by Sean Reilly | Jul 1, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has chosen “Combating poverty. Building peace” as the key theme for his Message for the 42nd World Day of Peace, due to be celebrated on 1 January 2009, the Vatican announced in a communique issued today. The approach taken by the...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 9, 2008
After a visit to Russia, the Vatican’s top official for Christian unity has said a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church is “possible”. Such an encounter would be the first-ever meeting between a...
by Sean Reilly | May 30, 2008
Autism campaigners around the world are urging Pope Benedict XVI to act on autism in the wake of the banning of a 13 year old boy with severe autism from the Roman Catholic Church of St.Joseph, in Bertha, Minnesota in the United States. This is probarbly the first...
by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
New technology has always played a part in religious polemics and in the sense of identity generated through the heated exchange of opinion – such as we see in cyberspace today. The invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century has been credited by...
by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has described his private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican earlier this week as “friendly and informal”. They spent almost half an hour in the Pope’s study. Afterwards Dr Williams said:...
