Pope benedict xiv biography of michael jackson

Michael Jackson is best known for his music, but he possibly touched just as many people through his love and compassion for those less fortunate. Here are just some of the things he did which never really made the headlines&#;

January, Michael Jackson donated a number of books, including ‘Peter Pan’ to the Chicago Public Library&#;s Young Adult Section and promoted reading through a library program called ‘Boogie to the Book Beat’.

July, A benefit concert at the Omni Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia, raised $, for the ‘Atlanta Children&#;s Foundation’ in response to a series of kidnappings and murders that had been plaguing the children of Atlanta for months.

January 10, During the filming of a Pepsi commercial, Michael suffered severe burns to his scalp when the pyrotechnics went awry. As a result of the on-set accident, he was admitted to the Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, California. Despite palm-sized second and third-degree burns to the back of his head, Mich

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Pope Benedict XVI

Head of the Catholic Church from to

Pope Benedict&#;XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Aloisius RatzingerGerman:[ˈjoːzɛfˈʔaːlɔɪ̯sˈʁat͡sɪŋɐ]; 16 April – 31 December ) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April until his resignation on 28 February Benedict's election as pope occurred in the papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul&#;II. Upon his resignation, Benedict chose to be known as "Pope emeritus", and he retained this title until his death in ^[9][10]

Ordained as a priest in in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger embarked on an academic career and established himself as a highly regarded theologian by the late s. He was appointed a full professor in at the age of After a long career as a professor of theology at several German universities, he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and created a cardina

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Tell-all memoir by Pope Benedict XVI’s secretary rattles the Vatican

It has been less than a week since Benedict XVI was buried in St. Peter’s Basilica, but his long-time personal secretary is already at the center of another Vatican controversy. Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the trusted personal secretary who guarded the private thoughts of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) for the last 20 years, is set to release a memoir on January 12 that apparently settles some old scores with the Vatican and its treatment of the pope emeritus in recent years. Gänswein doesn’t hide his poor relationship with Pope Francis, and says he was disappointed when Francis dismissed him from his duties.

Pope Francis met with Gänswein on January 9, perhaps a little fed up with all the commotion caused by his book. During his weekly Angelus Address the day before, the pope sent a subtle but clear warning. “The great gossiper is the devil, who always goes around recounting bad things about others, because he