‘Benedict XVI said that he wouldn’t label the recent wave of terrorist attacks that hit London, Turkey and Egypt as acts against Christianity.
Journalists asked the Holy Father today, after a meeting with priests, religious and deacons of the Diocese of Val d’Aosta, where is on vacation, if the attacks could be considered “bombs against Christianity.”
“I […]
‘Three months after his election as supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Benedict XVI is still having to confront the legacy of one of the most popular pontificates in modern history.
Though he may not yet have had a chance to warm people’s hearts, the new pope has already displayed a departure from the old […]
‘Pope Benedict today condemned violence in Egypt, Iraq, Turkey and Britain and asked God to stay the hand of terrorists.
“While we entrust to God’s goodness … the victims of these acts that offend God and man, we call on the Omnipotent to stay the hands of assassins who, driven on by fanaticism and hate, have […]
‘he Vatican newspaper on Thursday attacked Canada’s legalization of gay marriage, calling it a distortion of God’s plan for the family.
Canada became the fourth nation to grant full legal rights to same-sex couples when the Supreme Court’s chief justice signed legislation Wednesday.
“The distortion of God’s plan for the family continues,” said L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican […]
‘Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday deplored the attacks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, calling them “senseless acts” as he appealed to terrorists to renounce violence.
In a telegram sent to religious and political leaders in Egypt, the pontiff said he was “deeply saddened” to learn of the deadly blasts and sent “his […]
‘Pope Benedict XVI was “deeply saddened” by the killing of a Roman Catholic bishop in Kenya this week and expressed hope the prelate’s death would “hasten the dawn” of peace and reconciliation in the African country, the Vatican said Saturday.
Bishop Luigi Locati was shot to death Thursday night as he walked with a guard to […]
‘Pope Benedict XVI has scourged the Harry Potter books for “distorting Christianity in the soul.”
The comments were made in 2003 in a letter to German author Gabriele Kuby, who criticized the J.K. Rowling series.
The Pope, back then still a cardinal, thanked Kuby for her “instructive” book, media said.
“It is good that you enlighten people about […]
‘Pope Benedict XVI called Sunday for the faithful to pray for those who carried out the London bombings but also told the attackers to “stop in the name of God!”
“To those who foment feelings of hatred and to those who carry out such repugnant terrorist actions, I say to you: ‘God loves life, which he […]
‘ Pope John Paul II’s closest aide said Saturday that he hoped the late pontiff would be made a saint during World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany next month.
“Everything is possible, but I don’t know if it would be opportune,” Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz told The Associated Press in an interview. But he said the Cologne […]
‘German-born Pope Benedict XVI will say prayers in Hebrew when he visits the synagogue in Cologne, Germany, that was destroyed by the Nazis, a cardinal organizing the trip said Tuesday.
Jewish representatives invited the pope to visit while he is in Germany in August for the Roman Catholic Church’s World Youth Day and Benedict replied, ‘”I […]
‘A previously unknown letter from the late Pope John Paul II to Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk who tried to assassinate the pontiff in 1981, was found in the pope’s private archives, Archbishop Stanilaw Dziwisz revealed.
“The Holy Father wrote a letter to Ali Agca, but it was never sent,” the pope’s former secretary told AFP, […]