POPE RECEIVES GENERAL DIRECTORS OF PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY WORKS FOR FIRST TIME, CONFIRMS THEIR RELEVANCE

Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) – The Pontifical Missionary Works (POM) are “entirely relevant, even more, they are still necessary ...

PAPAL CELEBRATIONS FOR MAY, JUNE AND JULY

Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - Given below is the calendar of the Holy Father Francis' liturgical celebrations and activities ...

NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: SEARCH FOR EFFECTIVE ANSWERS

Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) – Yesterday, Thursday 16 May, in the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel, there was a meeting ...

AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

nine prelates from the Sardegna ...

PONTIFICAL ACTS - 17 MAY

Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Enrique Benavent Vidal as bishop of Tortosa (area ...

POPE RECEIVES CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Vatican City, 16 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning, after celebrating Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel, Pope Francis met ...

POPE TO NEW AMBASSADORS: FINANCIAL CRISIS ROOTED IN REJECTION OF ETHICS

Vatican City, 16 May 2013 (VIS) - This morning the Holy Father received the credential letters of four new ambassadors to ...

POPE'S MESSAGE COMMEMORATING EDICT OF MILAN

Vatican City, 16 May 2013 (VIS) – The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, is visiting Milan, on the occasion of ...

AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 16 May 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father received in audience seven prelates from the Puglia Region of ...

PONTIFICAL ACTS - 16 MAY

Vatican City, 16 May 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed as members of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences ...

GENERAL AUDIENCE: THE HOLY SPIRIT'S ACTION

Vatican City, 15 May 2013 (VIS) – The action that the Holy Spirit carries out, in guiding the Church and within ...

POPE ANNOUNCES VISIT TO SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF BONARIA (ITALY)

Vatican City, 15 May 2013 (VIS) – At the end of today's general audience, the Pope, addressing a group of ...

PENTECOST VIGIL WITH ECCLESIAL MOVEMENTS

Vatican City, 15 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning in the Holy See Press Office a conference was held to present ...

PRESS RELEASE REGARDING CARDINAL O'BRIEN

Vatican City, 15 May 2013 (VIS) – This afternoon, the Holy See Press Office issued the following press release: “His Eminence ...

IOR TO OPEN INTERNET SITE PUBLISHING INFORMATION OF ITS YEARLY ACTIVITIES

Vatican City, 15 May 2013 (VIS) – The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) intends to open, before the end ...

PONTIFICAL ACTS - 15 MAY

Vatican City, 15 May 2013 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father:  - accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese ...

HOLY SEE TO PREMIERE PAVILION AT VENICE BIENNALE

Vatican City, 14 May 2013 (VIS) – This year, for the first time, the Holy See will participate in the Venice ...

CARDINALS TO TAKE POSSESION OF DIACONATE, TITULAR CHURCHES

Vatican City, 14 May 2013 (VIS) – The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff today announced that this coming ...

PONTIFICAL ACTS - 14 MAY

Vatican City, 14 May 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Hector Eduardo Vargas Bastidas, S.D.B., as ...

POPE RECEIVES PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA: CONTINUE PEACE PROCESS NEGOTIATIONS

Vatican City, 13 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father received in audience His ...

PRESENTATION OF PONTIFICAL YEARBOOK 2013

Vatican City, 13 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., and Archbishop Angelo ...

POPE CANONIZES MARTYRS OF OTRANTO, COLOMBIAN LAURA MONTOYA, AND MEXICAN GUADALUPE GARCIA ZAVALA

Vatican City, 12 May 2013 (VIS) – “Let us look to the new saints in light of the Word of God ...

REGINA COELI: BANISH VIOLENCE AND DEFEND LIFE'S SACREDNESS

Vatican City, 12 May 2013 (VIS) – At the end of the Mass for the canonization of the new saints, the ...

AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 13 May 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received twelve prelates from the Puglia region of the Italian ...

PONTIFICAL ACTS - 13 MAY

Vatican City, 13 May 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father elevated Fr. Victor Manuel Fernandez to the dignity of archbishop ...