3 months, 2 weeks ago
Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than 40 books and winning a devoted following of students who respected his prodigious memory and brilliant mind.
3 months, 2 weeks ago
VATICAN CITY, APRIL 12, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- Benedict XVI is looking forward to his visit the Maltese Islands this Saturday and Sunday, said the Pope's secretary of state.
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Pope Benedict XVI has come under scathing criticism by Italian media as new allegations emerged in the United States that he dragged his feet over defrocking a paedophile priest.
4 months, 3 weeks ago
ROME, MARCH 12, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- The second part of Benedict XVI's "Jesus of Nazareth," expected to be published this spring, will reflect "Dominus Iesus," said Cardinal Antonio Can?izares.
5 months, 1 week ago
Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out against the use of full body scanners across airports in UK insisting that "human dignity must be preserved".
5 months, 1 week ago
Airport security chiefs may have thought they had enough to worry about with shoe bombers, underpants bombers and people who forget to put their toothpaste into those little plastic bags. But, if so, they were reckoning without Pope Benedict XVI.
6 months ago
VATICAN CITY, JAN. 27, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- A true renewal of the Church is always accompanied by closeness to the Successor of Peter, says Benedict XVI.
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday began his controversial visit to Rome's main synagogue with a ceremony in which a large bouquet of red roses was laid in front of a plaque commemorating the Nazi round-up of Rome's Jews in 1943. Benedict wearing a w...
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Susanna MaioloPope Benedict XVI met Wednesday with the woman who knocked him over during Christmas Eve Mass and forgave her, the Vatican said. Susanna Maiolo, a 25-year-old with a history of psychiatric problems, and her family met in a...
8 months ago
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to meet Pope Benedict XVI for the first time next week while on his politcal visit to Italy, the Kremlin disclosed Thursday. The presidential office said Medvedev would meet the pope in the Vatican on Dec...
