These followers, he says, are Constantinus, who succeeded Benedict as Abbot of Monte Cassino ; Valentinianus ; Simplicius ; and Honoratus, who was abbot of Subiaco when St Gregory wrote his Dialogues.

*" Good night, sweet Prince ", Brand says to Benedict in The Hand of Oberon ( chapter 13 ).

Pope Benedict XVI in his book Jesus of Nazareth, says there are " three dimensions " to the Church Fathers ' interpretation of the term kingdom of God.

His essay Hope for Today says “ Benedict perceives that all men and women today both desperately need hope and search for a reason for hope.

In response to a 2007 document approved by Pope Benedict XVI and released by the Vatican July 10 that says, in part, “... other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and that only Roman Catholicism provides the true path to salvation ,” Dr. Kieschnick responded that this declaration, with which Lutherans and other Christian church bodies obviously disagree, is nothing new.

Ocean then says he " knows a guy " who knows about all major robberies committed in the western U. S., but Benedict turns down the offer and tips off the police that Ocean is violating his parole by being in Las Vegas.

Of Benedict VIII, the Catholic Encyclopedia says:

Corwin believes Benedict to be angry at having discovered either that Corwin has been using Avalon to arm himself for an attempt on the throne ( compromising Benedict's neutrality ) or that Corwin has slept with Dara.

By the Rule of St Benedict, which, until the Cluniac reforms, was the norm in the West, the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community.

" In March 2012, the now-retired Fidel Castro met Pope Benedict XVI during the latter's visit to Cuba ; the two men discussed the role of the Catholic Church in Cuba, which has a large Catholic community.

Cognitive science has a pre-history traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts ( see Plato's Meno ); and certainly must include writers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke.

The pope, as Bishop of Rome, may open a process and has the authority to waive the five year waiting period, as was done for Mother Teresa by Pope John Paul II, and for Lúcia Santos and for John Paul II himself by Pope Benedict XVI.

The present pope, Benedict XVI, has stated his wish to restore full unity with the Orthodox.

More recently, it has been applied to emigrant groups that continue their involvement in their homeland from overseas, such as the category of long-distance nationalists identified by Benedict Anderson.

In 1998, Benedict learned that he also has another son, John Talbert ( born 1968 ), from an earlier relationship.

In contrast, the Holy See has not questioned the validity of the consecrations that the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre performed in 1988 for the service of the relatively numerous followers of the Traditionalist Catholic Society of St. Pius X that he had founded, and of the bishops who, under pressure from the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, " have been ordained without the Pontifical mandate and who have not asked for, or have not yet obtained, the necessary legitimation ", and who consequently, Pope Benedict XVI has declared, " are to be considered illegitimate, but validly ordained ".

It was the official papal chalice for many popes, and has been used by many others, most recently by Pope Benedict XVI, on July 9, 2006.

It has earned the praise of Pope Benedict XVI and the nickname " The Pope's Favorite Rabbi ".

It has come to be regulated by religious rules ( e. g. the Rule of St Basil, the Rule of St Benedict ) and, in modern times, the Church law of the respective apostolic Christian churches that have forms of monastic living.

The precise dating of the Rule of the Master is problematic ; but it has been argued on internal grounds that it antedates the so-called Rule of Saint Benedict created by Benedict of Nursia for his monastery in Monte Cassino, Italy ( c. 529 ), and the other Benedictine monasteries he himself had founded ( cf.

Although Pope Benedict XVI replaced the triregnum with a mitre on his personal coat of arms, it has been retained on the flag.

Famine followed the devastating Lombards, and from the few words the Liber Pontificalis has about Benedict, we gather that he died in the midst of his efforts to cope with these difficulties.

This has advanced the numbering of all subsequent Popes Benedict by one.

This has advanced the numbering of all subsequent Popes Benedict by one.

This form of the Mass remained essentially unchanged for 400 years until Pope Paul VI's revision of the Roman Missal in 1969 – 70, after which it has become widely known as the Tridentine Mass ; use of the last pre-1969 edition of the Missal, that by Pope John XXIII in 1962, is permitted without limitation for private celebration of the Mass and, since July 2007, is allowed also, under certain conditions, for public use, as laid down in the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI.

The Rule of Saint Benedict has been used by Benedictines for fifteen centuries, and thus St. Benedict is sometimes regarded as the founder of Western monasticism.

It was not until Benedict that the inflectional systems of these languages were recognized as ( partially ) native to the family, and subsequent work has reconstructed such a system for the proto-language.

* Critics of sedevacantism argue that this also means that the theory advanced by the seventeenth-century theologian and Doctor of the Church Robert Bellarmine that a pope who fell into heresy would automatically forfeit his office and could be formally deposed has been overruled by Church authority by Benedict XIV in " De Synodo Dioecesano " ( 10, 1, 5 ) and by the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Can.

His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.

* February 14 – Pope Benedict VIII recognizes and crowns Henry of Bavaria ( who has ruled since 1003 ) as King of Germany.

Despite the absence of a Benedictine order, since most monasteries founded during the Middle Ages adopted the Rule of St Benedict, it became the standard for Western Monasticism.

There are an estimated 2, 400 celibate Anglican Religious ( 1080 men and 1320 women ) in the Anglican Communion as a whole, some of whom have adopted the Rule of St. Benedict.

Benedict symbolically adopted Constantine's two sons Justinian and Heraclius.

The monasteries of the Irish missions, and many at home, adopted the Rule of Saint Columbanus, which was stricter than the Rule of Saint Benedict, the main alternative in the West.

On 22 August 1256 the Italian Williamites, unhappy with the arrangement of the Grand Union, left the Order and adopted the Rule of St. Benedict.

For his formal inauguration Pope Benedict XVI adopted an earlier form of the pallium, from a period when it and the omophor were virtually identical.

The papal pallium adopted by Pope Benedict XVI is closer to the original omophor.

After the conquest of Aviz a castle erected there became the motherhouse of the order, and they were then called " Knights of St. Benedict of Aviz ", since they adopted the Benedictine rule in 1162, as modified by John Ziritu, one of the earliest Cistercian abbots of Portugal.

It describes how hermit Aldwyn petitioned Urse d ' Abetot, the Earl of Gloucester, for the original site ( of the Priory ) in the wood, and land " as far as Baldeyate "; that he collected monks, and adopted the Rule of St. Benedict ; dedicating the monastery to the Virgin Mary-but occasionally under patronage of both St. Mary & St. Michael.

After the arrival of a number of new followers, the nascent community adopted the Rule of St. Benedict and was recognised by Pope Clement VI in 1344.

The cult of St. Maurus slowly spread to monasteries throughout France and by the 11th century had been adopted by Monte Cassino in Italy, along with a revived cult of St. Placidus ( the fellow pupil of St Benedict at Monte Cassino along with St Maurus, according to Pope Gregory the Great's Life of St. Benedict.

The series starred Benedict Taylor as Billy Stanyon, a teenager facing up to the loss of his parents in a sailing accident only to discover that he was adopted.