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07/19/11 WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and appointed Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput to succeed him as head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
07/19/11 VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Philadelphia archbishop Cardinal Justin Rigali on Tuesday, sending him into retirement as the archdiocese faces accusations that it covered up a long-running priest sex abuse scandal.
07/19/11 Denver -- Love him or hate him, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Pope Benedict XVI's choice as the new chief shepherd of the embattled Archdiocese of Philadelphia, is impossible to ignore.
07/18/11 (Channel News Asia) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak's visit to the Vatican was planned before street protests rocked the Malaysian capital two weekends ago. The scheduled meeting with Pope Benedict XVI is essentially to establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Malaysia is among 16 countries in the world that have no diplomatic ties with the Roman Catholic church. Even Muslim ...
07/12/11 Parliamentary delegation to arrange Pope Benedict XVI visit to Iraq
07/01/11 Pope Benedict XVI denounced speculation in commodities markets Friday and demanded a global response to high food prices based on solidarity, not profit.
06/29/11 MEDIA ADVISORY, June 29, 2011 / Christian Newswire / -- We raise our hearts in thanksgiving for the 60th Anniversary of the ordination to the Priesthood of our beloved Pope Benedict XV1. We pray that he will receive blessings in abundance and millions of prayers and good wishes from all over the world on his special day.
06/27/11 VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI himself will give a cyber spark of life to a new Internet portal that gathers all Vatican news into one multimedia website, officials from the Vatican's communications office announced.
06/24/11 ROME (AP) - An animal rights group is urging Pope Benedict XVI to "truly go green" and insist that the next popemobile is made without leather.
06/21/11 Governor-General Quentin Bryce has met Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican.
06/13/11 A Maryland Episcopal parish will be the first in the United States to join the Roman Catholic Church under a new streamlined conversion process created by Pope Benedict XVI, leaders of both church groups said Monday.
06/11/11 VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI listened to Gypsies recount their way of life at a first-ever papal audience for them at the Vatican on Saturday, decried their persecution by the Nazis during World War II and called on Europe to help end centuries of rejection for the Roma people.
06/10/11 A Maryland Episcopal parish will be the first in the United States to join the Roman Catholic Church under a new streamlined conversion process created by Pope Benedict XVI, leaders of both church groups said Monday.
06/09/11 Pope Benedict XVI has named Rev. Msgr. Robert D. Gruss, 55, pastor of Sacred Heart Cathedral in the Diocese of Davenport, which serves the Newton area, as the bishop of the Diocese of Rapid City.
06/08/11 BLADENSBURG, Md. -- In the fall of 2009, Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic constitution called "Anglicanorum coetibus" to provide a means for entire Anglican parishes or groups to become Catholic while retaining some of their Anglican heritage and liturgical practice.
06/07/11 BLADENSBURG, Md. (CNS) -- In the fall of 2009, Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic constitution called "Anglicanorum coetibus" to provide a means for entire Anglican parishes or groups to become Catholic while retaining some of their Anglican heritage and liturgical practice.
06/01/11 UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe on Saturday "told a Vatican conference [Pope Benedict XVI] had opened the door to greater dialogue with his groundbreaking comments on condoms and HIV prevention - even as Vatican officials stressed abstinence and marital fidelity as the best prevention," the Associated Press reports.
05/26/11 MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee's Catholic Archdiocese has a new bishop. Pope Benedict XVI has picked Most Rev. Donald Hying as the newest Auxiliary Bishop. "(I'm) pretty much overwhelmed," said Bishop-elect Hying on Newsradio 620 WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News."
05/26/11 Pope Benedict XVI shuts down a famous monastery in Rome because of rumours of a lack of financial and moral discipline, Italian media reports say.
05/25/11 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI sent his condolences and words of hope to the residents of Joplin, the Missouri town struck by a devastating tornado that killed at least 123 people, the Vatican said May 25.
05/21/11 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Pope Benedict XVI had a direct line to the heavens Saturday, with NASA's help. | 
