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By Nancy Unchuan Toledo | October 31, 2015 - 10:00am
My friends who know me well would know that I have a great love for and devotion to saints.
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Freeman Cebu Lifestyle
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Vatican bracing for new revelations of mismanagement
Over a year ago
The Vatican is bracing for more allegations of financial wrongdoing and mismanagement with the publication next week of two...
World
Over a year ago
Pope Benedict helped free American from Cuba
By Nicole Winfield | Over a year ago
Pope Francis rightly got credit for helping bring the U.S. and Cuba together and free U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross....
World
Pope hails Benedict, other elderly at Vatican fest
By Frances D'Emilio | September 29, 2014 - 7:02am
Pope Francis on yesterday hailed the value of the elderly, including his predecessor Benedict XVI, who joined him at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square honoring the contribution of grandparents to society.
Over a year ago
World
A tale of two popes
By Mike Acebedo Lopez | May 3, 2014 - 12:00am
Last Sunday, Pope Francis canonized two predecessors — an unprecedented move that's seen to unify conservative and progressive components of a two millennia-old church challenged by the changing times —...
Over a year ago
Freeman Opinion
Benedict to join in double sainthood ceremony
By Frances D'Emilio | April 27, 2014 - 7:08am
Retired pontiff Benedict XVI will help Pope Francis celebrate the sainthood ceremony Sunday for John Paul II and John XXIII, setting the stage for an unprecedented occurrence of two living popes canonizing two of...
Over a year ago
World
Retired Pope Benedict critiqued Francis' interview
By Nicole Winfield | March 19, 2014 - 7:07am
The man who serves two popes has revealed that retired Pope Benedict XVI wrote four pages of critique and commentary on Pope Francis's landmark interview in which he blasted the church's obsession with "small-minded"...
Over a year ago
World
Benedict denies he was pressured to resign
By Nicole Winfield | February 27, 2014 - 7:01am
Retired Pope Benedict XVI has denied speculation that he was pressured to leave office, saying his decision was freely made and his alone.
Over a year ago
World
2 popes on hand in historic 1st cardinal ceremony
By Nicole Winfield | February 23, 2014 - 7:37am
In an unprecedented blending of papacies past, present and future, retired Pope Benedict XVI joined Pope Francis at a ceremony yesterday to formally install new cardinals who will elect their successor.
Over a year ago
World
1 Year ago, Pope Benedict's resignation changed church
By Nicole Winfield | February 11, 2014 - 8:37am
It was the quietest of announcements that had the effect of a thunder-clap on the Catholic world: A year ago Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI said in a voice so soft that cardinals strained to hear (and in a Latin not...
Over a year ago
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