Pope Benedict XVI News

Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday replaced the cardinal responsible for lifting the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop as part of the Vatican's effort to reconcile with an ultraconservative group.

Pope Benedict XVI signs his third encyclical, Charity in Truth, on Tuesday at his studio in Vatican City.

Pope Benedict XVI is presented with a box of Australian wine by Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in the pontiff's private library at the Vatican July 9. The Group of Eight summit in L'Aquila, Italy, offered some world leaders, including Rudd, the opportunity to meet Pope Benedict at the Vatican.

Pope Benedict XVI has expressed great interest in the achievements of Mother Mary MacKillop amid hopes she might one day become Australia's first saint.

By Genevieve Pollock WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 7, 2009 .- Benedict XVI's latest encyclical offers a unique vision by using traditional principles to enlighten today's societal issues such as globalization, the economy, technology and the environment, affirms a university president.

POPE Benedict XVI on Wednesday hosted the wives of world leaders who were in Italy attending the G-8 summit, the Vatican said.

It would not be appropriate for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to try to lobby Pope Benedict XVI to make Mary MacKillop a saint, Jesuit priest Frank Brennan says.

Pope Benedict XVI got down to business Thursday, reappointing the previous heads of Vatican departments until further notice and keeping on the secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who is effectively his prime minister.

Pope Benedict XVI has demanded swingeing reforms of the global finance system saying it must work for the 'common good' and be guided by morality.

Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics, dignity and the search for the common good in the third encyclical of his pontificate.

The newly restored Pauline Chapel is seen at the Vatican. The chapel, commemorated July 4 by Pope Benedict, contains the last frescoes that Renaissance artist Michaelangelo painted, the Conversion of St.

There was a time when the whims of the Catholic Church ruled the world. It's known as the Dark Ages.

Filipinos stand beside debris caused by a bomb explosion just outside a Catholic church in Cotabato city, southern Philippines on Sunday July 5, 2009.

Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father's birthplace.

Pope Benedict XVI has not escaped the economic downturn, with donations hit by the global financial storm, official figures showed Saturday.

Pope Benedict XVI has urged G-8 leaders meeting next week in central Italy to rewrite global financial rules and defend the world's poor from the effects of the economic downturn.

Pope Benedict XVI today cleared the way for Cardinal John Henry Newman to become a saint.

President Obama hosted a roundtable with members of the Catholic media at the White House Thursday in an apparent attempt to reach out to Catholics ahead of his meeting with Pope Benedict XVI later this month.

Pope Benedict XVI greets Mary Zwilling with NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan and his mother Shirley at the Vatican in Rome.

Pope Benedict XVI gives U. S. Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, right, the pallium, a woolen shawl symbolizing his bond to the Pope.