‘Pope John Paul II’s longtime aide, who worked with the pontiff for 40 years and cradled him in the “popemobile” after a 1981 assassination attempt, was installed yesterday as archbishop of Krakow, the post once held by the late pontiff.
Pope Benedict XVI, who appointed Stanislaw Dziwisz to lead the important diocese in June, described him […]
‘Pope Benedict XVI, who has made reconciliation among Christians a priority of his pontificate, will on Monday meet the leader of a schismatic group of ultra-traditionalists, according to a statement by the group.
The Vatican has neither confirmed nor denied that the meeting will take place, but if it does it could be the first step […]
‘Pope Benedict XVI will receive the Iraqi foreign minister at his summer retreat in the hills south of Rome.
Later in the day, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari is expected to meet reporters in the Italian capital.’
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‘Pope Benedict XVI, wrapping up his first foreign trip, celebrated Mass yesterday for an estimated 1 million people on a field in his native Germany, quieting questions about whether the cerebral conservative could rally the young people who in the past had flocked to see the more instinctively charismatic Pope John Paul II.
The vast crowd, […]
‘Pope Benedict XVI decried the “cruel fanaticism” of terrorism Saturday and urged Muslims to join Christians in trying to combat its spread.
In blunt remarks, he told a gathering of Muslim officials in Germany that Muslim leaders had a “great responsibility” in properly educating their younger generations.
“I am certain that I echo your own thoughts when […]
‘Germany Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholic youth have greeted Pope Benedict in Germany.
More than 700-thousand pilgrims screamed with joy as the popemobile rolled through a field outside Cologne. Benedict waved his hands and smiled.
One person broke out of the crowd but was tackled by security guards about 150 feet from the pope’s armored vehicle.’
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‘Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged Wednesday that he was absent-minded after forgotting to bless the hundreds of pilgrims who attended his weekly audience at his Castel Gandolfo summer residence.
He said his mind was already in Cologne, where he was to travel Thursday to participate in the 20th World Youth jamboree.
The crowd gathered in the palace courtyard […]
‘Benedict XVI wants to show the young people attending World Youth Day that Christianity is not a burdensome set of rules, but rather a personal experience of God’s love.
The Pope expressed this in the first media interview of his pontificate, granted to Father Eberhard von Gemmingen, director of Vatican Radio’s German program, on the eve […]
‘Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
The Vatican’s embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 […]
‘The 81-year-old elder brother of Pope Benedict XVI reportedly left a Rome hospital after being fitted with a pacemaker.
Georg Ratzinger, who has been spending his vacation with his brother at the pope’s summer residence in Castel Gandolfo near Rome, was admitted to the Gemelli Hospital on Wednesday night suffering from heart problems.
Benedict visited his brother […]
‘Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday hailed the Irish Republican Army disarmament decision as “beautiful news” and urged all to work for a lasting peace after decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
Benedict, addressing pilgrims at his summer palace outside Rome, expressed “satisfaction and hope” over the development a few days earlier in which the Irish Republican […]