Etiket: Benedict
This is why Benedict must not be embalmed: these striking rules must be observed by the Church when a pope dies
Not exactly for sensitive souls, such a laid-out pope emeritus. Although Benedict XVI was of course seriously ill and already 95 when he passed away last Saturday, his body continues…
The last words of Pope Benedict XVI before his death
As soon as Benedict XVI died, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, his private secretary, phoned Pope Francis to notify him of the death The last words of Benedict XVI on his deathbed,…
Pope emeritus Benedict will be in state for three days from this morning in St. Peter’s in Vatican City | Abroad
The late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lies in state in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. For the next three days, people can walk past the body of the abdicated…
Benedict XVI: the pope who had had enough
Former Pope Benedict XVI passed away this weekend. Ten years ago, he surprised friend and foe by resigning early as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, while a pope normally…
Vatican releases first images of deceased Benedict | Abroad
The catafalque stands in the center of a small private chapel of the monastery where Benedict lived since his abdication in 2013, in the gardens of the Vatican. In the…
The Catalan Church recalls that Benedict XVI consecrated the Sagrada Família
The Catalan Church, through the Tarragona Episcopal Conference and the archbishoprics of Barcelona and Tarragona, among other dioceses, has conveyed its condolences for the death of the emeritus pope, Benedict…
Minute of silence for Pope Benedict at the Four Hills Tournament
At the Four Hills Tournament of ski jumpers in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, after the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. given a minute of silence. Joseph Ratzinger, who died on Saturday morning…
this is the “spiritual testament” of Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI left a brief text prepared for his death, as a “spiritual testament”, which the Vatican Press Office released on the afternoon of the day of his death,…
World leaders and Dutch bishops commemorate ‘special church leader’ Benedict XVI
Heads of government and prominent Catholics worldwide will commemorate the death of emeritus Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz names his compatriot Joseph Ratzinger Twitter a “special…
The body of Benedict XVI will be exposed starting Monday morning in the Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican
The churches of the world have woken up this Saturday doubling dead. Former Pope Benedict XVI, whose name was Joseph Ratzinger, has died this morning at the age of 95…