Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI's album launched

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

An album featuring Pope Benedict XVI, reciting and singing prayers and litanies, was launched yesterday.

Pope urges Europe to defend religious heritage

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Pope Benedict XVI has urged Europeans to defend their continent's religious and cultural heritage.

Pope to release album to spread the word

France24 (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

An album of Pope Benedict XVI speaking against a background of specially-composed classical and world music will be released on November 30, but the Vatican said it will get only 31,000 euros from the deal. The disc, "Alma Mater", includes eight extracts of the pope speaking in different languages, including a rendition of the Regina Coeli hymn. It has been integrated with music composed...

• Pope prays to musical accompaniment in new CD - San Diego Union

Pope urges Europe to defend religious heritage

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has urged Europeans to defend their continent's religious and cultural heritage.

Pope prays to musical accompaniment in new CD

Sify (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Pope Benedict XVI sings and prays along to a mix of modern music and ancient church chants in a new album presented Tuesday before its release at the end of the month.

• Pope prays to musical accompaniment in new CD - San Diego Union
• Pope prays to musical accompaniment in new CD - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pope prays to musical accompaniment in new CD

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pope Benedict XVI sings and prays along to a mix of modern music and ancient church chants in a new album presented Tuesday before its release at the end of the month.

Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace

Sify (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.

Pope Benedict: Church must seek dialogue with people

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

Brescia, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday his own Catholic Church should do more to reach out to people in times of great challenges and to provide them with courage and support. While on a pastoral visit to the northern Italian city of Brescia,...

Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace

San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.

Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.

Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

BRESCIA, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.

Pope a fan of sports -- but not doping athletes

France24 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against drug-taking in sport on Saturday. The pope said the Catholic Church believed sport could be a force for good, particularly among young people, but warned against harmful aspects such as doping. "Sport has great educational potential, especially for the young ... and when it is practised with enthusiasm and a strong ethical aspect it becomes the place for healthy...

255 artists to meet pope to revive relations

France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

More than 250 artists including Ennio Morricone and Bill Viola will meet Pope Benedict XVI this month to revive the Church's relations with the art world, a Vatican official said Thursday. The November 21 meeting at the Sistine Chapel will be "a representative moment showing the will to dialogue between the church and the art world", said Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical...

President Blair? -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

The idea that Tony Blair might "emerge" as president of the EU from the secretive conclave that will be held once the Czechs become the last government to ratify the EU constitution Lisbon Treaty looks ever more unlikely. EurSoc lists some of the problems with the Blair candidacy (which, good oligarch that he is, Blair has never actually deigned to announce), but also points out the silver...

Nikola Kaludov Appointed Bulgarian Ambassador to Vatican

Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

The newly appointed Bulgarian Ambassador Niloka Kaludov has presented his credentials to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. The Head of the Roman Catholic Church expressed his satisfaction with the status of the relationship between Bulgaria and the Holy See, and pointed out that it deserves to be more intensive, the Foreign Affairs press center announced. The Bulgarian Ambassador was received by the...

Cooking for the pope

wineandfoodtube | 04/23/2008

For Lidia Bastianich, cooking for Pope Benedict XVI was more than an honor. In her own words, it was a "closing of the circle." Forty years ago, when Lidia was 12 and living in a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy, with her parents and brother, a Catholic relief organization provided them with safe passage and the proper visas to emigrate to America. But Lidia and her parents had to go to the Vatican