Notícias do mês July, 2008
A renewed Pentecost
8 July 2008
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Loading ...VATICAN CITY, 6 JUL 2008 (VIS) - At midday today, Benedict XVI appeared at the balcony overlooking the inner courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo, where he is currently spending a few days rest, in order to pray the Angelus with pilgrims gathered there.
Before the Marian prayer, the Pope spoke of [...]
Plenary indulgence for 23rd world youth day
VATICAN CITY, 5 JUL 2008 (VIS) - According to a decree made public today and signed by Cardinal James Francis Stafford and Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv., respectively penitentiary major and regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary, Benedict XVI will grant the faithful Plenary Indulgence to faithful who “gather at Sydney, Australia, [...]
Faith and Music
VATICAN CITY, 5 JUL 2008 (VIS) - This morning in Castelgandolfo, the Holy Father received a group of pilgrims from Regensburg, Germany.
In brief remarks to them, the Pope recalled the “marvellous day” in September 2006 when he blessed the new organ - the “Benedikt-Orgel” - in the “Alte Kapelle” of Regensburg, of [...]
Freedom of Ingrid Betancourt
(h2onews)The children of Ingrid Betancourt, the former Colombian presidential candidate who was recently freed after six years as a prisoner of the rebel group FARC, were finally able to embrace their mother again. After her liberation, the Betancourt family was flown to France where they were received by President Sarkozy.
Many heads of state congratulated Colombian [...]
The Theologian of the Pontifical Household and Communication
(h2onews) The theologian of the Pontifical Household, Dominican Father Woyciech Giertych, thinks that the presence of God’s grace in the world has to be more humble, through the prayerfulness of individuals, through the quality of their charity, through their humble transparency towards the power of God.
This is the position he maintained at the recent International [...]
The Holy Father authorised the promulgation of decrees of the Congregation for the causes of saints
VATICAN CITY, 3 JUL 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in private audience Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorised the promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes:
MIRACLES
- Blessed, Fr. Damian de Veuster, Belgian professed priest of the Congregation of [...]
France will receive the Pope in September
VATICAN CITY, 4 JUL 2008 (VIS) - Benedict XVI will make an apostolic trip to France from 12 to 15 September, for the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes.
The Holy Father will depart from Rome’s Fiumicino airport at 9 a.m. on Friday 12 [...]
Cardinal: UK Abortions a “Badge of Shame”
Urges Legislators to Vote Against Abortion on Demand
EDINGBURGH, Scotland, JULY 2, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The United Kingdom’s abortion statistics are a “badge of shame” for the nation, Cardinal Keith O’Brien told Britain’s 646 parliamentarians in a letter.
The archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh urged the legislators in letters sent this week to vote against proposed amendments [...]
Pope: Paul’s World Not So Different Than Ours
Begins Wednesday Catechesis Series for Pauline Jubilee
VATICAN CITY, JULY 2, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI says the world and culture in which St. Paul lived and preached is not so different from that of today.
The Pope affirmed this in a reflection on St. Paul at the general audience held today in St. Peter’s Square. This is [...]