In a condolence message to the Bishops Conference of Nigeria led by Archbishop Lucius Ugorji, Obi said he received the news with mixed feeling because, according to him, like Donne John said, “any man’s death diminishes me.”
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The Christian Association of Nigeria said late Pope Benedict XVI positively influenced people across religious divides all over the world…
The pope’s secretary Georg Gaenswein with the Vatican News and other German media said the former pontiff attended a 1980 meeting on a paedophile priest who abused several boys in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The Vatican did not comment on the report
The 92-year-old spent on Thursday afternoon and evening in the Castelli Romani area just outside Rome, Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, said in a statement that backed up media reports.
The sexual revolution of 1968 and Western society’s growing secularisation are to blame for the Catholic Church’s paedophilia crisis, former Pope Benedict XVI argues in a rare foray into the public sphere.
Benedict was due to have a little celebration in the Vatican monastery where he has retired, with his 94-year-old brother Georg Ratzinger, his Secretary Archbishop Georg Gaenswein said.
“In the last few days, there have been a lot of polemics about my work,” Vigano wrote in a resignation letter to Pope Francis, published by the Vatican.
He spoke during the presentation of a new CD of Renaissance religious music by the Sistine Chapel Choir.
Mentally, the former pope, who was born Joseph Ratzinger, is reportedly as well as ever.
It was Benedict XVI who appointed Monsignor Okpaleke in 2012
He advised that the level of communication between family members should improve and become more closely knit, especially in a more fragile society with attendant consequences.
President Jonathan’s visit to Holland for the Nuclear Security Summit will be the final leg of a six-day working tour, which will also take him to Namibia and Italy
According to him, to overcome incomprehension and division as well as foster communion with Christ, man, irrespective of religious, political and moral affiliation, man must key into the unity of the Trinity – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
“It is a well-known fact that current levels of production are sufficient, yet millions of people are still suffering and dying of starvation. This is truly scandalous,’’ he said in a speech to participants at a UN Food and Agriculture Organisation conference in Rome
lassic illustration of what religion can do to people’s minds is a story which recently made the rounds in Nigeria about a baby who was born clutching a copy of the al-Qur’an from the womb! I first got wind of this news on an online forum for university students where I expected the story to be greeted with some scepticism, but to my dismay, the supposed intellectuals fell for it hook line and sinker
The new pope is to succeed Benedict XVI, who resigned last month
Pope Benedict XVI resigned suddenly last month, necessitating the election of a new pope.
Jonathan said he trusts that even in retirement, Pope Benedict XVI will continue to contribute to the spiritual well-being of the world in every possible way and offer prayers to God Almighty for global justice, equity, peace and progress
The last pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415. He did so to end a civil war within the church in which more than one man claimed to be pope