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POPE BENEDICT XVI WASHINGTON D.C. 2008 (Demo)

Speaking truth in love: 12 quotes from Benedict XVI

Nicknamed the “professor pope,” Benedict XVI lived a life devoted to placing the truth in the service of love. A keen defender and teacher of the church’s doctrines, he had a deep confidence that the truths handed down by Jesus Christ would never detract from our ability to carry out his commandment to love. Rather, they would help us fulfill it.

ACTOR SHIA LABEOUF ‘PADRE PIO’ MOVIE

‘Padre Pio’ actor Shia LaBeouf fully enters the Catholic Church New Year’s Eve

An actor who recently portrayed a beloved saint on screen has now fully come into the Catholic Church in real life. Shia LaBeouf, a Hollywood veteran and star of director Abel Ferrara’s film “Padre Pio,” received the sacrament of confirmation, completing his initiation into the Catholic faith, during the New Year holiday weekend, according to announcements posted Jan. 2 to Facebook and Instagram by the Capuchin Franciscans’ Western American Province.