However, he was made a cardinal at the 24 March 2006 consistory anyway, as was announced by Pope Benedict XVI on 22 February 2006.

In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by Pope Benedict XVI in September 2006.

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.

On 23 July 2006 Pope Benedict XVI spoke about Mary Magdalene in his address before the Angelus, referring to her as " a disciple of the Lord who plays a lead role in the Gospels.

Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est ( God is Love ) of 2006 refers to Song of Songs in both its literal and allegorical meaning, stating that erotic love ( eros ) and self-donating love ( agape ) is shown there as the two halves of true love, which is both giving and receiving.

Famous examples include Yasser Arafat in 2004, Pope John Paul II in 2005, Fidel Castro in late 2006 and early 2007, and Hosni Mubarak in 2012.

In a lecture delivered on 12 September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from a dialogue believed to have occurred in 1391 between Manuel II and a Persian scholar and recorded in a book by Manuel II ( Dialogue 7 of Twenty-six Dialogues with a Persian ) in which the Emperor stated: " Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.

* Pera, Marcello and Joseph Ratzinger ( Pope Benedict XVI ), Senza radici: Europa, Relativismo, Cristianesimo, Islam Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Perseus Books Group, 2006 ISBN 0-465-00634-5, Milano, Mondadori, 2004 ISBN 88-04-54474-0

* Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est (" God is Love ") of 2006 claims that justice is the defining concern of the state and the central concern of politics, and not of the church, which has charity as its central social concern.

On April 7, 2006, Celje became the seat of a new Diocese of Celje, created by Pope Benedict XVI within the Archdiocese of Maribor.

Upon relinquishing in 2006 the title of Patriarch of the West, Pope Benedict XVI renamed these basilicas from " Patriarchal Basilicas " to " Papal Basilicas ".

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Witten as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences ( 2006 ).

In 2006 Pope Benedict XVI granted the cathedral the designation of minor basilica.

The group became part of the 23d Wing on 18 August 2006 in a ceremony held at Pope.

* Don Pope, third placed in the 2006 Worlds Strongest Man competition

On May 15, 2006, also Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter to Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, on the 50th Anniversary of the encyclical Haurietis Aquas, about the Sacred Heart, by Pope Pius XII.

* Defender of the Year: Eddie Pope ( 1997 ), Bobby Boswell ( 2006 )

In June 2006 he played the character Elton Pope in an episode of Doctor Who titled " Love & Monsters ".

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

One of those three, Joseph Ratzinger, was elected Pope in the resulting conclave and took the name Benedict XVI, another one ( Jaime Sin ) did not attend that conclave for health reasons and died shortly afterwards, and the third, William Wakefield Baum, turned 80 on 21 November 2006.

* Dirk Benedict Blog-In Cahoots with Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid ( 2006 )

* From Ratzinger to Benedict by Avery Cardinal Dulles, Article in Feb 2006 edition of First Things

Pope Paul VI in 1967, Pope John Paul II in 1979 and Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 visited the house and treated it as a shrine.

As of 2006, some remain strongly attached to the traditionalist wing of the Catholic Church and are particularly encouraged by the theological conservatism of Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Benedict XVI visited the Sultan Ahmed Mosque on 30 November 2006 during his visit to Turkey.

On June 21, 2006, Hsing Yun met John Paul II's successor, Pope Benedict XVI, in a general audience at St. Peter's Basilica.

In a 2006 episode of The Daily Show, comedian John Oliver suggested that Pope Benedict XVI is the George Lazenby of the papacy, in comparison to " John Paul II's Sean Connery ".

He is the current Dean of the College of Cardinals and former Cardinal Secretary of State, having held that post from 1990 to 2006, under both popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

Suite XVI, the follow-up album to Norfolk Coast, was released in September 2006 ( the title is a pun on " Sweet 16 " and also a reference to the fact that it was the band's sixteenth studio album ) and continued the band's resurgence.

* Suite XVI ( 2006 )

On 22 June 2006, Benedict XVI accepted Sodano's resignation as Secretary of State, effective on 15 September 2006.

* In May 2006, the Institute of Quantum Optics at the University of Hanover gave details of technologies and benefits of femto-kelvin research in space.

He recovered and on 11 September 2006 gave a speech at Kent State University Stark Campus.

* After the Pakistan earthquake of 2006, IKEA gave 500, 000 blankets to the relief effort in the region

On July 6, 2006, she gave birth to a girl, Hanna.

On 19 May 2006, the parliament assumed total legislative power and gave executive power to the Government of Nepal ( previously known as His Majesty's Government ).

Shortly before his death, Cohen gave a lecture describing his solution to problem of the Continuum Hypothesis at the Gödel centennial conference, in Vienna in 2006.

* John Morgan and Gang Tian posted a paper on the arXiv in July 2006 which gave a detailed proof of just the Poincaré Conjecture ( which is somewhat easier than the full geometrization conjecture ) and expanded this to a book.

On February 21, 2006, the Supreme Court of Appeal gave him leave to sue Philip Morris, demonstrating that a vexatious litigant is not completely blocked from launching further court action.

This was a modification of the law made in 2005, effective since 2006 ; before then, it was November 20 regardless of the day, and all schools gave extended holidays if the day was a Tuesday or Thursday.

At the April 2006 elections, Apulia gave about 51. 54 % of its votes to Silvio Berlusconi, and at the April 2008 election Apulians gave about 47 % of their votes to the People of Freedom-led coalition, eleven points more than to the Democratic Party-led coalition.

The racist attitudes and language found in the appraisal sheets and Residential Security Maps created by the HOLC likely gave federal support to existing private sector bias and racial antipathy ( Crossney and Bartelt 2005 ; Crossney and Bartelt 2006 ).

In 2006, Louis gave a duo-show with a drummer, on the Poetry In Motion 1 Festival, Maryland.

This gave rise to the 2006 U. S. Supreme Court antitrust case of Texaco Inc. v. Dagher, which cleared both Texaco and Shell of any antitrust liability concerning the pricing of Equilon's gasoline.

At the April 2006 elections, the city of Modena gave about 50 % of its votes to the Democratic Party.

Johanna gave birth to a son, Jules, on November 14, 2006.

Hopper's longtime dealer, Frank Rehn, who gave the artist his first solo show in 1924, sold Hotel Window ( 1995 ) to collector Olga Knoepke for $ 7, 000 ($ 50, 270 in 2006 currency ) in 1957.

To rebrand and modernise the club's image, in 2006 both this club badge and the coat of arms gave way to a professionally designed logo / emblem.

In 2006 he additionally gave some land to the Trust which had been part of Turner's domaine.

On December 5, 2006, disappointed with the direction the team was headed, Allen Iverson gave the 76ers management an ultimatum: find players who will help support me or trade me.

Bradley's 42 goals gave Tampa Bay fans optimism for the next season ; it would be a team record until the 2006 – 07 season when Vincent Lecavalier passed it with a career high 52 goals.

In 2006 John Smith's launched the John Smith's People's Race which gave ten members of the public the chance to ride in a flat race at Aintree on Grand National day.

In 2005, he gave a brief lecture at the World Expo in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and in 2006 he appeared in an hour-long interview on Japanese television network NHK.

Although the region has a center-right local government, at the April 2006 elections, Molise gave 50. 5 % of its votes to Romano Prodi of the centre-to-left Olive Tree party.