by Sean Reilly | Apr 21, 2008
In New York at 9.30 am local time on Sunday 20 April 2008, the Pope visited Ground Zero, the name now used to refer to the site once occupied by the twin towers of the World Trade Centre. He prayed for peace and an end to hatred. On 11 September 2001 two aircraft...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 14, 2008
In advance of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the US, three prominent gay Catholics have urged the pontiff to enter into a dialogue with lesbian and gay Catholics. They addressed the pontiff through open statements about their lives, loves, and hopes for the church at a...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
President George Bush and his wife Laura Bush will greet Pope Benedict XVI, April 15, when he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base for a six-day visit to the United States that will take him to Washington and New York City. The pope is expected to arrive at four in the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
The newspaper L’Osservatore Romano claims that the students and scientists who protested about the Pope giving a speech at their university last month had misunderstood his views on Galileo because of a mistake on Wikipedia – the open source,...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 7, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has made an appeal for an end to the current violence in Chad, as apart of a series of conversations to promote reconciliation with justice in a number of war-torn countries and regions. “I feel particularly close to the people of Chad,...
