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Benedictions: The Pope in America

By Amy Ellis Nutt c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK — Julia Winter was tending to her flock, passing out sheets of paper printed with the prayers and songs for the “Deutsche Messe.” Here at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church last Sunday (April 6), the slightly stooped but elegant octogenarian looked much like the…

Surely one of the most spiritually and visually powerful moments of the papal visit will be Benedict’s stop at Ground Zero on Sunday morning, April 20, the final day of the visit. The pontiff will not give an address, but will be led to the site by Cardinal Edward Egan and will kneel for a…

Renee K. Gadoua Religion News Service On the eve of Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to the United States next week, his approval rating among U.S. Catholics is 70 percent, according to a LeMoyne College/Zogby International poll released Wednesday (April 9). But that still doesn’t top the popularity of his predecessor, John Paul II. The…

By Benedicta Cipolla c. 2008 Religion News Service In case you’ve missed the countless news articles, blog posts and television segments, the leader of 1.13 billion Catholics is coming to America. When Pope Benedict XVI makes his first trip to the United States April 15-20, with stops in Washington and New York, he will claim…

In March 2006, Benedict XVI visited the offices of Radio Vaticana at the end of Via della Conciliazione, the wide boulevard in front of St. Peter’s, and went home with an iPod nano, courtesy of the radio staff. The 2-gig nano was engraved with the words “To His Holiness, Benedict XVI” in Italian and was…

Brittani Hamm c. 2008 Religion News Service Anyone who’s ever tried to buy a birthday present for an octogenarian grandparent knows the dilemma: What do you buy for someone who seems to have everything and need nothing? Pope Benedict XVI turns 81 on Wednesday (April 16) during his stop in Washington, and Catholic school students…

Associated Press VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI hopes his trip to the United States later this month will be seen as a sign of friendship toward all Christian denominations and other religions. Benedict has asked the faithful to pray for the success of his April 15-20 trip to Washington and New York. He will…

Actually, that phrase should be a contradiction in terms. But it’s up to you to decide if a “Christ Our Hope” slim-fit ladies t-shirt is in better taste than the Pope Bobblehead (see post below) that did not please the Archdiocese of Washington. Nothing like the free market to work it out, and the church…

The pope is very green–as in eco-minded–but his zucchetto, or skullcap, has to be white. That’s one lesson the Washington metro authority learned, the hard way, when it had to yank a YouTube promo video encouraging people to take the Metro to Nationals Stadium to see the papal mass next week. The video featured a…

With the price tag on the Washington end of the papal trip topping $3 million, I guess everyone has to pitch in…Well, this gem is actually by way of Thomas Peters, aka the American Papist, and a friend who sent him the snap after choir practice at the National Shrine in DC. (He’ll be singing…
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