This new and much awaited volume on the figure of Jesus in the Gospel
narratives of His infancy completes the two previous volumes and is of great
theological and academic importance. The earlier works are entitled "Jesus of
Nazareth" and "Jesus of
Nazareth: Holy Week".
Vatican City, 21 September 2012 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical
Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff today published the calendar of
celebrations to be presided by the Holy Father in the months of October and
November:
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OCTOBER
- Thursday 4: Pastoral visit to Loreto, Italy.
- Sunday 7: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. At 9.30 a.m. Mass in
St. Peter's Square for the opening of the Ordinary General Assembly of the
Synod of Bishops, and the proclamation of St. John of Avila and St. Hildegard
of Bingen as Doctors of
the Universal Church.
- Thursday 11: At 9.30 a.m. Mass in St. Peter's Square for the opening of
the Year of Faith.
- Sunday 21. Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. At 9.30 a.m. in St.
Peter's Square, canonisation of the following Blesseds: Jacques Berthieu,
Pedro Calungsod, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Maria del Carmen (nee Maria
Salles y Barangueras), Maria
Anna Cope (nee Barbara), Kateri Tekakwitha and Anna Schaffer.
- Sunday 28: At 9.30 a.m. Mass in the Vatican Basilica for the conclusion
of the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
NOVEMBER
- Friday 2: All Souls Day. At 6 p.m. in the Vatican Grottoes, a moment of
prayer for deceased Pontiffs.
- Saturday 3: At 11.30 a.m. Mass at the altar of the Cathedra in the
Vatican Basilica for cardinals and bishops who died during the course of the
year.
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AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 21 September 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in
audience:
- Archbishop Henryk Jozef Nowacki, apostolic nuncio to Sweden and
Iceland.
- Ten prelates of the Conference of Bishops of France on their "ad limina"
visit:
- Archbishop Pierre d'Ornellas of Rennes, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop
Nicolas Souchu.
- Bishop Emmanuel Delmas of Angers.
- Bishop Thierry Scherrer of Laval.
- Bishop Yves Le Saux of Le Mans.
- Bishop Alain Castet of Lucon.
- Bishop Jean-Paul James of Nantes.
- Bishop Jean-Marie Le Vert of Quimper, Cornouailles.
- Bishop Denis Moutel of Saint-Brieuc.
- Bishop Raymond Centene of Vannes.
- Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 21 September 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Appointed as consultors of the Commission for Religious Relations with
Muslims within the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue: Fr.
Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua, director of the Department for Inter-religious
Dialogue of the Catholic
Secretariat of Nigeria; Fr. Amir Jaje O.P., secretary of the Episcopal
Commission for Inter-religious Dialogue of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of
Iraq; Fr. Felix Korner S.J., professor of the theology of religions at the
Pontifical Gregorian
University; Rotraud Wielandt, professor of Islamic studies at the University
of Bamberg, Germany; Ian Netton, vice director of Arab and Islamic studies at
the University of Exeter and professor of Islamic studies at Sharjah, United
Arab Emirates, and
Romana Bashir, head of the Christian Study Centre in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
- Appointed Bishop Kevin W. Vann of Fort Worth, U.S.A., as bishop of Orange
in California (area 2,025, population 3,037,000, Catholics 1,291,000, priests
269, permanent deacons 96, religious 412), U.S.A. He succeeds Bishop Tod D.
Brown, whose
resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father
accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of
Rochester, U.S.A., presented by Bishop Matthew H. Clark, upon having reached
the age limit.
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