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by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | Archbishop Gänswein, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Catholic news, Europe, Joseph Ratzinger, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, The Dispatch, Vatican News | 0 |
Natalia Tsarkova works on a portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in her studio in central Rome. / Daniel Ibáñez / CNA
Rome Newsroom, Nov 3, 2022 / 07:03 am (CNA).
Natalia Tsarkova, official portrait artist to the popes for more than 20 y…
by bcadmin | Jul 12, 2022 | Catholic news, News, News Briefs, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Twitter, Vatican | 0 |
Credit: © L’Osservatore Romano / Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City on August 28, 2010.
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 11, 2022 / 20:18 pm (CNA).
A bogus Twitter account using the name of Georg Bätzing, the head of the German Bishops’ Confe…
by bcadmin | Jun 15, 2022 | College of Cardinals, News, Papal conclave, papal election, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch | 0 |
Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in a conclave held after that date, set off the usual flurry of speculations about the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | authority, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, Magisterium, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, renewal, ressourcement, Saint John Paul II, Vatican II | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk, in his February 2022 essay “Is Vatican II ‘Spent’?”, says that what we now need, precisely in order to advance the aims of Vatican II, is a Vatican III: We need a new […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | Archbishop Georg Gänswein, News, Papacy, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, The Dispatch | 0 |
In his book The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies, David Stove observes that an argument once given by philosopher of science Imré Lakatos “manages to be scandalous and pointless at the same time” (p. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2021 | Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Catholic Church, Catholic news, CNA, Free Access, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Vatican | 0 |
Vatican City, Oct 21, 2021 / 04:40 am Archbishop Georg Gänswein has said that Benedict XVI is “full of zest for life” after the pope emeritus expressed the hope that he would join his friends in heaven in a condolence message. Gänswein, Benedict XVI’s private secretary, spoke to Germany’s Bild newspaper on Oct. 20 after media reports
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2021 | Associated Press, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Vatican | 0 |
ROME (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes to soon join a beloved professor friend in “the afterlife,” in a sign that the 94-year-old pontiff is not only accepting his eventual death but welcoming it. Benedict penned an Oct. 2 letter to a German priest, thanking him […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2021 | Austria, Catholic Church, Catholic news, Europe, Free Access, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI | 0 |
Wilhering, Austria, Oct 19, 2021 / 09:00 am Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has said that he looks forward to joining his friends in heaven in a condolence message following the death of a Cistercian priest. In a letter dated Oct. 2 and released by Wilhering Abbey in Austria, the 94-year-old retired pope said that the death of Fr.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 17, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic news, CNA, Free Access, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
Vatican City, Sep 16, 2021 / 09:15 am Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has said that the legalization of same-sex marriage in many countries is “a distortion of conscience” which has also entered some Catholic circles. In an introduction to a new anthology of his writings on Europe, Benedict XVI said that “with the legalization of
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2021 | Cardinal Robert Sarah, Features, Latin Mass, Liturgy, motu proprio, News, Opinion, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Second Vatican Council, St. John Paul II, Summorum Pontificum, Traditionis custodes, Vatican II | 0 |
As we approach the month’s mind marker of Traditionis Custodes, and with the benefit of literally hundreds of articles produced, including my own reflection here at CWR within 48 hours of the promulgation of the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 26, 2021 | Germany, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, The Dispatch | 0 |
Freiburg, Jul 26, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA). Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has expressed concern about the lack of faith within Church institutions in Germany. The retired pope made the comments in a written conversation […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 18, 2021 | Abortion, Communion, Latin Mass, lead, Nancy Pelosi, News, News Analysis, Politics, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, President Joe Biden, USCCB, weaponization | 0 |
If you want to understand why Pope Francis is willing to use the power of his office to enforce discipline on the Latin Mass but not on communion for pro-choice politicians, maybe a concern for “weaponization” of the faith is at least part of it.
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