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Popebenedictxvi From Feared Doctrinal Enforcer To A Pope...
Page 8 from 14th April 2006Luke Coppen: It’s April 19, 2005. The white smoke drifts into the Roman air. The thick red curtain flutters on the balcony of St Peter’s. And......
The Real Benedict
Page 8 from 10th September 2010By Mark Dowd J une 1945. An exhausted 17year-old boy has been released from a prisoner of war camp and completes an 80-mile journey back home,......
John Paul The Great: The Providential Pope
Page 6 from 17th October 2003William Oddie, editor of The Catholic Herald, argues that historians will come to regard John Paul II as one of the most courageous, original and......
The Achievement Of John Paul Ii
Page 6 from 16th March 2001When on October 16, 1978, he was met by some interesting news. "They've just elected a Polish pope," said a colleague. "Ah," Weigel thought, "so......
An Extraordinary Gift For Calm And Quiet In The Midst Of...
Page 3 from 11th August 1978A tribute by Gerard Noel, former editor of the Catholic Herald who wrote Paul VI, the Pope's biography. THE 263rd Vicar of Christ is dead, and......
"from The Time Of Gregory The Great And Hildebrand There
Page 20 from 10th February 1939never was a greater Pope than Pius XI," said Cardinal Hinsley on Thursday night at the Catholic Association Banquet. Cardinal Hinsley's Tribute......
Our Brother, Joseph
Page 8 from 24th October 2008Josephine Robinson hails Pope John XXIII on the 50th anniversary of his election A ngelo Roncalli, Blessed Pope John XXIII, is sometimes seen as a......
Behind The Crimson Robes And Red Hats
Page 13 from 17th August 2007Francis Phillips takes us on a guided tour through the history of English cardinals in this lavishly illustrated and informative new book The......
When They Chose The `man Of The Hour'
Page 6 from 28th June 1963PLRHARS the most famous of all the Pontiffs who have chosen the name Paul is Pope Paul Ill, who was 66 when he was elected in 1534. A famous......
Charterhouse Chronicle
Page 10 from 31st July 1998By Cardinal Franz Konig T HIS YEAR in the second half of June (June 19-21), Pope John Paul II visited Austria for the third time. Opinions in the......