How I changed my mind about the Pope
June 1945. An exhausted 17-year-old boy has been released from a prisoner of war camp and completes an 80-mile journey back home, eager to see his family and friends. As he descends at sunset from the...
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At the Angelus yesterday Benedict XVI said that Jesus says to both rich and poor: “Come unto me.” A new text in which Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, discusses her abortion has...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 06/07/11
Archbishop João Bráz de Aviz, the new prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, has said that the Vatican has “started to listen again” to the...
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Benedict XVI prayed for the victims of the massacre in Norway at the Angelus in Castel Gandolfo yesterday. The Pope also expressed his condolences in a telegram to King Harald V of Norway (full text)....
View ArticlePope’s brother to publish memoir in September
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View ArticleBenedict XVI’s brother celebrates his 88th birthday
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Lent should be marked by daily prayer, acts of penance and works of fraternal charity, Benedict XVI said in his Angelus address yesterday. A few hours after the Angelus Pope Benedict began a week-long...
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Benedict XVI is planning to cut down on foreign travel as he prepares to celebrate his 85th birthday, his brother Mgr Georg Ratzinger has said. The Vatican has written to the Austrian bishops demanding...
View ArticleHow much harder it is to raise Catholics today than it was during the Pope’s...
I was interested to read Piers Paul Read in the Charterhouse column of the Herald for April 27; he is lamenting the fact that none of his children, now adults, practise their faith – this despite a...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 02/08/13
An English bishop is “seeking a suitable cleric” to investigate the possible Cause of GK Chesterton, the American Chesterton Society has reported. Zenit has published the first part of its full English...
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Pope Francis announced at the Angelus on Sunday that he will visit the Holy Land on May 24-26 (full text, short video, full video, David Gibson analysis). The Vatican has denied that Pope Francis...
View ArticleVatican denies reports that Benedict XVI has neurological disease
The Vatican denied that retired Pope Benedict XVI has a degenerative neurological disease or paralyzing condition after his brother, 94-year-old Mgr Georg Ratzinger, told a magazine that Pope Benedict...
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Benedict XVI’s brother Georg Ratzinger has died
Benedict XVI’s older brother Georg Ratzinger died on Wednesday, just a little more than one week after the pope emeritus’ visit. Msgr. Georg Ratzinger died in Bavaria at the age of 96 on July 1. The...
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Pope Francis offers condolences to Benedict XVI following his brother’s death
Pope Francis offered his condolences to Benedict XVI on Thursday following the death of his brother. In a letter to the Pope Emeritus dated July 2, the Pope expressed his “heartfelt sympathy” after the...
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‘Heart speaks to heart’: Benedict XVI sends message for his brother’s funeral...
Benedict XVI watched his brother’s funeral via livestream on Wednesday as his secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein read the Pope Emeritus’s message of remembrance at the Mass in Germany. “When I said...
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