Benedict Xvi XVI (Xvi): Last News

Questions over who the next pope could be are arising after serious concerns for Pope Francis' health following his hospitalisation with pneumonia.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Global media outlets, including CNN, CBS and NBC, are getting ready to descend upon Rome and Vatican City following reports that Pope Francis is in critical condition. Logistical aspects such as renting terrace space to get the best camera angles of St.

On the heels of the wonderful 2019 The Two Popes, in which Anthony Hopkins starred as Pope Benedict XVI in an imagined conversation with Jonathan Pryce’s future Pope Francis, Hopkins is once again involved in the same kind of cinematic historical fictional meeting as founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, who is engaged in a private debate with The Chronicles of Narnia author and theologian C.S. Lewis (played by Matthew Goode) on the existence of God. As with The Two Popes, there is no proof whatsoever that any meeting ever took place, but it clearly provides lots of material to wrap your head around. That is exactly what Mark St. Germain did in creating his 2009 play Freud’s Last Session, which was built on the 1967 Harvard lectures of Dr. Armond M. Nicholi Jr in his presentation “The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life.”

Agnieszka Holland is headed to the Vatican for a screening of her migrant crisis drama Green Border, following its selection for its 27th Tertio Millenio Film Festival in November.

With news reports about his ailing health, many people are asking: is the Pope dead?

Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Wednesday amid conflicting reports about his reason for being there, although his condition is reported not to be “worrying”.

Carol Vorderman, 62, has opened up about the moment when she desperately tried to disguise the fact she'd defaced Pope Benedict XVI's ring with her lipstick, in a candid Instagram post marking the Catholic leader's New Year's Eve death. As she paid her respects to the late Pope, she admitted she'd never told the story to her mum out of fear of how she'd have reacted.However, former Countdown maths ace Carol - once the highest paid woman on television - was much more open today about her mishap, as she shared all with her 286,000 followers.Unleashing a very public confession, she explained that the blunder took place when she co-hosted the Pope's Day in London's Hyde Park, back in 2010.She and Frank Cottrell Boyce hosted what she described as an "incredible day whatever your religious beliefs, full of love and song and happiness".With her proud mum looking on from the audience, Carol admitted: "I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to kiss the Papal ring."The jewel, also known as the Fisherman's Ring, is a formal piece of the Pope's regalia, which is always worn on the third finger of his left hand, and destroyed at the end of his papacy."Not being used to this kind of thing I'd completely forgotten I still had my stage make up on with a heavy slick of orangy lipstick," she candidly cringed."I held the Pope's right hand, bent down, kissed the golden ring, and as my head came up all I could see was how much lipstick I'd left all over it, literally everywhere."I spent the next second which seemed like an hour not letting go of his hand trying to rub the lipstick off without him noticing.

Former Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years rather than hold office for life, died Saturday, the Vatican announced in a statement. He was 95.

Madonna has requested a meeting with Pope Francis, insisting that she’s “a good Catholic’, despite being “excommunicated three times”.“Hello [Pope] Francis – I’m a good Catholic”, she wrote in a tweet. “I swear! I mean I don’t swear! It’s been a few decades since my last confession. Would it be possible to meet up one day to discuss some important matters? I’ve been excommunicated three times.

Madonna left the world speechless in 1989 with the video for her hit single Like A Prayer causing quite the scandal.The pop singer caused outrage as she kissed a black saint alongside a burning cross.The 62-year-old has, on several occasions claimed that she has been excommunicated by The Vatican, something which a Cardinal Ersilio Tonino, on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI, believes should happen.While at the time it may have been daring for Madonna to engage in an interracial kiss as part of her music video, her co-star Leon Robinson, 59, admits he doesn’t believe it was a big deal at the time.The actor - while excited to take on the role for the music video - knew it was Madonna’s return to the music industry but wasn’t aware of how big the