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Pope: Freedom Serves the Common Good
Zenit News Agency • 4/19/2008
The Holy Father gives a profoundly important message to the leaders of the world at the United Nations. NEW YORK (Zenit) - Rules and structures that promote the common good do not limit human freedom, Benedict XVI told the General Assembly of the United Nations. This was the message the Pope ...
Pope Benedict Addresses the United Nations and UN Staff
Catholic Online • 4/18/2008
Pope Benedict XVI reaffirms the foundation for human rights:"They are based on the natural law inscribed on human hearts and present in different cultures and civilizations." NEW YORK, N.Y. (Catholic Online) – The following is a text of the address which His Holiness, Pope Benedict just delivered ...
Pope's Address to Catholic Educators
Zenit News Agency • 4/18/2008
"Freedom is not an opting out. It is an opting in -- a participation in Being itself. Hence authentic freedom can never be attained by turning away from God." WASHINGTON, D.C.(Zenit) - Here is the address Benedict XVI gave today to a meeting of more than 400 Catholic educators at the Catholic ...
'Fans' Fill Nationals Stadium, for the Pope
By • Zenit News Agency • 4/18/2008
The 46,000 "fans" didn't come to see the Washington Nationals; they came to participate in a Mass led by Benedict XVI. Opening events at the stadium began a full four hours prior to the Pope's arrival. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Zenit) - The streams of people pouring into the glistening new Nationals ...
Pope says 'World, at Crossroads, Needs Hope'
Zenit News Agency • 4/18/2008
"Who can deny that the present moment is a crossroads, not only for the Church in America but also for society as a whole?" WASHINGTON, D.C. (Zenit) - Benedict XVI says the world is at a crossroads between great promise for the future and the breakdown of the foundations of society, and Christians ...
Doug Kmiec: Pope moves us from Sadness to Hope
By • Catholic Online • 4/18/2008
The Holy Father’s message is magnetic because it is premised upon an authentic understanding of the freedom of the human person. MALIBU, CA (Catholic Online) - The Holy Father is here with a profound message of hope. He is being greeted by hundreds of thousands – indeed, it will number into ...
The Pope's Message of Hope and Practical Relevance
By • Catholic Online • 4/18/2008
Thank you Holy Father for coming to America and in reawakening us to the possibilities – no, the practical realities – of a faith filled hope. MALIBU, CA (Catholic Online) - It is well noted that the Holy Father has profound respect for the American order. Here’s a country that is widely ...
Text of Pope Benedict XVI's homily at Nationals Park
Catholic News Service • 4/17/2008
Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI's homily at the Nationals Park Mass April 17. WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, "Peace be with you!" (Jn 20:19). With these, the first words of the risen Lord to his disciples, I greet all of you in the joy of this Easter season. Before ...
Pope meets privately with abuse victims
By • Catholic News Service • 4/17/2008
The Pope met privately in a chapel at the apostolic nunciature with "a small group of persons who were sexually abused by members of the clergy." WASHINGTON (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI held an unscheduled meeting with victims of priestly sexual abuse, shortly after pledging the church's continued ...
The Papal Mass in Washington: Call for Faithfulness to Christ
By • Catholic Online • 4/17/2008
More than 45, 000 people were on-hand in Nationals Stadium to enthusiastically greet Pope Benedict XVI. WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - Today history was made as Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his first Mass on American soil at Nationals Stadium in Washington D.C. More than 45, 000 people were ...