Via Cernaia 14/B • 00185 ROME, ITALYTel: +39 06 48 88 781 • Fax: +39 06 4200 3457Email: [email protected]: Email: [email protected] Direct: +39 06 4888 78421For further information, including prices, please contact the hotel This time we are doing a special feature on a relatively new place to stay in Rome, known as the Domus [...]
PrayerVirgin most holy, Mother of the Word Incarnate,Treasurer of graces and Refuge of sinners;we fly to your motherly affection with lively faith,and we beg of you the grace to do the will of God.Into your most holy hands we commit the keeping of our hearts,asking you for health of soul and body, in the certain [...]
Sunday 17 POPE EXPRESSES GRIEF OVER NEWTOWN SHOOTING After reciting the Angelus, the Pope, speaking in English, said he was “deeply saddened” by the December 14 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. He offered his condolences and prayers, urging all to dedicate themselves to acts of peace in the face of such “senseless violence.” [...]
Benedict XVI has named Father ROBERT W. OLIVER, a canon lawyer from the Archdiocese of Boston, to be the new Promoter of Justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a position that includes monitoring and investigating cases of priests accused of sex abuse. The 52-year-old priest, who is a member of the Brotherhood [...]
2012: A VERY BUSY YEAR Benedict XVI kept up a busy schedule throughout 2012, traveling to three foreign countries, presiding over a World Synod of Bishops, and turning out yet another bestselling book. Following are 10 highlights of the Pope’s year: 1. At Consistories in February and November, the Pope created a total of 28 new [...]
Jesus of Nazareth—The infancy narratives by Pope Benedict XVI, Ignatius Press Love and humility: This is the modus operandi of God that the theologian Joseph Ratzinger explains to the reader of the third book dedicated to the figure of Jesus. The Childhood of Jesus is, according to the German title, a “prologue,” an “antechamber,” [...]
Nicola Bux, Peter Gumpel and Alexandra von TeuffenbachPio XII e il Concilio (Pius XII and the Council)Cantagalli Publishers, 208 pages, €13.50 Whenever we discuss Popes related to the Second Vatican Council, two names immediately come to mind: Blessed Pope John XXIII and Venerable Paul Paul VI. A third Pope is hardly ever mentioned: Venerable Pope [...]
Interview with Massimo Sansolini, a man who for 50 years was in charge of carrying the papal gestatorial chair A young Massimo Sansolini with moustache, carrying the gestatorial chair in which Pope John Paul I was carried Since 1964, Massimo Sansolini has been a papal “sediario.” This is a title that sounds ancient and [...]
Interview with Sergeant Major Daniel Koch of the Pontifical Swiss Guard Costantine Wing, Vatican City, discharge of Sergeant Major Daniel Koch from service with the Swiss Guard on October 26, 2012 (Katarzyna Artymiak photo). Swiss Guard Sergeant Major Daniel Koch: Yes, of course. It seems like it was yesterday. I remember the first day [...]
View of the Church of Our Lady Victorious (Galazka photo) The Church of Our Lady Victorious, the first Baroque building in Prague and, since 1992, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Prague’s Historic Center, is in Karmelitská Street in the Little Quarter close to the magnificent High Baroque Church of St. Nicholas. [...]