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DETAILS RELEASED FOR BENEDICT XVI’s PALERMO TRIP

Square of Cathedral of Palermo

Days after Benedict XVI returned from a four-day visit to the United Kingdom, he is already planning his next pastoral trip, to Palermo, Italy.

A Vatican communiqué today detailed the schedule for the Pope’s Oct. 3 visit to the Italian island of Sicily on the occasion of a regional meeting of families and youth. The Pontiff will preside over an outdoor Mass at 10:30 a.m… Read more »

Darryl Ellul meets Pope Benedict XVI

Meeting his Holiness was by far one of the greatest experiences of my life. I was one of the ten fortunate youths who were given the opportunity to spend 20 minutes with Pope Benedict XVI for the duration of his voyage on the catamaran during his visit to the Maltese Island in April 2010. Such an experience taught me that whatever your life style is, you must never feel superior to anyone… Read more »

POPE BEATIFIES BRITISH CONVERT

The Pope declared Cardinal Newman ”blessed” before thousands of worshippers

Thousands of people have witnessed the Pope’s beatification of 19th Century theologian Cardinal John Henry Newman, as his UK state visit was in its final stage.

The pontiff told more than 50,000 people at a Mass in Birmingham’s Cofton Park that they were celebrating the cardinal’s “outstanding holiness”… Read more »

ACTIVITIES FOR WORLD MISSION DAY 2010

Matul Ottubru, l-Uffiċċju Missjunarju, f’kollaborazzjoni ma’ numru ta’ għaqdiet u kongregazzjonijiet missjunarji, qed jorganizza żewġ attivitajiet pubbliċi biex jiċċelebra l-Ġurnata Missjunarja Dinjija 2010, li din is-sena se tkun iċċelebrata fl-24 ta’ Ottubru.

F’kummenti lil IL-ĠENSillum online, kelliem għall-dan l-Uffiċċju, John Bason, fakkar li Ottubru huwa x-xahar dedikat lill-missjonijiet, u għal darb’oħra l-Uffiċċju Missjunarju Pontifiċju se jkun qed jorganizza attivitajiet għal din l-okkażjoni maħsuba għall-familja kollha “biex din il-Ġurnata, li tiġi darba fis-sena, tkun ċelebrata kif jixraq”… Read more »

POPE PRAISES DEEP CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Pope in UK

The Pope is leading an assembly of children in west London on day two of his four-day state visit to the UK, which is the seventeenth apostolic trip of his pontificate. After prayers Benedict XVI travelled in his popemobile through the grounds of St Mary’s University College in Twickenham.

Earlier thousands of people greeted him as he arrived amid tight security… Read more »