by Sean Reilly | Jan 22, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI and the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), along with high-level representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC, will meet in Rome on Friday 25 January 2008, at the centennial of the Week of...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 17, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, has said that Christians should give priority to unity in the global Week of Prayer that runs from 18-25 January. He also commended a peace message going back to philosopher and theologian St...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has been forced to cancel a visit to the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome after lecturers and students expressed outrage at his past defence of the Catholic church’s actions against Galileo. The Pope had been due to make a speech at...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 7, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, has made another appeal for peace and dialogue in Kenya following recent violence and disturbances in the wake of the country’s presidential elections. In a Letter, signed by Cardinal...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 2, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, says that in troubled times all people are “called to build relationships of solidarity and cooperation among themselves, as befits members of the one human family.” His injunction was...
