Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: A Timeline

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A New Look at Benedict XVI’s Last Writings

Benedict XVI’s What Is Christianity? The Last Writings brings together 18 publications by the Pope Emeritus

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Speaking from World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, the “City of Joy,” a Iesu Communio (Communion in Jesus) sister shares her vocation story with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner.

Religious Sister Tells How She Discovered Her Vocation at a WYD Thanks to Benedict XVI

Papal words in Cologne began the process of youthful discernment.

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Pope Benedict XVI waves at the World Family Meeting in Milan with Cardinal Angelo Scola on June 4, 2012.

Pectoral Cross of Benedict XVI Stolen From Bavarian Church

Unknown perpetrators broke open a display case on the wall of St. Oswald’s Church in the city of Traunstein during daylight hours Monday. Pope Benedict XVI bequeathed the cross to St. Oswald’s after his retirement in 2013. Benedict celebrated his first Mass as a newly ordained priest at St. Oswald’s in 1951.

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Archbishop Georg Gänswein was the personal secretary of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Report: Archbishop Gänswein Ordered to Leave Vatican, Return to Home Diocese Without New Role

The future role of the late Benedict’s secretary has been the subject of rumor and gossip across Rome and the Church in Germany for months.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland Eeacts to Accusation of DOJ's Anti-Catholic Bias

During the hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Jeff Van Drew questioned Garland about the memo, which led to a tense exchange.

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The sanctuary of the Virgin of Flowers Shrine in Álora, Málaga, Spain, was found desecrated Sept. 19, 2023.

Shrine of Virgin of Flowers Whose Name Traveled to Mars With NASA Desecrated

According to the Diocese of Malaga, the assailants entered by neatly forcing open the grating on the sacristy window

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St. Elizabeth Seton and the Inexorable Power of the Eucharist

50 years after the canonization of America’s first saint, her witness is timelier than ever

K.V. Turley Blogs

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” — Pieter de Grebber, “St. John the Baptist Preaching Before Herod,” 17th century

Saints Have Died to Defend Christ’s Teaching on Marriage — Why Don’t We?

St. John the Baptist, St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher gave their lives to uphold the indissolubility of marriage, but few Catholics dare to speak so boldly today

Msgr. Charles Pope Blogs

St. Elizabeth Seton and the Inexorable Power of the Eucharist

50 years after the canonization of America’s first saint, her witness is timelier than ever

K.V. Turley Blogs

Saints Have Died to Defend Christ’s Teaching on Marriage — Why Don’t We?

St. John the Baptist, St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher gave their lives to uphold the indissolubility of marriage, but few Catholics dare to speak so boldly today

Msgr. Charles Pope Blogs

The Commonly Misunderstood Common Good

“By common good is to be understood ‘the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.’” (CCC 1906)

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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: A Timeline

A New Look at Benedict XVI’s Last Writings

Religious Sister Tells How She Discovered Her Vocation at a WYD Thanks to Benedict XVI

Pectoral Cross of Benedict XVI Stolen From Bavarian Church

Report: Archbishop Gänswein Ordered to Leave Vatican, Return to Home Diocese Without New Role

Attorney General Merrick Garland Eeacts to Accusation of DOJ's Anti-Catholic Bias

Shrine of Virgin of Flowers Whose Name Traveled to Mars With NASA Desecrated

St. Elizabeth Seton and the Inexorable Power of the Eucharist

Saints Have Died to Defend Christ’s Teaching on Marriage — Why Don’t We?

St. Elizabeth Seton and the Inexorable Power of the Eucharist

Saints Have Died to Defend Christ’s Teaching on Marriage — Why Don’t We?

The Commonly Misunderstood Common Good

Raphael’s Portrait of Mary Magdalene ‘Discovered’ in a Private Collection, Loving Neighbor Depends on Loving God First, and More Great Links!

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