Benedict XVI

Biography ▸

265th Pope of the Catholic Church

Beginning Pontificate	19,24.IV.2005
End Pontificate	28.II.2013
Secular Name	Joseph Ratzinger
Birth	Marktl am Inn (Bavaria)
Website	http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/index.htm

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BENEDICT XVI

Speeches 2011 December

Christmas greetings to Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Directors of the Governorate of Vatican City State (December 22, 2011)

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To members of the Confederation of Italian Cooperatives and the Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks (December 10, 2011)

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To a delegation of boys and girls of the Children's Italian Catholic Action (A.C.R.) (December 19, 2011)

EN - ES - FR - IT - PT
Responses to the questions posed by the inmates (New Prison of Rebibbia - Rome, 18 December 2011)

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Pastoral Visit to Rebibbia Prison - Rome (December 18, 2011)

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To the Bishops of the Episcopal Conferences of the Pacific and of New Zealand on their ad Limina visit (December 17, 2011)

EN - ES - FR - IT - PT
To a delegation from Ukraine who donated the Christmas tree for St Peter's Square (December 16, 2011)

DE - EN - FR - IT - PT
To the new Ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on the occasion of the presentation of the Letters of Credence (December 15, 2011)

DE - EN - ES - FR - IT - PT
Pastoral Visit to the Roman Parish of "Santa Maria delle Grazie" in Casal Boccone (December 11, 2011)

DE - EN - ES - FR - IT - PT
Act of Veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the occasion of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8, 2011)

DE - EN - ES - FR - IT - PT
Lighting via video link of the Christmas Tree, decorated with hundreds of lights, in the Italian town of Gubbio (Perugia) (December 7, 2011)

DE - EN - FR - IT - PT
"Christmas Oratorio from the Alps" and projection of the film "From Heaven to Earth - Advent and Christmas in the Bavarian Alps", offered to the Holy Father by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (December 2, 2011)

DE - EN - ES - FR - IT - PT
To participants in the Third World Congress for the Pastoral Care of Foreign Students promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (December 2, 2011)

DE - EN - ES - FR - IT - PT
To members of the International Theological Commission (December 2, 2011)

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To participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family (December 1, 2011)

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The Holy See

Benedict XVI

Speeches 2011 December

Christmas greetings to Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Directors of the Governorate of Vatican City State (December 22, 2011)

To members of the Confederation of Italian Cooperatives and the Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks (December 10, 2011)

To a delegation of boys and girls of the Children's Italian Catholic Action (A.C.R.) (December 19, 2011)

Responses to the questions posed by the inmates (New Prison of Rebibbia - Rome, 18 December 2011)

Pastoral Visit to Rebibbia Prison - Rome (December 18, 2011)

To the Bishops of the Episcopal Conferences of the Pacific and of New Zealand on their ad Limina visit (December 17, 2011)

To a delegation from Ukraine who donated the Christmas tree for St Peter's Square (December 16, 2011)

To the new Ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on the occasion of the presentation of the Letters of Credence (December 15, 2011)

Pastoral Visit to the Roman Parish of "Santa Maria delle Grazie" in Casal Boccone (December 11, 2011)

Act of Veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the occasion of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8, 2011)

Lighting via video link of the Christmas Tree, decorated with hundreds of lights, in the Italian town of Gubbio (Perugia) (December 7, 2011)

"Christmas Oratorio from the Alps" and projection of the film "From Heaven to Earth - Advent and Christmas in the Bavarian Alps", offered to the Holy Father by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (December 2, 2011)

To participants in the Third World Congress for the Pastoral Care of Foreign Students promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (December 2, 2011)

To members of the International Theological Commission (December 2, 2011)

To participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family (December 1, 2011)