Popes Francis and Benedict receive their first doses of Covid-19 vaccine

Both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI have received the first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 after the Vatican started vaccinating its employees and residents on 13th January. The news was confirmed by Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican Press Office. While it has been reported widely that Pope Francis received the vaccine on 13th January, the retired pope’s... Read More

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January 15, 2021

False narrative of papal division ‘harmful,’ former doctrinal chief says

The constant comparison as well as false reports of division between Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI by both secular and Catholic media outlets threaten the dignity of the papacy and the faith of many, a former top Vatican official said. In an op-ed piece recently published in the Italian daily La Bussola Quotidiana, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, former prefect of... Read More

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January 14, 2021

Popes Francis and Benedict XVI in line for vaccination against Covid-19

The Vatican began vaccinating its employees and residents against Covid-19 on 13th January, giving priority to its health care workers, security personnel, employees who deal with the public and older residents, employees and retirees. Both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI said they planned to receive the vaccine, but the Vatican provided no information about the timing of their... Read More

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November 11, 2020

Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict questioned for McCarrick report

In an unusual move, both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI subjected themselves to questioning by Vatican investigators charged with compiling a report on how Church decisions were made regarding the career and ultimate expulsion of Theodore E. McCarrick. “Pope Francis was questioned closely regarding the 23rd June and 10th October 2013 meetings” during which Archbishop... Read More

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November 3, 2020

Retired pope declines his late brother’s inheritance

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has declined the inheritance of his brother Georg, who died in July, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. Because of this, “the estate of Georg Ratzinger goes to the Holy See,” Johannes Hofmann, dean of St Johann Collegiate Church, told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. This was stated in the postscript of Mgr Ratzinger’s will, he said. The... Read More

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October 7, 2020

Pope Benedict had approved the Vatican-China agreement, cardinal says

The Vatican-China agreement on the appointment of bishops was a pastoral, not political agreement, that also had been approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican Secretary of State said. Every pope, from St Paul VI to Pope Francis, has tried to resolve what Pope Benedict described as a difficult situation “of misunderstandings and incomprehension” that did not benefit... Read More

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September 15, 2020

Bishops to mark 10-year anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI in the UK

Benedict XVI in the UK: The Speeches is now on Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes) and Spotify. Ten years after the papal visit of Pope Benedict to the UK, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales will play the podcasts of the major speeches on their anniversary dates at the same time as they happened. Pope... Read More

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September 5, 2020

Continuity in particularity: Cardinal looks at Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI

Between Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI, there is ‘continuity of magisterium and particularity in pastoral style’, but even more, there is ‘a living communion of affection’, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. What retired Pope Benedict XVI once described as the importance of ‘newness and continuity’ in the teaching of the... Read More

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August 3, 2020

German author says retired Pope Benedict is ‘extremely frail’

An author with a long and close relationship to retired Pope Benedict XVI told a German newspaper that the 93-year-old retired pope is “extremely frail”. Peter Seewald, the author who has published four wide-ranging book-length interviews with the retired pope, was quoted in today’s edition of the Bavarian newspaper Passauer Neue Presse. Seewald said he visited... Read More

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