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Pontifical Acts

March 26, 2008 | 3 Comments

The Holy Father:
 - Appointed Bishop Thomas Kwaku Mensah of Obuasi, Ghana, as archbishop of Kumasi (area 5,118, population 1,579,000, Catholics 363,000, priests 79, religious 127), Ghana. The archbishop-elect was born in Assamang, Ghana in 1935, he was ordained a priest in 1973 and consecrated a bishop in 1995. He succeeds Archbishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong, whose […]

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Christ Gives Us the Certainty of Our Own Resurrection

March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

  Today in St. Peter’s Square, more than 30,000 people participated in the weekly general audience. The Pope, who arrived at the Vatican by helicopter from his Castelgandolfo residence, dedicated his catechesis to the period of Easter.
  “The entire liturgy of the Easter period proclaims the certainty and joy of Christ’s resurrection”, he said. This […]

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Aide: God Works Through His Saints

March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Father Lombardi Comments on Recent Deaths of Church Figures
God enters our lives in the company of the saints, the director of the Holy See’s press office said in commenting on the recent deaths of the archbishop of Mosul and Chiara Lubich.Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul of the Chaldeans, Iraq died sometime after being kidnapped […]