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  Pope Gregory VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When Pope Stephen IX was elected, without previous consultation with the German court, Hildebrand and Bishop Anseim of Lucca were sent to Germany to secure a belated recognition, and he succeeded in gaining the consent of the empress Agnes.
When Nicholas II died as was succeeded by Pope Alexander II, Hilebrand loomed larger and larger in the eye of his contemporaries as the soul of the Curial policy.
The reprimands of the pope, couched as they were in such an unprecedented form, infuriated Henry and his court, and their answer was the hastily convened national council in Worms, Germany, which met on January 24 1076.
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 Pope Benedict XVI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Benedict XVI was elected pope at the age of 78.
He was appointed as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope John Paul II in 1981 and was made the cardinal bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Velletri-Segni on April 5, 1993.
Benedict XVI's views appear to be similar to those of his predecessor in maintaining the traditional Catholic doctrines on birth control, abortion, and homosexuality, and in promoting Catholic social teaching.
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 Antipope Benedict X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hildebrand, later Pope Gregory VII, had been sent by the late Pope Stephen X to the court of Empress Agnes (mother and regent for Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, then a minor), who had questioned the validity of Stephen's election.
Benedict was then allowed to go free, and he retired to one of his family estates; but Hildebrand then had him imprisoned in 1060 in the hospice of St.
The most important consequence of the affair of Benedict X was the adoption of new laws on papal elections, at a synod hosted by Nicholas II in the Lateran Palace at Easter 1059.
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 Pope Benedict XV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In internal Church affairs, Benedict calmed the excesses of the campaign against "modernist" scholars within the Church that had characterised the reign of Pius X, though his first encyclical condemned errors in modern philosophical systems and no excommunicated scholars were returned to the faith.
Benedict also promulgated a new Code of Canon Law in 1917 and attempted to improve relations with the anticlerical Republican government of France by canonising the French national heroine Joan of Arc.
Although one of the less remembered Popes of the twentieth century, he was unique in his humane approach in the world of 1914-1918, which starkly contrasts with that of the other great monarchs and leaders of the time.
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 Pope Benedict XVI The New Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Benedict XVI name was not announced until nearly an hour later, after the bell at St. Peter's tolled, and the scarlet curtain over the basilica's central balcony parted.
With that name, he has symbolically linked himself a long line of Benedicts and also to St. Benedict of Nursia, the founder of Western monasticism, and Pope Benedict XV, considered by some to be one of the most underrated of modern popes, especially in his work to end the First World War.
Benedict, who lived during the sixth century, is the author of the Rule of St. Benedict, the code that guides monastic life to this day and helped keep scholarship and the flame of faith alive during the Dark Ages.
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 Pope Pius X - Biocrawler definition:Pope Pius X - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Saint Pius X, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914), was Pope from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII.
Pius X's feast day was changed from 3 September to 21 August on 14 February 1969 by Pope Paul VI as an obligatory memorial to the sanctity of Pius X in the universal calendar.
The papal arms of Pius X are composed of the traditional elements of all papal heraldry prior to Pope Benedict XVI: the shield, the papal tiara, and the keys.
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 Benedict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benedict, from the Latin for blessed, is the name of many notable men.
The most prominent at the beginning of the 21st century is Pope Benedict XVI, who chose this name for himself after his election to the papacy.
Benedict is the first name of Benedict Arnold, the most notorious traitor in American history, his ancestor, a colonial Rhode Island governor, and a congressman named for him.
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Pope Benedict X is called Antipope Benedict X by the Catholic Church.
Benedict XI, who ruled from 1303 to 1304, was known as a scholar and a peacemaker.
The last Benedict, Pope Benedict XV, ruled from 1914 to 1922 and was known for his Papal Peace proposal to bring an end to War War I. Benedict XV was a moderate and known as a humanitarian.
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 Pope Benedict XVI
He was a close confidant to Pope John Paul II (1978-2005), who appointed him in charge of the Doctrine of the Faith, the same organisation once known as the Inquisition.
Benedict XVI joined the Nazi Youth in 1941 at the age of 14.
In his autobiography, Salt of the Earth (1997), Benedict XVI writes that his older brother Georg was "obliged" (forced) to join, but that he later "registered" himself (volunteered) in it as a seminarian.
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 Antipope Benedict X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hildebrand, later Pope Gregory VII, had been sent by the late Pope Stephen X to the court of Empress Agnes (mother and regent for Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, then a minor), who had questioned the validity of Stephen X's election.
When, on his return to Rome, he heard of Benedict X's election, he decided to oppose it, and obtained the support of the Duke of Lorraine-Tuscany and Empress Agnes for the election of Gerhard of Burgundy, Bishop of Florence, as Pope instead.
Benedict X was then allowed to go free, and he retired to one of his family estates; but Hildebrand then had him imprisoned in 1060 in the hospice of St. Agnese, where he died, still a prisoner, sometime around 1073 or 1080.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/antipope_benedict_x   (419 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Benedict IX
Benedict, however, succeeded in expelling Sylvester the same year; but, as some say, that he might marry, he resigned his office into the hands of the Archpriest John Gratian for a large sum.
Benedict, Sylvester, and Gregory were deposed at the Council of Sutri (1046) and a German bishop (Suidger) became Pope Clement II.
The most important source for the history of the first nine popes who bore the name of Benedict is the biographies in the Liber Pontificalis, of which the most useful edition is that of Duchesne, Le Liber Pontificalis (Paris, 1886-92), and the latest that of Mommsen, Gesta Pontif.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02429a.htm   (601 words)

  
 Pope Benedict XVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Benedict XVI presides at the 11th general assembly of the Synod of Bishops, a meeting expected to address difficult issues such as the decision-making...
Pope Benedict XVI was to meet Monday with the king and queen of Spain; a country that recently passed a gay marriage law that was bitterly opposed by the...
At 78 years of age, he is the oldest pope elected in 275 years, and is the first German pope since Adrian VI (1522–1523) who was both German and Dutch because he lived in what is now the Netherlands, which was a conglomerate of German provinces at the time of his papacy.
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 Pope Benedict XVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Benedict XVI decided to spend the night at the Vatican hotel where cardinals have been staying, and to dine with the cardinals.
Pope John XXIII was 77 when he was elected pope in 1958 and viewed as a transitional figure, but he called the Second Vatican Council that revolutionized the church from within and opened up its dialogue with non-Catholics.
Benedict will have to decide whether to keep up the kind of foreign travel that was a hallmark of John Paul’s papacy, with his 104 pilgrimages abroad.
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 Cultural Catholic - Pope Nicholas II
Notwithstanding Pope Stephen IX’s deathbed dictum, the anti-reformist faction proclaimed the Bishop of Velletri, Italy to be Pope Benedict X on April 5, 1058.
Pope Nicholas II was a reform prelate and set controls for the election and conduct of popes by assembling a synod of 113 bishops on April 13, 1059 whose first order of business was to declare the election of Pope Benedict X unconstitutional.
Pope Nicholas II died in Florence on July 27, 1061, and was buried in the Cathedral of Santa Reparata now the Duomo.
www.culturalcatholic.com /PopeNicholasII.htm   (389 words)

  
 Pope Watch: Pope Benedict XVI :: Breaking News on The Pope
‘Benedict XVI appealed to the Catholic Church in Ethiopia and Eritrea to be an instrument of peace and healing in the troubled East African nations.
‘Pope Benedict XVI offered a rare glimpse into his past Saturday and gave a small lesson in Catholicism to children who attended his first youth rally at St. Peter’s Square — an event that was reminiscent of the gatherings inspired by Pope John Paul II.
Pope Benedict XVI, who appointed Stanislaw Dziwisz to lead the important diocese in June, described him as “the best person to hold this position” in a papal bull read out by the Rev. Jan Zajac during a ceremony in the Wawel Castle cathedral.
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We have searched the list of popes, and have reached a startling conclusion - there was no Pope Benedict X. Pope Benedict IX was force out of the papacy by the emperor in 1048, and Benedict XI started his short reign in 1303.
By assuming the title of Benedict XI he was giving validity to the supposed papacy of the antipope who called himself Benedict X. There has until recently been a wide variety of official lists of popes, whose continuity forms the title deed of Rome.
Benedict XVI (or is it Benedict XV?) blamed the media for over reacting to the scandal, but this is but an open admission that the public pretended sanctity of the priesthood is more valuable to the pope than the young men who have been marred for life.
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 Timeline: Fourteenth Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A new pope, Benedict X, has enemies in Rome, the result of conflict over who should be pope.
Pope John XXII declares as heresy the opinion among Franciscans that Christ and his apostles held no property.
The Church is on guard against creative, heretical theology and Pope Clement VI condemns the movement.
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 Pope Benedict XV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Benedict XV was Bishop of Rome from 1914 to 1922.
Pope Benedict insisted that the division of society into classes was natural and was willed by God.
Benedict was a true "Pontiff of Peace." Elected as Europe plunged into the First World War, he had a clear vision of the role of the Christian peacemaker.
www.shc.edu /theolibrary/resources/popes_ben15.htm   (337 words)

  
 PunditGuy: Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XI served in the 14th century as political issues were building tension in the church.
Pope Benedict XVI family was not at all friendly to the fascist german government.
Pope Benedict when he was drafted right at the end of the war, like many young boys of his age, he deserted the army, risking death.
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 Pope Benedict XVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Newly elected Pope Joseph Ratzinger of Germany waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, April 19, 2005.
Pope slips out of the Vatican for sneak trip (The Star Online)VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict slipped out of the Vatican unannounced for the first time in his papacy on Saturday, travelling to the same spot his predecessor did exactly 27 years ago to pray after being elected.
Pope Benedict XVI meets WC organizers (Fox Sports)Pope Benedict XVI has met with organizers of the 2006 World Cup, which will be held in his native Germany.
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 Pope Benedict XVI
This is the 16th Pope to choose the name Benedict; the last such named Pope (Benedict XV) served as Pope from 1914 to 1922 and was the Pope during the years of World War I. He is the eighth German pope.
On August 19, 2005, Pope Benedict visited the synagogue on Roonstrasse in Cologne, Germany in what was viewed as a reflection of his interest to maintain the warm relations with world Jewry fostered by his predecessor who had been the first Pope to visit a synagogue.
On October 27, 2005, Pope Benedict celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s “Nostra Aetate” document, which absolved Jews of collective guilt in the death of Jesus.
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 Pope Benedict XVI Blog
Benedict celebrated Mass in honor of the Madonna during the "private pilgrimage" to the Mother of the Graces of Mentorella shrine, about 30 miles from Rome, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.
Benedict said women more often are emigrating autonomously for financial reasons and not just crossing borders to join their husbands or family members, as was the case for many of them in the past.
The special screening of "Pope John Paul II" will be held November 17 at the Vatican in the Paolo VI Hall, site of the pope's weekly general audience, ahead of the network broadcast of the two-part miniseries on December 4 and December 7, CBS said.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Pope Benedict XV
Pope Benedict XV, formerly Giacomo della Chiesa, (1854-1922) was elected to the papacy on 3 September following the death of Pius X on 20 August, having served as a cardinal since May 1914.
A man with renowned diplomatic talents, Benedict found his abilities - and unique position as a religious emissary of peace - ignored by the belligerent powers.
Consequently, the publication of Benedict's proposed seven-point Peace Note of August 1917 was roundly ignored by all parties except Austria-Hungary.
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 Monument to Pope Benedict XV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Monument to Pope Benedict XV Monument to Pope Benedict XV To the left of the Chapel of the Presentation our eyes can admire the monument to the successor of Pius X, Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) who led the church the difficult years of World War I which he defined as "useless slaughter".
This pope expended most of his energy and strength in trying to convince the heads of state and governments to put down their arms and meet at a negotiating table to resolve Europe's problems peacefully.
It was Pope Benedict XV who added the words "Queen of Peace, pray for us" to the Litanies of Loreto.
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 Catholic World News : Pope travel resumes: Swiss visit in June
The Vatican formally announced plans for the Pope's trip on Monday, May 3-- several hours after the news was broken by the Swiss bishops' conference.
Pope John Paul II is God's instrument for a harvest of many souls -- in God's good time.
Pope Pius XII was perhaps the best Pope for the Church in recent history.
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 Pope_Stephen_X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
March 29, 1058), pope (August 3, 1057 - March 1058), succeeded Victor II (Gebhard of Eichstädt).
He showed great zeal in enforcing the policies of the Gregorian Reform as to clerical celibacy, and was planning large schemes for the expulsion of the Normans from Italy, and the elevation of his brother to the imperial throne, when he was seized by a severe illness, from which he only partially and temporarily recovered.
He died at Florence March 29, 1058, and was succeeded by Benedict X.
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 Pope_Benedict_XVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Before his first appearance at the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica after becoming pope, he was announced by Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez, the protodeacon of the College of Cardinals.
Benedict XVI used his first General Audience in St. Peter's Square, on April 27, 2005, to explain to the world on why he chose the name:
Benedek zh-min-nan:Benedictus 16-sè nl:Paus Benedictus XVI ja:ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇) mo:Папа Бенедикт ал ⅩⅥ-ля ms:Paus Benedict XVI no:Benedikt XVI nn:Pave Benedikt XVI pl:Papież Benedykt XVI pt:Papa Bento XVI ro:Papa Benedict al XVI-lea ru:Бенедикт XVI, папа scn:Binidittu XVI simple:Pope Benedict XVI sk:Benedikt XVI.
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 Pope_Pius_X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pius X beatified ten individuals and canonized four.
Those canonized by Pius X were Saint Alexander Sauli (1904), Saint Gerard Majella (1904), Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer (1909), and Saint Joseph Oriol (1909).
Pius X’s anti-Modernist stance has forever tarnished his papacy for secularists.
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