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Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: 1927-2022

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.

Church in prayer for Benedict as new details emerge in Rome

December 29, 2022

VATICAN CITY: December 29, 2022 New details about Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s condition have emerged following Pope Francis’s request yesterday for prayers for the former pontiff. News of Benedict’s declining health was revealed on Wednesday, at the end of the usual general audience, when Pope Francis asked the faithful assembled in the Vatican’s Paul VI

In football, we find ‘a simple version of the great quest for salvation’

November 21, 2022

The World Cup began on Sunday. I love football as much as the next woman, but I do have some interest in this tournament: my brother has lived in Qatar for 15 years and my sons love the game. In prayer this week some school students asked God to “make England win”, others asked Him to “make

Synodality – an exercise in misreading St John Henry Newman and ‘Lumen gentium’

November 16, 2022

One consequence of writing for the Catholic Herald on the Synodal process is that it seems to make some people excitably angry. When Socrates urged on his listeners the important aphorism “know thyself”, the early Greeks had to attempt the process without the advantage of Twitter. I have had an advantage that earlier generations lacked

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI to defend himself against claims he covered up priest’s sex abuse.

November 10, 2022

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI will give evidence in court against a civil claim that he was negligent in his handling of a clerical abuse case in Germany. Benedict, former Archbishop of Munich and Freising, is expected to submit a written testimony in defence of his treatment of Fr Peter Hullerman, a priest who continued to

Cardinal Zuppi: can no special ‘signs’ really be read into TLM pilgrimage participation?

November 03, 2022

According to Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, there are no special “signs” to be read into his attendance and presiding over Vespers for a recent annual Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) pilgrimage to Rome, named after Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, acknowledging the right of all priests to offer Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal. As reported by Andrea

The voice of the Church in public life does not threaten democracy

September 12, 2022

The Church should have a role in public advocacy

Family and the Domestic Church

September 07, 2022

In 2007 Pope Benedict XVI said, “every home is called to become a ‘domestic church’ in which family life is completely centred on the lordship of Christ and the love of husband and wife mirrors the mystery of Christ’s love for the Church, his bride”. The family, based on the sacrament of marriage, has always