To launch the liturgical year within the Roman rite, the NLM has made it a tradition to begin the season with coverage of the first Vespers of the Advent season with Pope Benedict XVI. We are pleased to provide this coverage again today, which begins at 11:00am EST -- 5:00pm in Rome. Watch here for updates beginning at 1!:00am EST, 4:00pm GMT, or 5:00pm Rome time.
Tomorrow Pope Benedict will celebrate Pontifical Vespers as the first Vespers of the first Sunday of Advent, which also marks the beginning of the new liturgical year. On this occasion, the Holy Father will begin to use a new pastoral staff. As Msgr. Guido Marini, the Papal Master of Ceremonies, tells tomorrow's edition of the Osservatore Romano : Similar in shape to the ferula of Pius IX so...
Pope Benedict plans to beatify Newman during visit to Britain By Simon Caldwell here & below 27 November 2009 The Pope is to waive his own rules so he can preside in person over the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman during a papal visit to Britain next year, according to sources close to the Vatican.Pope Benedict XVI will personally take charge of the ceremony to declare...
Here is some news in the best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald: Pope Benedict plans to beatify Newman during visit to Britain By Simon Caldwell 27 November 2009 The Pope is to waive his own rules so he can preside in person over the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman during a papal visit to Britain [...] Post from: WDTPRS Pope Benedict to beatify John Henry Newman...
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to meet Pope Benedict XVI for the first time next week while on his politcal visit to Italy, the Kremlin disclosed Thursday. The presidential office said Medvedev would meet the pope in the Vatican on Dec...
From today’s meeting between His Holiness the Vicar of Christ and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury: Post from: WDTPRS Benedict XVI grants an audience to Archbp. Williams Post from: WDTPRS Benedict XVI grants an audience to Archbp. Williams
Specifically, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is in high dudgeon at Pope Benedict XVI for his blatant sheep-stealing move on trying to get Anglican priests to scurry to Rome. But, at the end, they kissed and made nice, in a way. There is no god and I am his prophet.
Vatican City, Nov 22, 2009 / 11:05 am ( CNA ).- In his message on the Feast of Christ the King to the tens of thousands of people gathered on St Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI explained that the "power" of Christ is different from that of "the great of this world." Choosing Christ the King, he said, does not guarantee success, but peace and joy. "Choosing Christ does...
Alright: The title above is just a tad facetious. Pope Benedict didn’t actually refer to Bob Dylan when he addressed a gathering of artistic types in the Sistine Chapel yesterday. And the basic ideas he expressed did not originate with Bob Dylan any more than they originated with Benedict. Nevertheless, I wonder if [...]
This morning in the Sistine Chapel, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, met with artists, in an event sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Culture in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of John Paul II's Letter to Artists of April 4, 1999, and also on the 45th anniversary of Paul VI's address to artists of May 7, 1964. The Holy Father delivered the following discourse. Dear Cardinals,...
Today the Holy Father met in the Sistine Chapel with artists from around the world, and addressed to them words of encouragement, continuing with one of the themes of his pontificate, that of the recapturing of the sense of beauty in the world, especially the sense of sacred beauty as it applies to the path towards God. Following is the English translation from Vatican Information Services : Dear Cardinals,...
Catholic World News November 20, 2009 During a visit to Argentina, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the longtime personal secretary to Pope John Paul II, said that the next step toward beatification of the late Pontiff was up to Pope Benedict XVI. "We do not want the Pope to rush, he should analyze it properly," the Polish cardinal said. His words seemed to provide indirect confirmation...
... in the Times of Thursday urges Archbishop Williams to show some backbone in facing up to Pope Benedict (I don't think I am misrepresenting her in saying this, but do check the original here ). I did chuckle away to myself for quite a few minutes the first time I read this paragraph: If Benedict XVI has displayed something of his rottweiler tendencies, cloaked in the most decorative...
Sandro MAgister brings news of "a volume with the preaching of pope Ratzinger in the last liturgical year" — The Homilies of Benedict XVI: A Model for a Confused Church . "The homilies have become a distinguishing feature of the pontificate of Benedict XVI," writes Mr. Magister. "They may be the least known and understood feature, but they are certainly...
