Former Pope Benedict ‘very sick’

Dec 28, 2022 by

from Daily Telegraph: Pope Francis made the surprise announcement at the end of his weekly general audience and asked people to “pray” for the 95-year-old. Former pope Benedict, 95, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600...

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Renewing Rome from Within: A Biography of Benedict XVI

Jan 20, 2022 by

by Leonardo de Chirico, The Gospel Coalition: Review: ‘Benedict XVI: A Life’ by Peter Seewald. Popes are fascinating. They have both historical significance and a foundational role in shaping Roman Catholicism globally. But if a pope is...

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The ‘Esoteric’ Benedict XVI

Jul 27, 2021 by

by Rod Dreher, The American Conservative: I got a Google News alert about The Benedict Option, tipping me off to this column by an Australian Jesuit criticizing the concept. He wrote, in part: A few years ago in the United States, marked...

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Traditionis custodes: Serpents over Fish

Jul 17, 2021 by

by Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine: The bomb has been dropped. Today Pope Francis issued his motu proprio Traditionis custodes severely restricting the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. In effect, it wipes out Pope Benedict’s...

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In new biography, Benedict XVI laments modern ‘anti-Christian creed’

May 6, 2020 by

from CNA: Modern society is formulating an “anti-Christian creed” and punishing those who resist it with “social excommunication,” Benedict XVI has said in a new biography, published in Germany May 4. In a wide-ranging interview at the...

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From the arrest of Assange to the fall of dictators, we cannot evade eternal moral truths

Apr 13, 2019 by

by Daniel Johnson, The Article: Absorbing as the Brexit psychodrama has been, it is good to be reminded that for the rest of the world, this is not the only show in London town. And as MPs head for the hills, the rest of us too can take...

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