<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Tells Journalists to Search for 'Truth']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11300-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11300-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI presented a smiling papacy to the world's news media Saturday while, in the background, the Vatican's battle over same-sex marriage legislation in Spain presented the pontiff with an early test of his moral authority.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10813-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10813-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Key Serb Surrenders,  Will Be Tried at Hague <br>    BELGRADE  --   A key Serbian war crimes suspect has surrendered and will go to the U.N. war crimes tribunal, a further sign of Belgrade's determination to push for European Union membership.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedict Reappoints Top Vatican Officials]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7117-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7117-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI got down to business Thursday, reappointing the previous heads of Vatican departments until further notice and keeping on the secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who is effectively his prime minister.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Cardinal Conclave,  A Prediction And Promise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6132-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6132-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Benedict XVI opened his papacy with a prediction that he would not hold the throne of Saint Peter as long as John Paul II and he promised to promote conciliation.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman and Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Vows to Pursue Outreach by Church]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4036-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4036-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  VATICAN CITY, April 20  --  Pope Benedict XVI reached out to Roman Catholic reformers and other religions in his first sermon as pontiff Wednesday, saying confidently that John Paul II left him a church that "looks serenely at the past and does not fear the future."]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Idyllic Setting for Boy Who Would Become Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6077-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6077-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  TRAUNSTEIN, Germany, April 20  --  The Ratzinger family lived in a modest farmhouse at the far edge of this southern German town with a clear view of soaring pine trees and the majestic, snow-capped Bavarian Alps. Each day, Joseph, who was 12, and his older brother Georg hiked a half hour across town to St. Michael's Seminary, where both excelled at their studies.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedict XVI Assumes Papacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A942-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A942-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church Tuesday elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany as the new pope to succeed John Paul II, and announced he will take the name of Benedict XVI.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy Tempered by a Wish for a Third World Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church drew mixed reaction across Latin America and Africa. Political and church leaders issued warm statements of congratulations, but many people also said they felt a tinge of disappointment that the new pontiff did not come from the Third World.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan and Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seen From Every Possible Angle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2595-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2595-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Alerted by the traditional puff of white smoke from a Vatican chimney, the electronic media sprang into action Tuesday.]]></description><author> Tom Shales</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Pope Has Steadfast Beliefs in a Tumultuous World]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1334-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1334-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[His searing experience as a World War II Nazi conscript left Pope Benedict XVI with a distrust of nationalism and socialism, and a passionate belief in holding firmly to enduring truths.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the U.S., a Familiar Figure in the Fray]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2719-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2719-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Benedict XVI may be a new pope, but American Catholics have been fighting over him for decades.]]></description><author> David Von Drehle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Smoke Signals Pope Not Yet Elected]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62635-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62635-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Roman Catholic cardinals fail to choose a successor to Pope John Paul II on their first vote and prepare for another round of secret balloting on Tuesday.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New, Old Rules to Guide Balloting for Next Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60683-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60683-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Roman Catholic cardinals from 52 countries today begin to choose a successor to Pope John Paul II in a secret conclave that will follow elaborate customs.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman  and Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nigeria's Rainmaker Is Eyed at Vatican]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59514-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59514-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ONITSHA, Nigeria  --  The legend of Cardinal Francis Arinze, a contender to become the first pope from Africa in 1,500 years, stems from a moment of crisis in Nigeria's Catholic heartland. It was the early 1970s, and the government had ordered all European and American priests  --  most of the Catholic leadership at the time  --  out of the country.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Conclave: Guardians of Continuity Versus Agents of Change]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59537-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59537-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ROME, April 16  --  The next pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church could be a Brazilian cardinal who gave refuge to striking workers pursued by police helicopters. It could be a Nigerian whose parents worshiped African gods, a bookish Viennese who speaks five languages, an Italian who speaks only his home tongue, or an Argentine who rides a bus to work in his diocese.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venerable Papal Tradition: The Very Smoke-Filled Room]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58963-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58963-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When the College of Cardinals assembles  tomorrow to elect a new pope, many Catholics believe God's guiding hand will point them to the right man. Perhaps so. There certainly have been a number of inspired choices over the centuries. Yet in some of the most colorful elections of the past, the Holy Spirit seems to have taken a holiday.]]></description><author> Michael Farquhar</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Godfried Danneels, Belgium]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57837-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57837-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   When the news came that Pope John Paul II was facing his final hours, Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels was on a mission to China that exemplified his stature as a leading church diplomat.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Francis Arinze, Nigeria]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57833-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57833-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The year Cardinal Francis Arinze was ordained a priest, an older colleague was receiving psychiatric care after being deemed mentally unbalanced for his desire to incorporate African rites into the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57845-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57845-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Throughout his steadily rising Church career, Milan Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi has had a knack for being in the right place at the right time.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giovanni Battista Re, Italy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57834-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57834-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/holysee/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:06:31 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Usually it is the cardinal who calls on the pope. But Giovanni Battista Re was so close to John Paul II that the pontiff once interrupted an Alpine vacation to fly to the cardinal's hometown of Borno in the foothills of the Alps.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>
