Vatican City State: Pope Benedict XVI, January 2006 - February 2013


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tdarlene said:
Is the Pope left hand? Because his handwriting it's seems to be from a lef hand person

Interesting question, tdarlene! Unfortunatly I don't know if the Pope is left hand or not, but maybe some member expert in graphology can tell us, I'm interested to know it! :)
 
I'm not graphology expert. You can write with this or that hand and it could look that you're f.ex. left hand when you really are right hand. It depend of that how you hold your pen during writing. But good expert can recognize that.

About the Pope he is right hand. Photos #71071212, 71071203
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had an audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican ,26 June 2006.

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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had an audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican ,26 June 2006.

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LES COMBES, ITALY - JULY 11: Pope Benedict XVI touches a child upon his arrival at his summer retreat in the Italian Alps where he will spend his summer holiday on July 11, 2006 in Les Combes, Italy. The pontiff will remain in Les Combes until July 28

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Pope Benedict XVI Spend His Holidays in Val D'Aosta

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Pope Benedict XVI holds his Sunday Angelus-prayer, from a window of the Pontiff's summer residence in Castelgandolfo 13 August 2006. The Pontiff said that the "holiday weather should not make us forget the serious conflict in the Middle East."

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The Pope of Rome isn't royalty,as the Popedom of Rome is an elective monarchy.The current Pope of Rome is an extremely controversial figure because of his membership of the Hitler Youth,& not popular with a lot of people,especially the Protestants of Northern Ireland & members of the Anglican & Lutheran Churches,as he gave a speech back in 2000 in which he described Protestants,especially Anglicans & Lutherans as 'deficient'.

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Pope to take stroll down memory lane in Germany

Pope Benedict takes a trip down memory lane this weekend, going home to his roots in Germany's Catholic heartland of Bavaria to visit the places that influenced him as a young man.

The Sept 9-14 trip, his second to Germany in little more than a year, also gives him a chance to launch a European-wide appeal for the continent to rediscover a traditional faith that he feels is increasingly threatened by secularisation

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Royalist0007 said:
The Pope of Rome isn't royalty,as the Popedom of Rome is an elective monarchy.The current Pope of Rome is an extremely controversial figure because of his membership of the Hitler Youth,& not popular with a lot of people,especially the Protestants of Northern Ireland & members of the Anglican & Lutheran Churches,as he gave a speech back in 2000 in which he described Protestants,especially Anglicans & Lutherans as 'deficient'.
Where did it say that the Pope was Royalty? No one has said that. I think the fact that he is the head of the Vatican gives him as much right to be on this forum as anyone else, whether you like him or not!

Secondly, in regard to you brining up his Hitler Youth (HJ) membership. In the March of 1939 a law was passed effectively conscripting all eligible youth into the Hitler youth organisations. The Pope was one of the 4 million who managed to evade joining the organisation up until that point, and was forced to join along with many others. What parent is going to risk having their children taken away and put in orphanages (or worse) by disobeying? I don't know why people always bring up him being in HJ. It doesn't mean he was a Nazi. Everyone had to join whether they liked it or not. If he really was a Nazi and his parents were too, don't you think they would have placed the Pope in the Deutsches Jungvolk (for younger boys from 10-14)?

Thirdly, you can’t just make comments without supporting your claims with evidence. Do you have a link for this ‘deficient’ comment? It’s not enough just to say he said it, but you need to know the context in which it was written. It may have a completely different meaning. And, the majority of Protestants in Northern Ireland do not like the Catholics anyway, not just for religious regions, but for their politics (the Catholics are predominately Nationalists and the Protestants are mainly Unionists). So of course the Pope isn’t going to popular with the Protestants in Northern Ireland.
 
Visit to Bavaria, Germany, Day 1


1.- Pope Benedict XVI greets as he arrives at the Munich airport 09 September 2006 welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavarian state Premier Edmund Steuber.

2.- Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges to the believers 09 September 2006 in Munich

3.- Pope Benedict XVI meets German President Horst Koehler 09 September 2006 at the State Residence in Munich

4.- Pope Benedict XVI and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pose 09 September 2006 in Munich

5.- Pope Benedict XVI arrives in his Popemobile at the archbishop palace for his pastoral visit to his native Bavaria on September 9, 2006 in Munich, Germany

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Day 2

1.- Munich, GERMANY: Believers attend a mass led by Pope Benedict XVI 10 September 2006 in Munich. The Pope warned that the modern world was becoming "deaf" to God's message as he spoke to up to 250,000 people

2.- MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 10: Pope Benedict XVI waves from the balcony of the archiepiscopal palace Munich. (4)

3.- MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 10: Pope Benedict XVI greets believers who are waiting for his departure in front of the Cathedral Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche) on September 10, 2006 in Munich, Germany


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Day 3
The third day of the pope's visit to Bavaria takes him to Germany's holiest shrines in Altoetting, the village of Marktl am Inn, where he was born as Joseph Ratzinger, and in the evening to Regensburg, where he once taught theology.

1.- Pope Benedict XVI prays at the Gnadenkapelle 11 September 2006 in Altoetting
2.- ALTOETTING, GERMANY-SEPTEMBER 11: Pope Benedict XVI leads an open-air mass in the historic pilgrimage destination of Altoetting on the third day of his six day visit in Bavaria September 11, 2006 in Altoetting, Germany
3.-Pope Benedict XVI carries the Monstrance after finishing the holy mass during his pastoral visit to his native Bavaria on the chapel square on September 11, 2006 in Altoetting, Germany.
4.-MARKTL AM INN, Germany: Pope Benedict XVI inspects the so-called Benedict Column in front of his birth house in Marktl am Inn 11 September 2006
5.-Marktl am Inn, Germany: Pope Benedict XVI talks to his elder brother Georg Ratzinger (R) in Marktl's St Oswald Church 11 September 2006

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REGENSBURG, EUROPA - SEPTEMBER 13: Pope Benedict XVI (R) and his brother Georg Ratzinger pray at the grave of their parents on September 13, 2006 in Regensburg, Germany. Aside from the official program, this day has been marked private and scheduled above all as a day for the Pope to meet his brother, Apostolic Protonotary Georg Ratzinger, who lives in Regensburg. Apart from only one official appointment, the blessing of a new organ in the Old Chapel in Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI visited the cemetery and the adjacent St. Josef church near Pentling where he once lived and where his parents and his sister Maria are buried in the cemetery

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Pope Benedict XVI washes the feet of a faithful at the start of the Paschal Triduum Mass of the Last Supper at the St. John in Lateran Basilica, Rome, Thursday, 05 April 2007. The Pontiff washed and dried the feet of 12 men at the traditional Holy Thursday service.

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Apparently talks about allowing RC Holy Mass in Saudia are about to be concluded,an agreement will be signed soon in Riyad between Saudi Arabia and the Vatican which will allow RC to celebrate mass there.
 
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Today,the last day of the US trip by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI,and Mass at the Yankee stadium is prepared,what can you say on these last few days?It was about the unexpected,as in the unexpected actions and words of comfort and understanding,healing and reconcilliation.

The visit,no doubt,goes to book as a hugely successfull one.

Must say I was impressed once again by HH.

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As a Catholic I am thrilled by His Holiness first visit to American soil as Pontiff. I think it surprised many people. He is not grumpy. He is not unpleasant. He is a warm and caring Shepherd and a brilliant one to boot.

I understand that Bill Maher and Lou Dobbs(CNN) had very nasty things to say about him but what do you expect-especially from Maher.

Pope Benedict did not put one foot wrong on this visit and for the first time he seems to have come out from under the shadow of the late great John Paul II.

He came, he saw, he conquered. Viva il Papa!
 
What did Lou Dobbs say? If I were to guess, it would be because His Holiness spoke in Spanish.
 
What did Lou Dobbs say? If I were to guess, it would be because His Holiness spoke in Spanish.

I don't know specifically what Mr Dobbs had to say beyond the fact that it was very negative. I was listening to the President of the Catholic League complain about it on the Catholic TV network.

Bill Maher went say far as to call His Holiness a Nazi and the Roman Catholic Church a "sex abusing cult".
 
His Holiness was too young in Nazi-times to make a concious decision for or against the Nazis, he was routinely organised in Nazi youth organisations like all others kids his age but he was too young to go against it. :flowers:
 
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Of course you are right. But secular humanists like Bill Maher don't want to hear that. He hates the Catholic Church so without bothering to check his facts he spouts vitriol.

The Catholic League demanded an apology but I don't know if it was received.
 
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