Dictators boast that they will change the world but they just bring destruction, Benedict XVI said yesterday in off-the-cuff remarks while celebrating Mass at St Massimiliano Kolbe parish in Rome (video).
The season of Advent draws on the "inner toughness" of those who observe it, the Pope said in his Angelus address yesterday (full text, video).
The Wikileaks cables relating to the Vatican have prompted comment from David Quinn, Damian Thompson, Joanna Bogle, Archbishop Cranmer, Paul Moses, Austen Ivereigh, Edward Pentin and John Allen.
