289 Sentences With "Holy Father" | Random Sentence Generator

"Then we decided that the outfit was good, but, since you are the Holy Father and the Holy Father has his own uniform, we made a cape," the Italian astronaut added.

So how (could) the Holy Father approve such a choice?

"A pardon is up to the Holy Father," Father Lombardi said.

"There won't be a meeting with the Holy Father," said Rev.

But the real-world attempt to reframe religious doctrine in the parlance of social media is part of a pattern: Francis' papacy has been marked by memes, whether positive (photos of the Holy Father appearing to spit hot fire), negative (a video of the Holy Father slapping a woman who got too handsy), or just sad (the Holy Father giving a TED Talk).

"There won't be a meeting with the Holy Father," Father Lombardi said.

The Holy Father rightly acknowledges the staggering toll and the church's culpability.

"This has been completely managed by the Holy Father from A to Z." ■

"Having considered all circumstances, the Holy Father has accepted this request," the letter said.

"There won't be a meeting with the Holy Father," a Vatican spokesman, the Rev.

It would make a recommendation to the Holy Father on what history has demonstrated.

Climate change is indeed "a challenge of epochal proportions," as the Holy Father observed.

"We are grateful to the Holy Father for receiving us in audience," it said.

"I said...Holy Father, move forward, don't be afraid but be cautious," Yeung said.

It is also the description that best suits our Holy Father and the Roman Curia.

" An archbishop in Beijing told the Times when pressed about the authority over appointing bishops in China only that "the Holy Father gets to say something about the appointment of bishops," adding that the deal would allow "the intervention of the Holy Father for sure.

Let's assume it's not from worshipping the Holy Father into the wee hours of the morning.

" The Pope's one and only vice, he said, was Ferrero Rocher: "The Holy Father really likes chocolate.

"We once again reaffirm our absolute obedience to the Holy Father and Holy Mother Church," it said.

"I can confirm that neither the Holy Father nor his closest aides are among these," he said.

"I told him, 'Holy father, I do not want to be used as a PR exercise ...,'" he said.

"I was there in the presence of the Holy Father representing my suffering brothers in China," he said.

Does he really think the Holy Father is going to accept his unsubstantiated criticisms of Pennsylvania priests and bishops?

I knew that was a possible interpretation, but it was the orientation that I think the Holy Father gave us.

"What the Holy Father said was that we need to stick together," Ms. Szydlo said during a briefing for reporters.

Last year, the Holy Father granted Cardinal Pell a leave of absence so he could defend himself from the accusations.

The rent money could better be used to help "the area's needy ... and suffering, as the Holy Father teaches," he said.

The winner will also receive a verification letter in which the Secret Service confirms that the Holy Father used the car.

You must have taken note of the harsh impacts on the Holy Father, Pope Francis, as soon as he issued his encyclical.

In doing so, the Holy Father extended the Christian tradition of witnessing challenging truths to the public and influential members of society.

At this time of transition in Vatican communications, we think it's best the Holy Father is completely free to assemble a new team.

" The Holy Father lamented "the continued search for new fossil fuel reserves, whereas the Paris Agreement clearly urged keeping most fossil fuels underground.

"We reaffirm once again our absolute obedience to the Holy Father and the Holy Mother Church," a statement on the group's website said.

" 'A witness to all of this' "Holy Father, I decided to write you this letter because I'm tired of fighting, crying and suffering.

Are accusations that 1,000 children were abused at the hands of Catholic clergy not enough to warrant a comment from their Holy Father?

"I can confirm that neither the Holy Father nor his closest aides are among these," spokesman Matteo Bruni said in the Vatican statement.

"We could not go beyond what the Holy Father has given," Bishop Robert P. Deeley of Portland, Me., said at a news conference.

I think it is wonderful that so many people come here with this sun at this time to be near the Holy Father.

"The Vatican is very well aware of the seriousness of this issue, and the Holy Father is very aware of it," Father Rosica said.

"The Holy Father is not a person who works easily with an institution," remarks someone who has witnessed his uncompromising decisiveness at close quarters.

"We want to demonstrate to the Holy Father that our two nations, and our two sister cities, embody 'Two Nations, One Faith,' " said Seitz.

"There is going to be so much clamor for the Holy Father to remove the red hat, to formally un-cardinalize him," said the Rev.

To his benefit, the good-natured Holy Father laughed riotously at the girl's misstep, took his zucchetto back, and resumed his duties with a grin.

"The Holy Father .... celebrated a Mass for Syria and has sent 100,000 euro ($106,000) to the poor of Aleppo," the Vatican said in a statement.

"We really were hoping that this might be an opportunity for the holy father to visit Northern Ireland," Archbishop Martin told Irish radio on Monday.

"At this time of transition in Vatican communications, we think it's best the Holy Father is completely free to assemble a new team," Burke tweeted.

"Holy Father, I ask that you use your office and influence to ensure this is done here in Ireland and across the world," Varadkar said.

You certainly don't need to be Catholic to be inspired by the humility and hearts of the holy father Pope Francis, or to embrace his message.

"The Holy Father meets victims of sexual abuse, either individually or in groups, several times a month," Greg Burke, the Vatican spokesman, confirmed in a statement.

Pope Francis, the Holy Father many Catholics prayed would finally hold men like Cardinal Law to full account, will instead continue to honor him in death.

A Vatican spokesman had told The New York Times only days earlier that "a meeting with the Holy Father" would not be possible on this visit.

"The Holy Father has made an unprecedented decision, certainly, which, beyond myself personally, represents an indication of an attention towards women," Di Giovanni told Vatican media.

The topic arose with Robertson when Trump was talking about one of his top campaign issues -- border security -- and mentioned the dust-up with the Holy Father.

"In Panama, the Holy Father has been informed of the news coming from Venezuela and is closely following the situation as it evolves," spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said.

As Vatican Insider reports, the Holy Father has been paying for rough sleepers in Rome to be taken on trips to the beach before hitting up the pizzeria.

Pell, one of eight cardinals tasked by Pope Francis with reforming the Vatican, said the Holy Father granted him leave to return to Australia to fight the charges.

We urge all Catholics to join the Holy Father in praying for #AlfieEvans and his family and that their desire to seek new forms of treatment may be granted.

Asked by Polish television on Monday night about security at the event, a government official said there was a "pact with Holy Father John Paul II" to protect it.

Jacek Pietruszka, the director of the Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in the ancient town of Wadowice, where the future pope was born in a modest apartment.

"With immense sadness, the Holy Father has seen the images of the father and his baby daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande River," Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said.

"I can only imagine the amount of verbal and written information that was provided to the Holy Father on that occasion about so many persons and situations," Cardinal Ouellet wrote.

As fruit of our discernment I intend, in the very near future, to go to Rome to meet with our Holy Father about the resignation I presented nearly three years ago.

During the cold war, Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's Solidarity movement and eventually its president, once credited "Radio Free Europe and the Holy Father" for his country's liberation from communism.

"I hope the Holy Father realizes that he is surrounded by some toxic people who need to leave ...," Cruz said, adding that some Chilean bishops were "guilty of misinforming the pope".

In the heavily psychoanalytic nineteen-fifties, much was made of the idea that this flouting of his father's wishes set the stage for his rebellion against the Holy Father in Rome.

We also get Topher Grace as David Duke (then, as now, the holy father of the K.K.K.), in a performance so blandly creepy that one feels half guilty for enjoying it.

Reached in Beijing, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, a lead negotiator for the Vatican, said the agreement provided for "the intervention of the Holy Father for sure" in the selection of bishops.

"When the Holy Father, referring to the dissolving of a congregation, spoke of 'sexual slavery' he meant 'manipulation,' " the pope's spokesman, Alessandro Gisotti, clarified in a statement to reporters on Wednesday.

Jude Law plays the young pope, a newly elected American Holy Father propped up by the College of Cardinals to bridge the gap between traditional Catholic dogma and an increasingly secular world.

"The Holy Father has authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to proclaim the decree concerning the miracle attributed to the intercession of blessed Mother Teresa," the Vatican said at the time.

Arriving in Rome, on his way to visit the Holy Father, of all people, President Donald Trump stood at the door of Air Force One and reached for first lady Melania Trump's hand.

"I think we must stick with the norms and the interpretation of these norms rests with the Holy Father," said Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the synod, at a press conference on Thursday.

Maybe the president's meeting with the Holy Father on May 24 will be helpful to realize, in the splendor of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, that he is facing an early "existential" moment of his presidency.

Scalfari, who takes no notes during his dialogues with the Holy Father, came away from the session with a blockbuster quote: "A Hell doesn't exist," Francis supposedly said, and wayward souls are "annihilated"— poof!

The duo's new interactive piece, created under the name Carmichael Payamps, plops you into a pastel colored heaven space where all of the world's tweets concerning the Holy Father are popping up in real time.

"If anything, this is sort of a relaunch with the Holy Father drawing more attention to it," Reverend William Blazek, the regional director for Canada and the US for the Worldwide Prayer Network, told me.

"When the Holy Father, referring to the dissolution of a Congregation, spoke of 'sexual slavery,' he meant 'manipulation,' a form of abuse of power which is reflected also in sexual abuse," said Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti.

"We are excited and thank the pope, the holy father, Francis, for the gift and the right to safeguard the holy relic," Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land for the Catholic church, said in a statement.

" Responding to the report, an Episcopate spokesman said: "In the Catholic Church, every believer can present his case to the Holy Father...The Holy See, on the other hand, has the opportunity to evaluate and verify reported cases.

In Anderson, S.C., on Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio, himself a Catholic, was careful to offer words of praise for the pope, addressing him as "the holy father" and expressing "tremendous admiration and respect" for the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

" Zen, who at times knocked his knuckles on the table to make a point, stopped short of calling on Pope Francis to step down, saying: "I would not come out to fight the Holy Father, that is my bottom line.

"The Holy Father has ensured continuity in the work of our commission, which is to assist local churches throughout the world in their efforts to safeguard all children, young people, and vulnerable adults from harm," Cardinal O'Malley said in a statement.

"The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, at the direction of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has instructed Cardinal McCarrick that he is to refrain from any public ministry or activity until a definite decision is made," the archdiocese said.

"The secretary of state will undertake systematic surveillance aimed at monitoring the way in which the image of the Holy Father and the emblems of the Holy See are used, intervening with opportune measures when necessary," the Vatican said in a statement.

"I don't know if the Holy Father will confront it publicly or privately, but certainly on many occasions, even recently, he has underlined the need to search for peace in particular to guarantee the humanitarian rights of the population, especially children," Gisotti said.

"We have put our positions in the hands of the Holy Father and will leave it to him to decide freely for each of us," the bishops said in a joint statement read out by a spokesman for them, Bishop Fernando Ramos.

"The Holy Father is aware of the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which he takes seriously," Bishop Lionel Gendron, who is president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote in an open letter to Canada's Indigenous people released on Tuesday.

"Bishop Franco Mulakkal wrote a letter to Holy Father Pope Francis expressing his desire to step aside temporarily and requested to be relieved from the administration of the Diocese," the Diocese of Jalandhar, which he heads, said in a release issued over the weekend.

Burke and Brandmüller criticized Pope Francis's approach to the problem, saying the two were "among those who in 2016 presented to the Holy Father certain questions ... (that) have not only not had any response, but are part of a more general crisis of the faith".

"In the letter sent to President Assad, the Holy Father encourages him to show good will and to work towards finding viable solutions, putting an end to a conflict which has lasted far too long and which has led to the loss of numerous innocent lives," said Cardinal Parolin.

"We have put our positions in the hands of the Holy Father and will leave it to him to decide freely for each of us," the bishops said in their statement, in which they also apologized to Chile, the victims of abuse and the pope for the scandal.

Not only was it such a moving and spiritual moment for me to meet the Holy Father; literally minutes after we met, steps from where we met, he visited with abuse victims, and set a new standard for the church that his own leadership in Pennsylvania was not meeting.

"The Holy Father recognizes that, from the church's perspective, there is no relationship more important than the one between Muslims and Christians," said Gabriel Said Reynolds, a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame who was chosen by the Vatican to participate in talks with al-Azhar scholars in preparation for the Pope's visit.

To that end, you might be a climate change denier if: You are the Holy Father of the largest denomination of the Christian faith who calls climate change "one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day" and that coal, oil and gas must be replaced "without delay" yet lives a palatial lifestyle powered by fossil fuels.

" He said that Archbishop McCarrick showed great ability in defending himself, and, in response to Archbishop Viganò's ad hominem attacks on Vatican officials for being homosexual or supporting homosexuals within the church, he wrote that "the fact" that in the Vatican there could be people who practice or support sexual behavior "contrary to the values of the gospel" was not reason to generalize and declare "unworthy and complicit" a broad swath of people, "even the Holy Father.

Thousands of people gathered along the avenues of the country's capital to greet the Holy Father.

Holy Father declares Angelicum alumnus "venerable". 4 June 2013 Soon after, he converted to the Catholic faith in 1902.

Finn, Robert W. "Welcome to the United States, Holy Father!", The Catholic Key, April 11, 2008. Accessed October 14, 2009.

XIV, fol. 39 verso 41. under the name of "Our Holy Father Hesychius" should also be attributed to Hesychius of Sinai.

It also deals with official requests for audiences with the Holy Father and the sending of temporary Pontifical Missions and envoys.

AUDIENCE TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA - ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE FRANCIS - Vatican.va - Paul VI Audience Hall Saturday, 16 March 2013.

Our Holy Father Nikita Stylites. St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church (McKinney (Dallas Area) Texas).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτας ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Στυλίτης. 24 Μαΐου.

Other titles commonly used are "His Holiness" (either used alone or as an honorific prefix "His Holiness Pope Francis"; and as "Your Holiness" as a form of address), "Holy Father". In Spanish and Italian, "Beatísimo/Beatissimo Padre" (Most Blessed Father) is often used in preference to "Santísimo/Santissimo Padre" (Most Holy Father). In the medieval period, "Dominus Apostolicus" ("the Apostolic Lord") was also used.

Hong Xiuquan declared in 1848 that the spirit of the 'Holy Father' () would possess Yang Xiuqing and give him orders through Yang. This had allowed Yang to become even more influential and placed him in a position higher than Hong, as Yang often gave orders to Hong, who was supposed to be his superior, in the name of the 'Holy Father'. When this happened, Hong had no choice but to follow the orders of the 'Holy Father', which were actually Yang's orders. After the Taiping Army captured Nanjing and established its capital city there, renaming it to Tianjing, Yang Xiuqing's relationships with the other Kings gradually worsened.

The Fathers humbly ask the Holy Father to consider the opportuneness of issuing a document on the Church in Africa in service to reconciliation, justice and peace.

The official form of address of the Pope in English is His Holiness Pope Francis; in Latin, Franciscus, Episcopus Romae. Holy Father is among the other honorifics used for popes.

Patriarch Filip is mentioned in an inscription on Symeon the Metaphrast, which was transcribed in the monastery of Ozren in the temple of the Holy Father Nicholas by Hierodeacon Timotije.

This was translated as: "The Holy Father, yearning for the spiritual and temporal welfare of the Irish people, prays for the end of dissensions." The convention thanked him profusely: "The Irish Race Convention begs to express its profound gratitude to the Holy Father (i.e., the Pope) for his most kind and salutary message, which all the delegates receive as a signal favour, and as the happiest augury of peace." A number of practical resolutions followed, primarily on the progress of land ownership reform.

In the same incident, the Yan Prince Qin Rigang and another high-ranking official Chen Chengrong were also flogged on Yang Xiuqing's orders. Even the Heavenly King was not spared from being flogged, as Yang often pretended that the 'Holy Father' had possessed him and used the name of the 'Holy Father' to punish Hong Xiuquan. Yang Xiuqing monopolised the power of the kingdom and became increasingly influential, making him feared and hated by the others, but none dared to oppose him.

The Presbyterian Outlook, accessed 23 April 2012 After meeting with Pope Pius XI in 1935, she wrote about it and received in response more than 1,000 letters from around the world. Her short account was reprinted as My Audience with the Holy Father in 1936.Rachel Kollock McDowell, My Audience with the Holy Father, New York: Paulist Press, 1936, accessed 23 April 2012 McDowell retired as result of ill health on December 31, 1948, and died less than a year later on August 30, 1949.

"Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections," Lecture of the Holy Father at Aula Magna of the University of Regensburg, September 2006, para. 5 # The Pope also points to the concept of voluntarism, proposed by the Franciscan Blessed John Duns Scotus and developed by later scholars into the premise that we can only know God through a voluntary decision to do so.Pope Benedict XVI. "Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections," Lecture of the Holy Father at Aula Magna of the University of Regensburg, September 2006, para.

It depicts the baby Jesus surrounded by flames and watched by three monks of the Dominican Order and three Augustinians. The Holy Father is shown at the top and at the base are scenes from the Virgin Mary's life.

Pope Francis, in his 2015 encyclical, applies the first formulation of the universalizability principle to the issue of consumption:Pope Francis. May 24, 2015. Encyclical Letter Laudato si' of the Holy Father Francis on Care for Our Common Home. § 50.

In the afternoon the Holy Father had a private lunch in the Major Seminary of St. Joseph with a group of 10 young people who participated in WYD, 5 boys and 5 girls, of different nationalities representing the 5 continents.

Troparion (Tone 4) :O righteous Father Jacob, :Adornment of Atka and the Yukon Delta; :You offered yourself as a living sacrifice :To bring light to a searching people. :Offspring of Russian America, :Flower of brotherly unity, :Healer of sickness and terror of demons: :O Holy Father Jacob, :Pray to Christ God that our souls may be saved. Kontakion (Tone 3) :O Holy Father Jacob, :Teacher of the knowledge of God, :You revealed your love for your people, :Taking up your cross and following Christ, :Enduring hardships like the Apostle Paul. :Pray on our behalf to Christ our God :To grant us great mercy.

AAS 1954, 307 ff. The worldwide monthly prayer requests of Pope Pius XII allowed lay people to participate in the pastoral concerns of the Holy Father through the Apostleship of Prayer. These prayers reflected his real concerns and created a universal prayerful community.

He was in > Chile and Pinochet was out. He was in Haiti and Duvalier was out. He was in > the Philippines and Marcos was out. On many of those occasions, people would > come here to the Vatican thanking the Holy Father for changing > things.

She is surrounded by angels. In the south transept there is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Hervé. The blind saint is being led by his guide Guic'haran and they are accompanied by a wolf. The tableau is surmounted by a statue of the Holy Father.

Reuters Canada. Bishop mourns Latin decree, Jews ask for clarity July 8, 2007 However, he did declare, "I will obey the Holy Father, because I am a bishop and because I care for him". He has also served as President of the Liturgical Action Centre.

After Montagu's return, Richard Bury, Keeper of the Privy Seal, wrote to inform the pope that only letters containing the words pater sancte (holy father), in Edward's own handwriting, were indeed from the king. Only Edward, Bury and Montagu were party to the scheme.McKisack (1959), p. 152.

Diamant, p. 140. In 1919 he travelled to the Netherlands and worked in the steel industry. STENCEL Chaim Dow Boris Holy father He began travelling to Germany, and emigrated to Berlin in 1921 where he met intellectuals and writers such as Franz Kafka and Kafka's lover Dora Diamant.

In 2005, Corriere della Sera published a document dated 20 November 1946 on the subject of Jewish children baptized in war-time France. The document ordered that baptized children, if orphaned, should be kept in Catholic custody and stated that the decision "has been approved by the Holy Father".

The cardinal's last words were about the end of Pope John Paul II's life: :None of us can ever forget how in that last Easter Sunday of his life, the Holy Father, marked by suffering, came once more to the window of the Apostolic Palace and one last time gave his blessing Urbi et Orbi. We can be sure that our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the Father's house that he sees us and blesses us. Yes, bless us, Holy Father. We entrust your dear soul to the Mother of God, your Mother, who guided you each day and who will guide you now to the eternal glory of her Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

On 28 September 2013, Feast of San Lorenzo Ruiz, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, appointed Bishops Cortes as the Fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Dumaguete, his Canonical Installation and Possession of the See of Dumaguete was on 5 December 2013 at the Cathedral of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Dumaguete City.

He is full of love for his prodigal son. The chorus is not uncritical of David's weaknesses, but reveres his divine office as "Holy Father" of God's people. Similarly, the chorus sees Absalom as David's once-devoted son. He had always honoured and obeyed his father according to the divine precepts.

Tardini later thanked him for not appointing him. The Pope replied with a smile. "Monsignore mio, you thank me, for not letting me do what I wanted to do". I replied "Yes Holy Father, I thank you for everything you have done for me, but even more, what you have not done for me".

The Pontifical Lateran University (; ), also known as Lateranum, is a pontifical university based in Rome. The university also hosts the central session of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. The university is known as "The Pope's University". Its Grand Chancellor is the Vicar General to the Holy Father for the Diocese of Rome.

The two bishops believe that it is a miracle, but in reality Felicetto reveals the two that he pretended to be sick for many years, waiting for the good chance to be crowned pope. Now that Felicetto is the Holy Father, order that the two cardinals are executed. His governorship, however, has no positive proposals for Church reform.

Lapide also claims a similar quotation by Pope Paul VI (again repeated by Rychlak), allegedly refusing an award from an Italian Jewish delegation because "All I did was my duty. And besides I only acted upon orders from the Holy Father. Nobody deserves a medal for that." The source for this quote is again only Lapide (p.

Ivan Turgenev called Gounod "erotic Holy father" on French language. Viardot family was not invited to the wedding of Gounod and Viardot family sent wedding present only and the problem was started. Scheffer was a confidant of Pauline Viardot in this questions. Scheffer was a confidant of Pauline Viardot and a friend of Viardot family all his life.

Shunpei's Mother :She appears a few times and doesn’t seem to be at all scared of Hyde moving by himself. She seems to know about Shunpei’s grandfather being a magician, and is currently un-named. Kanna :Kanna is one of the children that Kazan takes care of. She affectionately calls him Holy Father like the rest of the children.

Another translation of the Testament was given by Dorothy Day in Catholic Worker magazine. The naming of faults has an extra phrase: "sins committed". This is a significant inclusion, knowing Day's admiration of Pius XII (She calls him "our dear Holy Father" in the article giving the alternate translation). Dropping the strong words "sins committed" would need to be explained.

The ancient prayer, You are Christ, was composed by St. Augustine of Hippo. This is a somewhat long prayer in three parts. The first part is a list of titles and salutations to Jesus, namely: "my Holy Father, my Tender God, my Great King, my Good Shepherd... my Everlasting Salvation." The second part involves a set of conversational questions, e.g.

The church has many old statues including those of Saint Thomas and Saint John in stone, and wood carvings depicting the Holy Father, the Virgin Mary, Saint Paul Aurélien, Saint René, Saint Anne, Saint Etienne, Saint Yves, Saint Paul the Apostle and Saint Peter. There is a stained glass window in the south aisle dating to 1868, the work of J.L. Nicolas.

In Vatican usage, an autograph letter is a letter signed by the Pope in which he refers to himself as "I", or using the majestic plural, "we", as opposed to the more usual letter from the pope signed by a subordinate referring to the Pope as "he" and saying, for example, "The Holy Father has directed me to reply to your letter...".

In 2014, the Vatican officially confirmed the IOR's mission as provider of "specialized financial services to the Catholic Church worldwide." Furthermore, it was affirmed by the Vatican that the "valuable services that can be offered by the Institute assist the Holy Father in his mission as universal pastor and also aid those institutions and individuals who collaborate with him in his ministry".

His mission was, according to his account, a complete success. The royal court and all the nobility received baptism. Longinus sent a report to the king of Nobadia, who sent his own letter to the patriarch of Alexandria. The king of Alodia also sent a letter to the king of Nobadia thanking him for sending the "holy father" Longinus to Alodia.

This dates to 1725. Over the arch there is a statue of the Holy Father holding out his crucified son for the world to see. It would have been through this entrance that the bodies of the dead would be carried for burial in the enclos. In the Breton language these entrances are called "Porz ar maro" ("The gate of the dead").

The first book published in Skolt Sami was an Eastern Orthodox prayer book (, Prayerbook for the Orthodox) in 1983. Translation of the Gospel of John was published () in 1988 and Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom (, Liturgy of our Holy Father John Chrysostom) was published in 2002 Skolt Sami is used together with Finnish in worship of the Lappi Orthodox Parish () at churches of Ivalo, Sevettijärvi and Nellim.

La Machi Communication for Good Causes is an Argentinean-Spanish communication agency created in 2012. It specializes in human rights, civic culture, religious values and ecology. It has offices in Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Rome. The agency produces monthly The Pope Video since 2015 and has created the app Click to pray app to spread the intentions of the Holy Father used by people from 203 countries.

In 1994 the church was placed under the control of the Georgian Orthodox Church. In 1990, the original Armenian cross of the church was removed. In 1990-1991, the Armenian fresco in the interior of the dome depicting the Holy Father was erased. Also, the Armenian altar piece, originally constructed in 1898, along with the Armenian inscription attesting to its construction was completely destroyed by early 1990.

His Annunciation fresco is considered the first true Baroque painting in the city. Through a complex trompe-l'oeil view, it reproduces the interior of a Greek Cross planned church, with Mary ascending to heaven being awaited by the Holy Father in the centre of the dome. Altarpieces from Ansaldo were commissioned for the Cathedral of Segovia. A Deposition is presently housed in the Accademia Linguistica of Genoa.

Gabriel (), born Goderdzi Urgebadze (; 26 August 1929 – 2 November 1995) was a Georgian Orthodox monk venerated for his dedicated monastic life and piety. With many miracles ascribed to him, Gabriel's grave at Mtskheta has attracted an increasing number of pilgrims. The Georgian Orthodox Church officially canonized him as Holy Father St. Gabriel, Confessor and Fool for Christ (წმ. ღირსი მამა გაბრიელი აღმსარებელი-სალოსი), on 20 December 2012.

Pope Francis appointed him coadjutor bishop of San Jose, California, on July 11, 2018. He was installed on September 28, 2018. As of May 1st, 2019, after the Holy Father accepted the request to retire of Bishop Patrick J. McGrath, Bishop Oscar Cantú became the third Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose. He has served on several committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. For the Pope: Let us pray For our Holy Father, Pope ____________ That God who chose him to be bishop May give him health and strength To guide and govern God’s holy people. Almighty and eternal God, You guide all things by your word, You govern all Christian people. In your love protect the Pope you have chosen for us.

Apart from the aforementioned churches, in the 2000s SU-155 Group restored a Sunday school at the Church of Sts. Boris and Gleb in Zyuzino (Moscow) and the burnt out church of Holy Father Sergius of Radonezh in Verkhnyaya Vereya (Nizhny Novgorod region). It also built the Church of the Intercession of the Theotokos in Yasenevo (Moscow), and the Church of the Intercession in Ivanovo.

Catholic) faith….. Holy Father, it is not possible for me to commit the Clergy to the acceptance of the said brief. I would not be heard on this point were I wretch enough to lend my ministry to it, which I should be dishonouring.’ Lacouture (1995) p.298 De Beaumont's Mandements, lettres et instructions pastorales were published in two volumes in 1780, the year before his death.

The Holy Father wearing a papal crown holds in his hands the still body of his son, a variant on the more usual pietà where Jesus is held by his mother. By his side are statues of Saint Vincent Ferrier and Saint Gouesnou. The fourth statue is of Saint Fiacre, the gardener monk with his large ears, such ears said to be essential for the good gardener.

Griswold wrote the hymn Holy Father, great Creator. He also published Discourses on the Most Important Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion (1830); The Reformation and the Apostolic Office (1843); and Remarks on Social Prayer Meetings (1858). His memoirs were published by Dr. J. S. Stone. Some of his papers and a lock of his hair are stored in the University Library, University of Rhode Island.

Robert Siffrin, Judicial Vicar Msgr. Peter Polando, and Postulator for the Cause (and former Judicial Vicar) Msgr. Michael Cariglio, Jr., went to Rome to meet with the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and to go through the documents that were submitted in July of that year, eventually submitting the findings and results to the Holy Father, Pope Francis, in the hopes that she will soon be declared Venerable.

A vaulted ceiling spans the length of the nave with two fluted columns supporting it. At the main altar are statues of cherubs and a wooden figure of Christ. In the background is a half-cupola in the wall containing a mural of Jesus and the Holy Father. To the left of the altar is the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, adorned with wooded quadrants and floral motifs.

His thematic concordance and German translation of the Quran was selected in Iran as "book of the year" in 2009. Khoury is also known for his comprehensive surveys of Byzantine anti-Islamic polemics. His edition of dialogues of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos with an "educated Persian" gained wider attention when it was cited in a 2006 speech of Pope Benedict XVI which sparked worldwide controversy.LECTURE OF THE HOLY FATHER.

Even when some Holy Father does not use the term "prelest" explicitly, writing about ascetic life implies writing what spiritual practice is true, i.e. leads to salvation, and what is false, i.e. leads to the opposite and, therefore, accepting it as true is prelest. A modern reader can find the most thorough explanation of prelest in the writings of St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) where he relentlessly keeps the traditions of Holy Fathers.

Cardinal O'Connor in 2006 Shortly before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, Murphy-O'Connor submitted his resignation as Archbishop of Westminster to Pope Benedict XVI, who asked that Murphy-O'Connor remain in his position "until he chooses otherwise".The Holy Father invites Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor to continue in his present pastoral ministry. Rcdow.org.uk (9 July 2007). On 3 April 2009 Benedict appointed Vincent Nichols as Murphy-O'Connor's replacement.

When Cardinal Luciani met Sister Lucia, she referred to him as "Holy Father". This greeting shocked the humble cardinal. In January 1976, he published Illustrissimi ("To the Illustrious Ones"), a collection of letters penned by him in previous years, whimsically addressed to historical and literary figures such as Dickens, G. K. Chesterton, Maria Theresa of Austria, Saint Teresa of Avila, Goethe, Figaro, Pinocchio, the Pickwick Club, King David. and Jesus.

Phayer, 2008, p. 60. A later pastoral letter from the Dutch bishops claimed to be "following a path indicated by our Holy Father, the Pope" and quoted the address: "The Church would be untrue to herself, ceasing to be a mother, if she turned a deaf ear to children's anguished cries." However, unlike the Christmas address, the Dutch letter went farther and "named names". Others were more guarded in their reactions.

He later said that some cardinal-electors jokingly suggested he should choose either "Adrian" after the great reformer Pope Adrian VI or "Clement" after Pope Clement XIV, who suppressed the Jesuit order.Audience to Representatives of the Communications Media - Address of the Holy Father Pope Francis - Vatican.va - Paul VI Audience Hall Saturday, 16 March 2013Marco R. della Cava, Pope Francis charms media in first press address , USA Today (16 March 2013). Retrieved 16 March 2013.

Gregory was given to the Christian Holy Father Phirmilianos (Euthalius) to be educated and was brought up as a devout Christian. Upon coming of age, Gregory married a woman called Miriam, a devout Christian who was the daughter of a Christian Armenian prince in Cappadocia. From their union, Miriam bore Gregory two children, their sons Vrtanes and Aristaces. Through Vrtanes, Gregory and Miriam would have further descendants and when Gregory died, Aristaces succeeded him.

Zenith Vatican News Hildebrand Gregori a Step Closer to Canonization On September 27, 2000 the 50th anniversary of the religious congregation he had founded, Gregori was honored by an official letter from Pope John Paul II to Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini.Vatican archives LETTER OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II TO CARDINAL FIORENZO ANGELINI FOR THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BENEDICTINE SISTERS OF REPARATION OF THE HOLY FACE Gregori died at his monastery in 1985.

He was ordained a bishop on March 19, 2002, at the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet by Bishop Joseph L. Imesch, with Bishop Roger Kaffer and Bishop Daniel Ryan serving as the principal co-consecrators. Ten months later, Bishop Fitzgerald was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disease. The Holy Father accepted his resignation as auxiliary bishop on June 5, 2003. Bishop Fitzgerald died in his home on September 11, 2003.

In front of the altar there is a cartouche with the image of the Virgin and Child. The chapel of St. Augustine in its ceramic altarpiece shows the Holy Father. The main altar, made in 1518, is considered a major part of the monastery, created by the Italian ceramist Niculoso Pisano. The style Pisano uses is Mudejar, and combines the rich harmony of color, being one of the most important ceramic assemblages of the peninsula.

Angelo Orsucci was born in Lucca on the 8th of May 1573. At only thirteen years old he left his noble family in Lucca to what was to become an remarkable journey in the name of the holy father. He was commonly called the "Saint" and was involved in missionary activities around the world: Mexico, Philippines and Japan. Angelo first arrived in Japan in 1618, during the Tokugawa shogunate's era of martyrs.

In a mandate dated 31 March 1751, elector Maximilian III. Joseph explicitly permitted the public serving of beer on the feast day of Francis of Paola. On 26 February 1780, Karl Theodor, elector of Bavaria since 1777, permitted the Paulaner monks to serve beer to the public year-round. The ‘Holy Father Feast’ of 1799, at which the whole court of elector Maximilian IV. Joseph participated, was the city's largest Volksfest up to that date.

On 22 May 1990 Haas then became bishop of Chur. Haas was appointed bishop of Chur by Pope John Paul II who bypassed the traditional right of the senior clergy of Chur to propose candidates to the pope, who in turn would approve one. These clergymen, however, proposed in this instance candidates who were not acceptable to the Holy Father on political and theological grounds. The pope therefore named his own candidate without taking counsel from the senior clergy.

After the Roman razzia (the deportation of Roman Jews to death camps as part of The Holocaust), Venturi recommended to the Vatican Secretariat a "symbolic and therefore sham inquiry into the fate of the Jews of Rome".Goldhagen, 2002, p. 170. He reasoned, "a step like this by the Holy See, even if it does not obtain the desired effect, will without doubt help increase the veneration and gratitude toward the August Person of the Holy Father".

Fifteen-year-old Ursula awakens to sensuality with Paul, a teenager of her age. She lives in a small village, in a fairly closed environment, strongly steeped in religion. The inhabitants of this village live under the domination of the defrocked priest Adolphe Éloi, whom everyone calls "the Holy Father". The latter and his companion Berthe Granjeux, "the Holy Mother", try to subdue the young girl who is truly the only one who does not accept their tyranny.

"There have been those who have tried, with a certain aggressive persistence, in Regensburg and Munich, to look for elements to personally involve the Holy Father (i.e., the Pope) in the matter of abuses . . . It is clear that these attempts have failed." On April 5, 2020, it was revealed that the Pius youth home near Munich, which has long been run the Archdiocese of Munich, had a history of numerous reports of sex abuse and forced prostitution.

Imin; Demji marked by golden eyes, able to shape-shift into any human form, Hala's sibling Izz and Maz; Twin Demji, marked by blue skin and blue hair respectively, able to shapeshift into any animals form. Bahi; Childhood friend of Shazad, disgraced Holy Man. Prince Naguib; One of the Sultan's sons, army commander Tamid; Amani's best friend, Holy Father in training, walks with a limp due to a deformity at birth. Farrah; Amani's aunt, eldest sister to Amani's mother.

He observed how this placed profit-making before the welfare of employees, adding how the long Easter weekend was one of the rare times in the year in which "families get together". Later that September, Gagnon was elected as the CCCB's vice president. He had another audience with Pope Francis that year on December 9, together with CCCB president Lionel Gendron and secretary general Frank Leo. The trio met again with the Holy Father on December 6, 2018.

In February 2008, the Vatican called for "prudence and moderation" in Kosovo and Serbia. The Holy See urged politicians in the region to show "a decisive and concrete commitment to ward off extremist reactions and violence", Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi announced. "The Holy Father (i.e., the Pope) continues to look with affection at the people of Kosovo and Serbia, is close to them and is praying at this crucial moment of their history," the statement said.

Salvator- Ausschank, 2007 The strong beer festival takes place annually during Lent in the Paulaner main hall at Hoch Street 77. It starts around St Joseph's Day (19 March) and lasts for 17 days. The festival is associated with the traditional ‘Holy Father Feast’ on April 2, commemorating Francis of Paola, founder of the Paulaner religious order. With its ale-benches, light music and huge crowd of visitors, today's Salvator-Ausschank resembles the pole marquees at the Munich Oktoberfest.

"Category Dislikes, Catholic Herald, 23 June 1944, p. 1 In November 1944 the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster gave an address to the Council of Christians and Jews: :I should like to tell you, something of what the present Holy Father and the Vatican authorities have done to alleviate the suffering and the persecution of the Jews in many lands. There are thousands of Jews who owe their lives to the speedy intervention of the Pope when they were on the point of being massacred. Towards the end of June I was asked by the World Jewish Congress to support their appeal to the Holy Father to intervene on behalf of Hungarian Jews and it may interest you to hear the reply I received from the late Cardinal Secretary of State: "reference your telegram July 3 I beg to assure Your Excellency Holy See even through Papal Nunciature Budapest has left nothing undone and is still doing everything possible to alleviate sorrowful plight all those who are suffering on account of nationality or race.

Bava is a Sri Lankan name for god. There is a belief that parents who give this name to a son or daughter will be enriched with good fortune in terms of money and gold. This may be related to the early presence of Syriac Speaking Christians in Sri Lanca, as described by Cosmas Indicopleaustes in the 6th century. The Syriac word Bava is used to address the God-Holy Father and also the head of the Church- the Catholicose or Patriarch.

At first it was named Namangan-i Kochek ("little Namangan"), as the first settlements were from the Persian populated city Namangan, now in Uzbekistan and uzbekified. In 1856 it was renamed Aulie-Ata, in the honor of Karakhan the founder of Karakhanid dynasty. Mullahs, using a legend about the mausoleum of Karakhan in 12th built a new mausoleum with minarets, which had nothing in common with the older one. This new mausoleum preserved the ancient name, "Aulie-Ata" ("holy father").

View of the south porch. Above the porch entrance voussoirs feature angels and the prophets including John the Baptist The arched porch, added between 1498 and 1509, is decorated with voussures depicting angels and saints. There are three voussoirs on the porch's entrance and two on the inner door leading into the chapel. Above the porch entrance is a sculpture depicting the Holy Father who is giving a blessing with his right hand and holding a terrestrial globe in his left hand.

In 1815, the Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay was declared independent of both Buenos Aires and Rome. Francia seized ecclesiastical properties and appointed himself head of the Paraguayan Church, reminiscent of Henry VIII declaring himself Supreme Head of the Church of England. Pope Pius VII excommunicated him for doing so, and Francia replied, "If the Holy Father himself should come to Paraguay I would make him my private chaplain." In mid-June 1816, all nighttime processions were banned except that of Corpus Christi.

The official style of the Catholic pope in English is His Holiness Pope [papal name]. Holy Father is another honorific often used for popes. The full title, rarely used, of the Catholic pope in English is: His Holiness [papal name], Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God.

On 18 January 2013, Martin was appointed as the Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh. Martin said he was shocked when told of the appointment. "I am very conscious of the great trust that the Holy Father has placed in me, but in truth, I have to admit it was with considerable nervousness and trepidation that I accepted his call," he said. Bishop Emeritus of Derry Edward Daly said that Martin was seen as "a clean pair of hands" after the church's abuse scandals.

Only the Holy Father himself could give such permission. So Peppino decides to take the matter to the very top and, leaving Violetta in the loving care of a friend, he sets off alone on an eighty-mile journey to see the Pope in Rome and get that permission. But, when he finally reaches Rome, he finds to his dismay that getting inside the Vatican to see the Pope will be no mean feat. However, Peppino will not take no for an answer...

Pope Benedict XVI is shown a map of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula in Antarctica. Pope John Paul II was celebrated during his lifetime and later posthumously with several honours and as the namesake of several places and institutions. Such places often bear the name John Paul II but newer institutions are using the name John Paul the Great. The historic house museum located in his family home in Wadowice, Poland is called the Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice.

He was one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's closest advisors, and on the brink of McCarthyism, Archbishop Yü Pin made claims against Americans he thought were pro-Communist that turned out not to be true. Yu attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. During the Council then Bishop Yü Pin asked the Holy Father to address the issue of communism, however the Council did not address communism or socialism. > Communism is a militant atheism and a crude materialism.

However, many Cumans decided to leave Hungary instead of obeying the legate's demands. Ladislaus followed the moving Cumans as far as Szalánkemén (now Stari Slankamen in Serbia), but could not hinder them from crossing the frontier. Ladislaus launched a campaign against Finta Aba and seized his castles in the summer of 1281. According to the Austrian Rhymed Chronicle, Bishop Philip of Fermo left Hungary around the same time, stating that he would never come back, "not for the sake of the Holy Father".

Kerr, Troubridge and their party made their escape on an Italian destroyer and transferred to the Royal Navy HMS Queen based in Taranto on the 21 January. From there they travelled to Rome for a debrief with the diplomatic corps. Kerr, who was from a Catholic family, made tentative enquiries at the Vatican about obtaining an audience with Pope Benedict XV. To his surprise this was granted and after a brief discussion with the Holy Father he was given the Apostolic Benediction.

Federal bilingual schools, high schools, and telesecundarias (distance education programs for secondary and high school students) have been established. The traditional authorities of this people are organized in a system based on civil and religious roles, in which advice from elders is treated as the greatest authority. They believe in the Holy Grandmother, the Holy Father Sun, the Holy Mother Earth, and the Holy Mother Moon. In addition, they worship the deities of water, wind, rain, the mountain, and fire.

Pope Leo XIII in turn thanked the bishop, saying that he had feared "those who [strove] to wrest [Bonomelli's] writings to support their own views" and insisted that the Pope's "civil princedom is not a question between man and man, but that the liberty of exercising [his] apostolic rights and duties is at stake, and this liberty ought not to be in the power and will of another"."A LETTER FROM THE HOLY FATHER". The Tablet. Published: 18 May 1889.

The New York Times Retrieved October 18, 2019. The next day Archbishop Dziwisz told CNS, "The Holy Father told no one his opinion of this film." This denial resulted in a round of commentators who accused the film producers of fabricating a papal quote to market their movie. On January 19, 2004, Gabriel Snyder reported in Variety that before McEveety spoke to Noonan, he had requested and received permission from the Vatican to use the "It is as it was" quote.Snyder, Gabriel (January 19, 2004).

But let no one eat or drink of your Eucharist, unless they have been baptized into the name of the Lord; for concerning this also the Lord has said, "Give not that which is holy to the dogs". 10.1 After you have had your fill, give thanks thus: 10.2 We give thanks to you holy Father for your holy Name which you have made to dwell in our hearts and for the knowledge, faith and immortality which you have revealed to us through Jesus your servant.

CHIROGRAPH OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ESTABLISHING A PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR REFERENCE ON THE INSTITUTE FOR WORKS OF RELIGION, vatican.va, 24 June 2013 Its task was to "gather accurate information on the legal status and various activities of the Institute to permit, when necessary, a better harmonization of the said Institute with the universal mission of the Apostolic See". Its five members were Raffaele Farina (President) Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, Peter Bryan Wells (secretary) and Mary Ann Glendon.

Francis also said that some cardinal electors had jokingly suggested to him that he should choose either "Adrian", since Pope Adrian VI had been a reformer of the church, or "Clement" to settle the score with Pope Clement XIV, who had suppressed the Jesuit order.Audience to Representatives of the Communications Media – Address of the Holy Father Pope Francis – vatican.va – Paul VI Audience Hall Saturday, 16 March 2013Marco R. della Cava, Pope Francis charms media in first press address, USA Today (16 March 2013). Retrieved 16 March 2013.

Barcelona: Editorial Ariel. In 1466, the Catholic Church under Pope Paul II revived customs of the Saturnalia carnival: Jews were forced to race naked through the streets of the city of Rome. "Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for spectators. They ran ... amid Rome's taunting shrieks and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily", an eyewitness reports.

The rockets were employed by the Tanzania People's Defence Force in the Uganda-Tanzania War. Tanzanian forces called them Baba Mtakatifu (Kiswahili for "Holy Father") while the Ugandans called them Saba Saba. During the 2006 Lebanon War, Hezbollah fired between 3,970 and 4,228 rockets, from light truck-mounts and single-rail man-portable launchers. About 95% of these were 122 mm (4.8 in) Syrian-manufactured M-21OF type artillery rockets which carried warheads up to 30 kg (66 lb) and had a range of 20 km, perhaps up to 30 km (19 mi).

Below and to the right is a standing figure of David, clearly labeled, wearing royal costume and carrying a psaltery. Between them, and now almost lost, is the faint trace of a third figure. This bearded man carries a book in his left hand, looks up toward Christ, and gestures with his right hand. He is identified by the text written around him: "Our most Holy Father Michael, the abbot and synkellos, the Stoudite says...He says, "Savior, take hold of the finished book of your prophet and wise king.

Studies have found an association with religion and the reduction of loneliness, especially among the elderly. The studies sometimes include caveats, such as that religions with strong behavioural prescriptions can have isolating effects. In the 21st century, numerous religious organisations have begun to undertake efforts explicitly focusing on loneliness reduction. Religious figures have also played a role in raising awareness of the problem of loneliness, for example, His Holy Father Pope Francis said in 2013 that loneliness of the old (along with youth unemployment) were the most serious evils of the age.

St. Andrew turned to his disciple, St. Epiphanius, who was standing near him, and asked, "Do you see, brother, the Holy Theotokos, praying for all the world?" Epiphanius answered, "Yes, Holy Father, I see it and am amazed!" According to the Primary Chronicle of St. Nestor the Chronicler, the inhabitants of Constantinople called upon the intercession of the Mother of God to protect them from an attack by a large Rus' army (Rus' was still pagan at the time). According to Nestor, the feast celebrates the destruction of this fleet sometime in the ninth century.

"The Holy Father Stepane Mtbevari" and his work are also mentioned by the 11th-century anonymous Chronicle of Kartli, part of the Georgian Chronicles, while the 11th-century historian Sumbat reports Stepane's installment by Ashot Kukhi as the first bishop of T'beti.Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts, p. 359. Peeters Publishers, The Passion of Gobron opens with edifying quotations from the Book of Job and Saint Paul. It then continues, condemning the Armenians for their "heresy", a reference to Armenia's rejection of the Council of Chalcedon.

For the people of Filandia, there is not doubt. Turning against the bishop and, indirectly supporting Margarito's intentions, the crowd screams that the girl is a saint. All working together, they organize an emergency collection, raising a considerable amount of money in order to send father and daughter off to Rome, "for the Holy Father to decide about the miracle." In Rome, Margarito is welcomed by the Colombian ambassador and his secretary, who are fully aware of the political advantages to be gained from facilitating the process of verifying the first Colombian saint.

Pope Benedict XVI Dehellenization refers to a disillusionment with forms of Greek philosophy that emerged in the Hellenistic Period, and in particular to a rejection of the use of reason. The term was first used in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI in a speech "Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections," to refer to attempts to separate Christianity from Greek philosophical thought.Pope Benedict XVI. "Faith, Reason, and the University: Memories and Reflections," Lecture of the Holy Father at Aula Magna of the University of Regensburg, September 2006, para.

Sertillanges had defended Benedict's attitude toward peace, but in "The French Peace",Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges (1917), "La paix française", discours prononcé en l'église Sainte-Madeleine le lundi 10 décembre 1917, en la cérémonie religieuse et patriotique prédisée par S.E. le Cardinal Archevêque de Paris, Paris: Blond et Gay. Sertillanges said, "Most Holy Father, we cannot for an instant entertain your appeals for peace."Henri Daniel-Rops (1964/1967), A Fight for God, 1870--1939, trans., John Warrington, from L'Église de Révolutions: Un combat pour Dieu, reprint, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Vol.

He used a guide dog in court, and he was assisted by computers that read documents aloud. A Catholic, Casey initially struggled with his blindness and was inspired by a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. In 1999, Casey travelled to Rome to meet Pope John Paul II and accept the Blessed Hyacinth Cormier, O.P., Medal for "outstanding leadership in the promotion of Gospel Values in the field of justice and ethics". Casey '55 meets Holy Father and receives medal from Holy Cross Magazine (Fall 1999).

Madonna later said that the end of the video was "my attempt to embrace and accept my mother's death". According to feminist writer E. Ann Kaplan, the video is said to have taken stylistic inspiration from the 1941 Orson Welles film, Citizen Kane. She described the video as a "typical adolescent story in Western cultural terms". It foregrounds Madonna's repressive Catholic upbringing and her conflicted relationship not only to her literal father in the video, but also a symbolic one—the Holy Father, the Law and the Patriarchy.

The Chief Scout, Lord Methuen presented warrants to the first Island Commissioner of the Malta Boy Scouts Association, Mr. E. Bonavia. An incident which occurred, and which shed some dark light on the Boy Scouts, was when some allegations were made that Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Movements had an alliance with the Evangelical Alliance, whereas their members were Roman Catholics. Thus, in August 1925, a group of Scouts from the United Kingdom were going to Rome to meet with the Holy Father, including a party of thirty four Maltese Scouts.

If her requests were heeded, Russia would be converted, and there would be peace; if not, Russia would spread her errorsRyan, Maurice (1993), "Fatima, Lourdes, and Medjugorje: A Challenge for Religious Educators", Religious Education, 88 (4): 564–575 throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The vision culminated with a promise that in the end, "the Immaculate Heart would triumph. The Holy Father would consecrate Russia to Mary, and a period of peace would be granted to the world."Lúcia de Jesus, Fátima In Lúcia's Own Words (1995), The Ravengate Press, p.

Bastien Prigent's statue of Saint Pitère At Trémaouézan's Église Notre-Dame (see Trémaouézan Parish close) the statue of Saint Trinité in the right side niche in the porch buttress on the right side is attributed to Bastien Prigent. God the Holy Father is depicted sitting with the body of his dead son across his knees. At Commana, see Commana Parish close Bastien Prigent is attributed with the statues of the Virgin Mary (Vierge de la Nativitė) and Joseph (Saint Joseph de la Nativitė) placed on the porch buttresses. Joseph stands with his pilgrim's stick held across his chest.

On 29 March 2011, Shevchuk said "I'm departing with my bishops and all of the metropolitans of our church to Rome, because it's our duty to make a courtesy visit to the Holy Father (i.e., the Pope)," he said at a press conference in Kyiv. The UGCC leader said that the UGCC Synod of Bishops had prepared a number of proposals for the Pope. "We're really going to tell of how our church is developing and that each developing church [becomes] a patriarchate, because a patriarchate is a period in the completion of the development of a church," he said.

Every year starting on the first Sunday of July thousands of pilgrims arrive in Trindade to pray to the "Divino Pai Eterno" (Divine Holy Father). The festival lasts for fifteen days and attracts an estimated population of close to one million visitors, one of the largest religious festivals in Brazil. From Goiânia to Trindade the distance is 18 kilometers and the road is called a Rodovia dos Romeiros (The highway of the Pilgrims). It is lined with outdoors lit up by spotlights showing the stages of the cross, the Via Sacra, painted by a local artist Omar Souto.

He was also the founder of a hospital and a basic school in Wadowice. However, several plagues and fires halted the prosperity and the town's growth was eventually halted as well. Holy Father John Paul II Family Home County Court In the effect of the 1st Partition of Poland, Wadowice was annexed by Austria, incorporated into the newly established Kingdom of Galicia, under direct Austrian rule, and renamed Frauenstadt. The town's growth started soon afterwards, after a road linking Vienna with Lwów was built. The town became a seat of a communal administration and since 1867 – a county site.

Basilica in Wadowice Town hall Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice John Paul II Square After the Polish Defensive War of 1939, Germany occupied the area and on 26 October Wadowice was annexed by Nazi Germany. On 29 December of the same year the town was renamed to Wadowitz. Initially the Polish intelligentsia was targeted by harsh German racial and cultural policies and hundreds of people from the area, most notably priests, teachers and artists, were murdered in mass executions. Hundreds more were expelled and resettled to the General Government in order to make place for German settlers.

He worked for the > recognition of the 'Holocaust by Bullets' because the Holocaust had begun > even before the camps, and furthermore, not only in the Ukraine. It is very > important to know how the genocidal process began, and how it came to the > extermination camps. In July 2017, Pope Francis sent a blessing and a message of encouragement to Father Desbois and Yahad-In Unum, writing: , zenit.org; accessed 27 January 2018. > The Holy Father encourages the members of ‘Yahad-In Unum’ to continue their > struggle for the just recognition of the violence suffered by so many men > and women belonging to different communities.

Hearing word from his men they'd torn up the bridge, he "leaped fully armed into the river and swimming across ... he emerged upon the shore without having lost any of his weapons."Dionysius, v. 24. Livy's version has him uttering this prayer to Father Tiber: "Tiberinus, holy father, I pray thee to receive into thy propitious stream these arms and this thy warrior." Horatius at the bridge, Renaissance plaquette, Wallace Collection Horatius was awarded a crown for his valor (akin to a modern military decoration) and conducted into the city by a singing crowd joined by a grateful city.

At the outset, the nameless pope, with 100,000 orphans waiting in St. Peter's Square and the world's press assembled for a news conference in the Vatican, is in the throes of paranoia, believing that the appearance of the children is sponsored by manufacturers of condoms in a plot to embarrass the Church. The witch, in nun's habit, turns up as an aide to the doctor summoned to treat the pope, and before long the Holy Father is seized with a paralytic affliction that, among other names, is known as a crucifixion stroke, leaving him with his arms outstretched.

Archangel Michael reaching to free souls from Purgatory, by Jacopo Vignali 17th century :Glorious Saint Michael, :guardian and defender :of the Church of Jesus Christ, :come to the assistance of His followers, :against whom the powers of hell are unchained. :Guard with special care our Holy Father, :the Pope, and our bishops, priests, :all our religious and lay people, :and especially the children. :Saint Michael, :watch over us during life, :defend us against the assaults of the demon, :and assist us especially at the hour of death. :Help us achieve the happiness :of beholding God face to face :for all eternity. Amen.

The Dutch Catholic newspaper "Der Deutsche Weg" expressed disappointment of the pastoral letter: "We find it hard to understand that despite the events of 30 June [i.e. Night of the Long Knives], despite the inhuman brutalities perpetrated in concentration camps, despite the currency and defamation trials, despite the personal insults against individual princes of the Church, against the Holy Father [i.e., the Pope] and the entire Church, and in spite of all the hostile measures amounting to another Kulturkampf, ... the bishops find words of appreciation for what (next to Bolshevism) is their worst enemy."Lewy, 1964, p. 211.

But the story most often circulated is the story of Mr. Hoang Muoi's birth into Nguyen Xi, a good general under King Le Thai To, who helped the king to defeat the Minh invaders. Static (also home place). [1] [15] The Holy Father is an important figure in the system of the sacred beliefs to worship Mother Tam Phu and Tu Phu of Vietnamese people. Another legend is handed down as follows: Mr. Muoi was born to Nguyen Xi, a good general under King Le Thai To, who helped the king to defeat the Minh invaders.

Archbishop Ryan invited the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) to staff the cathedral in 1974. The Cathedral was the host church for the 1981 visit of Pope John Paul II to Anchorage, which attracted a crowd estimated at about 80,000 people. The Holy Father held a papal audience in the Cathedral itself, and a similar audience for the handicapped in the basement during his visit. Because of growth in the archdiocese and the limitations of its downtown location, it was decided that Holy Family was no longer a practical location for many liturgical functions of the archdiocese.

The process dragged on. Carranza appealed to Rome, was taken there in December 1566, and confined for ten years in the castle of St. Angelo. He was defended in the proceedings by Navarrese fellows Francisco de Navarra, archbishop of Valencia (close friend of his) and Martin de Azpilcueta, from Barasoain. Pope Pius IV made repeated requests to Philip II in the matter, and the Holy Father was urged several times, in the years 1562 and 1563, by the members of the Council of Trent, to bring the case of the Archbishop of Toledo before his court.

Paul VI had been in good health prior to his pontifical election. His health following his papal election took a turn when he needed to undergo a serious operation to treat an enlarged prostate. The pope procrastinated in this but relented in November 1967; he was operated on a simple table in an improvised operating theatre in the papal apartments by a team led by Professor Pietro Valdoni. The Vatican was delicate in their description of what the pope underwent and referred to it as "the malaise from which the Holy Father had been suffering for weeks".

The altarpiece by the altar depicts scenes from the passion with a central tableau recalling the death of Mélar at the hands of Kerioltan and other events of his life. At the top of this altarpiece there is a statue of Christ surrounded by angels and surmounted by a depiction of the Holy Father. Niches hold statues of Saint Mélar and the Virgin Mary with child. The altarpiece dedicated to the Assumption is in the north transept and has at the centre a tableau depicting Christ's tomb surrounded by the twelve apostles with a statue of the Virgin Mary above it.

The Rosary altarpiece The sculptor Jean Cévaer and the carpenter Jeané Le Seven combined to produce the "Rosary" altarpiece in 1696/98 and at a later stage the painter Olivier Grall added paintings. In the centre-piece the Virgin Mary is depicted handing the rosary to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Sienna. Statues of Saint Luke and Saint John are positioned at the bottom of each of the side pillars and at the very top is a depiction of the Holy Father. A series of medallions spaced around the central tableau depict episodes from Jesus' life.

The series follows the doodles and scribblings of a student at school during a lesson. His drawings depict the life of Father Nicholas, who lives in a Vatican City parody referred to as "Popetown". He is charged with being the handler for the Pope (who is always referred to by his title, and never given any name) who is a complete nincompoop with the emotional and mental maturity of a four-year-old. Father Nicholas must keep the Pope out of trouble, and make sure the general public does not find out that the Holy Father is a drooling idiot.

The pulpit dates to 1744 and was donated to the church by François de Lesquelen along with the confessional boxes. The stone baptismal font dates to the 16th century and has an octagonal baldachin with a dome said to have been inspired by the clock tower at the Notre Dame de Berven chapel in Plouzévédé. The font is decorated with statues in kersanton which are attributed to Roland Doré and are of Matthew the Evangelist, Mark the Evangelist, the Holy Father holding Jesus in his arms, Saint Gregory the Grand Pope, Saint John and Saint Ambrose the vicar of Milan.

Given the > sufferings that some Indigenous children experienced in the Canadian > Residential School system, the Holy Father expressed his sorrow at the > anguish caused by the deplorable conduct of some members of the Church and > he offered his sympathy and prayerful solidarity. His Holiness emphasized > that acts of abuse cannot be tolerated in society. He prayed that all those > affected would experience healing, and he encouraged First Nations Peoples > to continue to move forward with renewed hope. Fontaine later stated at a news conference that, at the meeting, he sensed the Pope's "pain and anguish" and that the acknowledgement was "important to [him] and that was what [he] was looking for".

Bartolomeo learned perspective from the younger artist, while Raphael added skills in coloring and handling of drapery, which was noticeable in the works he produced after their meeting. With Raphael, he remained on the friendliest terms, and when he departed from Rome, left in his hands two unfinished pictures which Raphael completed. At the beginning of 1508, Bartolomeo moved to Venice to paint a Holy Father, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena for the Dominicans of San Pietro Martire in Murano, influenced somewhat by Venetian colorism. As the Dominicans did not pay for the work, he took it back to Lucca, where it can be seen now.

Following the pattern established in the Mortara case from the 1850's, the Vatican resisted attempts to return Jewish orphans to their relatives for over a decade after the war, especially if they had been baptized. In 2005, Corriere della Sera published a document dated 20 November 1946 on the subject of Jewish children baptized in war-time France. The document ordered that baptized children, if orphaned, should be kept in Catholic custody and stated that the decision "has been approved by the Holy Father". Nuncio Angelo Roncalli (who became Pope John XXIII, and was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations) ignored this directive.

Scalfari later admitted that some words attributed to the pontiff "were not shared by Pope Francis" himself. Later in 2019, he wrote a further article related to Pope Francis, claiming that the pope "rejects the godly nature of Jesus Christ". This was denied by the Holy See, which said that "as already stated on other occasions, the words that Dr. Eugenio Scalfari attributes in quotation marks to the Holy Father during talks with him cannot be considered a faithful account of what was actually said but represent a personal and free interpretation of what he heard, as appears completely evident from what is written today regarding the divinity of Jesus Christ".

From the text itself, and from the writings of Bede, it can be deduced that it was written by a monk of Lindisfarne.Colgrave, Two Lives, p. 11 Bede, in his introduction to his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, is almost certainly referring to this work when he wrote that > What I have written concerning the most holy father and bishop Cuthbert, > whether in this volume or in my little book concerning his acts, I took in > part from what I have previously found written about him by the brethren of > Lindisfarne. Throughout the Anonymous Life the author refers to Lindisfarne and its monastery with possessive pronouns.

P D'Epiro, M.D. Pinkowish, "Sprezzatura: 50 ways Italian genius shaped the world" pp. 179–180 A letter of John Day states that Cabot landed on 24 June 1497 and "he landed at only one spot of the mainland, near the place where land was first sighted, and they disembarked there with a crucifix and raised banners with the arms of the Holy Father and those of the King of England". In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded the first Catholic colony in Quebec City. Missionary work among Indigenous peoples began in the early 1610s as a stipulated condition to the colonization projects of the King of France.

Ousset also wrote Le Marxisme-Léninisme in which he developed the new concept of "subversion" and argued that Marxists could only be combatted by "a profound faith, an unlimited obedience to the Holy Father, and a thorough knowledge of the Church's doctrines.".Quoted by Horacio Verbitsky in The Silence, extract transl. in English made available by openDemocracy: Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the "dirty war" , July 28, 2005 Its Spanish translation was prefaced by Antonio Caggiano, the archbishop of Buenos Aires and military chaplain, who would theorize counter-revolutionary warfare in Argentina (theories which were implemented by the military during the so-called "Dirty War").

In response to 2018 allegations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò that Pope Francis coverruped up allegations of sexual abuse against former-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Paprocki called on all Vatican officials, including Francis, to "make public the pertinent files indicating who knew what and when...and provide the accountability that the Holy Father has promised." Paprocki criticized Pope Francis for declining to answer a question about whether or not the accusations were true, saying, "Frankly, but with all due respect, that response is not adequate." Paprocki called for "public prayers of repentance and acts of atonement" after reports of widespread sexual abuse and coverrup in the Catholic Church.

On the façade above the door there is a circular perforated window; on the right side of the door you can see a bell tower dating back to the 15th century. The church walls and pillars were decorated with frescoes: most of them are not visible now because of an incautious whitewashing of the walls. Above all they have discovered the images of a monk and a crucifix. The Annunciation by the Gagini, hosted in church of Saint Olivia. On the high altar there was a white marble sculpture entitled “The Annunciation” representing the kneeling Virgin with the Archangel Gabriel next to her and the Holy Father above them.

The Baroque Saint Anne altarpiece depicts Saint Anne, the Virgin Mary and Jesus holding a terrestrial globe with niches containing statues of Saint Joachim and Saint Joseph and a depiction of the Annunciation, with the Holy Father wearing a crown and presenting his resurrected son. The Rosary altarpiece depicts the Virgin Mary handing the rosary to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Sienna and the altarpiece of the "Cinque Plaies" depicts the resurrected Jesus showing the wounds from the crucifixion whilst two angels crown him with a garland of flowers. One holds the crown of thorns and the other some nails. In niches are statues of Saints Marguerite and Sebastian.

Catholic radio producers had realized by the mid-1920s that radio had become, like cinema, an important means of spreading ideas, and could therefore influence the views of millions and connect them to Christian values. Already in December 1923, the radio world was waiting for the first international move of the churches to bring religion by means of radio to "humanity". This was put forward because in the Vatican, the Pope was interested to spread the Christian message to all over the earth. The Company of Guglielmo Marconi was already involved in building a radio to transmit the "voice of the Holy Father to almost every land".

Handbook of Prayers 2006, p. 42 Traditional Morning Offering :O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, sufferings of this day, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. them for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart; the salvation of souls, the reparation for sin, the reunion of all Christians; I offer them for the intentions of our bishops and of all members of the Apostleship of Prayer, and in particular for the intention recommended by the Holy Father this month. Children's daily offering prayer :For love of me you came to earth; you gave your life for me.

For example, in the right chapel of the church of the Madonna del Rimedii, were frescoes, in poor condition, of Saints Cecilia, Agnese, Margherita, Barbara, Rocco, and Agustine (1700). In a chapel on the left, were frescoes of Saints Agatha, Lucia, Appollonia, Orsola, Anthony of Padua, and Gaetano (Cajetan). The ceiling had a Glory of St Anthony painted in 1694. In the suppressed church of St Mark linked to a suppressed monastery were frescoes of Saints John the Baptist and St Bernard Abbot, Saints Michael and Raphael Archangel, plus other frescoes in the chapels including an Annunciacion, Visitation, and frescoes of the Evangelists and the holy father, and Saints.

Kontakion : Thou, O Father, didst say with words enlightened by the Holy Spirit that many saints would have desired to live in our times, in order to strive for salvation. : For Thou didst herald to us, who live in darkness, that the time is almost ready and that those that now struggle valiantly to win their salvation will receive a martyr's reward. : For this we thank God, Who with mercy looked on His people, sending His Saint for our enlightenment, and thus with voices of joy we gladly sing to our All- Gracious Master the song: Alleluia!Akathist to our Holy Father Paisius the Athonite.

Following the usual disagreements over the oath, the session then turned to certain letters exchanged between herself and the Count of Armagnac concerning which of the three Papal claimants was the true Pope. Joan stated that she "believed in our Holy Father the Pope at Rome" and that she "had never written nor caused to be written anything concerning the three sovereign Pontiffs". Other letters which she had dictated were then brought up. In the course of this exchange, she stated that "before seven years are past the English will lose a greater stake than they did at Orléans, for they will lose everything in France" and that she knew this by revelation.

Hesychius of Sinai was a hieromonk of Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, and an ascetic author of the Byzantine period in literature. Nothing definite is known concerning his career or the exact time at which he lived. Only fragments of the literary remains of this author have been preserved, and they have still to be collected and separately criticized. In manuscripts, as a rule, he is given the honorary title of "Our Holy Father" tou hosiou patros hemon Hesychiou presbyterou and, in cases where the authenticity of this title on a manuscript is certain, it is sufficient to distinguish him from others of the same name, and especially from the celebrated Hesychius of Jerusalem.

Laetamur admodum issued November 1, 1956, is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII renewing his request for prayers for peace for Poland, Hungary, and the Middle East. The Holy Father is most pleased to learn that the Catholic World responded with generosity and enthusiasm to his request for public prayers. And so seems that maybe a new dawn of peace based on justice seems to be breaking at long last for the people of Poland and Hungary. He was happy to learn, that Cardinals Stefan Wyszynski and Joseph Mindszenty, Archbishop of Esztergom, who had both been expelled from their Sees, have been restored to their positions, and were warmly welcomed by their faithful.

R. Amen. > V. Lord, holy Father, look with kindness on your children redeemed by your > Son and born to a new life by water and the Holy Spirit. Grant that those > who are sprinkled with this water may be renewed in body and spirit and may > make a pure offering of their service to you. We ask this through Christ our > Lord. R. Amen. > V. O God, the Creator of all things, by water and the Holy Spirit you have > given the universe its beauty and fashioned us in your own image. R. Bless > and purify your Church. V. O Christ the Lord, from your pierced side you > gave us your sacraments as fountains of salvation.

Our Sunday Visitor. p. 224. " In April 2007 Joey Lomangino, founder of a large organization for U.S. Garabandal devotees, received from Conchita a copy of a letter dated February 12, 2007 from Archbishop Carlos Sierra of Oviedo. Sierra is the acting Apostolic Administrator for the Diocese of Santander in Spain, and the letter was addressed to a prominent Garabandal supporter in that country. "I want you to know that I am open to receiving and considering all information about Garabandal, and would like to continue—as long as our Holy Father wishes me to serve as Apostolic Administrator—the work that my brothers at the Bishopric have already done in reference to this subject.

Christianity first arrived in the territory later known as Canada in 1497, when the Catholic, John Cabot, landed on Newfoundland, raised the Venetian and Papal banners and claimed the land for his sponsor King Henry VII of England, while recognizing the religious authority of the Roman Catholic Church. A letter of John Day states that Cabot landed on 24 June 1497 and "he landed at only one spot of the mainland, near the place where land was first sighted, and they disembarked there with a crucifix and raised banners with the arms of the Holy Father and those of the King of England". In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded the first Catholic colony in Quebec City.

HAT AND TASSELS These are traditional signs of the Church that reflect the Office of Metropolitan Archbishops of the Catholic Church. The intertwining of the cords that link the hat with the ten tassels is a reflection of the fact that the Local Church is closely united with the Universal Church, always in communion and in obedience to the Holy Father, the Pope. It is also a symbol of divine guidance and presence of the Holy Spirit within the Church in carrying out its mission in spreading the Gospel of peace. THE PALLIUM The pallium, a woollen vestment with six crosses worn over the shoulders, is a distinctive vestment of metropolitan archbishops and is displayed below the shield.

When Marianna wrote to her son in August, Scazzocchio refused to deliver the letter on the grounds that, being relatively calm and reassuring in tone, it might work against the impression they were trying to give him that she was no longer herself and that only his return could save her. One correspondent reported in January 1859: "The father shows a great deal of courage, but the mother is having a hard time carrying on. ... If the Holy Father had seen this woman as I saw her, he would not have the courage to keep her son another moment." There were many different versions of the Catholic story, but all followed the same basic structure.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, says he was disappointed and his church members felt "betrayed by the Vatican" over the declaration's stance regarding Ukraine. Nonetheless, Shevchuk asks, "all not to rush in judging , not to remain on the reality level of those who expect only politics from this meeting and want to exploit a humble pope for their human plans at all costs. If we don't enter into the spiritual reality of the Holy Father and do not discern together with him the action of the Holy Spirit, we shall remain imprisoned by the prince of this world and his followers." The nuncio to Ukraine, Claudio Gugerotti, called for patience and indicated that the declaration was a compromise statement.

Certain of the economic evils had been dealt with by a Statute of Edward I of England (35 Edward I, St. 1, c. 1, 1306–07), forbidding alien priors or governors of a religious house to impose charges or burdens on their houses and forbidding abbots, priors or other religious to send out of the kingdom any tax imposed on them. But the "Statute of Provisors" recites that the evils complained of in the petition leading to this Statute of Edward I still continue, and that "our holy father, the Pope", still reserves to his collation benefices in England, giving them to aliens and denizens and taking first fruits and other profits, the purchasers of benefices taking out of the kingdom a great part of its treasure.

" Bishop Fellay of the SSPX initially denied responsibility, stating that Williamson's statements were his alone and that the affair did not concern the SSPX as a whole. However, he subsequently forbade Williamson from speaking out publicly about historical or political matters, and asked Pope Benedict for forgiveness for the damage done by Williamson's statements. In a subsequent interview he likened Williamson to uranium, asserting that "It's dangerous when you have it," but you can't "simply leave it by the side of the road." The Vatican declared that "in order to be admitted to episcopal functions within the Church, (Williamson) will have to take his distance, in an absolutely unequivocal and public fashion, from his position on the Shoah, which the Holy Father (i.e.

I think that there can now be no new discussions."NDR, "Glaubenspräfekt Müller: Keine Gespräche mehr mit Piusbruderschaft" Again on 27 October 2012, the Pontifical Commission stated that the Society had indicated on 6 September 2012 that it needed more time to prepare its response to the Holy See's initiatives. The Commission commented: "After thirty years of separation, it is understandable that time is needed to absorb the significance of these recent developments. As Our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI seeks to foster and preserve the unity of the Church by realizing the long hoped-for reconciliation of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X with the See of Peter – a dramatic manifestation of the munus Petrinum in action – patience, serenity, perseverance and trust are needed.

YouTube - Broadening the Scope of the Pope Others have noted a heavy reliance on analogia entis rather than analogia fidei, and to consider "faith as the common ground" in the approach to Islam.Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, November 2006 The Director of the Vatican press office, Federico Lombardi, explained the Pope's statement: "It was certainly not the intention of the Holy Father to undertake a comprehensive study of the jihad and of Muslim ideas on the subject, still less to offend the sensibilities of Muslim faithful. Quite the contrary, what emerges clearly from the Holy Father’s discourses is a warning, addressed to Western culture, to avoid 'the contempt for God and the cynicism that considers mockery of the sacred to be an exercise of freedom'".

In the first week of December 1669 the pope summoned him but the friar was ill so was taken to the pope on a chair. He greeted the pope: "Holy Father, how are you?" and the pope responded: "As well as God wants me to be". Present in the room was Cardinal Giacomo Rospigliosi and the friar asked him to bless the pope with a special relic he carried but the pope wanted the frail friar to bless him and so he did. Clement IX asked when the two would meet again and the friar told him it would be on the feast of the Epiphany to which those present thought the pope would get well and the two would meet in a month.

The school was built on its current site in, after the land had been acquired by the Sisters of Mercy, and St. Philomena's High School for Senior Girls moved from Broadway, where it had been located since 1947. In 1971, St. Philomena's merged with the local St. Mary's Secondary School. The two Catholic secondary schools in Derby - Saint Thomas More and Saint Ralph Sherwin - merged in 1986, to make the current site unique as secondary Catholic education within the city of Derby. The school was named after St. Benedict, and had a logo with a Latin motto, 'Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti' ('the cross of our holy father Benedict'), until the school logo was changed in 2002, to show a more angelic looking version of St. Benedict.

Upon receiving news of the roundups on the morning of 16 October, the Pope immediately instructed Cardinal Secretary of State, Cardinal Maglione, to make a protest to the German ambassador to the Vatican, Ernst von Weizsacker: "Maglione did so that morning, making it clear to the ambassador that the deportation of Jews was offensive to the Pope. In urging Weizsacker 'to try to save these innocent people,' Maglione added: 'It is sad for the Holy Father, sad beyond imagination, that here in Rome, under the very eyes of the Common Father, that so many people should suffer only because they belong to a specific race.'" Following the meeting, Weizsacker gave orders for a halt to the arrests. Pius assisted various noted rescuers.

Although Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the United States originally included only stops in the southern and western parts of the country, Detroit's cardinal archbishop, Edmund Szoka, campaigned for him to include the Detroit area. Szoka made a direct request to the Pope during a visit to Vatican City. In addition to Archbishop Szoka's personal appeal, the Vatican quickly realized there was no scheduled meeting with permanent deacons, and the Holy father would not have not have given a major address on social justice, which he did at Hart Plaza. The Pope arrived in Detroit on September 18, 1987, and spoke before large crowds in Hamtramck, to permanent deacons from across the United States at Ford Auditorium, adjacent to Hart Plaza and the Pontiac Silverdome.

On 24 January 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the four bishops (Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson, and Alfonso de Galarreta) consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre. Fellay, superior general of SSPX, issued a statement in which the society expressed its "filial gratitude to the Holy Father for this gesture which, beyond the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, will benefit the whole Church," and that the " wishes always to be more able to help the pope to remedy the unprecedented crisis which presently shakes the Catholic world, and which Pope John Paul II had designated as a state of 'silent apostasy'." Reaction to the lifting of excommunications was divided. Many Traditionalist Catholics attributed the decision to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

" "The development of autonomous weapon systems will ultimately lead to widespread proliferation," he said, and "the development of complex autonomous weapon systems which remove the human actor from lethal decision-making is short-sighted and may irreversibly alter the nature of warfare in a less humane direction, leading to consequences we cannot possibly foresee, but that will in any case increase the dehumanisation of warfare." Speaking to Vatican Radio in August 2014 Archbishop Tomasi commented that "Maybe military action is necessary at this moment" in Iraq. He told Vatican Radio that "what seems to be particularly important in the letter of the Holy Father to Ban Ki-moon is the expressions that he uses: the tragic situation 'compels' the international community. There is a moral imperative, so to (speak), a necessity to act.

In 1940, Archbishop José Guadalupe Ortíz y López, Archbishop of Monterrey, and Pope Pius XII appointed Tritschler his successor on 22 February 1941. He was installed in this position on 20 June 1941. He told members of the Diocese of San Luis Potosí disappointed by his departure: > "If it had been possible to ask the Holy Father to continue in this diocese, > I would have done that, because I wanted to because I had been consecrated > to this, and I had married her, and with her I will always remain, but it is > better to accept to submit to the will of God manifested by the Pope." On 25 June 1941 he officially began his work as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Monterrey, which he strengthened with more priests and new churches.

On this, your night of grace, O holy Father, accept this candle, a solemn offering, the work of bees and of your servants' hands, an evening sacrifice of praise, this gift from your most holy Church. But now we know the praises of this pillar, which glowing fire ignites for God's honour, a fire into many flames divided, yet never dimmed by sharing of its light, for it is fed by melting wax, drawn out by mother bees to build a torch so precious. O truly blessed night, when things of heaven are wed to those of earth, and divine to the human. Therefore, O Lord, we pray you that this candle, hallowed to the honour of your name, may persevere undimmed, to overcome the darkness of this night.

"To have the Holy Father there for a day and a half, and the nine heads of the Vatican congregations shows how seriously the Church is taking the issue."Asked why certain issues such as the high-profile resignations of bishops and the findings of the Murphy report were not addressed, Bishop Brennan said the meeting was primarily a briefing session for the pope to help him formulate his forthcoming pastoral letter to Irish Catholics. The day after the unprecedented summit Brennan said that the issue of resignations was not on the agenda at talks between the Irish bishops and Vatican officials. He was responding to criticism from victims' groups who expressed disappointment at the failure of the talks to address several issues relating to the church's handling of child abuse cases.

For instance, the prayers to the archangels or the prayer for the Father were added in 1932 and 1938, respectively. Both links in Spanish. The Preces, which is called "the universal prayer of the Work", is described by one journalist as including "blessing of everyone from the Pope to Virgin Mary to the prelate of Opus Dei". John L. Allen describes its contents as follows: "invocations to the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, the Guardian Angels, and Saint Josemaría, then prayers for the Holy Father, the bishop of the diocese, unity among all those working to spread the gospel, the prelate of Opus Dei and the other members of the Work, and invocations to Saints Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Peter, Paul, and John (the Patrons of Opus Dei)".

Other paintings in the church include a Holy Father, panels by Giovanni Battista Crespi, Il Morazzone, Guercino, Francesco Cairo and Daniele Crespi, and a remnant of a polyptych by Perugino.Three panels of this forming a triptych are in the National Gallery, London: Pietro Perugino, including the Certosa Altarpiece Originally depicting the Madonna and Saints, it is now disassembled and scattered among museums: the only portion in the Certosa is God the Father with cherubim. An Annunciation has disappeared; three panels, the Virgin Adoring the Infant Christ, St. Michael and St. Raphael with Tobias are on display at the National Gallery of London, in the United Kingdom. In the southern transept is the tomb of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, begun in 1494–1497 by Giovanni Cristoforo Romano and Benedetto Briosco, but completed only in 1562.

Around the medal's outer margin are the words "Eius in obitu nostro praesentia muniamur" ("May we be strengthened by his presence in the hour of our death"). The other side of the medal has a cross with the initials CSSML on the vertical bar which signify "Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux" ("May the Holy Cross be my light") and on the horizontal bar are the initials NDSMD which stand for "Non Draco Sit Mihi Dux" ("Let not the dragon be my guide"). The initials CSPB stand for "Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti" ("The Cross of the Holy Father Benedict") and are located on the interior angles of the cross. Either the inscription "PAX" (Peace) or the Christogram "IHS" may be found at the top of the cross in most cases.

At a meeting of the Permanent Committee of the ACBC on 2 August 2011, a petition was presented from many Catholics of the Diocese of Toowoomba in support of Morris. In a statement on 11 August the Permanent Committee said that > "the reality of our ecclesial structure is that the Conference is not able > to resolve the issues that have arisen. Not only do the local Bishops not > have access to all the information on which Pope Benedict came to his > decision, but what has happened in Toowoomba is a matter between the Holy > Father and Bishop Morris." During an Ad Limina visit in Rome that month, ACBC bishops held discussions regarding the situation in Toowoomba with both Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Cardinal William Levada and among themselves.

Jeffrey R. Holland has stated: > We believe these three divine persons constituting a single Godhead are > united in purpose, in manner, in testimony, in mission. We believe Them to > be filled with the same godly sense of mercy and love, justice and grace, > patience, forgiveness, and redemption. I think it is accurate to say we > believe They are one in every significant and eternal aspect imaginable > except believing Them to be three persons combined in one substance. Latter-day Saints interpret Jesus' prayer in , "Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are" to refer to the characteristics, attributes and purpose that the Son shares with the Father in the hope that people can someday share in those as well.

Mass for waiting family members The trapped miners, most of whom were Roman Catholic, asked for religious items, including Bibles, crucifixes, rosaries, and statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints to be sent down to them. After Pope Benedict XVI sent each man a rosary, these were brought to the mine by the Archbishop of Santiago, Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa in person."Holy Father gives thanks for rescue of Chilean miners", Catholic News Agency, 13 October 2010 After three weeks in the mine, one man who had been civilly married to his wife 25 years earlier asked her to enter into a sacramental marriage. The men set up a makeshift chapel in the mine, and Mario Gómez, the eldest miner, spiritually counseled his companions and led daily prayers.

On 22 November 1926 Bernard de Vésins announced to the League's annual congress that the Institut d'Action Française was being reopened, and had asked the Archbishop of Paris for theologians who would guard league members against the dangers the Pope had pointed out. However, a few days afterwards Admiral Schwerer, honorary president of the League, said that as a Catholic he was subject to the Church in religious matters, but as a Frenchman he was subject to the leaders of the League in political matters. He spoke out against people who were propagating abominable calumnies about the league to the Holy Father (the Pope). On 30 November Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, refused the request by Vésins, referring to recent lack of discipline and respect to religious authorities by the League.

The Catholic Church does not recognise the validity of Anglican ordination (see Apostolicae curae), so all who were ordained in the Anglican Communion must receive ordination in the Catholic Church to continue their ministry. The Apostolic Constitution reaffirms in principle the discipline of clerical celibacy for clergy of the Latin Church, but allows ordination of married former Anglican clergy to the orders of deacon and priest in the service of an ordinariate: "Those who ministered as Anglican deacons, priests, or bishops, [...] may be accepted by the Ordinary as candidates for Holy Orders in the Catholic Church".Apostolic constitution VI §1 "In consideration of Anglican ecclesial tradition and practice, the Ordinary may present to the Holy Father [the Pope] a request for the admission of married men to the presbyterate in the Ordinariate".Complementary norms, 6 §1; cf.

I have heard from the often-quoted King Sweyn (of Denmark, ruled 1047-1076), that the Swedes at this time were ruled by a certain Ring together with his sons Eric and Emund. This is the same Ring who was preceded by Anund, Björn and Olof, about whom one may read in the biography of Ansgar, and others who are not mentioned. And it is likely that the warrior of God, Unni, turned to these kings although they were not believers, and preached the word of God in the land of the Swedes with their permission ... Swedes and Geats, among whom the Holy Ansgar had first spread the seeds of faith, but reverted to paganism, were once again called to faith by the Holy Father UnniAdam av Bremen (1984), p. 60-2 (Book I, Chapter 61).

In church affairs he encroached largely on ecclesiastical rights; he filled the vacant sees and the church offices without regard to the electoral rights of the cathedral chapters. He claimed the revenues of vacant benefices for himself, confiscated the incomes of other benefices, granted large numbers of expectancies, and forced those appointed to ecclesiastical benefices to pay a larger or smaller sum before taking office. In 1338 a part of the Hungarian episcopate sent a memorial to the Apostolic See, in which, with some exaggeration, they presented an account of the encroachments of the king. The pope notified the king of the memorial, an act which created no ill-feeling between the two; the Holy Father contented himself with admonishing the king in a paternal manner to remove the abuses and to avoid infringing on the rights of the Church.

The Church And Germany, The Catholic Herald, "The Church And Germany", Page 8, 16 April 1937 Following the issuing of the document, The Catholic Herald reported that it was a "great Encyclical in fact contains a summary of what most needs preserving as the basis for a Christian civilisation and a compendium of the most dangerous elements in Nazi doctrine and practice.""The Church And Germany", Catholic Herald, 16 April 1937 and that: > Only a small portion of the Encyclical is against Germany's continuous > violations of the Concordat; the larger part refers to false and dangerous > doctrines which are officially spread in Germany and to which the Holy > Father opposes the teaching of the Catholic Church. The word National > Socialism does not appear at all in the document. The Pope has not tried to > give a full analysis of the National Socialist doctrine.

The translation of this liturgy in Coptic, used by most of Egyptian population at that time, is attributed to Saint Cyril of Alexandria in the first half of the 5th century. Thus the Greek version of this liturgy is usually known as Liturgy of Saint Mark, while its Coptic version is regularly called Liturgy of Saint Cyril, even if the formal name of the latter is "the Anaphora of our holy father Mark the Apostle, which the thrice-blessed Saint Cyril the Archbishop established". The oldest survived complete manuscripts of both the Liturgy of Saint Mark and of Saint Cyril date from the High Middle Ages. From the 5th century to the High Middle Ages both versions developed on parallel and mutually interconnected lines, with reciprocal translations and with most of the additions added to both of them.

Nor would there be any reward hereafter for mankind's holy works, but that works were only a preparation for faith which all the righteous were given, and taken away from the wicked. That interpretation is and has done much to foster laxity, O, that can one see more of in our time than is necessary to produce evidence of without long and extensive research. For many who before burned brightly in their devotion and zeal for the faith and despite their determination to never to forsake it, cooled, and went out completely with this devilish wind gust. For many who at one time were devoted under the holy father Francis' rule and stood like Lebanon's cedars, hurtled down in that they gave way before the misfortunes, like shrubbery on flat fields (give way) before the force of the wind.

The complete works of Dechamps, revised by himself, were published in seventeen volumes at Mechelen. In presenting fourteen of the seventeen volumes to Pope Leo XIII on 7 February 1879, the author writes: "There is one thing that consoles me, Holy Father, in sending you my poor works: they are all consecrated to the truths of our holy Faith... . Volume I is consecrated to the truths of faith; II to Our Lord Jesus Christ; V to the Blessed Virgin Mary; III and IV to the Church and St. Peter; VI to the pope and his infallibility; VII, VIII, and IX to the refutation of modern errors; X, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV to my preaching as bishop and to acts by which I governed my diocese." Of the remaining volumes, XV, "Mélanges", deals with many important questions; XVI and XVII contain letters on questions in philosophy, theology, and other subjects.

The Morning offering to the Sacred Heart of Jesus prayer is meant to be prayed first thing in the morning. It was composed by Fr. Francois Xavier Gaulrelet in 1844 and reflects the Alliance of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary by referring to the Immaculate Heart of Mary:The how-to book of Catholic devotions: by Mike Aquilina, Regis J. Flaherty, 2000 page 29Hearts on fire: praying with Jesuits by Michael Harter 2005 page 13Handbook of Prayers 2006 by James Socías page 42 :O Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, :I offer you my prayers, works, joys, sufferings of this day, :in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. :I offer them for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart: : the salvation of souls, the reparation for sin, the reunion of Christians; :and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father this month. :Amen.

Dialogue was pre-recorded, enabling the actors to perform very long individual takes, including one of over ten minutes surrounding the death of Duncan.Rosenthal (2007, 98-99) Welles himself played the central character, who dominates the film, measured both by his time on screen, and by physical presence: high- angle and low-angle shots and deep-focus close-ups are used to distort his size in comparison to other characters.Guntner (2000, 124) Welles retained from his own 1936 stage production the image of a Voodoo doll controlling the fate of the central character: and at the end it is the doll we see beheaded.Forsyth (2000, 284-285) The film's allegorical aspect is heightened by Welles' introduction of a non-Shakespearean character, the Holy Father (played by Alan Napier),Rosenthal (2007, 99) in opposition to the witches, speaking lines taken from Shakespeare's Ross, Angus and the Old Man.

However, that the assessment of the contemporary situation advanced by John Paul II is not binding on the faithful was suggested by Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) when he wrote in 2004 that, > if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father (i.e., the Pope) on > the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he > would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to > receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek > peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment > on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an > aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a > legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and > applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and > euthanasia.

The Chief Scout, Lord Methuen presented warrants to the first Island Commissioner of the Malta Boy Scouts Association, Mr. E. Bonavia. An incident which occurred, and which shed some dark light on the Boy Scouts, was when some allegations were made that Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Movements had an alliance with the Evangelical Alliance, whereas their members were Roman Catholics. Thus, in August 1925, a group of Scouts from the United Kingdom were going to Rome to meet with the Holy Father, including a party of thirty four Maltese Scouts. In his book "Scouting in Malta: an Illustrated history" (1989), John A. Mizzi states that Baden-Powell told the Scouts: By your behaviour and good conduct, show to the heads of your Church in Rome that as Scouts you have not two masters but that your only Master is God and your Church.

The only one left open was the San Giacomo in Augusta Church, in Via del Corso. There Carlotta met the parish priest don Giuseppe Trappolini, they had a very touching conversation and, as Don Giuseppe said, she "cried from Joy" as she talked about her story, her battle against melanoma and the tranquillity she felt after listening to the words of Pope Francis. The priest was moved by a remarkable coincidence: just the day before he was received with some other Roman priests by the Pope and in that occasion the Holy Father asked them to keep the churches open on Good Friday all day long to allow anybody to confess. So Don Trappolini decided to tell the Pope the story of Carlotta in a letter and on April 10 morning, the Pope rang up back to tell he would pray for her, adding: "This girl gives me courage".

The rise and decline of the Indian Church of the Thomas > Christians by Placid J. Podipara page 15 The language used by the scribe about the patriarch Yahballaha III, however, is intriguing. The dating formula reads as follows: > When the great governor, the holder of the key of the Holy Apostolic Church > of the East and the bright lamp illuminating its territories, the chief of > the chief priests, the father of fathers, our blessed and holy father, was > Mar Yahballaha the Fifth, the Turk, catholicos-patriarch of the East, the > chief region of the world, which guides and illuminates the other regions; > who stands above the Catholic Church like a lampstand to give light to all > its servants and to dispel its fears.MS Vat Syr 22; Wilmshurst, EOCE, 343 > and 391.Origin of Christianity in India: a historiographical critique By > Benedict VadakkekaraThe Christians of St. Thomas in South India and their > Syriac manuscripts by J. P. M. van der Ploeg –page 187.

He later claimed that Catholics were forced to convert to Orthodoxy during the period between the wars, but according to the historian Jozo Tomasevich, the principal reason for their conversions was the pro-Serb public policy in the Serb-dominated Yugoslav state meant that it was advantageous both politically and for career prospects to be a member of the dominant religion. Stepinac viewed the Yugoslav state as essentially anti-Catholic, particularly after the failure of the Yugoslav government to ratify the Concordat with the Vatican, which would have put the Catholic Church on a more equal footing with the Orthodox Church. He was also sensitive to the fact that the Concordat had been vetoed in the Yugoslav parliament partly due to pressure exerted by the Serbian church. In 1940, Stepinac had told Prince Paul: > The most ideal thing would be for the Serbs to return to the faith of their > fathers, that is, to bow the head before Christ's representative, the Holy > Father.

As indicated by the official name of the order, the work of the Barnabites is inspired by St. Paul the Apostle. In an address in 2000, to the institutes General Chapter, Pope John Paul II noted, "[I]n pointing out the ideal of religious and apostolic life to his spiritual sons, St Anthony Mary Zaccaria emphasized charity."Pope John Paul II. "Address of the Holy Father John Paul II to the Barnabites", Vatican website The members of the Order make, in addition to the three standard religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, a fourth vow never to strive for any office or position of dignity, or to accept such otherwise than under a command of the Holy See. The focus of the goals of the Barnabite Order, besides preaching in general, catechizing, hearing confessions, giving missions, ministrations in hospitals and prisons, and the education of youth, includes also a particular devotion to the thorough study and exposition of St. Paul's Epistles.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement saying that they welcomed the motu proprio, "The Holy Father reminds us that the Word of God is ‘performative’ and that Christians should linger over and study the Word of God as revealed in Sacred Scripture."DiNardo, Daniel. "Statement of the Holy Father's Apostolic Letter Reflecting on the Word of God", USCCB, September 30, 2019 The Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference pointed out that "Word of God Sunday" is not a new feast day, but "...a day to be devoted to the celebration, study, and spreading of the Word of God.""Resources for ‘Sunday of the Word of God’, Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference, January 14, 2020 The bishops noted that "[t]he reform of the lectionary has led to much more scripture being proclaimed during our liturgical gatherings and a greater awareness of the role of the Word of God in the life of faith.

While recovering from his addictions, Paracha spent time rearranging these notes using the cut-up method and surrealist automatism. He then turned it all into a work of fiction in which a heroin addict narrates his story set in future Pakistan and India that have turned into capitalist and theistic dystopias. He is a traveler who is always moving up and down both the countries looking for drugs and in the process having hallucinatory dialogues with a Pakistani cleric/Islamic extremist (called in the book as "The Mufti"), a group of Hindu fundamentalists (called "The pundits"), a group of young neoliberals (referred to as "the fun young people" and the "polite voids"), and an aging Indian Christian (called the "Holy Father"). There are also many other characters, but much of the story revolves around these main characters as Paracha constructs his dystopia in which capitalism and organized religion have been fused together as a new totalitarian system.

They insisted that "a Catholic Christian is not free to form his conscience without consideration of the teaching of the magisterium, in the particular instance exercised by the Holy Father in an encyclical letter". Catholics for Choice stated in 1998 that 96% of U.S. Catholic women had used contraceptives at some point in their lives and that 72% of U.S. Catholics believed that one could be a good Catholic without obeying the church's teaching on birth control. According to a nationwide poll of 2,242 U.S. adults surveyed online in September 2005 by Harris Interactive (they stated that the magnitude of errors cannot be estimated due to sampling errors, non-response,etc.), 90% of U.S. Catholics supported the use of birth control/contraceptives. A survey conducted in 2015 by the Pew Research Center among 5,122 U.S. adults (including 1,016 self-identified Catholics) stated 76% of U.S. Catholics thought that the church should allow Catholics to use birth control.

On 5 January 2011 he was appointed one of the first members of the newly created Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation. Marking the 2012 World Day of Communications, Archbishop Celli, speaking on Pope Benedict's message of silence said, "the topic chosen by the Holy Father for this World Day of Social Communications is attentive to today’s communicative phenomena and invites us all to reflect on this fundamental point: Silence is an integral part of communication. This is why, when we wish communication to be genuinely human -- because it begins from one man and is addressed to other men -- the word that is communicated must be nourished by silence to be more meaningful, to be more true. Because it is in silence that I hear, it is in silence that I understand more attentively what are the needs, the sufferings, the search for the good and true that is in the heart of other men".

He received the red biretta from Archbishop Bayley in a ceremony at the rebuilt St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mott Street on the following April 27. The Cardinal declared, "Not to my poor merits but to those of the young and already vigorous and most flourishing Catholic Church of America has this honor been given by the Supreme Pontiff. Nor am I unaware that, when the Holy Father determined to confer me this honor he had regard to the dignity of the See of New York, to the merits and devotion of the venerable clergy and numerous laity, and that he had in mind even the eminent rank of this great city and the glorious American nation." Following the death of Pius IX in February 1878, McCloskey left for Rome but arrived too late to participate in the papal conclave, which elected Pope Leo XIII. The new Pope bestowed the red hat upon him on March 28, 1878.

Although his statements were published in a few discrete magazines, Peyrefitte was surprised and overjoyed when one day he watched in television the Pope addressing the issue in the heart of St. Peter's Square, complaining about the "horrible and slanderous insinuations" that were being said about the Holy Father and appealing for prayers on his behalf. In Les Ambassades (1951), he revealed the ins and outs of diplomacy. Peyrefitte also wrote a book full of gossip about Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen's exile in Capri (L'Exilé de Capri, 1959) and translated Greek gay love poetry (La Muse garçonnière (The Boyish Muse), Flammarion, 1973). In his memoirs, Propos Secrets, he wrote extensively about his youth, his sex life (pederastic mainly and a few affairs with women), his years as a diplomat, his travels to Greece and ItalyMaking such polemic statements as that the majority of Italian men were bisexual and that heterosexual anal sex was commonplace, much to the joy of Italian women and particularly as a birth control method.

St. Francis on a painted altarpiece by Gerard David (early 1500s) In 1915, Marquis Stanislas de La Rochethulon (1862–1945), founding president of the Anglo-French association Souvenir Normand (Norman Remembrance), which called itself "a work of peace and justice inspired by the testament of William the Conqueror, who is considered to be the ancestor of all the royal families of Europe", sent this prayer to Pope Benedict XV in the midst of World War I. The Pope had an Italian translation published on the front page of L'Osservatore Romano on 20 January 1916. It appeared under the heading, "The prayers of 'Souvenir Normand' for peace", with a jumbled explanation: "'Souvenir Normand' has sent the Holy Father the text of some prayers for peace. We have pleasure in presenting in particular the prayer addressed to the Sacred Heart, inspired by the testament of William the Conqueror." On 28 January 1916, the newspaper La Croix reprinted, in French, the article from L'Osservatore Romano, with exactly the same heading and explanation.

Death threat Pope Benedict expressed his regret for any offense his words had given: "The Holy Father is very sorry that some passages of his speech may have sounded offensive to the sensibilities of Muslim believers," said Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone in a statement.Pope apologises to Muslims, Reuters, 16 September 2006Pope 'sincerely regrets' he offended Muslims, AP, 16 September 2006 According to CNN, the Vatican comments fell short of a literal apology. On September 17, 2006, from the balcony at his residence at Castel Gandolfo outside Rome, Pope Benedict publicly expressed that he was 'deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries' and stressed that the words which 'were considered offensive' were not his own, but were quoted from a medieval text, and that his speech was intended to act as an invitation to mutually respectful dialogue with Muslims, rather than an attempt to cause offense. A few days later the Pope held a meeting at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo with approximately 20 Muslim diplomats.

For five days a week he fasted and never left his cell but on Saturdays and Sundays he went to public Mass. After three years of this he was made the steward of the monastery. John had never told anyone he had been bishop, so after four years St. Sabas thought John was worthy to become a priest and presented him to the patriarch Elias of Jerusalem. They traveled to Calvary for the ordination but upon their arrival John requested a private audience with the patriarch. John said, “Holy Father, I have something to impart to you in private; after which, if you judge me worthy, I will receive holy orders.” They spoke in private after a promise of secrecy. “Father, I have been ordained bishop; but on account of the multitude of my sins have fled, and am come into this desert to wait the visit of the Lord.” The patriarch was startled but told St. Sabas, “I desire to be excused from ordaining this man, on account of some particulars he has revealed to me.” St. Sabas was afraid John had committed a crime and after he prayed God revealed the truth to him.

Shortly after he was made a cardinal, Tong said that the diocese of Hong Kong would take up the role of "Bridge Church", and that the local Church was helping the mainland Church to have better formation, reconcile among themselves and achieve full communion with the Holy Father (the Pope) and the Universal Church. He went on to call for prayers for "the reopening of the China-Vatican dialogue" and for "the graces bestowed upon the excommunicated, so that their early repentance could bring reconciliation in our Church and thus the wounds of our Church could be healed." Cardinal Tong Hon said that he is confident that "if Catholics in China were to enjoy full freedom of religious belief and activities, they would not only be able to contribute more fruitfully to the well-being of society, but would also earn for their Motherland a higher reputation in the international community." In August 2016 Tong Hon revealed that the Holy See and Beijing had reached an initial agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in mainland China in an effort to secure a breakthrough in bilateral ties.

J. Bayet above p. 387-8; Properce Elegiae V 9, 71 "Sancte Pater salve, cui iam favet aspera Iuno" "Hail Thee Holy Father, to whom the harsh Iuno is propitious", at the end of a passage devoted to the legend of Bona Dea and of the Ara Maxima. Cf. Macrobius Saturnalia I 12, 28 In Bayet's view Juno and Hercules did supersede Pilumnus and Picumnus in the role of tutelary deities of the newborn not only because of their own features as goddess of the deliverers and as apotropaic tutelary god of infants but also because of their common quality as gods of fertility. This was the case in Rome and at Tusculum where a cult of Juno Lucina and Hercules was known.J. Bayet above p. 388 At Lanuvium and perhaps Rome though their most ancient association rests on their common fertility and military characters. The Latin Junos certainly possessed a marked warlike character (at Lanuvium, Falerii, Tibur, Rome). Such a character might suggest a comparison with the Greek armed Heras one finds in the South of Italy at Cape Lacinion and at the mouth of river Sele, military goddesses close to the Heras of Elis and Argos known as Argivae.