Category - pope benedict

Vatican says that access to water should be a universal right

agency reporter — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:27 +0100

Pope Benedict XVI has backed a universal 'right to water' in a message sent from the Vatican to an international conference on the issue of Water and Sustainable Development, taking place in Zaragoza, Spain.

Call for Pope to act on autism in the wake of church ban

agency reporter — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:43:47 +0100

Autism campaigners around the world are urging Pope Benedict XVI to act on autism in the wake of the banning of a 13 year old boy with severe autism from the Roman Catholic Church of St.Joseph, in Bertha, Minnesota in the United States.

Details of Pope's visit to US announced

Agencies — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:06:11 +0000

President George Bush and his wife Laura Bush will greet Pope Benedict XVI, April 15, when he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base for a six-day visit to the United States that will take him to Washington and New York City.

Non-violence: Jesus' last word to the church

John Dear — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:44:53 +0100

Evangelicals have enjoyed a major influence on the Bush administration, but John Dear points out that this does not mean they have a basic commitment to Jesus' way of peace.

Conviction of nun's killer hailed as victory for Brazil's landless

staff writers — Mon, 21 May 2007 09:44:57 +0100

A wealthy Brazilian rancher has been convicted of ordering the killing high-profile supporter of landless people Sr Dorothy Stang in 2005. But the Pope's silence has disappointed her family and social justice activists.

Is Marx's gospel a dead letter?

Simon Barrow — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:14:08 +0100

Responding to Pope Benedict's strictures on Marxism and the Christian message, Jordan Tchilingirian, researcher for the religious thin-tank Ekklesia, commented today that peoples’ views of Marx

Pope warns Latin American Christians against Marxism

staff writers — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:28:38 +0100

The Pope has attacked Marxism as well as unfettered capitalism on his visit to Brazil. But the ghost of Marx has positive as well as negative connotations for Christians and social justice campaigners concerned with inequity.

Pope asks Christians to become 'apostles of peace'

staff writers — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:29:20 +0100

Denouncing the slaughter in Iraq and violence and injustice across the world, Pope Benedict used his Easter 2007 message to call on Christians to take up the vocation of peacemaking.

Churches in Zimbabwe hear Easter call for liberation

Mike Crockett — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:00:38 +0100

The strongly-worded condemnation of oppression and injustice issued by Zimbabwe’s Catholic bishops has been highlighted by the Pope in his traditional Easter message at St Peter’s Basilica.

Rome accused of bullying Latin American liberation theologian

staff writers — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:12:19 +0000

The Vatican has issued a censure against Jon Sobrino, a founding figure of liberation theology – the movement which argues that the church should be on the side of the poor and downtrodden