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Receives Credentials of Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon
All decision-making affecting the future of the international community should take into account the rights of all members of the human family, Benedict XVI told the new U.S. envoy to the Holy See.
The Pope said this today upon receiving the letters of credence of Mary Ann Glendon. In 2004, […]

Benedict XVI urged the release of the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul who was abducted by gunmen today in the northern Iraqi city.AsiaNews reported that Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho had just left Mosul’s Holy Spirit Cathedral when he was kidnapped in the al-Nour district in the eastern section of the city. Three people who accompanied him […]

“Populorum Progressio” Event Focuses on Development
By Carrie Gress
When considering the problem of poverty, instead of looking at why people are poor, we should consider what creates wealth, said a participant in a Rome conference commemorating the encyclical “Populorum Progressio.”
Michael Miller, the director of programs for the Acton Institute, a Michigan and Rome-based think tank, affirmed […]

“Keep Us From Pronouncing Useless Words When We Speak of You”
Here is a translation of the Lenten meditation delivered today by Capuchin Father Rainero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, to Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia, titled “‘For Every Useless Word’: Speaking ‘as With Words of God.’”This is the second in a series of […]

  Made public today were the responses of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to two questions concerning the validity of Baptism conferred with certain non-standard formulae.
  The first question is: “Is a Baptism valid if conferred with the words ‘I baptise you in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, […]

U.S.-Born Saint Was Dedicated to Eucharist
The U.S. episcopal conference named the shrine of St. Katherine Drexel as a national shrine, making it the 27th with that title in the United States.
“It was with great pleasure that I received the news that the Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel has been elevated in status to a National […]

Says Country Remains Strong in Vocations and Life Issues
The disintegration of the family provoked by emigration is a concern for the bishops of El Salvador, affirmed the president of that nation’s episcopal conference.
Archbishop Fernando Sáenz Lacalle of San Salvador explained this and other challenges while in Rome for the five-yearly visit of El Salvador’s bishops, […]

  Today in the Vatican, the Holy Father received the Letters of Credence of Mary Ann Glendon, the new ambassador of the United States to the Holy See and former president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
  Addressing the new ambassador in English, the Pope expressed his conviction “that the knowledge and experience born […]

Cardinal Schönborn Recounts First Steps of Vienna Experience
By Gisèle Plantec
The West is no longer the Christian land it once was. Parishes are attended by a minority and thus, must reconsider their role, affirmed Cardinal Christoph Schönborn.
Cardinal Schönborn, who is archbishop of Vienna, explained some of the ways parishes must change to reach out to modern […]

  This morning, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. presented the Holy Father with the 2008 edition of the “Annuario Pontificio,” or pontifical yearbook. Also present were Archbishop Fernando Filoni, substitute for General Affairs, and the officials responsible for compiling and printing the volume.
  A communique regarding the presentation highlights some of the salient […]

Prelate Calls for Government to Halt Escalating Political Violence
The archbishop of Caracas is again appealing for peace in the wake of escalating political violence, this time after supporters of President Hugo Chávez took temporary possession of the archiepiscopal palace.
On Wednesday, the group of “students and other revolutionaries” as the archdiocese’s Web site referred to them, […]

Here is the final declaration of the annual meeting of the joint committee for dialogue between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Permanent Committee of al-Azhar for Dialogue Among the Monotheistic Religions. The meeting took place Monday and Tuesday in Cairo.
* * *
– Believing in the role of monotheistic religions in providing a […]

Says He Found a Church With Life, Especially Among Youth
Benedict XVI’s secretary of state has brought back a positive report after his six-day pastoral trip to Cuba, saying the Church there is being reborn, above all in the enthusiasm of the youth.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone affirmed this in an interview today with Vatican Radio and L’Osservatore […]

Says It’s Key to Ending Scourge of Violence
Strengthening the family is a key factor in overcoming the scourge of violence in El Salvador, Benedict XVI says.
The Pope affirmed this today when he received in audience the prelates from the episcopal conference of El Salvador, who have recently completed their five-yearly visit.
The Holy Father highlighted how […]

Benedict XVI ratified the U.S. bishops’ selection of delegates for the October Synod of Bishops dedicated to the word of God.
The Pope appointed Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the U.S. episcopal conference; Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona, vice president of the conference; Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Houston, Texas; and Archbishop Donald Wuerl […]

Here is a Vatican translation of the address Benedict XVI gave to the participants in the National Assembly of the Italian Federation of Spiritual Exercises, upon receiving them in audience Feb. 9.* * *
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE ITALIAN FEDERATION OF SPIRITUAL EXERCISES (FIES)
Clementine Hall
Saturday, 9 February […]

Suffering in an Age Without God
By Carrie Gress
The type of secularization facing the world today is making it increasingly difficult to believe in anything beyond the human mind while emptying suffering of meaning, said theologian Joseph Capizzi.
A professor of moral theology at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Capizzi said this today at the […]

  Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. yesterday returned to the Vatican following his six-day journey to Cuba to commemorate the tenth anniversary of John Paul II’s visit there. The late Pope’s trip was the subject of a Message sent by Benedict XVI to the Cuban bishops on 21 February.
  On Monday 25 February, […]

The priest is the premier catechist of a parish, and catechists need the presence of the parish priest to maintain their motivation, said the prefect of the Congregation for Clergy.
Cardinal Cláudio Hummes said this today while speaking at the Faculty of Theology San Dámaso in Madrid on “The Priest and the Ministry of Catechesis.”
The priest […]

  In his general audience, held this morning in the Paul VI Hall, the Pope concluded his series of catecheses on the figure of St. Augustine. Before the audience, the Holy Father went to the Vatican Basilica to greet pilgrims who had been unable to find a place in the hall.
  St. Augustine “is one […]

At 11 a.m. on Saturday, 1 March, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, an Ordinary Public Consistory will be held for the canonisation of the following Blesseds:
- Blessed Gaetano Errico, Italian priest and founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (1791-1860).
 - Blessed Maria Bernarda […]

  The Pontifical Council “Cor Unum” has, in the Holy Father’s name, sent a first consignment of emergency economic aid to the 11 Ecuadorian dioceses affected by recent flooding, according to a communique made public at midday today.
  During the Angelus of Sunday 24 February, Benedict XVI launched an appeal for Ecuador “inviting everyone to […]

  At midday today, the Holy See Press Office released the following communique:
  “From 2 to 9 March, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. will - at the invitation of the religious and civil authorities - make a visit to Armenia and Azerbaijan, in the course of which he will have the opportunity to […]

“‘I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a
heart of flesh instead,’ says the prophet. In other words, it is in my
sensing and material self that God wishes to dwell. The Incarnate Word
has come to meet me in the depths of my human nature, however
unresponsive that nature might appear. In […]

  The Special Council for Oceania of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops held its ninth meeting in Rome on 14 and 15 February, according to a communique made public yesterday afternoon.
  Under the presidency of Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, the meeting was attended by two cardinals, […]

  At midday today, the Holy Father received participants in an international congress entitled: “Close by the Incurable Sick Person and the Dying: Scientific and Ethical Aspects”. the even was promoted by the Pontifical Academy for Life for the occasion of their general assembly which will be held in the Vatican over coming days.
  “Death”, […]

  At midday today, the Holy Father appeared at the window of his study overlooking St. Peter’s Square, to pray the Angelus with thousands of faithful gathered below.
  On this third Sunday of Lent, said the Holy Father, “the liturgy presents us with one of the most beautiful and profound texts of the Bible: the […]

  This morning the Pope visited the Roman parish of Santa Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio, where he celebrated Mass.
  At the beginning of his homily, Benedict XVI recalled the fact that this year marks the centenary of the consecration of the current church. He then went on to comment on the liturgy for today, […]

  In a ceremony held in St. Peter’s Square at midday today, Benedict XVI symbolically presented families, teachers and young people with the letter he wrote on 21 January to the diocese and city of Rome concerning the vital importance of education.
  In his remarks the Holy Father recalled how “education has never been easy, […]

[Chapter 1]
Albert, called by God’s favour to be patriarch of the church of Jerusalem, bids health in the Lord and the blessing of the Holy Spirit to his beloved sons in Christ, B. and the other hermits under obedience to him, who live near the spring on Mount Carmel.
[Chapter 2]
Many and varied are the ways […]

“The intensity of faith is more than an unappetizing combination of
pious cliche, morality and doctrine. The reality in which we place
our hope needs to be experienced. Faith is sustained by moments of
light which activate our latent spiritual energies: Like Nicodemus we
are called to be reborn. Like the man born blind, our eyes are
opened. Like Lazarus […]

19 - Confidence
PERSEVERANCE is the fruit of confidence, whilst confidence in our
relations with God is the surest form of love. It is born of faith. It
presupposes a right idea of God. The confident soul has had to develop
in itself a knowledge of those divine perfections which are in fact
the same as the divine Being and […]

Polycarp was born between the years 75 and 80. He became a Christian when the followers of Jesus were still few. In fact, Polycarp was a disciple of one of the original apostles, St. John. All that Polycarp learned from St. John he taught to others. Polycarp became a priest and then bishop of Smyrna […]

During the last half of 2007, Cardinal Rigali, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, sent a letter to all bishops in the Conference of Catholic Bishops in the United States, inviting them and their dioceses to participate in receiving free Total Consecration packages for their hierarchy, priests, religious, seminarians, and parishes to engage in bringing this devotion […]

  At noon, during a brief ceremony attended by His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholics, and a group of prelates of the Armenian Catholic Church, the Pope dedicated the north patio of the Vatican Basilica to St. Gregory the Illuminator.
  Recalling that, a few months before his death, John […]

  This morning at 9:00 in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Apostolic Palace in the presence of the Holy Father, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap., Preacher to the Pontifical Household, gave the first Lenten sermon. The theme of this year’s Lenten meditations is: “The Word of God is Living and Active” (Heb 4:12).
  A […]

  Today the Pope received members of the Circle of St. Peter who brought him, as is traditional, the “Peter’s Pence” collected every year in the parishes and institutes of Rome’s diocese.
  Addressing the members of the society on the day that the Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, the Pope […]

  The Holy Father’s message for the XLV World Day of Prayer for Vocations was published today. The celebration, which will take place on 13 April, the fourth week of Easter, this year, has the theme: “Vocations at the Service of the Church on Mission”.
  The text is dated 3 December 2007 and is presented […]

  A message from Benedict XVI to the bishops of Cuba on the tenth anniversary of the visit made by John Paul II to that country (21-26 January 1998 ) was distributed yesterday afternoon.
  The message was delivered to the Cuban prelates by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, who yesterday began a six-day visit […]

St. Peter was the prince of the apostles and the first pope. Jesus said to him, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church” (Matthew 16:18). After Jesus went back to heaven, St. Peter preached the Gospel. He guided the small but growing Christian community. At first, Peter labored in Jerusalem […]

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The Holy Father appointed Bishop Ricardo Watty Urquidi M.Sp.S., previously bishop of Nuevo Laredo in Mexico, as bishop of Tepic (area 22,777, population 1,115,208, Catholics 1,073,321, priests 210, religious 270), Mexico. He succeeds Bishop Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota, whose resignation from the pastoral care of that diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the […]

  At 11.30 a.m. today in the Holy See Press Office, a press conference was held to present an international congress entitled “Close by the Incurable Sick Person and the Dying: Scientific and Ethical Aspects”, due to be held in the Vatican on February 25 and 26 under the auspices of the Pontifical Academy for […]

  This morning the Holy Father received participants of the Society of Jesus’ general congregation, with the newly named superior general, Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, which has been meeting in Rome from 7 January.
  The Pope encouraged those present and all their brothers in the Society to continue in their faithfulness to the mission received from […]

  Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received the credential letters of Vladeta Jankovic, Serbia’s new ambassador to the Holy See.
  In his speech to the diplomat, the Pope affirmed that the Holy See “greatly values its diplomatic links with Serbia, and hopes thereby to offer encouragement to the continuing efforts to build a future […]

Aid Organization Notes Need for More Native Priests
The Church in Cuba’s main obstacle is a lack of staff, especially priests who are natives to the island nation, said Aid to the Church in Need’s specialist on Cuba.
Javier Legorreta and his aid organization have turned their attention to Cuba, as President Fidel Castro announced Tuesday that […]

Cause for Beatification of Spanish Journalist Continues
A writer who was blind and long confined to a wheelchair, extolled as a model for journalists, has had a cure considered miraculous attributed to his intercession.
Manuel Lozano Garrido, better known as “Lolo,” was declared venerable last December when Benedict XVI approved a decree recognizing his heroic virtue.
Last Friday, […]

Urges Catholics to Write or Visit Parliament Members
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor says now is the time for Catholics to tell Members of Parliament that human dignity must be defended, before a bill allowing animal-human hybrids is passed.
In a statement released today, the archbishop of Westminster encouraged Christians to react in fact of the Human Fertilization and […]

Here is a translation of the greetings Benedict XVI gave today at St. Peter’s Basilica to those who could not be accommodated in Paul VI Hall for the general audience, and a translation of the catechesis he delivered in the Vatican auditorium. This is the fourth address the Pope has dedicated to the figure of […]

 The key for religious orders, congregations and institutes to overcome a crisis of vocations is for them to live their love for Christ without concessions and to rediscover the original spirituality of their founder, says Benedict XVI.
This was the advice the Pope gave Monday to the executive committee of the International Union of Superiors General, […]

  On Saturday, 1 March, to mark the Sixth European Day for Universities, the Holy Father will preside at a Marian prayer vigil in the Paul VI Hall. The theme of the vigil will be: “Europe and the Americas together to build a civilisation of love”.
  The Day has been promoted by the Council of […]

Episcopal Conference Announces Schedule for Feb. 20-26 Trip
The Cuban episcopal conference released the schedule for the visit of the Pope’s secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who arrives to the island nation Wednesday.
The seven-day visit commemorates the 10th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s apostolic journey to Cuba.
Cardinal Bertone will arrive in Cuba on Wednesday […]

Says Truth Triumphed Over Slanderous Stories
By Antonio Gaspari
To mark the 150th anniversary of Mary’s apparitions in Lourdes, renowned Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli interviewed Father René Laurentin, perhaps the foremost expert on Our Lady’s appearances to Bernadette Soubirous.
The book-interview resulting from Tornielli’s dialogue with Father Laurentin is called “Lourdes, inchiesta sul mistero a 150 anni dalle […]

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