Benedict XVI

Vatican police arrested Pope Benedict XVI's personal butler on Friday following an investigation into the "Vatileaks" scandal in which confidential church documents, including personal letters to the pope, were made public.  

The president and the pontiff held a private meeting for about an hour at the Council of State and Ministers, afte the Pope arrived in Havana and paid homage to the country's patron saint. On Monday, there was a minor incident where a man was restrained ...  

The pontiff presided at a solemn Easter vigil Mass in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, to usher the 1.2 billion-member church into the most important day of its liturgical calendar. The basilica, the largest church in Christendom, was in the dark for ...  

Skopje. A Macedonian delegation, headed by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Thursday, writes Macedonian Vecer daily. “We informed the Pope about the situation in Macedonia, about our ecclesiastical goals, the ...  

Rome. Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev presented a 200-kilogram Easter egg to Pope Benedict XVI, FOCUS News Agency envoy reported. By tradition, on May 24 - Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature, Pope Benedict XVI grants an ...  

VatiLeaks is pretty much what it sounds like: leaks from the Vatican, which culminated in, "Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI," a blockbusting book from journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, who cites a Vatican source called "Maria" for leaking sensitive letters address to Benedict XVI. Now police have arrested a man whom the press identifies [...]  

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Over the course of the last six months, Pope Benedict XVI delivered five major speeches to small groups of American bishops who were in Rome for their "ad limina" visits, which are required once every five years. The ad limina ...  

Luanda — Pope Benedict XVI has named Dom Benedito Roberto archbishop of Angola's northern Malanje province, and father Zeferino Zeca Martins to the post of auxiliary bishop of Luanda. The information that reached Angop on Tuesday was released by the ...  

This was Benedict XVI’s message to the faithful of Romano Canavese, a village in the province of Turin where Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was born. This is the first public outing for Benedict XVI since his arrival at Les Combes ...  

No, the pope did not mention Georgetown University by name when discussing the Catholic campus culture wars. Yes, he did mention the law ... that they are truly Catholic theologians. Many American bishops have cited a “growing recognition ...  

Pope Benedict XVI has conferred papal honors on six priests of the Fall River Diocese, one of whom is Msgr. Edmund Fitzgerald, pastor of St. Thomas More Church in Somerset. Msgr. Fitzgerald is one of five priests in the diocese to be named ...  

Orlando Catholic Diocese Bishop John Noonan met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on a visit to Rome the week of May 4 -12. Noonan wrote about the experience on his blog. Here’s an excerpt:  The bishops were lined up alphabetically by ...  

There is no other Pope who is named Joseph, except Pope Benedict XVI. I suggest that you should also Google St. Malachy, who predicted the last Pope… and in his list Pope Benedict XVI would be the second to the last Pope. St. Malachy’s prophecies are ...  

By Alessandro SpecialeReligion News Service(RNS) Here are two things that don't typically go together: Pope Benedict XVI and feminist culture.Read More... More on Catholic Church  

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing from inside his vehicle as he arrives to celebrate mass in Arezzo, Italy, Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP2012 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI says he is pleased the Catholic ...