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Monday, February 11, 2013

Bel Air Reacts To Pope Benedict XVI Resignation

The pontiff announced he will step down Feb. 28.

Pope Benedict XVI's Monday resignation announcement left Bel Air's Catholic community reeling along with the rest of the world. "A pope’s resignation is totally unprecedented [in modern times] and has not happened in 598 years," Patti Murphy Dohn, John Carroll School campus minister, said Monday. "So this news was shocking to all of us." The 85-year-old pope said he will officially resign Feb. 28 because he does not have the strength to carry out his duties, according to an article on Reuters.com. Dohn said she ran the course of emotions Monday morning before sharing the news with the students at John Carroll during morning announcements. "They are witnessing and experiencing a new chapter in our church's history," Dohn said. The students …

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Monday, December 3, 2012

Coming Soon to Twitter: Pope Benedict XVI

Pontiff will see and approve, but probably not write, tweets under the handle of @pontifex.

Twitter will soon be the home of 140-character messages from a higher authority. Pope Benedict XVI, who has been tweeting occasionally on the Vatican's Twitter news feed since last year, will launch his own personal Twitter feed at noon Dec. 12. Within hours after the announcement was made Monday, the pope had more than 100,000 followers, according to the New York Times. While Twitter is known for its lightning-fast dissemination of information and opinions—some of which are instantly regretted—it's doubtful that will be the case with @pontifex, the pope's new Twitter handle, according to The Guardian. The handle, which means bridge-builder in Latin, was chosen not only for its meaning but also because many other pope-related handles were …

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Joe

11:23 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012

Now I winder if Frank has been banned or removed all his posts himself. Another is missing about the source Twitchy. He whined about the source yet would not answer the question "Do those tweets exist or not Frank? Do you deny your own eyes?" Very curious indeed.   more ›

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