Pope Benedict XVI News Archives

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 29, 2009 .- Peace is not simply about avoiding war, says Benedict XVI.

The discussions, described by the Holy See as "cordial" and by Archbishop Williams as "friendly", also focused on recent events affecting relations between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, namely the publication of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, providing for personal ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full ...

Our review of Angels & Demons , published November 23rd, 2009, is also available.

Pope Benedict XVI led the charge in calling for Catholics and indeed, people of the world to buckle up to new endeavors and old traditions as the Church enters a new liturgical year and the season of Advent.

It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of liberalism, modernity and basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers and concrete action to comfort all those who are suffering from AIDS.

An influential international Catholic organisation has written to Pope Benedict XVI calling on him to remove Irish bishops named as part of the cover-up of clerical child abuse in Dublin.

President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa with Pope Benedict XVI in April 2007. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka a ' Sri Lanka's president signed a decree Monday calling for early elections, hoping to take advantage of his popularity after ending the country's 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term.

Comment about "Scores of Irish abuse victims seek counselling" Phone Name Comment 0 Scores of Irish abuse victims seek counselling Padraic Halpin, Reuters Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin apologises to the victims of child sex abuse during a press conference at the Archdiocese of Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.

Pope Benedict XVI hailed a 1984 Vatican-mediated friendship agreement between Argentina and Chile as a "luminous example" of peace winning out over war during an audience Saturday with the presidents of both countries.

EIGHTY files are to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions by a garda team investigating fresh complaints of clerical child abuse.

"WHAT a relief. The symbologist is here." So says the shifty Swiss Guard commander to symbology prof Robert Langdon in this movie's funniest line of dialogue.

ANGELS & DEMONS 2.5 stars $28.96. 139 mins. The pope has died and Professor Robert Langdon is summoned once more to Rome, where he teams up with a physicist to locate four cardinals kidnapped by the Illuminati.

Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation.

The statuette of Prague Infant Jesus whom people from all over the world implore for aid will as from yesterday wear the gilded crown that Pope Benedict XVI donated to it during his September visit to the Czech Republic, Carmelites Prior Petr Sleich has told CTK.

During a visit to Argentina, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the longtime personal secretary to Pope John Paul II, said that the next step toward beatification of the late Pontiff was up to Pope Benedict XVI.

Ireland published a report on Thursday saying church authorities in Dublin covered up child sexual abuse until the mid-1990s. Following are details of other sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church around the world.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay a brief working visit to the Vatican on December 3 for talks with Pope Benedict XVI, a Kremlin spokesman said on Thursday.

Hamas announced Saturday evening that it has reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns to prevent retaliatory attacks.

ROME, NOV. 24, 2009 .- Representatives of Catholic women's organizations from 25 countries have informed the secretary-general of the United Nations that they do not support the international body's convention against the discrimination of women.

After praying the Angelus at midday today, the Pope recalled today's ceremony in Nazareth, Israel, for the beatification of Sr.

Apparently MSNBC's Chris Matthews doesn't want Catholics involved in the political process at all - especially when it comes to abortion.

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"Liberen los secuestrados" is the slogan of eighty young Colombians who denounce the scourge of kidnapping in their country and are creating an awareness campaign, which led them on Wednesday, November 18, to meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the end the General Audience.

VATICAN CITY, 23 NOV 2009 - The Holy See Press Office released the following communique at midday today: "Today, 23 November, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received in audience Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, prime minister of the State of Kuwait.

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 22, 2009 .- The world needs authentic beauty, Benedict XVI is affirming, and artists have the responsibility of bringing it to people through their art.

The Vatican recently held a "study week" of over 30 astronomers, biologists, geologists and religious leaders to discuss the question of the existence of extraterrestrials.

The global art world converges on Rome this weekend, but truth and beauty also hope to sneak in to witness, softly, amid the glare.

Converts to Rome cannot pick and choose, says Vincent Nichols, as Rowan Williams and pope prepare to meet Anglicans should not become Catholic to protest against female clergy or sexual ethics, the archbishop of Westminster said today, as he warned traditionalists against adopting a "pick and choose" approach to the religion .

Students at Catholic universities should pursue a deep knowledge of theology but be open to other areas of study so that they are better prepared to further the mission of the church in the world, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Judge Patrick Bromley is angelic, in his own demonic way. Note: This is a pre-release review.

An 'invitation to hope' is what opens the Letter that Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, has addressed to all priests of the Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, on the occasion of the Year for Priests.

Comment about "The Pope's lost battle" Phone Name Comment 0 The Pope's lost battle Fr Joe Borg Hunger is the most cruel and concrete sign of poverty.

Catholic nuns look up at a poster of Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas, not seen, after it was unveiled during her beatification mass at the Church of the Annunciation in the northern Israeli town of Nazareth, Sunday, Nov.

Serbian President Boris Tadic visits Italy. Also in diplomatic news: Croatia vows to continue supporting Macedonia's integration efforts, and Romania and Moldova aim to re-establish ties.

The Catholic Church in South Korea has lost four priests to the Anglicans in recent years, with marriage cited as the most important reason.

When it comes to America's most famous Catholic family, no true compass guides the Roman Catholic Church.

The Pope has appointed a new bishop to a Nova Scotia diocese shaken by allegations that its former religious leader was in possession of child pornography.

THE Pope will meet the Queen when he visits Scotland in September, we can reveal.

Democrats in the House of Representatives had to go to great lengths to appease anti-choice Democrats who threatened to vote against health care reform.

Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, said the ecumenical situation really is that of a "glass half full," and he held his water glass up to emphasize the point.

Come on guys, whats with all the anti christian remarks? Its not like the Vatican ordered his killing.

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 19, 2009 .- Benedict XVI named Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro, secretary of the Congregation for Bishops, and Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, as consultors of the Congregatin for the Doctrine of the Faith.

At midday today in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, the Pope received professors and students of Roman pontifical universities, and participants in the general assembly of the International Federation of Catholic Universities .

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The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams smiles at the end of his lecture at the Gregorian University in Rome, Thursday, Nov.

This morning in the Holy See Press Office, the presentation took place of the 24th international conference promoted by the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care.

At midday today Benedict XVI visited the Rome headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation for the occasion of the World Summit on Food Security, being held there from 16 to 18 November.

Made public today was a Message from the Holy Father to Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, for the plenary assembly of that dicastery, currently being held on the theme: "St. Paul and the new areopaghi". The reference to the Areopagus in Athens where St.

The Holy See Press Office released the following communique yesterday evening. "This evening in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, His Holiness Benedict XVI received in audience Pierre Nkurunziza, president of the Republic of Burundi.

Calling the US bishops assembled in Baltimore to a a oetotal lovea for the Church, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to United States of America, reminded the bishops that a oethe first characteristic which the Lord requires of his servant is fidelity.a Continuing to quote from a homily by Pope Benedict, Archbishop Sambi said: He has been ...

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the "slippery slope": Once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

Made public yesterday was a letter from Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. to priests of the Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, for the occasion of the Year for Priests which was called to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of St.

For one of their own to rise high within the ranks of the Roman Catholic Church, local priests and family of Archbishop Raymond Burke are proud of his success.

Pope John Paul II's cause for beatification-- his first step towards sainthood -- has just gathered speed almost five years after his death.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday's opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger summit to decry what he called his neocolonialist foes.

Some anti-gay religious groups claim that gays can be "cured" and turned straight; others acknowledge that homosexuality is an innate trait, rather than a pathology, but still insist that gays are "called by God" to forsake family life and sexual intimacy and live celibate lives.

In his remarks before praying the Angelus today, Benedict XVI spoke of the end of the liturgical year, quoting the passage from the Gospel of St.

Bad Lieutenant was a critical hit in Toronto, but director Werner Herzog says that doesn't mean much.

Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Jerome E. Listecki of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 60, as Archbishop of Milwaukee, and Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 51, as Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana.

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops said Monday that church leaders have a duty to the nation and God to raise moral concerns in the debate over health care, whether the issue is abortion rights or coverage for the poor.

Benito Mussolini was a fierce anti-Semite, who proudly said that his hatred for Jews preceded Adolf Hitler's and vowed to "destroy them all," according to previously unpublished diaries by the Fascist dictator's longtime mistress.

World leaders at a food summit have rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger and help poor countries feed themselves, but failed to pledge funds sought by the U.N. The summit, in its first hours Monday, approved its final declaration in a show of consensus.

For the third time in less than a decade, a U.N. food summit will grapple with what so far has been an elusive goal - slashing the number of the world's hungry.

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, who in less than two months will become bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., said that he was surprised to learn that Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to the new post.

The leaders of the world's wealthiest nations will be conspicuous by their absence as more than 60 heads of state and government gather in Rome this week for a UN summit on the plight of the planet's billion hungry.

Pope Benedict XVI. While the 20th century might be considered the era of broadcasting media, the 21st century presents itself as the era of interactive media, requiring a dynamic two-way relationship as opposed to the straight presentation of a message.

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The U.N. food chief said Saturday he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of the world's hungry before next week's U.N. food summit.

Bishop John M. D'Arcy, a nationally recognized leader in efforts to eliminate sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, is stepping down as head of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.

Malta's bishop announces pope to visit April 17-18 Eds: APNewsNow. VALLETTA, Malta The bishop of Malta says Pope Benedict XVI will visit the tiny Mediterranean island April 17-18 to mark the 1950th anniversary of St.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee says a successor has been named to the archbishop post once held by Timothy Dolan.

Pope Benedict XVI, U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama exchange gifts during an audience on July 10, 2009 at The Vatican.

Pope Benedict XVI greets the cheering crowd of pilgrims and local worshippers gathered for Holy Mass in his arrival in Manger Square Wednesday in Bethlehem, West Bank.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted that the future of the Anglican church is 'chaotic and uncertain' as many more married priests consider converting to Roman Catholicism over the issue of women bishops.

Made public today was a Message from the Holy Father addressed to participants in the sixtieth general assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference , which is being held this week in the Italian town of Assisi.

ROME a " A draft declaration for next week's U.N. food summit would commit world leaders to a new hunger-fighting strategy by pledging to increase agricultural development aid to help the world's one billion hungry people feed themselves.However, the draft obtained Thursday by The Associated Press does not include a 2025 deadline for ...

Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the Internet and digital youth culture.

In his Wednesday general audience, held this morning in the Paul VI Hall, the Pope focused his remarks on the Order of Cluny, "a monastic movement which had great importance during the Middle Ages", and which "renewed the observance of the Rule of St.

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 9, 2009 .- Benedict XVI's apostolic constitution establishing personal ordinariates for Anglicans in communion with Rome does not alter the discipline of clerical celibacy nor the esteem the Church has for this practice, the Vatican clarified.

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 10, 2009 .- Benedict XVI is telling Italian bishops that their biggest challenge today is "presenting God again" to a world that has forgotten about him.

Move over Simon Cowell - it looks like The Pope could be the biggest man in music this Christmas.

Just in time for the holidays, the pope is going down the same musical road as Johnny Mathis, Elvis, and Mariah Carey.

At 6.15 p.m. today, the Pope visited the parish of St. Anthony in Concesio, near the Italian city of Brescia, where Paul VI was baptised.

Pope Benedict XVI sits during his visit to Patriarch Theophilos III at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem on May 15, 2009 in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.

BERLIN, Germany, NOV. 9, 2009 .- On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city's archbishop is recalling the moment of Germany's reunification with gratitude.

Roman Catholics are to allow married men to become priests in a radical concession to attract recruits from the troubled Anglican church.

In this July 17, 2008 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI admires the sky above Sydney, Australia.

An album featuring for the first time the voice of Pope Benedict XVI was to be launched on Tuesday by a record label that counts among its artists the rapper Snoop Dogg and The Eagles.

BRESCIA, Italy, NOV. 8, 2009 .- Pope Paul VI's priesthood was under the protection of Mary and devotion to her accompanied him for his whole life, says Benedict XVI.

By Carol Glatz Source: Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 VATICAN CITY - People should not look upon immigrants as problems, but as fellow brothers and sisters who can be valuable contributors to society, Pope Benedict XVI said.

By John Thavis Source: Published: Monday, November 09, 2009 VATICAN CITY - The most important figure in the fall of the Berlin Wall was former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who allowed the revival of political freedom throughout Eastern Europe, a former papal aide said.

This morning, the other shoe dropped in terms of the Catholic Church putting out its welcome mat to disaffected Anglicans.

A Roman Catholic deacon whose cure from a crippling spinal disease after praying to a Victorian cardinal was approved as a miracle by the Vatican is in London at the start of a six-day visit to Britain.

Octavio Gonzalez, a graduate of Georgetown University, would be picking corn and raising a few cattle in El Teul de Gonzalez, Mexico, if his father had not illegally trekked across the hills at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Ysidro, California, in 1969.

I'd like to examine an issue which needs to be addressed. As a lifelong Catholic, I respect the teaching of the Church and the authority of it's leader the Pope, who serves as the Vicar of Christ .

By Mark Pattison Source: Published: U.S. Border Patrol Agent opens a gate leading to a dirt road as he searches for illegal immigrants.

Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.

The sixty-sixth meeting of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Theological Consultation in the United States took place at the Washington Retreat House in Washington, October 26 and 27.

As the UN reveals that British levels of cocaine abuse match those of the United States, Paul Vallely traces the lineage of the drug back to the Incas - and finds some surprising users down the years I blame the pope.

From London, England : Nov 6, 2009 / 12:24 am .- Members of The Traditional Anglican Church in Great Britain have announced that they will enter into communion with the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans.

Many newspapers have been shouting headlines that the Pope has condemned Halloween.

A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be given broadcast access to their pastors.

Vatican City, Nov 1, 2009 .- To the faithful gathered on Sunday in St. Peter's Square for the Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI presented the communion of saints, a 'beautiful and comforting' reality that says 'we are never alone.' In particular he held up the ancient cult of martyrs in the early Church, and in this Year for Priests, 'the saintly priests, ...

Europe's increasingly muscular brand of secularism has an unofficial capital: Strasbourg, France.

If you want to destroy a hallowed Christian site on the big screen, that's OK. Just don't try doing the same thing to Islam.

AN INVITATION has been made to the Vatican which could lead to the first papal visit to Durham.

Some Critical Discernment Regarding Pope Benedict''s Recent Suggestions In light of the recent Papal Encyclical "Charity in Truth" , I thought it would be appropriate for a Catholic 'new world order' opponant and promotor of liberty to address this issue.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, NOV. 2, 2009 .- Relativism might enable diverse cultures to coexist, but it undercuts dialogue.

At his weekly public audience on November 4, Pope Benedict XVI used the debate between St.

By a 53%-47% margin, Maine voters have repealed a measure that would have legalized homosexual marriage in the state-- even though, in the words of the Associated Press, 'the stars seemed aligned for supporters of gay marriage.

The proposal to allow disaffected Anglicans to convert to Rome was previously rejected as too aggressive, the former head of the Catholic church in England has disclosed.

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY - Underlining people's connection with those who have gone before them, the annual commemorations of All Saints and All Souls remind Christians that "we are never alone," Pope Benedict XVI said.

This morning, Benedict XVI received participants in the conference sponsored by the Specola Vaticana for the International Year of Astronomy accompanied by Giovanni Cardinal Lajolo, President of the Governorate of Vatican City.

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 2, 2009 .- The cultural heritage of Christianity is more than a treasure to be preserved in a museum or the annals of history, says Benedict XVI.

Maureen Dowd does not make this man smile. But baseball does! Last Sunday, Times columnist Maureen Dowd blithely unleashed one of her smugly scathing criticisms against the Catholic Church for what she and many other critics perceive as their mistreatment of women, particularly nuns.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, retired archbishop of Westminster, said a forthcoming apostolic constitution to establish "personal ordinariates" should not be seen as an attempt by the Vatican to poach Anglicans disaffected by such issues as the ordination of women and sexually active homosexuals as priests and bishops.

Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Vatican ambassador to the United States, said the pope's recent overture to the Anglicans could be seen as a fruit of 100 years of prayers offered for the unity of the church by members of the Society of the Atonement.

If David Gibson's attempt to portray Pope Benedict XVI as a liberal was one of the silliest reactions to the Holy Father's recent overtures to traditional Anglicans , Francis X. Rocca's " The Pope Lets a Thousand Liturgies Bloom " is one of the best.

By Catholic News Service STAMFORD, Conn. - Pope Benedict XVI has elevated St. John the Evangelist Church in downtown Stamford in the Bridgeport Diocese to the status of minor basilica.

The Pope is to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury this month, to ease controversy over the Vatican's recent move to make it easier for disenchanted Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism in groups as well as individually.

Hawaii feted the canonization of Saint Damien with a Mass and an interfaith celebration that underscored the 19th century priest's enduring popularity in the islands.

Recent commentary on Pope Benedict XVI's invitation to Anglicans to enter the Catholic fold has predictably fallen into the well-worn rut of seeing his action through liberal/conservative lens.

Following the arrest of a West Bank settler suspected of multiple murders and bomb attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel must fight the terror posed by violent extreme rightists, whom he termed a "marginal minority." Read the whole story: Haaretz Following the arrest of a West Bank settler suspected of multiple murders ...

The New York Times's Maureen Dowd spent some time in Catholic school as a youth, but judging from her latest rant/column , she didn't learn too much about actual Catholicism.

The Holy Fathera 'Pope Benedict XVIa 'offers to let Episcopalians and other Anglicans of Catholic disposition join the Roman Catholic Church, while retaining characteristics of their Anglican identity.