Pope Benedict XVI

Castro Requests a Meeting with the Pope
By Carly Signor
March 28, 2012 - 4:08pm
Pope Benedict XVI gladly agrees to meet during his three-day stay in Cuba

Pope Benedict XVI is in Cuba today as part of a trip that started in Mexico, CNN reports.  CNN also reports that he will meet with Fidel Castro.

"I will gladly meet tomorrow morning His Excellency, the Pope, as I did when John Paul II visited," Castro said in a written statement on the official Cubadebate website, CNN reports.

Police investigating threatening package sent to congressman
By Evan Williams
March 25, 2010 - 6:50pm
Plus, the mother of a sex abuse victim accuses the pope of lying and the newest St. John's coaching candidate turns down position.

A letter containing suspicious white powder was sent to Congressman Anthony Weiner's local office Thursday, syracuse.com reports. The letter regarded Weiner's support of the national health care bill passed earlier in the week.

The NYPD was immediately notified and evacuated the office. HazMat teams decontaminated nine employees as a precaution.

Future Pope Benedict XVI failed to defrock abusive priest
By Iris Park
March 25, 2010 - 11:47am
Plus, President Obama's first big speech after the passage of health care reform and a new tax on tanning.

The future Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials failed to defrock an American priest who molested deaf boys.

The Reverend Lawrence Murphy sexually abused more than 200 boys from the 1950s through the 1970s at the St. John's School for the Deaf in Wisconsin.

Father Murphy was never disciplined, and died in 1998.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope, granted Murphy leniency.