, are expected to participate in the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa in Vatican on October 12.

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 3, 2008 .- Here is the address Benedict XVI gave today upon receiving in audience members of the administrative council of the Knights of Columbus.

Pope Benedict is praising the life of Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church through World War II, and says despite previous claims he did not turn a blind eye toward the Holocaust.

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Pope Benedict has started off the reading of the whole of the Bible on Italian state television.

The nation's largest clergy abuse settlement moved forward Monday after a replacement judge was chosen to review and decide which priest personnel files from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles can be ...

As the Synod of Bishops opened its discussion of the Word of God on October 6, Pope Benedict XVI compared the enduring power of the Gospel message with the evanescence of worldly wealth and power.

Pope Benedict XVI gave a push to possible sainthood for Pope Pius XII as he defended the World War II pontiff Thursday from accusations that he did little to spare Jews from the Holocaust.

A young Roman Catholic nun who once disfigured herself to avoid marriage will become India's first woman saint on Sunday when she is canonised by Pope Benedict XVI.

'Today, we can observe with satisfaction that in the city of Rome, the Italian State and the Holy See coexist and collaborate in peace.

Police are looking for the perpetrators behind the violent beating death of a Brazilian cleric whose body was found near the water in Brooklyn .