"Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas" — "On the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures." Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, March 26, 2008, Easter Week (Excerpts) Holy Saturday, March 22, 2008, in St. Peter’s Basilica. Easter Vigil in the Holy Night presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. The Holy Father blesses the [...]
I am on a ferry boat on the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Croatia, heading to Greece to attend the funeral of an old and dear friend who died last week. I have just left traveling from the island of Badija (link and link), where I have passed a week with Father Jozo [...]
One year after his death, scholars and friends illuminate his life and work By ITV staff/NCR Conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, titled “Benedict XVI’s Legacy: Unfinished Debates on Faith, Culture and Politics,” November 29, 2023 (Photo: Isabella H. de Carvalho/Aleteia) Despite the now 11 years that have passed since Pope [...]
Pope Benedict XVI, who died at the age of 94 on December 31 last year, and Peter Seewald, a German writer who worked with Benedict for 25 years to produce a number of book-length interviews which became best-sellers "As a South American and a Jesuit, he (Pope Francis) has erased much of what was precious [...]
Portrait of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (Vatican Media) The late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (Vatican Media) "With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican," the Vatican spokesman, Dr. Matteo Bruni, said a few minutes ago [...]
CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring Monday October 14, 2019 Today Pope Francis, 82 -- as I reported yesterday was likely -- accepted the resignation of Domenico Giani, 57, the Commander of his Vatican City State security force, the Vatican Gendarmes, for the past 16 years (link). (Photos of the two [...]
Pope Francis received the recipients of the 2017 Ratzinger Prize in Theology on Saturday morning. Catholic Professor Karl-Heinz Menke of the Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn, Lutheran Professor Theodor Dieter of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, and Orthodox composer Arvo Pärt, share the Prize this year, which Benedict XVI established in 2010 as the leading international award for research in Sacred Scripture, patristics, and [...]
May 27, 2016, Friday -- The Passing of Capovilla Cardinal Loris Capovilla Passes Away At The Age Of 100 "There was a second envelope." —The late Cardinal Loris Capovilla, speaking to me in his residence in Sotto il Monte in early 2007, when I asked him why the letter of the Third Secret of Fatima held [...]
May 16, 2016, Monday -- The Three Positions (And Now Four) On Amoris Laetitia The text below is the Editorial in the May edition of Inside the Vatican, which is just out. (To obtain a copy of the issue or to subscribe for one or more years, click here. We welcome new subscribers, of course. If [...]
May 13, 2016, Friday -- In the Footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI... Blessed Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima... "In terms of what we today can discover in this message [the message of Fatima], attacks against the Pope or the Church don't come just from outside the Church. The suffering of the Church also comes [...]
