A question for those who hold that the Mass as most Catholics know it represents an ‘irreformable rupture’: when did the rupture first take place?
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Category: Pope Benedict XVI
Retired Pope Benedict Pledges To Donate Soul For Ecclesiastic Research
VATICAN CITY—In a charitable act he hoped would protect future pontiffs from suffering the same spiritual fate that he had endured, retired Pope Benedict XVI
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REPOST: Pope Francis, Complete Pray Tell Coverage
Pray Tell gave extensive coverage to the election of Pope Francis.
Read moreFive Years Ago Today, Pope Benedict Ended His Term
Five years ago today, February 28, 2013, was a very unique and emotional day in the history of the Roman Catholic Church – the day
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Benedict XVI on Approval of the Liturgical Reform
“I think for example that in the liturgical reform, things would have ended up differently…”
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A Christmas Visit to Benedict XVI
“He has the aura of a man who has drawn very close to God.”
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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) on the First Session of Vatican II
“The liturgy schema created a spirit of optimism and permitted the progressive forces to get to working immediately.”
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Absolution Confusion
Many people are under the impression that the absolution by the priest actually absolves them from their sins.
Read morePainter of Pope Benedict’s Portrait Quarrels with Gänswein
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, secretary to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, tried to compel painter Michael Triegl to re-do his portrait of the pope which was commissioned
Read moreIs Summorum Pontificum Divisive?
On the danger of divisions in the Church because of wider use of the unreformed pre-Vatican II liturgy, Bergoglio was of a different mind than Pope Benedict.
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