Vatican Off Obama’s Itinerary
Posted by Edward Pentin
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:04 AM
When will Obama come here? (CNS/Reuters)
The White House disclosed over the weekend that President Barack Obama is to make a weeklong foreign tour in July that will include Russia, Italy and Ghana. However, noticeably missing from the list is the Vatican.
It’s been widely thought that Obama would visit Pope Benedict XVI when the president attends the G8 summit in the Italian town of L’Aquila July 8-10. But there was no mention of the... READ MORE
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Second Women’s Visitation
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:04 PM
Cardinal William Levada (CNS)
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has ordered a visitation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR).
Late last year, a broader visitation of U.S. women’s religious institutes was ordered by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The new visitation will focus on doctrinal issues.
An article published... READ MORE
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Pentin’s ‘Coup of the Century’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, March 13, 2009 10:11 AM
Edward Pentin (The American)
Excuse us for some after-the-fact crowing, but we think our Rome correspondent Edward Pentin deserves it.
Edward is the Vatican reporter who broke the news of Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s appointment as the new Archbishop of New York.
Here’s what Whispers in the Loggia’s Rocco Palmo — himself no slouch as a Vaticanista — had to say today about Edward’s major scoop in a post about some... READ MORE
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The Vatican Gets Social
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, March 09, 2009 5:35 PM
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, sees both the promise and the problems of social networking.
The council is holding a Rome seminar March 9-13 about new communications technology for bishops who are responsible for social communication commissions. Archbishop Celli spoke today with Register correspondent Edward Pentin about the issues... READ MORE
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Court OKs Vatican Lawsuit
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:28 PM
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a sexual abuse lawsuit in Oregon against the Vatican can proceed.
It’s the second such ruling in recent months by a U.S. court allowing a sexual-abuse lawsuit to proceed against the Vatican.
The Daily Blog reported here about the first decision by an appeals court in Kentucky, and about why launching suits against the Vatican is enticing to... READ MORE
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Cardinal Arinze’s Reflections
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:27 AM
The Vatican annual retreat is now underway, running from March 1-7.
The retreat, on the theme of “The priest encounters Jesus and follows him,” is being attended by the Pope and the Roman Curia. It is being led by Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Cardinal Arinze spoke with the Vatican newspaper... READ MORE
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Vatican Spiritual Exercises
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:15 AM
Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze will preach this year’s spiritual exercises at the Vatican’s Lenten retreat.
Cardinal Arinze retired earlier this year from his post as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.
The retreat, attended by Pope Benedict XVI and officials of the Roman Curia, will take place March 1-7.
The theme of the meditations will be “The Priest... READ MORE
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