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Retired pope visits former home, parents’ grave in Germany
- Jun 21, 2020
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI visited his former home near Regensburg, Germany, on Saturday, greeted old neighbors and prayed at his parents’ grave as part of a trip to his former haunts to be with his seriously ill 96-year-old brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger.
German Catholics praise Father Johann Metz, theologian, dead at 91
- Dec 7, 2019
German-speaking Catholics paid tribute to Father Johann Baptist Metz, the veteran theologian who died Dec. 2 in Munster, Germany, at age 91.
Catholic theology loses a giant with a sense of humor in Metz
- Dec 5, 2019
Father Joann Baptist Metz, who died Monday at 91, had a little bit of the typical arrogance of the German Doktorvater, but it was always leavened by a capacity to laugh at himself, his colleagues, and the general situation in which he and the Church found themselves.
On pope’s Asia swing, doctrinal tension is the dog that’s not barking
- Nov 20, 2019
As Pope Francis opens his third trip to Asia today, visiting Thailand and Japan, there’s a pretty big doctrinal dog that hasn’t uttered a peep – debates over the theology of religious pluralism.
Pope vows accountability for sex abuse cover-ups but offers no new specifics
- Aug 20, 2018
In a letter addressed to the People of God, Pope Francis referred to the sexual abuse crisis that has devastated the Catholic Church, saying that to say “no” to abuse is to say an emphatic “no” to all forms of clericalism.
As Chile bishops arrive in Rome, recalling 48 hours that shook the Church
- May 13, 2018
As Chile’s bishops arrive in Rome for meetings with Pope Francis on their country’s clerical sexual abuse crisis, it’s worth remembering when America’s bishops did the same in 2002.
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