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NEWS ABOUT: Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI stories: 191 news summaries

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Priests Need Latin Lessons

Pope restores old rite, but clerics don't know the words

Jul 16, 07 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Traditionalist Catholics have lauded Pope Benedict's recent call for more Masses in Latin, but priests are biting their nails—few of them know enough of the language to say a Latin Mass. Even Italian priests face embarrassment in the wake of Pope Benedict 's decision to allow Latin services at... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Latin Mass • Latin liturgy • Mass • Catholicism • language

Pope Pounds Protestants

Jul 11, 07 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a remarkable nod to the 16th century, Pope Benedict XVI’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which he once led, said of Protestant denominations, 'it is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to them." The document restates Benedict's position... More »

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Pope Gives Go-Ahead to Latin Mass

After 4 decades
out of favor, rite faces opposition, controversy

Jul 7, 07 5:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four decades after sweeping reforms intended to make the Catholic Church more accessible, Pope Benedict backed off the best-known change today, lifting restrictions on the Tridentine rite, better known as the Latin Mass. The move is already controversial, Time reports, because it's perceived as a sop to traditionalists—and because... More »

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Man Tries
to Hitch a Ride on Popemobile

German vaults barrier in St. Peter's Square, approaches pontiff's car

Jun 6, 07 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - A German man made a leap of faith in St. Peter's Square in Rome today, apparently attempting to board Pope Benedict's Jeep. A Vatican spokesman said the 27-year-old was trying to "draw attention to himself" when he dove over a barricade toward the slow-moving Popemobile; the man was immediately... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • St. Peter's Basilica • Catholic Church • Rome • Vatican • Popemobile

Brazil to Subsidize Birth Control

Cheaper pills give poor women same right to family planning, says president

May 29, 07 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just weeks after Pope Benedict XVI decried contraception as a threat to the future of Latin America on his visit to Brazil, Brazil's president announced that the government would subsidize birth control pills at private pharmacies so poor women can have "the same right that the wealthy have to... More »

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contraception • Latin America • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • women • women's rights • Brazil • religion • birth control • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • birth control pill

Pope Backtracks on Muslims

Benedict rebuilds demoted department the leads dialog with Islamic world

May 29, 07 5:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Pope applied some salve to wounded relations with the Muslim world yesterday after neglecting and then appearing to slander Islam in a speech last fall. In a surprising reversal, Benedict XVI announced he is restoring the Vatican department responsible for Muslim affairs, which he demoted in importance last year. More »

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House Dems Slam Pope's Threat

May 15, 07 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - A group of House Democrats bridled at Pope Benedict's recent suggestion that politicians who support abortion rights should be excommunicated, The Hill reports. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut led 18 legislators in condemning the Pope's comment, which "offends the very nature of the American experiment," according to their... More »

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Pope: Marxism, Capitalism Hold Latin America Back

Also, contraception and secularism

May 14, 07 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI blamed both capitalism and Marxism for Latin America's problems in a speech yesterday in Brazil, the world's most Catholic nation. Benedict blamed Marxism for "a painful destruction of the human spirit," but also worried that capitalism gives rise to "degradation of personal dignity through... More »

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Latin America • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Brazil • Marxism • Catholicism

Brazilians Gather To Hail New Saint

Pope Benedict visits Sao Paulo to canonize one of their own

May 11, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Up to a million spectators will flock to Sao Paulo today to see Pope Benedict XVI canonize the first saint born in Brazil. Friar Galvao, a Franciscan monk who died in 1822, wrote Latin prayers on slips of rice paper that he rolled into "pills," which appeared to... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Brazil • Friar Galvao • Sao Paulo • saint • Catholicism

In Brazil, Pope Talks Tough
On Abortion

Benedict makes first visit to world's largest Catholic population

May 9, 07 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict brought the Catholic Church's stern anti-abortion message to Brazil today, weeks after Mexico City legalized the practice and as Brazil faintly contemplates doing the same. The Pope is on his first trip to Latin America—the fastest-expanding corner of his flock, but also one of the most precarious—... More »

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abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • abortion rights • Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Catholicism

King Cozies
Up to Pope

Don King gets
ringside seat,
offers Benedict XVI
a boxing belt

Mar 22, 07 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A tonsorially tamed Don King took the stage Wednesday in front of an atypical audience–the Pope. The legendary boxing promoter, who spent four years in jail for manslaughter, was denied a personal audience with his Holiness, but did manage to hand the pontiff a handwritten set of prayer requests–... More »

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Don King • Pope Benedict XVI • St. Peter's Basilica • Vatican City • Luca Messi • Bergamo • St. Mary Major Basilica • boxing • Catholic Church • Catholicism

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