Pope Benedict XVI News

THE Pope will meet the Queen when he visits Scotland in September, we can reveal.

Democrats in the House of Representatives had to go to great lengths to appease anti-choice Democrats who threatened to vote against health care reform.

Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, said the ecumenical situation really is that of a "glass half full," and he held his water glass up to emphasize the point.

Come on guys, whats with all the anti christian remarks? Its not like the Vatican ordered his killing.

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 19, 2009 .- Benedict XVI named Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro, secretary of the Congregation for Bishops, and Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, as consultors of the Congregatin for the Doctrine of the Faith.

At midday today in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, the Pope received professors and students of Roman pontifical universities, and participants in the general assembly of the International Federation of Catholic Universities .

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The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams smiles at the end of his lecture at the Gregorian University in Rome, Thursday, Nov.

This morning in the Holy See Press Office, the presentation took place of the 24th international conference promoted by the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care.

At midday today Benedict XVI visited the Rome headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation for the occasion of the World Summit on Food Security, being held there from 16 to 18 November.

Made public today was a Message from the Holy Father to Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, for the plenary assembly of that dicastery, currently being held on the theme: "St. Paul and the new areopaghi". The reference to the Areopagus in Athens where St.

The Holy See Press Office released the following communique yesterday evening. "This evening in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, His Holiness Benedict XVI received in audience Pierre Nkurunziza, president of the Republic of Burundi.

Calling the US bishops assembled in Baltimore to a a oetotal lovea for the Church, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to United States of America, reminded the bishops that a oethe first characteristic which the Lord requires of his servant is fidelity.a Continuing to quote from a homily by Pope Benedict, Archbishop Sambi said: He has been ...

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the "slippery slope": Once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

Made public yesterday was a letter from Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. to priests of the Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, for the occasion of the Year for Priests which was called to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of St.

For one of their own to rise high within the ranks of the Roman Catholic Church, local priests and family of Archbishop Raymond Burke are proud of his success.

Pope John Paul II's cause for beatification-- his first step towards sainthood -- has just gathered speed almost five years after his death.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday's opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger summit to decry what he called his neocolonialist foes.

Some anti-gay religious groups claim that gays can be "cured" and turned straight; others acknowledge that homosexuality is an innate trait, rather than a pathology, but still insist that gays are "called by God" to forsake family life and sexual intimacy and live celibate lives.

In his remarks before praying the Angelus today, Benedict XVI spoke of the end of the liturgical year, quoting the passage from the Gospel of St.