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VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — The bishop of Malta says Pope Benedict XVI will visit the tiny Mediterranean island April 17-18 to mark the 1950th anniversary of St. Paul's shipwreck.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has urged Europeans to defend their continent's religious and cultural heritage.
The La Crosse, Wis., bishop has been named the 11th archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee by Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican announced Saturday that Bishop Jerome Listecki is the next leader of the archdiocese, which serves about 675,000 parishioners and 211 churches..
ROME (CNS) -- Under the gilded ceiling of a Roman basilica, a choir performed while the taped voice of Pope Benedict XVI sang the Marian hymn "Regina Coeli" ("Queen of Heaven").
VATICAN CITY -- More than 250 distinguished artists from around the world will join Pope Benedict XVI in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday (Nov. 21), as part of the pope's effort to restore a historic “alliance” between the church and the arts.
VATICAN CITY, Italy, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI is Internet savvy and regularly uses e-mail and surfs the Web from his laptop computer, Vatican officials say.
VATICAN CITY, Italy, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI is to call for global cooperation in addressing hunger when he speaks at the World Summit on Food Security in Rome, the Vatican said.
A retired U.S. Army chaplain and native of Chicago 's Southeast Side has been named archbishop of Milwaukee, the Roman Catholic archdiocese there said today. Bishop Jerome Listecki of La Crosse, Wis., was named the 11th archbishop of the archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI. A news release from the archdiocese says the Vatican announced the selection Saturday. The 60-year-old Listecki will lead the ...
ROME (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI sings and prays along to a mix of modern music and ancient church chants in a new album presented Tuesday before its release at the end of the month.
The Bishop of Harrisburg is heading to Notre Dame country.The Most Rev. Kevin Rhoades, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg since 2004, was appointed ninth Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican announced Saturday.Rhoades, 51, will be installed in India...
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades as the ninth Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, transferring him from the Diocese of Harrisburg, the Vatican announced in a press release today.
After Pope Benedict XVI’s offenses to Jews and Muslims, to Protestants and to reform-oriented Catholics, it is now the turn of the Anglican Communion, which encompasses some 77 million members and is the third-largest Christian confession after the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches.
FILE - In this July 17, 2008 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI admires the sky above Sydney, Australia. The Vatican has hosted a dayslong conference to study the possibility of alien life in the universe and its implication for the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding its first ever conference on alien life, the discovery of which would have profound implications for the Catholic Church. For centuries, theologians have argued over what the existence of life elsewhere in the universe would mean for the Church. Among other things, extremely alien-looking aliens ...
The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the Internet and digital youth culture.
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.
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