“A future Papal visit to Canada may be considered, taking into account all circumstances, and including an encounter with the Indigenous Peoples as a top priority.” It does not say this encounter would mean an apology.
Pope Benedict XVI
Posted inFaith, Features
Did Benedict XVI predict the rise of Trump and fake news?
The dictatorship of relativism and the demise of objective reality
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Cardinal Tobin warns against temptation to shrink Catholic community to pure members
At Villanova, the Newark archbishop spoke of “paradigm shifts” in the church and said “only the Lord” can judge who belongs among the faithful.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Even as pope, my teacher Joseph Ratzinger always wrote back
My acquaintance with J.R. dates back to when I was a fourth-grade student in Bogenhausen, a suburb of Munich, in the early 1950s.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis accepts resignation of Vatican communications head after Benedict letter controversy
Mgr. Dario Vigano offered his resignation on March 19, saying he did not want the flap over the Benedict letter to hinder reforms in the communications office.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Following controversy, Vatican publishes full text of Benedict XVI’s letter
The Vatican has released the complete letter by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI about Pope Francis after facing criticism for manipulating a photograph of it.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Benedict XVI defends Pope Francis on fifth anniversary of his election
Benedict affirmed that “there is an internal continuity between the two pontificates.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
New ‘Pope’ series on CNN profiles saints and blackguards
The six-part part series, which will play Sunday nights starting March 11, is subdivided into some novel plots of papal territory.
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Vatican denies report Pope Benedict has degenerative disease
The pope’s brother reportedly told a German magazine that Pope Benedict was sick.
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Pope Benedict XVI says he is ‘on a pilgrimage Home’
“My hour had passed and I had given all I could.”