Pope remembers predecessor as a ‘great teacher of catechesis’ January 4, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News Pope Benedict XVI was a “great teacher of catechesis” whose “sharp and gentle thinking” led others to encounter Jesus, Pope Francis said.
Cardinal praises Mary, Pope Benedict XVI for helping people see face of God January 4, 2023By Mark Zimmermann OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News By their lives, Mary and the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI helped people to seek and to see the face of God, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said Dec. 31.
Funeral Mass for Pope Benedict XVI will be based on a papal funeral January 4, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News The Jan. 5 funeral Mass for Pope Benedict XVI will be a papal funeral with a few changes to fit with the fact that he was not the reigning pope and has not left behind a “sede vacante.”
How to watch the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI January 3, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News The funeral Mass for Pope Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31 at the age of 95, will be held Jan. 5 at St. Peter’s Square with Pope Francis as presider. The Mass is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. Rome time, which is 3:30 a.m. Eastern.
Benedict XVI’s death and burial: Watching procedures become protocol January 3, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News “Protocol develops over time, and this has never happened before,” the director of the Vatican press office kept repeating in the days after the death of retired Pope Benedict XVI.
Tens of thousands pay last respects to Pope Benedict in St. Peter’s Basilica January 3, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News A quiet hush covered the vast expanse of St. Peter’s Square even though it was filled with thousands of people slowly winding their way around the colonnade into St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their last respects to the late Pope Benedict XVI.
‘No’ to war, rearmament; ‘yes’ to development, jobs, pope says January 1, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News It is “intolerable” that conflict and wars are still raging in Ukraine and other parts of the world, Pope Francis said on World Peace Day.
On New Year’s, pope calls for taking the risk of changing the world January 1, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The best way to usher in a truly “new” year is to stop waiting for things to get better on their own, and instead recognize what is essential and reach out now to help others, Pope Francis said.
German pope made no secret of his love for cats January 1, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News Like any bona fide cat lover, Pope Benedict XVI’s face would light up and his hand would reach out at the sight of a fluffy feline — even when that soft bundle of fur was a squirming, feisty lion cub brought to the Vatican by visiting circus performers.
Pope Benedict saw Jews, Muslims as allies in defending belief in God January 1, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News In trying to help people understand how belief in God is a natural part of life and provides grounding for the values that protect human dignity and peaceful coexistence, the late Pope Benedict XVI saw Jews and Muslims as natural allies.
Papal calendar: 2023 holds important events for Pope Francis January 1, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis’ appointment book for 2023 is starting to fill up, although he usually agrees to appointments with the caveat of “God willing.”
Former doctrinal enforcer used pontificate to crack down on sex abuse January 1, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News VATICAN CITY (CNS) -– The late Pope Benedict XVI’s disgust over the abuse scandals marring the church was made evident even before his election as pope. In his forceful Way of the Cross meditations, drafted in the weeks before his election as pope in 2005, he wrote for the world to hear: “How much filth […]
