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Pope to answer questions of faith on Twitter
Pope Benedict XVI is due to send out his first, much-anticipated Twitter message on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of followers already signed up to receive the tweet. Since the pope last week announced he would start tweeting under the name @pontifex, around 625,000 people have registered to follow his…
Pope urges Catholics to come back to their faith
The Vatican celebrated the 50th anniversary on Thursday of a Council that changed the face of Catholicism, as it tries to rekindle the religious fervour of the time amid rising secularism. Hundreds of bishops from around the world held a solemn procession through St Peter’s Square, after which Pope Benedict…
Pope prays in Arabic for first time
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday pronounced a blessing in Arabic at his weekly audience in front of 20,000 pilgrims on St Peter’s Square — the first time the language has been used at such an event. “The pope prays for all Arabic speakers. May God bless you all!” the pope…
Catholic leaders gather to counter decline of faith
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday opened a meeting of Roman Catholic Church leaders from around the world to debate how to counter rising secularism on the 50th anniversary of the momentous Second Vatican Council. The synod of 262 archbishops, bishops and other senior clerics heard a call from the pope…
Pope’s butler gets 18 months’ jail in ‘Vatileaks’ case
Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler Paolo Gabriele Saturday got 18 months in prison for stealing secret documents from the Vatican that reveal fraud and intrigue in the tiny state. But the possibilty he will be pardoned by the Pope “is very concrete and very likely”, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told…
Pope calls for Christians and Muslims to unite against violence
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday called for Christians and Muslims to unite against violence, following a trip to Lebanon last week in which he condemned fundamentalism in any religion. “I think the time has come… for us together to issue a determined rejection of violence and wars,”…
Iran admits its elite forces operating in Syria
DAMASCUS — Syrian troops on Sunday fought rebel fighters in the country’s two main cities Damascus and Aleppo, as Iran acknowledged for the first time it has elite forces present in Syria and Lebanon as “counsellors.” The relentless violence affected the start on Sunday of the educational year, with activists…
Muslim union demands pope apology, accuses him of sedition
AN Islamic group headed by influential cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi on Friday demanded Pope Benedict XVI apologise to Muslims over inflammatory remarks he made in 2006. The Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars also accused the pope of fuelling “sedition” between Muslims and Christians, in a statement coinciding with the start…
Pope’s trip to Lebanon ‘act of courage, hope,’ says spokesman
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Lebanon next week is “considered an act of great courage and hope worldwide” as a civil war rages in neighbouring Syria, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Saturday. Lebanon, which has a significant Catholic community, was selected for the September 14-16 trip “before the situation in…
Pope gets fancy new electric car to move around Vatican grounds
French automaker Renault has given Pope Benedict XVI an electric car to whizz around in within the grounds of the Vatican and his summer home of Castel Gandolfo, the Holy See said Thursday. The new white pope-carrier, a Kangoo Maxi Z.E. model bearing the pontifical crest of arms on its…
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