CNS Vatican Report: Cardinals come together and an interview book with the Pope is released

Friday, November 26, 2010

Matthew Harrison

A gathering of the College of Cardinals and a new interview book with Pope Benedict highlight this week in Rome. Catholic News Service’s Carol Glatz and John Thavis have more. To download Flash Player please click here

CNS Video: Publisher “surprised” by Pope’s new book

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

Though “Light of the World” was officially released on Tuesday, many Catholics are still waiting to get their hands on this new book-length interview with Pope Benedict. I informally surveyed Catholic bookstores in the Greater Toronto Area and found that only one retailer has received its first (sold out) shipment. Other retailers expect theirs to […]

Fearless and engaged: Review of Light of the World

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

A few pages into “Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times”, Peter Seewald disappeared. The German journalist had secured one of the world’s most elusive interviews—a one-on-one with the Pope. Since the start of his pontificate, Benedict XVI had until now given only a couple of interviews, apart […]

Pope comments on condoms: Nuances, embargoes and translations

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Alicia Ambrosio

On Saturday evening in Rome, the story reverberating around the Vatican walls was not the 24 new Cardinals who had just been created, or which Roman church they would be assigned as their titular church. Instead, while the two dozen new Cardinals were meeting and being congratulated by the faithful, the story making headlines on […]