"We are determined that safeguarding procedures at St Benedict's should in future be exemplary and the appalling abuses of the past should never happen again, " he said.
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St Louis Catholic Middle School, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this week, is earmarked for closure, with the buildings to be taken over by secondary St Benedict's Catholic School.
Dubin, a professor emeritus of modern classical languages at the College of Saint Benedict and St.
An estimated 150, 000 people packed into St Peter's Square on Wednesday to hear Benedict, resigning after seven years in office.
Addressing the crowd in St Peter's Square on Wednesday, Pope Benedict thanked believers for respecting his decision to retire and said he was standing down for the good of the Church.
In the Italian capital, Rome, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated with a vespers service in St Peter's Basilica to give thanks for 2012 and look ahead to 2013.
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.
Exceptional is the fact that he has Knighthoods from two Popes: His Holiness the late Pope John Paul II honoured him as Knight of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St Sylvester (KSS), and His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has further elevated him to Knight Commander of the said order (KCSS), in recognition of his pursuit of peace and culture amongst nations.
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On Wednesday, Pope Benedict will hold his final public general audience in St.
Pope Benedict XVI, speaking at an anniversary mass in St Peter's Square, attended by a tiny group of surviving clerics like himself who actually took part in the work of the Council, deplored what he called a "desertification" of spiritual life during the years that have elapsed since the end of the Council in 1965.
In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI canonized the first Brazilian-born saint, St.
Benedict will live in the converted Mater Ecclesiae convent just behind St Peter's Basilica, with his personal secretary, Georg Gaenswein.
Pope Benedict then attended an evening ecumenical service with Protestant and Orthodox clergy at St Joseph's church in Manhattan.
"Thank you for having given us the luminous example of the simple and humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord, " Bertone said, quoting Benedict's own words when he first appeared on the loggia overlooking St.
Benedict later celebrated an Ash Wednesday mass that marked the beginning of Lent at St.
Benedict arrived and left in his Popemobile, allowing him to pass close by many people in St.
Benedict suggested as much at his final general audience Wednesday, when in front of cheering crowds in St.
If anything, Francis' outreach to women, along with his emphasis on "reinvigorating the Christian faith" in parts of the world "where secularism has the upper hand" continues the tradition of Benedict and popes before him, said author and theologian Matthew Bunson, a senior fellow of the St.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien was Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric when he resigned last Monday as the Archbishop of St Andrew's and Edinburgh and said he would not take part in the election for a successor to Pope Benedict.
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