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Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he’s resigning for the “good of church”, which of course makes our ears prick up immediately. Sure, he could be resigning for health reasons, but many previous Popes have shuffled off their mortal coil while in Papal power. So, apart from failing health, what could have sparked the Holy […]
The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI will resign on 28 February, an italian news agency has announced. Twitter, in the mean time, has gone into a feeding frenzy.
Isn’t he in a jolly mood, that saucy old cad. The Associated Press report that the Pope has granted his former butler a Christmas pardon, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking his private papers in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times. Fifteen minutes after the meeting, […]
Pope Benedict XVI tweeted for the first time yesterday from a personal Twitter account. This follows last week’s announcement by the Vatican that Benedict would begin posting messages on Twitter in eight languages under the handle @pontifex – a Latin term for pope that means “bridge builder.”
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During a speech over the weekend in Germany, the Pope warned of threats posed by abortion and gay marriage. He said that Christian churches “must walk side by side” in the battle against church values. He also added that we must defend the “integrity and the uniqueness of marriage between one man and one woman.”
Pope Benedict XVI took to Twitter yesterday and composed a tweet on an iPad before sending it out into cyberspace. Granted, it did take about six other similarly aged cardinals and other officials to help him out, but it is the thought that counts, right? See a video of him tweeting, as well as his full Twitter message, inside.
Why? Because Pope Benedict XVI can do what he wants, I guess. He spent about twenty minutes video chatting with the crew of the International Space Station and the U.S shuttle Endeavour, conveying well-wishes for Gabrielle Gifford’s husband, and generally just shooting the breeze.
Despite a ban on traveling to the European Union for the last decade, Robert Mugabe once again found himself there this weekend. He attended the beatification of the late pope John Paul II. The experience clearly touched that (only to be confirmed by autopsy one day) heart of his and he said it was “fabulous, absolutely heavenly.” Fabulous? What straight man uses that word?
Well, it’s not like they had them explode from a cake and huskily sing ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. Jesus,’ but this comes pretty close. But hey, good thing they don’t allow gay folk to become Popes, right? Otherwise that creepy look on his face would be pretty hard to explain away.