Tag: Pope Benedict
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Pope Benedict XVI (RIP)
In his book ‘Light in the Darkness’ Pope Benedict spoke with a journalist he trusted on a range of topics. It is there we read what he said in 2005 at Good Friday Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome “How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who,…
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Pope Benedict Emeritus
Pope Benedict is very frail now – the first Pope Emeritus in the history of the Church, waiting in silence and peace for the Lord. He is part of our future. His wonderful intelligence has served and will continue to serve the Church: science and religion, physics and metaphysics, thought and prayer, the beauty of…
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St Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Featured Saint: St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) (1891 – 1942) St Teresa Benedicta was born the youngest of eleven children into a Jewish family at Breslau, Germany. By her teenage years, she had become an atheist. A talented academic, she studied at the University of Breslau and received a Doctorate from Gottingen…