Vatican takes first steps running pope-less church
The Vatican took the first steps of governing a Catholic Church without a pope on Friday, making some ceremonial and practical moves to formalize the ...
AP Interview: Cardinal wary over pope resignation
The Catholic church doesn't need "the successor of Peter popping in and out," Australia's cardinal said Friday as questions were raised about what ...
Christian-Muslim tension flares in southern Egypt
Dozens of Muslim residents threw firebombs and rocks at police on Friday as they tried to storm a church in southern Egypt in search of a woman ...
Pope's first hours as retiree: Prayer, TV, books
The Vatican says Benedict XVI has spent his first few hours as a retiree praying, watching TV and taking walks. The Vatican on Friday released details ...
Cardinal Ravasi: Intellectual who quotes Winehouse
He quotes Amy Winehouse and, unlike Benedict XVI, actually taps out his tweets himself. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi is an erudite scholar with a modern ...
Now a 'simple pilgrim,' Benedict resigns papacy
As bells tolled and the clock struck 8, the brass-studded wooden doors swung shut Thursday at this palace in the Italian hills, marking an end to ...
POPE LIVE: End of a papacy, dawn of a retirement
"Pope Live" follows the events of the final day of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy as seen by journalists from The Associated Press around the world.
AP PHOTOS: Benedict's final day as pope
Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, has left Vatican City for scenic Castel Gandolfo in the hills south of Rome, where he has ...
AN ERA HAS ENDED
In the final moments of Benedict XVI's papacy, the church bells began ringing. It was 8 p.m. in the Italian hill town of Castel Gandolfo, 8 p.m.
Ethiopia elects new leader for Orthodox church
Ethiopia's orthodox church has elected a new leader of the influential body in the predominantly Christian nation. Abune Matias, 71, was Thursday ...
'A LITTLE CONCERNED'
A long banner with a picture of a waving Pope Benedict XVI hangs from an iron fence outside St. Patrick's Catholic Church, one of the oldest in New ...
READING ABOUT A LIFE
Robei George, 7, sat on a pew at the Cathedral of Saint Mary just north of Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood. He had a black shirt with the words ...
SAINT ONE DAY?
In Chicago, some Catholics attending Mass at St. Alphonsus Church on the city's North Side — a church founded as a German national parish more than ...
APPLAUSE IN BALTIMORE
Several dozen archdiocese employees in Baltimore were watching the television as Pope Benedict XVI headed into retirement. They applauded when he ...
WHAT THE POPE SAID
The text of Pope Benedict XVI's comments, delivered to a roaring crowd in Castel Gandolfo: ___ Dear friends, I'm happy to be with you, surrounded by ...
HIGH ALTITUDE
Benedict never visited Bolivia as pope, but impressed one bishop with his knowledge of the poor, landlocked South American nation. The Rev.
THE POPE'S BROTHER
Benedict XVI's elder brother says his final day as pontiff on Thursday was more of a private matter than his big send-off. Monsignor Georg Ratzinger ...
AMERICANS SAY GOODBYE
Catholic churches across the U.S. are opening their doors for prayer timed with the end of Pope Benedict XVI's reign. At the Cathedral of St. Mary in ...
COLOMBIAN BELLS
From the steamy Caribbean to the chilly highlands, Colombia's nearly 5,000 Catholic parishes are ringing their bells in gratitude as the pope departs ...
HOPE FOR A BRAZILIAN POPE
Sitting on a borrowed plastic chair as he awaited Benedict XVI's final public appearance as pope, Tiago Padilha speculated on what it would be like ...
Swiss Guards in central role in papal retirement
In their plumed helmets and striped uniforms, the Swiss Guards are one of the most beloved traditions of the Vatican — and on Thursday take a central ...
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