(7 Nov 09 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI’s 17th pastoral journey in Italy takes him Sunday November 8th to the Northern Italian city of Brescia.
Everything is ready in Brescia, Concesio and Botticino Serafor the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI Sunday in his first pastoral visit to the land of Paul VI, thirty years after his death.
(7 Nov 09 - RV) Pope Benedict travels north to Brescia tomorrow on his 17th pastoral journey in Italy. Tomorrow morning the Holy Father will celebrate mass in Brescia’s main square. In the afternoon he will visit the nearby village of Concesio, the birth place of his predecessor Pope Paul VI. There he will inaugurate the Paul VI Institute for Religious Studies in honour of the Pope who ...»
(7 Nov 09 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI today encouraged the work of Catholic sport associations in a message to the Pontifical Council for the Laity, at the end of a seminar here in Rome on the theme "Sport, education and faith". Lydia O'Kane has more: ...»
(5 November 09-RV) Pope Benedict on Thursday celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the repose of the souls of the Cardinals and Bishops who have died in the last year. Charles Collins reports…. ...»
(7 Nov 09 - RV) At a recent conference held here in Rome, the Director of the Pontifical Pastoral Ministry of Priestly Vocations said there has been ...»
(7 Nov 09 - RV) Caritas Internationalis and other humanitarian organizations are calling on world leaders to make sure that the poor will not be left ...»
( 6 November 09-RV)Military officials are investigating the circumstances behind a shooting rampage at a US Army base in Texas that left 13 people ...»
(06 November 09-RV) Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday that the UK is committed to its mission in Afghanistan. Special Advisor on ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today we continue our comparison of the monastic and scholastic approaches to theology which we began last week, by looking again at Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, this time in comparison with Abelard. Both of them ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our catechesis on the Christian thinkers of the Middle Ages, we now turn to the renewal of theology in the wake of the Gregorian Reform. The twelfth century was a time of a spiritual, cultural and political rebirth ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our continuing catechesis on the theologians of the Middle Ages, we now turn to one of the most outstanding, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Bernard combined the austerity of the Cistercian monastic renewal with intense ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our catechesis today considers an outstanding churchman of the early twelfth century, Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny. Despite his pressing responsibilities and frequent travels in the service of the Church, Peter ...»
“This week marks the four hundreth anniversary of the death of Saint John Leonardi, the founder of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God and a priest whose missionary zeal found expression in the establishment of the congregation of ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, My Apostolic Journey to the Czech Republic last week-end was both a pilgrimage and a mission. It was a pilgrimage on account of the many saints who bore witness to Christ in the Czech lands through their holy lives, ...»
(23 Sept 09 - RV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our catechesis today turns to an outstanding churchman of the eleventh century, Saint Anselm of Canterbury. Anselm received a monastic education in his native town of Aosta, in the north of Italy, and ...»
Dear brothers and sisters, Today’s catechesis focuses on the life of Symeon, an Eastern monk known as the “New Theologian”. He was born in nine hundred and forty nine in Asia Minor. As a young man, he moved to Constantinople to ...»
In our catechesis on the Christian writers of East and West, we turn to Saint Peter Damian, who was born in Ravenna at the beginning of the eleventh century and became an accomplished writer and Latinist. His ...»
I offer a warm welcome to the English-speaking visitors present at today’s Audience, including the pilgrims from India and Nigeria. Our catechesis considers Saint John Eudes whose feast we celebrate today. He lived in seventeenth-century ...»
