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The Psalms: Prayer of Christ and His Disciples
April 08-14, 2001 Issue 
Register Summary
Pope John Paul II began a series of teachings on prayer March 28, proposing the psalms as an indispensable means of inspiration.
Speaking to about 15,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square for his weekly general audience, the Pope stated his objective: that the psalter, as... READ MORE
Media Watch
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
Paralyzed Teen Meets Pope
INDIANAPOLIS STAR, March 26 — A paralyzed Indiana teen recently got his wish to meet Pope John Paul II, the daily reported.
Nineteen-year-old Joe Flitcrafts, of tiny Roann, Ind., was left a quadriplegic after an accident last year.
Thanks to the Indiana Children's Wish... READ MORE
Media Watch
March 25-31, 2001 Issue
Cyprus Considers Papal Visit
ITAR TASS, March 12 — The government of Cyprus is considering the possibility of inviting Pope John Paul II to visit the island during his planned pilgrimage to Mediterranean sites visited by St. Paul. The Vatican has already announced that the Pope will stop in Athens,... READ MORE
Chicago’s Cardinal George Leads Pope in Annual Lenten Retreat
BY Raymond De Souza
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
VATICAN CITY — It was a quiet week in the Vatican. And a very busy week for one American bishop.
As is customary during the first week of Lent, the Holy Father suspended all his official engagements, including his Wednesday general audience, to make his annual retreat, together with about 80... READ MORE
Media Watch
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
N.Y. Post: Are We Serious Catholics?
NEW YORK POST, Feb. 26 — In a report from Rome during the recent consistory, Post columnist Rod Dreher said the Pope invited the Church's 44 new cardinals to heroically offer their lives for the Faith.
But in conversations with Dreher, many of the cardinals... READ MORE
Pope Appoints Cardinal Kasper to Cassidy’s Ecumenical Post
BY Cardinal Walter Kasper
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
ROME — German Cardinal Walter Kasper has been appointed head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the Vatican's ecumenical department.
On March 3 Pope John Paul announced, as expected, the retirement of Cardinal Edward Cassidy, the 76-year-old Australian who has directed the... READ MORE
Beatifications Recall Stories of Spain’s Catholic Heroes
BY Sabrina Arena Ferrisi
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
VATICAN CITY — In the largest group ever beatified at one time, as well as the most lay people(42) ever beatified during the same ceremony, Pope John Paul II beatified 233 Spanish martyrs March11.
All were killed between 1936 and 1939, during one of the worst persecutions the Catholic Church has... READ MORE
Forty Days of Change
March 11-17,2001 Issue
Register Summary
Calling on Christians to make a “decisive journey of personal renewal” during the season of Lent, Pope John Paul II said change would come from “fixing our eyes on the face of the crucified Christ.”
Speaking to about 5,000 pilgrims Feb. 28 — Ash Wednesday — the Pope said Lent can... READ MORE
Media Watch
March 11-17,2001 Issue
Roman Tailors' Busy February
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Feb. 27 — Rome's handful of clergy tailors had a month before the installation of 44 new cardinals Feb. 21 to sew by hand the distinctive attire the cardinals now wear, the daily reported.
The January appointment, the most ever in one batch, sent... READ MORE
Consistory Was No Dress Rehearsal for Next Conclave
BY Raymond J. De Souza
March 11-17,2001 Issue
VATICAN CITY — Media coverage throughout the week of the Feb. 21 consistory was dominated by speculation that this was a “dress rehearsal” for the next conclave. But the cardinals themselves gave no indication that they thought there would be a need to elect a new Pope soon.
Several observers... READ MORE
Marital Love Between Christ and the Church-
February 18-24,2001 Issue
Register Summary
The Church cannot be understood if God's love for man is not understood, John Paul II told several thousand pilgrims at his Feb. 7 general audience. With almost mystical overtones, the Pope told the several thousand pilgrims gathered at the midweek general audience that the Church... READ MORE
Cooperate With God
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue
Register Summary
“Divine action and human effort should be intertwined,” in building up the world, Pope John Paul II said Jan.31 during his weekly general audience.
Some “forgo any effort to face our human lot and transform it,” the Holy Father told an estimated 4,000 people gathered in the Paul VI... READ MORE
Media Watch
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue
Vatican Highlights Bush Abortion Policy
L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO, Jan. 23 –– The Vatican daily gave prominent attention to President Bush's recent move to prohibit U.S. funding of abortions abroad, making it the top story in its Jan. 22 edition
Vatican Radio also carried the report and broadcast... READ MORE
Cardinals-designate Show Church’s Range and Depth
Fubruary 04-10, 2001 Issue
Sabrina Arena Ferrisi
Media Watch
January 28-February 3, 2001 Issue
Pope and Alexi II to Meet
INTERFAX RUSSIAN NEWS, Jan. 14, 2001 –– A Vatican representative told the news service that a meeting between Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Alexi II of Moscow will definitely take place during the Pope's summer trip to Ukraine. (See story of the trip above)
In a recent... READ MORE
Register Summary
January 14-20, 2001 Issue
Pope John Paul II told tens of thousands of pilgrims, who spent the last hours of the year 2000 in a frigid St. Peter's Square, that God guides the events of the world.
On the threshold of the third Christian millennium, he repeated a familiar prayer of confidence in God for all that is to come:... READ MORE
Entering the New Millennium
January 14-20, 2001 Issue
In this moment we are crossing the threshold of 2001, and we enter the third Christian millennium. At the stroke of midnight, which marks this historic passage, we pause with hearts full of gratitude to consider the various events of the century and millennium that have passed.
Tragedies and hopes,... READ MORE
Media Watch
January 14-20, 2001 Issue
30 Missionaries Died for the Gospel in 2000
THE NANDO TIMES, Jan. 2—Thirty Catholic missionaries gave their lives for the Faith in 2000, according to the Internet daily.
The list was compiled by Fides, the Church's missionary news agency. In an editorial accompanying the list, Fides director Father... READ MORE
Relic Diplomacy Warms Catholic-Orthodox Relations
BY Sabrina Arena Ferrisi
January 14-20, 2001 Issue
ROME—When Pope John Paul II gave a relic of St. Gregory to the Armenian Apostolic Church late last fall, it was more than just the physical transfer of a saint's bodily remains.
It was a gesture meant to express the Catholic Church's respect for this Oriental Orthodox Church, and its desire for... READ MORE
Make the World Like World Youth Day, Says Pope
BY John Norton
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KEYWORDS: Vatican
January 7-13, 2001 Issue
VATICAN CITY — There is no easy way to world peace, Pope John Paul II said in his Jan. 1 World Day of Peace message. But World Youth Day 2000 is one sign of hope for a better world.
A difficult and unpredictable dialogue among cultures and traditions is “the obligatory path” to peace, said the Holy... READ MORE
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