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Salt + Light will be sharing a direct live feed from the Vatican for a series of events related to the Papal succession.

Pope Benedict XVI resignation is an indication that Christ has quit. The end of the Age of Pisces and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

How might things unfold so the next Pope is a woman...The possibility of this happening has been explored in a just published book, The Armageddon Choice.

Following the resignation of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Salt + Light Television will provide extensive live coverage of events in Rome, in addition to daily coverage and programming from their studios in Toronto.

Exclusive media coverage of Pope Benedict's historic visit to Mexico and Cuba on March 23rd - 26th 2012. Salt + Light TV will provide live coverage and exclusive commentary by host Alicia Ambrosio.

YOUCAT, the Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church, will impact more than 40,000 Catholic teens in the United States and Canada this summer – even before the book is widely distributed during 2011 World Youth Day in Madrid.

Jesuit Fr. Joseph Fessio, Ignatius Press editor and founder and a former student of Pope Benedict XVI, will teach a series of online theology courses drawing upon the writings of Pope Benedict XVI, including the two volumes of Jesus of Nazareth.

Ignatius Press is publishing the English-language edition of YOUCAT– short for “Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church.” YOUCAT, which includes a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI, will be distributed at this year’s World Youth Day.

After debuting as an instant bestseller, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week has moved to No. 5 on the April 3 New York Times bestseller list. The book also made the bestseller lists published by The Wall Street Journal and “Publisher’s Weekly."

Pope Benedict XVI’s second volume on Christ’s life debuts on the March 27 New York Times Bestseller List. Released March 10 worldwide, the new volume covers the last week of Jesus’ earthly life.

The death of Jesus of Nazareth remains controversial, even after almost 2000 years. Pope Benedict XVI revisits the debate in his new book, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week, the second volume of his work on the figure of Jesus.

Leading Catholic clergy and theologians are making themselves available for comment on and analysis of Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times.

Pope Benedict XVI’s second volume of “Jesus of Nazareth” will be published in English by Ignatius Press, according to an agreement between Ignatius Press and the Vatican’s Publishing House, Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV).

Fr. Jospeh Fessio defends Pope Benedict XVI with facts, details, and insight into teachings of the Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict XVI is facing attacks in newspapers, blogs, twitter posts and television and radio news. Unfortunately, the primary news sources repeatedly fail to report accurate timelines and crucial details.

Pope Benedict’s former student speaks out in support of the Pope and responds to the lack of responsible journalism on this story.

Fr. Robert Barron of Chicago has answered the Pope’s call – Barron already embraces new media with his apostolate Word On Fire Catholic Ministries.

New book How to Take Care of Your Share of the Planet conveys same message as Pope's speech for World Day of Peace

Dr. Matthew Bunson, theologian and professor of Church History at Catholic Distance University was thrilled to see that the pope linked the respect of all human life to legitimate economic development.

Pope Benedict XVI’s first social encyclical, Caritas in veritate or Love in Truth, was made public on July 7, 2009 by the Vatican. The Maximus Group offers a variety of spokespersons who can comment on the pope's encyclical.

Pope Benedict XVI will open the “Year for Priests” today, June 19 in St. Peter’s Basilica. “Faithfulness of Christ, faithfulness of priests” is the theme.

The Institute for Priestly Formation (IPF), located at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, is answering the pope’s plea to pray for and support vocations.

Pope Benedict XVI : "I rejoice to have come to Nazareth. All of us need...to return to Nazareth"

Pope Benedict XVI continued his historic pilgrimage through the Holy Land earlier Tuesday, visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Roman-era Temple remnant that represents Judaism’s holiest place and the most-visited tourist site in Israel.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the Holy Mass in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Kidron Valley to an audience of several thousand faithful, including Catholics from the Holy Land and pilgrims and tourists from around the world.

As Pope Benedict XVI travels to the Holy Land offering a message of hope to women and children living in impoverished conditions, Holy Family Hospital remains a refuge and a symbol of true peace in the Middle East.

In our shared pursuit for the truth, we can learn from one another and thus can arrive nearer to the truth, Zed points out.

Zed urged all world religious leaders, religions and denominations to openly bless the environmental causes.

Zed invites Pope to study more ancient Hindu scriptures, which are very rich in philosophical thought.

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