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Princess Charlene of Monaco and her husband Prince Albert attended Pope ... marriage. Prior to the inauguration of Pope Francis, Charlene wore white to a private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI ...
In 2012, at a meeting of bishops in Rome presided over by the more traditional Pope Benedict XVI ... worst quotes” about homosexuality, all related to a debate over same-sex marriage in his ...
The distinguished American Catholic philosopher then composed himself and calmly and patiently explained that Pope Benedict XVI was sure ... herself from the marriage market by gouging out her ...
In 2005, after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as Pope Benedict XVI, a bishop told me ... Catholics clashed over contraception or gay marriage, and it’s likely to get weirder still ...
Its faithful have a keen interest in knowing what kind of man will be leading the Church until he dies or resigns, as Pope Benedict XVI did in ... with advocating for marriage equality after ...
who become Pope Benedict XVI – barred the organization’s founders, Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent, from conducting pastoral outreach to gay people. Shortly after becoming ...
The focus of that synod, highly characteristic of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, was on the challenge ... euthanasia and same-sex marriage — and how the Catholic Church could respond.
The 133 cardinal electors sequestered in the Sistine Chapel elected a new pope May 8 ... For his part, Benedict XVI (as then-Cardinal Ratzinger), in a 1991 address to American bishops in Dallas, ...
Karol Wojtyła (later Pope St. John Paul II) served as one of the Council fathers, and Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) contributed ... media is ablaze with quotes from Pope Leo XIV ...
His predecessors John Paul II and Benedict XVI ... under Pope John Paul II. John Paul endorsed Benedict's message, and he also explicitly denounced legal recognition for same-sex marriage.
His document “Amoris Laetitia” cast doubt on the Church’s teaching on marriage and the sacraments ... by standing firm in them. Pope Benedict XVI understood it even more deeply.