Pope Benedict XVI
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Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church, which includes the Latin Church and the twenty-two sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches. Often regarded as the present successor to Saint Peter, Benedict XVI was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship.
Did the Butler Really Do It?
Source: Newsweek
Pope Benedict XVI looked noticeably glum Sunday morning as he celebrated the otherwise joyous Pentecost Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. “We are living in a new Babel,” he said during his homily. “Everybody experiences inn ...
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Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks
Source: ABC-KVUE Austin
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican's inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed th ...
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Vatican conference to examine 'language of the body' in marriage
Source: Catholic News Agency
Vatican City, May 27, 2012 / 05:15 pm (CNA).- This coming September an international colloquium in Vatican City will consider how men and women become "one flesh" in marriage, and examine the "language of the body" from Christian perspect ...
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Pope silent on girl in Vatican protest
Source: Herald Sun
Demonstrators hold posters of Emanuela Orlandi reading "Missing" after 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican messenger who lived with his family in Vatican City, disappeared 25 years ago. Picture: AFP Source: AFP ...
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Roseanne Barr: Tax the Catholic Church
Source: Newsbusters
On Friday, far-left actress Roseanne Barr went on an anti-Catholic rant on Twitter, as she seemingly gave her take on the controversy over ObamaCare's abortifacient/contraception mandate. Barr reused some of ...
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Unity and Continuity on Pentecost
Source: Overheard in the Sacristy
O God, who by the mystery of today’s great feast sanctify your whole Church in every people and nation, pour out, we pray, the gifts of the Holy Spirit across the face of the earth and, with the divine grace ...
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Syro-Malabar Christians get own diocese, bishop at Faridabad
Source: Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Syro-Malabar Catholics of North India got their own diocese on Saturday. The diocese of Faridabad, or administrative unit of the church, was inaugurated in a grand ceremony at Thyagaraj Stadium in the capital. Monsignor Ku ...
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Pentecost at the Vatican
Source: Overheard in the Sacristy
Getty Images — A Vatican gendarme prior to the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate Mass on Pentecost Sunday in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on May 27, 2012. AP Photo — A nun irons an altar clot ...
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Pope sets date to declare two new Church Doctors
Source: Catholic News Agency
Pope Benedict XVI at a recent general audience in St. Peter's Square Vatican City, May 27, 2012 / 10:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will declare St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. John of Avila as Doctors of the Churc ...
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