In the San Damaso Courtyard of the Vatican Apostolic Palace at 5 p.m. tomorrow, 6 May, thirty-two new recruits will be sworn in as members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard in the presence of members of the Roman Curia, diplomatic representatives and civil and religious authorities from Switzerland.
The day will start at 7 a.m. with [...]

For the occasion of Benedict XVI’s forthcoming pilgrimage to the Holy Land, due to take place from 8 to 15 May, statistics have been published concerning the Catholic Church in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The information, updated to 31 December 2007, comes from the Central Statistical Office of the Church.
Jordan has a [...]

The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Leslie Rogers Tomlinson of the clergy of the archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia, vicar general, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 27,194, population 3,751,731, Catholics 1,061,570, priests 547, permanent deacons 2, religious 1,803). The bishop-elect was born in Mildura, Australia in 1943 and ordained a priest in 1972.