POPE Benedict XVI has a new commandment for priests struggling to get their message across: Go forth and blog.

POPE Benedict XVI yesterday denounced riots between immigrants and Italians in southern Italy and said migrants have rights and are equally loved by God.

POPE Benedict XVI will head a delegation of senior Vatican officials who will meet with Cardinal Seán Brady and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in Rome today to discuss the continuing fallout from the Murphy report for the Irish Catholic Church and senior bishops.

POPE Benedict XVI decried the worsening plight of the world’s one billion hungry yesterday as a United Nations food summit rallied around a strategy of more help to farmers in poor nations but rebuffed a UN appeal to commit billions to the plan.

POPE BENEDICT XVI yesterday urged the use of diplomacy to defuse nuclear crises, in a clear reference to worries over Iran, and prayed that Palestinians would have their own state alongside that of Israel.

POPE Benedict XVI has appointed Fr Denis Brennan as the new Bishop of Ferns, a diocese which has been rocked by sex scandals.

POPE Benedict XVI will receive Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in private audience next Thursday, the Government disclosed yesterday.

POPE John Paul is improving, eating regular food for the first time and anxious to recite his usual prayers for the public Sunday, the Vatican said yesterday.

POPE John Paul has nominated a new cardinal to oversee the powerful Milan archdiocese, making him the leading candidate to succeed the ailing pontiff.