Pope Benedict XVI

...material given the mass of responsibility and decisions taken by them as leaders of the Catholic Church. However, Pope Benedict XVI has put John Paul II's beatification cause on a fast track, waiving a rule requiring a five-year wait...

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...died in Jerusalem in 1927 at the age of 83. During Sunday's ceremony, the church unveiled a portrait of Ghattas. Pope Benedict XVI approved the beatification in July - the final step before sainthood. On Sunday. the pope praised...

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...invited more than 250 artists, architects, musicians, directors, writers and composers for an audience on Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI. Sitting before Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel, after a choir sang music by...

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The Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope Benedict XVI took significant steps on Saturday to heal the rift between their respective faiths. By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent, in Rome Published: 4:47PM GMT 21 Nov...

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...could strain talks Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams will come face to face today Pope Benedict XVI will today greet Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the worldwide Anglican...

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...be seen and the theory was dropped, Garlaschelli said. The last public display of the shroud was in 2000, when more than 1 million people turned up to see it. The next is scheduled for 2010, and Pope Benedict XVI has been asked to visit it.

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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI called Wednesday for greater international efforts to ensure basic human rights for children, saying he was praying for all young people who suffer. Benedict made the comments during his weekly general...

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ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI decried the worsening plight of the world's 1 billion hungry on Monday as a United Nations food summit rallied around a strategy of more help to farmers in poor nations but rebuffed a U.N. appeal to commit billions...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here We can feed the world despite global warming, says Pope Benedict Pope Benedict XVI today told a United Nations world food summit that "the Earth can sufficiently feed all of its...

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Brescia, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal. Thousands held umbrellas or pulled jackets tightly about them as a chilly rain fell...

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