A short while ago at 6 45 pm UK time Pope Benedict XVI s Alitalia plane Shepherd One threaded its way into the lead skies above Birmingham Airport back to Rome after a brief departure ceremony in which the prime minister David Cameron told him that he had challenged the whole country to s

To compliment Austen Ivereigh s superb reporting over the last few days on the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman this video of the beatification ceremony which includes some of the pope s remarks on the newest Blessed nbsp

COFTON PARK BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND The Mass of the Beatification of Cardinal Newman has just ended Newman is beatified This was the Pope s final large-scale event and it was another triumph He has not put a foot wrong and the newspapers this morning are all wondering how he did it By our apo

BIRMINGHAM England Bill Kilgallon chairman of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission of England and Wales gave a briefing to journalists shortly before the beginning of Mass here about the meeting which took place yesterday -- the first of its kind -- between the Pope and safeguarding

Cambridge MA Saturday 6 10 PM It rsquo s been a few weeks since I rsquo ve blogged mdash the combination of the hectic beginning of semester the exhausted my three blogs on Dominus Iesus and the happy ceding this space for two unique and interesting entries by Deacon Mike Iwanowicz mdas

If Pope Benedict is half as tired as I now feel at the end of the vigil in London s Hyde Park he will sleep well tonight -- after another punishing schedule at the close of his triumphant UK visit The Vigil -- which managed to resist being termed Pope in the Park -- was moving powerful and pr