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New Pope Draws Million Pilgrims
P OPE B ENEDICT XVI’s public appearances are drawing huge crowds of pilgrims to the Vatican – even more than those of his beloved predecessor, Pope John Paul II, the previous......
Guatemalan Time Bomb
C HURCH WORKERS in Guatemala are concerned that the country still faces a potential health emergency and a long-term hunger crisis in the aftermath of the flooding and mudslides......
Last Rites By Priests Only
T HE V ATICAN has reiterated that that only an ordained priest may administer the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. The Congregation on the Doctrine of the Faith stressed......
Jesuit Wins Major Prize
AJ ESUIT PRIEST working in India to bring books and teachers to the desperately poor is the 2005 recipient of the £600,000 Opus Prize. Fr Trevor Miranda runs the Reach Education......
Bishops Sing The Praises Of New Mass
Edward Pentin’s Vatican Notebook T raditionalists hoping that Pope Benedict XVI will reform the liturgical norms of the Second Vatican Council and endorse greater use of the Old......
Benedict Canonises His First Five Saints
Vast crowd gathers for landmark event in new pontificate P OPE B ENEDICT XVI closed the Year of the Eucharist and the Synod of Bishops and celebrated World Mission Sunday by......
Cardinal Praises Pope’s ‘humility And Simplicity’
FROM EDWARD PENTIN IN ROME AND DAVID V BARRETT IN LONDON P OPE B ENEDICT XVI was very much at the heart of last month’s Synod in Rome as “a listening Pope”, according to the......