Pope Benedict has urged the Bishops from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to apply the Gospel to local customs as they carry out their task of evangelisation building on positive elements already present and to purifying others when necessary. He said this in his address to the Bishops the Bishops ,who are in Rome for Read more
Pope Benedict XVI says that the life of St. Paul shows that God can work wonders through those who grow ever closer to him in prayer. “As our union with the Lord grows and our prayer becomes more intense, we too come to focus on the essential and to understand that it is not the Read more
In moments of crisis, there’s a natural desire among many Catholics to rally around the flag, meaning to show support for the church and the pope. It’s not about denial, because Catholics are nothing if not sober realists about the church’s failures. It’s instead about saying to the world that despite it all, there’s still Read more
The Pope has been calling for unity since the beginning of his Pontificate and in the last Chrism Mass he dealt with the issue of the disobedience of Austrian priests belonging to the Pfarrer-Initiative movement. Yet it is Benedict XVI himself who is being accused by his lifelong dissenting colleague, Hans Kueng, of “provoking” disobedience. Read more
Speaking for the first time on the topic of Vatileaks, the Vatican’s Secretary of State (Prime Minister), Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, told an Italian television interviewer that Pope Benedict is not overly worried by the scandal. “He doesn’t allow himself to be frightened by attacks, of any sort, nor by the hard accumulation of prejudices,” Bertone Read more
During a three day visit to Milan to support the activity of the World Meeting of Families, Pope Benedict spoke several times, addressing young catholics, holding a question and answer session with young people, and preaching 1 million faithful at Sunday Mass. Traditional family values are the key to navigating modern society Pope Benedict told Read more
(Reuters) – Just after dawn on Wednesday, May 23, Paolo Gabriele said goodbye to his wife, passed by the bedrooms of his three children and left to start another day in the service of the man Roman Catholics believe is the vicar of Christ on Earth. By the end of the day, Pope Benedict’s butler Read more
A personal note, written by Pope Benedict, acknowledges the pontiff’s lack of English created a misunderstanding between himself and the former bishop of Toowomba, Bill Morris. Commenting on Morris’ letter in which he accuses the Vatican of a “lack of care for the truth,” Nuzzi’s Vatileaks book has the Holy Father writing, “Obviously there was a Read more
At the end of Mass in North Park Bresso, Mgr Erminio De Scaizi announced Pope Benedict XVI is to sent €500,000 to areas hit by the Italian earthquake, Vatican Insider reports. The money is to be given to the bishops of Mantua, Moderna, Ferrara, Carpi and Bologna to assist families.
Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi SJ has strongly denied Italian newspaper reports, that a cardinal is among those being investigated over the “Vatileaks” scandal. “I categorically deny that any cardinal, Italian or otherwise, is a suspect,” Lombardi said. Universe Rome correspondent Gerard O’Connell reports on Twitter that Lombardi also denied there was a link between Read more