Faith Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:28:44 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Vatican denies report Pope Benedict has degenerative disease /faith/item/26828-vatican-denies-report-pope-benedict-has-degenerative-disease /faith/item/26828-vatican-denies-report-pope-benedict-has-degenerative-disease VATICAN – The Vatican denied that retired Pope Benedict XVI has a degenerative neurological disease or paralyzing condition after his brother, 94-year-old Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, told a magazine that Pope Benedict had a debilitating disease.
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ItöÏÓãÊÓƵapp become something of a routine now. Pope Francis delivers a spontaneous lambasting of priests who do this or that which he disapproves of, and priests get in touch to ask what we should make of it all.

]]> fr_desouza@catholicregister.org (Fr. Raymond J. de Souza) Fr. Raymond de Souza Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:58:35 -0400 Pope Benedict to be 'Pope emeritus' /home/international/item/15901-pope-benedict-to-be-pope-emeritus /home/international/item/15901-pope-benedict-to-be-pope-emeritus

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI will continue to be known as Pope Benedict and addressed as "His Holiness," but after his resignation, he will add the title "emeritus" in one of two acceptable forms, either "Pope emeritus" or "Roman pontiff emeritus."

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