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People are threatening to boycott the film on account of Benedict Cumberbatch’s character.
People are threatening to boycott the film on account of Benedict Cumberbatch’s character.
The former pope, who promised on retirement to “live hidden from the world”, made excursion to visit brother in hospital.
Rene Bruelhart, dubbed ‘the James Bond of the financial world’, trying to root out financial crimes in the Holy See.
The Pope Emeritus is likely to return to the Vatican on Thursday, a spokesman for the Holy See said.
Cardinals will be sworn in with a solemn oath that threatens anyone who reveals the deliberations of the conclave with instant excommunication.
This handy graphic from the Catholic News Agency explains all…
One of the cardinals in contention, Timothy Dolan, told an interviewer that anyone mentioning him as a candidate must be “smoking marijuana”.
March should see a new leader to the world’s estimated 1.2 billion Catholics, but can he make a difference?
Cardinals gather for the general congregations today ahead of the start of the conclave to elect the next head of the Catholic Church.
The tweets from the @pontifex Twitter account have been removed, with the account dormant awaiting a new pontiff.
There’s more than a few similarities between the only two men to have resigned the papacy by choice.
Cardinals will now meet to elect a successor, while the 85-year-old former Joseph Ratzinger will be known as ‘Pope Emeritus’.
Did @Pontifex really quit because he kept getting sass tweets?
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.
“This will be rare item in years to come,” said the person with a bunch of now redundant calendars.
The 85-year-old enjoys an emotional sendoff, explaining his reasons for retiring and taking a final tour of St Peter’s Square.
The resignation of Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Armagh, Gerard Clifford, has been accepted by Pope Benedict.
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.
Cardinals can now move the Conclave forward if they’re all present – but also have to take strict oaths of secrecy.
The Vatileaks enquiry report will be for his eyes only.
An emotional Pope Benedict XVI has delivered his last Sunday prayer in St Peter’s Square in Rome.
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.”
La Repubblica says a report presented in December detailed breaches of the ‘sixth and seventh commandments’.
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.
The Vatican said the operation had nothing to do with the Pope’s decision to resign.
The highlights of Pope Benedict XVI’s papacy, from 2005 to today.
Because of the Ingravescentem aetatem, not all of the College of Cardinals get to fill the Petrine ministry. Didn’t you know?
February 11 is the World Day of the Sick, Brady notes, asking for prayers for those responsible for choosing his successor.
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.
Today’s announcement caught the world unawares. Here’s some of the initial reactions.
The life and times of the 265th Pope.
The Vatican’s new chief prosecutor said many of the cases date back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Leahy succeeds Donal Murray, who resigned in 2009 after being criticised by the Murphy Report into clerical abuse.
Was Benedict referring to Ireland when he spoke of laws that “unjustly alter the balance” between mother and baby?
Bank of Italy says the Vatican failed to fully implement anti money laundering legislation.
John Lyons claims this is second time in a week that Vatican has “targeted the international LGBT community”.
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