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December 31, 2022
December 31, 2022
Pope Francis, King Charles III and President Joe Biden are among the world leaders who have paid tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died this morning at the Vatican at the age of 95. Pope Francis “It is with emotion that we remember his person, so noble and so kind. And we feel in our
December 31, 2022
Reading Ratzinger is a commitment to moving beyond simplistic truisms such as the juxtaposition of charity and justice as a zero-sum game and to seeking to understand the depths of things, to see beyond the natural world into the supernatural, beyond the physical life to the eschatological, beyond the body to the soul, without ever embracing any false dualism but rather interrogating knowledge and life, orthodoxy and praxis, as an integrated whole.  
December 31, 2022
Looking back, 12 years on from that visit, how has Pope Benedict XVI shaped the future of the Catholic Church in England and Wales? Certainly, for every Catholic in their late twenties and early thirties whom I know, Benedict is the reason we are still Catholics. And for those who have converted, or those who had lapsed and have reverted in the last 12 years, he seems to have been a common factor in bringing people back into the loving arms of the Church.
December 31, 2022
The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has issued the following statement on the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. “I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Pope Benedict. He will be remembered as one of the great theologians of the 20th century. “I remember with particular affection the remarkable Papal Visit
December 31, 2022
Pope Benedict XVI may not have inspired the same affection of some the popes who reigned after Vatican II, but history will judge him as perhaps the most significant, standing beside Anastasius, the fourth-century Bishop of Alexandria, who in the face of the Arian heresy preserved and handed on the truth – and the beauty – of the Catholic faith as it had been received by the Apostles.
December 31, 2022
The Catholic Church is today mourning the death today of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. The 95-year-old German former pope died at 9.34 am local time at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, his residence at the Vatican, after his health deteriorated sharply earlier in the week. Pope Francis used his general audience on Wednesday to reveal to
December 31, 2022
Bohdan Mandziuk is a seminarian for the Ukrainian Eparchy of the Holy Family of London, and when war broke out was a student at the Three Holy Hierarchs Seminary on the outskirts of Kyiv. He is now continuing his studies at The International Theological Institute at Trumau, near Vienna. It was in 1833 that a
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