February 2012

Seeking to Transmit the Faith in Today’s Secularized World

Interview with Croatian Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, who is in charge of coordinating the upcoming synodal assembly in October 2012   One of the highlights of the Year of Faith, which Benedict XVI will inaugurate in October, will be the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. Its [...]

Restructuring the Roman Curia

Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Quærit semper assigns new tasks to the Roman Rota and to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. On the agenda: new ways to promote the return of Gregorian chant...   Pope Benedict XVI poses for a group picture with the Regensburg Cathedral Choir following an ecumenical [...]

Profiles of the New Cardinals

2012 Consistory - 22 New Cardinals   Fernando Filoni Fernando Filoni Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Italy Newly named Italian Cardinal Fernando Fil­oni was born in Manduria (Taranto), Italy, on April 15, 1946, the son of Salvatore and Severina Baglivo. He has one sister and one brother. After spending his [...]

People – February 2012

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PRIESTHOOD At the same altar in St. Peter’s Basilica where they were ordained priests exactly 50 years ago, Cardinal WILLIAM J. LEVADA and 17 of his classmates celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving “for the great gift of the priesthood” on December 20. The cardinal, a student at Rome’s Pontifical North American College [...]

Roman Food in a Local Tavern and a Charming Hotel near Piazza Navona

They say time stands still in the restaurant Alfred and Ada: it is one of those old Roman Osterie that neither the sands of time nor the advance of modern fast-food outlets has managed to sweep away. It’s a typical tavern with an old, small and rather austere environment, where you eat what is available that [...]

The Hungarian Cardinal Who Lived in the US Embassy

Cardinal Mindszenty, during his asylum in the US embassy in Budapest, sent letters to several US presidents. A new book by Fr. Somorjai, a monk-scholar, collects these texts.   What more can we discover about the key figure of the Hungarian Church during the second half of the 20th century? The heroic character of the Hungarian [...]

Neocatechumenal Celebrations Approved, But Lead to Parish Mass

The Holy See has approved the liturgical celebrations of the Neocatechumenal Way, but has stressed that this approval does not lessen the importance of the regular parish Mass. The complete papal text...   The Vatican in January announced the approval of the Neocatechumenal Way’s special, and sometimes controversial, liturgical rites, but Pope Benedict XVI has stressed [...]

Pope Warns of Threat to Freedom of Religion and of Conscience in US

Benedict XVI, receiving a group of prelates from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at the end of their ad limina visit, spoke about the attempts to limit freedom of religion in the US.   Pope Benedict XVI in January told visiting US bishops that he is concerned about the advance of “radical secularism” in [...]

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