# pope-benedict-xvi - Monday 23 November, 2015
# All Is All
# All Is All
People are threatening to boycott the film on account of Benedict Cumberbatch’s character.
# Transphobia
From The Daily Edge
# Transphobia
People are threatening to boycott the film on account of Benedict Cumberbatch’s character.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Sunday 5 January, 2014
# Stepping Out
# Stepping Out
The former pope, who promised on retirement to “live hidden from the world”, made excursion to visit brother in hospital.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Saturday 6 July, 2013
# Bond Market
# Bond Market
Rene Bruelhart, dubbed ‘the James Bond of the financial world’, trying to root out financial crimes in the Holy See.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
# Home Sweet Home
# Home Sweet Home
The Pope Emeritus is likely to return to the Vatican on Thursday, a spokesman for the Holy See said.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
# Conclave
# Conclave
Cardinals will be sworn in with a solemn oath that threatens anyone who reveals the deliberations of the conclave with instant excommunication.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Monday 11 March, 2013
# Habemus Papam
# Habemus Papam
This handy graphic from the Catholic News Agency explains all…
# Pre-conclave
# Pre-conclave
One of the cardinals in contention, Timothy Dolan, told an interviewer that anyone mentioning him as a candidate must be “smoking marijuana”.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Monday 4 March, 2013
# Your Say
# Your Say
March should see a new leader to the world’s estimated 1.2 billion Catholics, but can he make a difference?
# NEW POPE
# NEW POPE
Cardinals gather for the general congregations today ahead of the start of the conclave to elect the next head of the Catholic Church.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Friday 1 March, 2013
# Ex Benedict
# Ex Benedict
The tweets from the @pontifex Twitter account have been removed, with the account dormant awaiting a new pontiff.
# Sede Vacante
# Sede Vacante
There’s more than a few similarities between the only two men to have resigned the papacy by choice.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Thursday 28 February, 2013
# Ex Benedict
# Ex Benedict
Cardinals will now meet to elect a successor, while the 85-year-old former Joseph Ratzinger will be known as ‘Pope Emeritus’.
# Pontifex
From The Daily Edge
# Pontifex
Did @Pontifex really quit because he kept getting sass tweets?
# All Over
# All Over
The pontiff will depart the Vatican later today to spend the next few months at the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo before he returns to the Vatican permanently to live a life of prayer and academic research.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
# When Life Gives You Lemons...
From The Daily Edge
# When Life Gives You Lemons...
“This will be rare item in years to come,” said the person with a bunch of now redundant calendars.
# Arrivederci
# Arrivederci
The 85-year-old enjoys an emotional sendoff, explaining his reasons for retiring and taking a final tour of St Peter’s Square.
# Retirement
# Retirement
The resignation of Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Armagh, Gerard Clifford, has been accepted by Pope Benedict.
# One Last Time
# One Last Time
Details of Pope Benedict’s life after his reign ends have emerged and include him swapping his trademark red shoes for a brown pair. His Fisherman’s Ring will also be destroyed.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Monday 25 February, 2013
# Conclave
# Conclave
Cardinals can now move the Conclave forward if they’re all present – but also have to take strict oaths of secrecy.
# Vatileaks
# Vatileaks
The Vatileaks enquiry report will be for his eyes only.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Sunday 24 February, 2013
# Pope Benedict XVI
# Pope Benedict XVI
An emotional Pope Benedict XVI has delivered his last Sunday prayer in St Peter’s Square in Rome.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Saturday 23 February, 2013
# Catholic Church
# Catholic Church
Speaking ahead of his resignation next week, Pope Benedict XVI said that God’s beauty was “constantly contradicted by the evil of this world, by suffering and by corruption.”
# pope-benedict-xvi - Thursday 21 February, 2013
# Ex Benedict
# Ex Benedict
La Repubblica says a report presented in December detailed breaches of the ‘sixth and seventh commandments’.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Sunday 17 February, 2013
# Pope Resigns
# Pope Resigns
The Vatican said over 50,000 people had turned out to see the pope for his Sunday Angelus, while local authorities put the number at over 100,000.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
# Sacred Heart
# Sacred Heart
The Vatican said the operation had nothing to do with the Pope’s decision to resign.
# Pope Resigns
# Pope Resigns
The highlights of Pope Benedict XVI ’s papacy, from 2005 to today.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Monday 11 February, 2013
# Sede Vacante
# Sede Vacante
Because of the Ingravescentem aetatem, not all of the College of Cardinals get to fill the Petrine ministry. Didn’t you know?
# Sede Vacante
# Sede Vacante
February 11 is the World Day of the Sick, Brady notes, asking for prayers for those responsible for choosing his successor.
# The Pope
# The Pope
Enda Kenny clashed with the Catholic Church in the last two years, slamming the “the dysfunction, the disconnection, the elitism that dominates the Vatican today” after the Cloyne report in 2011.
# Reaction
# Reaction
Today’s announcement caught the world unawares. Here’s some of the initial reactions.
# The Pope
# The Pope
The life and times of the 265th Pope.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
# Vatican
# Vatican
The Vatican’s new chief prosecutor said many of the cases date back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Thursday 10 January, 2013
# Appointments
# Appointments
Leahy succeeds Donal Murray, who resigned in 2009 after being criticised by the Murphy Report into clerical abuse.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
# Abortion
# Abortion
Was Benedict referring to Ireland when he spoke of laws that “unjustly alter the balance” between mother and baby?
# pope-benedict-xvi - Thursday 3 January, 2013
# Vatican
# Vatican
Bank of Italy says the Vatican failed to fully implement anti money laundering legislation.
# pope-benedict-xvi - Saturday 22 December, 2012
# Gay Marriage
# Gay Marriage
John Lyons claims this is second time in a week that Vatican has “targeted the international LGBT community”.
