Benedict XVI says he has felt people’s prayers ‘almost physically’
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Pope issues new rules to strengthen Catholic identity of charities
Benedict XVI says charities should not receive money from groups that ‘pursue ends contrary to the Church’s teaching’
Pope creates six new cardinals from outside Europe
The College of Cardinals now has 120 members eligible to vote in a conclave
Pope: ‘The Council Fathers neither could nor wished to create a new Church’
On eve of 50th anniversary Benedict XVI reflects on weak and strong points of Council documents
Pope tells Middle East Christians: ‘Your sufferings are not in vain’
Benedict XVI appeals for hope on last day of Lebanese visit
Pope says he is a ‘pilgrim of peace’ as he arrives in Lebanon
Benedict XVI praises dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon, but says the country’s equilibrium is ‘extremely delicate’
Superior general says the SSPX may split over reconciliation with Rome
Bishop Bernard Fellay says: ‘I cannot exclude that there might be a split’
Vatican orders major reform of association of women religious
Leadership Conference of Women Religious has ‘serious doctrinal problems’, says Rome
Ladies in White arrested before Pope’s Havana Mass
The dissidents had appealed for a meeting with Benedict XVI
Without God man is hurled into a void, Pope tells Cubans
Benedict XVI acknowledges the daring and self-sacrifice of Cubans struggling for freedom








Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By Francis X Rocca