While Benedict is the first Catholic pope to take to Twitter, he isn't the first twitterized pope.
Tributes have come in from around the world, with Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI offering prayers and US President Barack Obama praising Pope Shenouda as an "advocate for tolerance and religious dialogue".
From a humble background in Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has risen to the head of the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Francis.
In mounting his defense of Catholic traditions, Pope Benedict has drawn on his experience as one of the most prominent theologians of his generation.
The outgoing head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has hinted he will withdraw into seclusion after stepping down at the end of this month.
Some 2 million people are also expected to flock to the city in late July for World Youth Day, a Roman Catholic pilgrimage that Pope Francis is scheduled to attend.
During a visit in 1983 to Nicaragua, where the triumphant government of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) included several Catholic priests, Pope John Paul II publicly admonished Ernesto Cardenal for his role as a government minister.
Pope Francis was chosen as the head of Catholic Church last month after Pope Benedict stepped down, saying he was too frail to carry on in the job.
Authorities were still taking no chances and more than 5, 000 police have been patrolling Athens with demonstrators blocked from coming near the city's Roman Catholic cathedral before the Pope's scheduled appearance.
The cardinals do not have to choose one of their own number - theoretically any baptised male Catholic can be elected pope - but tradition says that they will almost certainly give the job to a cardinal.
As a conclave gathers to elect a new pope, many in the Catholic world and well beyond speculate about who will replace the now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who abdicated the throne of St.
The more liberal Catholic thinkers believe the next pope must embrace that society and adapt the Church's teaching to better reflect it.
When Daniel Del Regno answered the phone on Monday, he could not believe it was the newly-elected Pope, the Catholic News Agency reported.
Casmoussa is a member of the Chaldean Church, part of a group of independent but related Eastern Catholic Churches that accept the pope as their head.
In resigning, Scicluna said, Benedict is showing the same sense of humility, duty and service as he did after the Catholic Church lost its last pope.
More than 2, 000 cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests, as well as more than 10, 000 of the Roman Catholic faithful, joined the pope in celebrating Mass in St.
Who leads the Catholic Church in the time between Pope Benedict resigning and the selection of a new Pope?
We appreciate the support by the Pope, his fellow Catholic Bishops in the United States, and their Protestant, Jewish and other faith colleagues.
With the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as pope, the Roman Catholic Church enters the next chapter of her history.
Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone said it was "deplorable" that as the time for the Roman Catholic cardinals to elect a new pope approaches, a rash of "often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories" has appeared.
As one of a dwindling number of priests in Colorado's 48, 000-square-mile Diocese of Pueblo, Father Malin currently oversees five churches in the Rocky Mountains: Pope John Paul II Catholic Church and Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, both in Pagosa Springs, a town of 1, 700, and three missions.
The German-born Pope added that the Roman Catholic Church remained committed to fighting anti-Semitism.
As for the lament that Pope Francis is merely another Catholic who believes in Catholic dogma, what do you expect?
It very much mattered, for example, when the Catholic Church chose to pick a new Pope from Poland after centuries of Italians.
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The 115 scarlet-clad cardinal-electors of the Roman Catholic Church who will choose the next Pope have shut themselves away from the outside world and started their deliberations in earnest.
Bishop John Fang Xingyao, chairman of the state-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, hopes the new Pope can "turn over a new leaf" in relations, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reports.
Cardinals, many of them among the electors who chose him to be the Roman Catholic church's first Latin American pope, sat on chairs during the ceremony held under hazy skies on a breezy day.
Later in his tour in Syria, where Saint Paul converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus, the Pope will become the first Catholic leader to enter a mosque when he visits the tomb of John the Baptist.
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