Notícias do ms March, 2009
Holy Week Celebrations to Be Presided by The Pope
30 March 2009
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Loading ...VATICAN CITY, 30 MAR 2009 (VIS) – The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff today published the calendar of ceremonies to be presided over by Benedict XVI during Holy Week. – Sunday 5 April: Palm Sunday and Our Lord’s Passion; 24th World Youth Day on the theme: “We have placed our hope in [...]
Thanks to Missionaries in Africa
VATICAN CITY, 29 MAR 2009 (VIS) – Having returned from his pastoral visit to the Roman parish of the Holy Face of Jesus, Benedict XVI appeared at the window of his study to pray the Angelus with faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square. The Pope, who is due to speak at length about his recent [...]
God Helps and Accompanies Us in Our Difficulties
VATICAN CITY, 29 MAR 2009 (VIS) – At 9 a.m. today, the fifth Sunday of Lent, the Pope visited the parish of the Holy Face of Jesus, located in the Magliana neighbourhood in the western sector of the diocese of Rome. The church, dedicated to St. Maximilian Kolbe in 1982, took the name of Holy [...]
Meeting on Catholic in China
VATICAN CITY, 28 MAR 2009 (VIS) – In a communique published today the Holy See Press Office announces that the commission established by Benedict XVI in 2007 to study questions of importance concerning the life of the Catholic Church in China will meet in the Vatican from 30 March to 1 April. “Said commission includes [...]
Conversion of Hearts, the Only Way to Peace
VATICAN CITY, 28 MAR 2009 (VIS) – At midday today in the Vatican, the Holy Father received 7,000 young volunteers of the Italian “Servizio Civile”. The Pope thanked them for the generosity with which they carry out their mission of peace. Commenting then on the final part of the Vatican Council II Pastoral Constitution “Guadium [...]
Angola: Continue Peace-Building and Reconstruction
VATICAN CITY, 20 MAR 2009 – Following a two-hour flight from Yaounde, Cameroon, the Holy Father’s plane landed at 4 de Fevereiro airport in the Angolan capital city of Luanda. As he descended from the aircraft, the Pope was greeted by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, then by Archbishop Damiao Antonio Franklin of [...]
Africans: Members of the Family of Simon of Cyrene
VATICAN CITY, 19 MAR 2009 – At 4 p.m. today, the Holy Father went to Yaounde’s Cardinal Leger National Rehabilitation Centre which specialises in assisting young people suffering from handicaps or traumas. The centre was founded in 1972 by Cardinal Paul-Emile Leger P.S.S., archbishop emeritus of Montreal, Canada, who at the end of his pastoral [...]
Blessed John Paul II? Late Pope to be Beatified on April 2, 2010
3/20/2009 ROME – It began with a Polish News Report in the Polish daily “Dziennik” and spread throughout the blogosphere within hours, the late beloved Servant of God John Paul II will be beatified on April 2, 2010. He died on April 2, 2005 at 9:37 p.m. in his private apartment shortly after asking “Let [...]
Harvard AIDS Expert: Pope Correct on Condom Distribution
3/20/2009 BOSTON – Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, has said that the evidence confirms that the Pope is correct in his assessment that condom distribution exacerbates the problem of AIDS. “The pope is correct,” Green told National Review Online Wednesday, “or [...]
World Leaders and Condom Promoters Attack Pope
By Hilary White 03/20/2009 ROME (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two days after Pope Benedict XVI warned that more condoms would facilitate the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, the world’s condom-promoters and their political allies are leading an all-out attack on the pope and on the Catholic Church. However, at the same time, Catholic and other conservative leaders [...]