By Richard Owen, UK TIMES Vatican archaeologists have uncovered what they say is the oldest known portrait of St Paul. The portrait, which was found two weeks ago but has been made public only after restoration, shows St Paul with a high domed forehead, deep-set eyes and a long pointed beard, confirming the image familiar [...]
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Pope Says Scientific Analysis Seems to Confirm Tradition VATICAN CITY, JUNE 28, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The tomb of St. Paul may indeed contain the remains of the Apostle of the Gentiles, Benedict XVI affirmed in his homily at the closing of the Year of St. Paul. The Pope presided at first vespers this evening for the [...]
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VATICAN CITY, 17 JUN 2009 ( VIS ) – The Holy See Press Office published the following communique at midday today: “In response to the frequent questions that have been raised over recent days concerning the priestly ordinations by the Fraternity of St. Pius X, scheduled to take place at the end of [...]
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What Direction for the Global Economy? Pope Benedict XVI is preparing to publish an encyclical which will speak about the global economic crisis. What will he say? By Robert Moynihan, reporting from Rome “Where God is excluded, there is a breakdown of peace in the world; without God, no orthopraxis can save us. In [...]
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Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday led a procession for the Feast of Corpus Christi through the streets of Rome. Today, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz led a similar procession of some 10,000 people through the streets of Minsk in Belarus, under a gentle rain. Reflections on the meaning of “becoming the Eucharist” in a secularized age… [...]
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Pope Benedict XVI one year ago ago called an American, Archbishop Raymond Burke, to head the Apostolic Signatura, the office which oversees the correct administration of justice in the Church. Here, after one year at his post, Burke discusses his work in Rome, but also the controversial shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe he established [...]
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Pope Benedict XVI has decided to send one of the staunchest supporters of his liturgical reform in the Roman Curia away from the Eternal City. Why? By Robert Moynihan VATICAN CITY, June 12, 2009 — The Pope has decided that Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith (photo), the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the [...]
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by Gregor Kollmorgen, NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT Andrea Tornielli writes that within the next weeks, Pope Benedict XVI will issue a motu proprio attaching the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as anticipated in his letter to the bishops on the lifting of the excommunications of the bishops consecrated [...]
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Rome, Italy, Jun 8, 2009 / 10:46 pm (CNA).- As the 200th anniversary of St. John Bosco approaches, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, is underscoring the educational work with the youth accomplished by the order founded by the Italian saint. “The spirit of Don Bosco has taken on flesh in thousands of his [...]
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On the Feast of Pentecost the Reverend Father Brian Thomas Austin, FSSP ascended the altar of God for the first time as a Priest and offered The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at the Carmel of Jesus Mary & Joseph in Valparaiso, Nebraska. In attendance were Father’s family, mentors, and friends who have supported [...]
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