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Vatican Notes & Quotes
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April 11-17, 1999 Issue 
Israel Says Pope Will Visit on Annunciation 2000
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY, March 22—Israel is on pins and needles as it awaits Vatican confirmation of a proposed visit by Pope John Paul II in March of next year to mark the start of Christianity's third millennium.
Reuters reported that the Israeli... READ MORE
‘Urbi et Orbi’ Message Reflects The Tragedy of Easter 1999
April 11-17, 1999 Issue
VATICAN CITY—The Pope, along with many Christians, faced a terrible interior struggle this Easter: How can there be celebration and joy when, as the Pope declared, “ the heavens are rent by the din of war, when the whistle of shells is heard around people's homes and the ravaging fire of bombs... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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March 28 - April 3, 1999 Issue
Agreement Reached For Papal Trip to Romania
ASSOCIATED PRESS, March 16—The Vatican has reached an agreement to allow Pope John Paul II to visit Romania in May, the first trip to a predominantly Orthodox country of his 20-year-long papacy, the AP reports.
John Paul will spend three days in... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
Cardinal Ratzinger Says Media Misread His Job
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13—Asked about a common perception that he and the Vatican congregation he leads are “repressive,” “censorial,” or “inquisitorial,”Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger said that “clearly the ideas the media give about our congregation... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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January 31 - February 6, 1999 Issue
Panzerkardinal or ‘Engaging Theologian and Pastor’?
THE PILOT, Jan. 15—Boston's archdiocesan Catholic newspaper in mid-January carried a nationally syndicated column by George Weigel offered “pundits and scribes” a possible new year's resolution: “Give Cardinal Ratzinger a break in 1999.”
Weigel... READ MORE
Vaction Notes & Quotes
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January 3-9, 1999 Issue
John Paul Still Hopes to Visit Iraq
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 20—Pope John Paul II is still hoping to visit Iraq in 2000, despite the recent U.S. bombings there, said the AP. It cited Angelo Cardinal Sodano, secretary of state for the Vatican with the news.
“We hope so,” Sodano told reporters at a... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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December 12-20, 1998 Issue
Indulgence Emphasis a Wise Move by Pope
THE SCOTSMAN, Dec. 6—Readers of The Scotsman were greeted with something unusual on a recent Sunday morning: a vigorous defense of indulgences from their daily newspaper.
Katie Grant begins her defense by quoting Pope John Paul II's Incarnationis Mysterium.... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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December 06-12, 1998 Issue
ZENIT, Nov. 22—It isn't quite the first cyber-synod, but a meeting in Rome was greatly aided by access to the information superhighway.
“The Synod of Bishops' Special Assembly for Oceania, inaugurated by John Paul II … is taking place thanks to the Internet,” Jan Cardinal Schotte, the synod's... READ MORE
The Pope’s Week
December 06-12, 1998 Issue
Audiences
Monday, Nov. 23:
• Two prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands on their ad limina visit.
• Jan Cardinal Schotte, secretary general, Synod of Bishops with prelates from Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, Guam, and Papua New Guinea... READ MORE
Prayer of His Holiness Pope John Paul II for the Third Year of Preparation for the Great Jubilee of
December 06-12, 1998 Issue
Blessed are you, Lord, Father in heaven, who, in your infinite mercy, stooped down to us in our distress and gave us Jesus, your Son, born of a woman, to be our savior and friend, our brother and Redeemer. We thank you, good Father, for the gift of the Jubilee Year; make it a time of favor for us,... READ MORE
Jubilee 2000: A Time for Repentance and Conversion
Papal Bull introduces a year of pilgrimages, special indulgences, and rejoicing for the Church
December 06-12, 1998 Issue
VATICAN CITY—“The birth of Jesus at Bethlehem is not an event which can be consigned to the past. The whole of human history in fact stands in reference to him: our own time and the future of the world are illumined by his presence.”
So reads the papal bull, Incarnationis Mysterium, promulgated... READ MORE
The Pope’s Week
November 22-28, 1998 Issue
AUDIENCES
Saturday Nov. 7:
Lucas Cardinal Moreira Neves, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
Monday, Nov. 9: Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estevez, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.
Tuesday, Nov. 10:
Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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November 22-28, 1998 Issue
Hollywood vs. the Vatican?
BOSTON PHOENIX, Nov. 5-12—The papacy is under attack—at the movie theater. An article in the weekly alternative Boston paper noted that “anti-papism and priest-bashing seem on the cinematic rise,” citing as recent examples a new horror movie and another about Queen... READ MORE
The Pope’s Week
November 22-28, 1998 Issue
AUDIENCES
Saturday Nov. 7:
Lucas Cardinal Moreira Neves, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
Monday, Nov. 9: Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estevez, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.
Tuesday, Nov. 10:
Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
Excerpts from select publications
November 22-28, 1998 Issue
Hollywood vs. the Vatican?
BOSTON PHOENIX, Nov. 5-12—The papacy is under attack—at the movie theater. An article in the weekly alternative Boston paper noted that “anti-papism and priest-bashing seem on the cinematic rise,” citing as recent examples a new horror movie and another about Queen... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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November 08-14, 1998 Issue
The Pope, the Poet, and Mankind
WASHINGTON TIMES, Oct. 22—Syndicated columnist Suzanne Fields says that the new encyclical Faith and Reason is an important reminder that we each belong to the wider community of man.
“Pope John Paul II is an intellectual in the largest sense of that word. This man... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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November 01, 1998 Issue
Catholic Scholars Cheer Faith and Reason
NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 18-Scholars quoted in a New York Times News Service article praised the content — and the simple style — of the Holy Father's new encyclical Faith and Reason, even saying that it would make a good text for an undergraduate course. The... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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October 11-17, 1998 Issue
World Heeding John Paul Us Call
OTTAWA CITIZEN, Sept. 27—Pope John Paul II's call for developed nations to cancel Third World debt in the Jubilee Year 2000 has sparked a world-wide mobilization of support, said the Ottawa Citizen.
Canadians have now joined in the effort, said the paper, reporting... READ MORE
The Pope’s Week
October 4-10, 1998 Issue
Audiences
Monday, Sept. 21, at Castel Gandolfo:
• Archbishop Luigi Dossena, apostolic nuncio in Slovakia.
• Archbishop Luis Robles Diaz, apostolic nuncio in Uganda.
• Archbishop Rino Passigato, apostolic nuncio in Bolivia.
• Archbishop Bruno Musaro, apostolic nuncio in Panama.
• Archbishop... READ MORE
Vatican Notes & Quotes
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September 27-October 3, 1998 Issue
Cleveland Man Made Slovenia's Vatican Ambassador
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, Sept. 14—Karl Bonutti's resume, which already includes both factory work and a position as a Cleveland State University economics professor, now has a new entry: the first Republic of Slovenia ambassador to the Vatican.
Pope... READ MORE
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