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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 80
DATE 24-04-2012
Summary:
- BOOK ON BENEDICT XVI FOR THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS PONTIFICATE
- MORE THAN 22,000 BAPTISMS IN CHINA ON EASTER SUNDAY
___________________________________________________________
BOOK ON BENEDICT XVI FOR THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS PONTIFICATE
Vatican City, 24 April 2012 (VIS) - The "Osservatore Romano" and the Italian
newspaper "Il Sole e 24 Ore" are paying homage to the Holy Father for the
seventh anniversary of his election with a book entitled "Benedict XVI,
Theologian and Pontiff". The
volume is being distributed with today's edition of "Il Sole e 24 Ore" and
will shortly be available in digital format on the newspaper’s website,
with addition multimedia content and English and Spanish translations. The
Spanish newspaper "La
Razon" will place the book on its own website on 26 April.
In the prologue to the work Giovanni Maria Vian, director of the "Osservatore
Romano", explains that, for the Holy Father's eighty-fifth birthday and the
beginning of the eighth year of his pontificate, it was decided to publish a
book bringing together
a number of little-known texts on the figure of Benedict XVI. These include a
dialogue on secularism and religion between the philosopher Armando Massarenti
and the journalist Giuliano Ferrara, some suggestions for reading the works of
Joseph Ratzinger
by the historiographer Lucetta Scaraffia, and a chronological summary of the
life of "the theologian who became pontiff".
This initiative, Vian writes, "aims above all to contribute to an
understanding of the person and works of an intellectual who has dedicated,
and continues to dedicate his life to the tireless search for truth, engaging
in continuous dialogue between
faith and reason, and using a language accessible to everyone".
___________________________________________________________
MORE THAN 22,000 BAPTISMS IN CHINA ON EASTER SUNDAY
Vatican City, 24 April 2012 (VIS) - The Catholic news agency Fides has
reported that 22,104 people were baptised in China on Easter Sunday. The
statistics were collected by the Study Centre of Faith in the Chinese province
of He Bei. The newly-baptised
Catholics, 75 per cent of whom are adults, belong to 101 dioceses. In He Bei
itself 4,410 people were baptised on Easter Day, 615 more than last year,
while in Hong Kong, which has more than 360,000 faithful, there were 3,500
baptisms.
In evaluating these figures, it should be borne in mind that some dioceses do
not celebrate all their baptisms at Easter. For example, in Shang Hai there
were 379 Easter baptisms but the total figure could exceed 1,500 by the end of
the year. According
to Sr. Li Guo Shuang of the Study Center, "there are still some dioceses or
communities which, due to communication difficulties, have not yet reported
data to us. So we must emphasise that the figures are not complete, they may
still increase".
___________________________________________________________
Per ulteriori informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il
sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va
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dinizio:
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VISnews120424
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 80DATE 24-04-2012
Summary: - BOOK ON BENEDICT XVI FOR THE
SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS
PONTIFICATE - MORE THAN 22,000 BAPTISMS IN CHINA ON EASTER SUNDAY ___________________________________________________________
BOOK ON BENEDICT XVI FOR THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS PONTIFICATE
Vatican City, 24 April 2012 (VIS) - The "Osservatore Romano" and the
Italian newspaper "Il Sole e 24 Ore" are paying homage to the Holy Father for
the seventh anniversary of his election with a book entitled "Benedict XVI,
Theologian and Pontiff".
The volume is being distributed with today's edition of "Il Sole e 24 Ore" and
will shortly be available in digital format on the newspaper’s website,
with addition multimedia content and English and Spanish translations. The
Spanish newspaper "La
Razon" will place the book on its own website on 26 April.
In the prologue to the work Giovanni Maria Vian, director of the
"Osservatore Romano", explains that, for the Holy Father's eighty-fifth
birthday and the beginning of the eighth year of his pontificate, it was
decided to publish a book bringing
together a number of little-known texts on the figure of Benedict XVI. These
include a dialogue on secularism and religion between the philosopher Armando
Massarenti and the journalist Giuliano Ferrara, some suggestions for reading
the works of Joseph
Ratzinger by the historiographer Lucetta Scaraffia, and a chronological
summary of the life of "the theologian who became pontiff".
This initiative, Vian writes, "aims above all to contribute to an
understanding of the person and works of an intellectual who has dedicated,
and continues to dedicate his life to the tireless search for truth, engaging
in continuous dialogue between
faith and reason, and using a language accessible to everyone".
MORE THAN 22,000 BAPTISMS IN CHINA ON EASTER SUNDAY
Vatican City, 24 April 2012 (VIS) - The Catholic news agency Fides has
reported that 22,104 people were baptised in China on Easter Sunday. The
statistics were collected by the Study Centre of Faith in the Chinese province
of He Bei. The
newly-baptised Catholics, 75 per cent of whom are adults, belong to 101
dioceses. In He Bei itself 4,410 people were baptised on Easter Day, 615 more
than last year, while in Hong Kong, which has more than 360,000 faithful,
there were 3,500 baptisms.
In evaluating these figures, it should be borne in mind that some dioceses
do not celebrate all their baptisms at Easter. For example, in Shang Hai there
were 379 Easter baptisms but the total figure could exceed 1,500 by the end of
the year.
According to Sr. Li Guo Shuang of the Study Center, "there are still some
dioceses or communities which, due to communication difficulties, have not yet
reported data to us. So we must emphasise that the figures are not complete,
they may still
increase".
Per ulteriori informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il
sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va Il servizio del
VIS viene inviato soltanto agli indirizzi di posta elettronica che ne
hanno
fatto richiesta. Se per qualunque motivo non si desidera continuare a
riceverlo, si prega di visitare nostra pagina dinizio: http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vi
/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
Information Service possono essere riprodotte parzialmente o totalmente
citando la fonte: V.I.S. - Vatican Information Service.
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