Posts Tagged ‘Pope Benedict XVI’

Summer Recap

Whew! It’s amazing how quickly the summer passed us by. And, let me tell you, what a summer it has been.
Many of you know that I decided to leave the seminary this summer and have been following my progress with starting anew on Twitter and/or Facebook. That decision ultimately led me to transfer to the [...]

Vatican Causes Unexpected Uproar with New Norms

I apologize for the lack of posts over the last few days. There is not much ecclesial news happening around these parts. When the Pope goes on vacation for the summer the Catholic news cycle slows down quite dramatically.
The most interesting tid-bit that has emerged within the last week is the Vatican’s release of modifications [...]

Ouellet Named Prefect for Bishops

It has certainly been a busy morning on the Catholic side of the blogosphere!! This morning, the musings about Cardinal Marc Ouellet heading to Rome as the Prefect for the Congregation for Bishops and head of the Commission for Latin America were confirmed when he was appointed to those positions by Benedict XVI. For the [...]

Palliums Conferred

During this morning’s Mass celebrating the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul, the Holy Father conferred the pallium on 38 new metropolitan archbishops.
To the glory of Almighty God and the praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the apostles Peter and Paul, and of the Holy Roman Church, for the honor of the Churches, [...]

Pallium Mass Homily

Here is the full text homily given by Pope Benedict XVI at this morning’s Pallium Mass.

Dear brothers and sisters!
The biblical texts of this Eucharistic Liturgy of the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, in their great wealth, highlight a theme that could be summarized thus: God is close to his faithful servants and frees them [...]