SUMMARY:
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BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR AUGUST
- PAPAL,
HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY - JULY 2012
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AUDIENCES
- OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
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BENEDICT
XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR AUGUST
Vatican
City, 31 July 2012 (VIS) - Pope Benedict's general prayer intention
for August is: "That prisoners may be treated with justice and
respect for their human dignity".
His
mission intention is: "That young people, called to follow
Christ, may be willing to proclaim and bear witness to the Gospel to
the ends of the earth".
PAPAL,
HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY - JULY 2012
Vatican
City, 31 July 2012 (VIS) - Following are highlights of the activities
of Pope Benedict XVI and of the Holy See for the months of May to
July 2012.
MAY
1:
Benedict XVI visits Rome's Sacred Heart Catholic University to mark
the fiftieth anniversary of the "Agostino Gemelli" Faculty
of Medicine and Surgery.
4: The
Pope receives five new non resident ambassadors to the Holy See for
the presentation of thier Letters of Credence: Teshome Toga Chanaka
of Ethiopia, David Cooney of Ireland, Naivakarurubalavu Solo Mara of
the Republic of Fiji, Viguen Tchitetchian of Armenia and Dato' Ho May
Young, the first ambassador of Malaysia to the Holy See.
5: The
Holy Father receives a group of prelates from the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops (Regions 10 to 13) at the end of their
"ad limina" visit.
5: The
Holy Father receives in audience Bamir Topi, president of the
Republic of Albania.
13:
Benedict XVI makes a pastoral visit to the Italian region of Abruzzo.
18: The
Holy Father receives a final group from the United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops, whose prelates have been travelling to Rome over
the past six months on their quinquennial "ad limina
Apostolorum" visits.
24: The
Holy Father receives participants in the sixty-fourth general
assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
24: The
Pope receives in separate audiences Rosen Plevneliev, president of
the Republic of Bulgaria, and Nikola Gruevski, prime minister of the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, each accompanied by a
delegation, for the commemoration of the Feast of Sts. Cyril and
Methodius.
25: The
Holy Father receives in audience Petr Necas, prime minister of the
Czech Republic.
27: After
celebrating Mass for the Solemnity of Pentecost, the Holy Father
announces that on 7 October he will proclaim St. John of Avila and
St. Hildegard of Bingen as Doctors of the Universal Church.
28: The
Holy Father receives in audience Laura Chinchilla Miranda, president
of Costa Rica.
JUNE
1-3: The
Pope makes a pastoral visit to the Italian archdiocese of Milan to
participate in the seventh World Meeting of Families. Following the
closing Mass he announces that the next World Meeting of Families
will take place in Philadelphia, U.S.A., in 2015.
4:
Cardinal Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruno, archbishop emeritus of
Guatemala, Guatemala, dies at the age of 80.
8: The
Holy Father receives in audience Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
9:
Benedict XVI receives in audience prelates from the Catholic Bishops'
Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, at the end of
their "ad limina" visit.
15: The
Holy Father receives in audience Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser,
president of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the
United Nations.
16: The
International Theological Commission updates its webpage. The page is
to be found on the Vatican website (www.vatican.va) under the section
dedicated to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
17: A
video message from Benedict XVI is transmitted at the end of the
closing Mass of the fiftieth International Eucharistic Congress,
which was held in Dublin, Ireland, from 10 to 17 June on the theme:
"The Eucharist. Communion with Christ and with One Another".
20: The
Holy Father receives in audience Valdis Dombrovskis, prime minister
of the Republic of Latvia.
21: The
Holy Father receives in audience Filip Vujanovic, president of
Montenegro.
22: The
Holy Father receives a first group of prelates from the Episcopal
Conference of Colombia, at the end of their "ad limina"
visit.
25: The
American journalist Gregory Burke, currently Rome correspondent for
Fox News, is designated for the post of "communications advisor"
to the Secretariat of State.
26:
Benedict XVI visits areas in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna
which have been badly affected by a series of earthquakes.
JULY
9:
Benedict XVI makes a private visit to to the "Ad Gentes"
Centre of the Verbite Missionaries in Nemi, a village near
Castelgandolfo.
9:
Cardinal Eugenio Araujo Sales, archbishop emeritus of Sao Sebastiao
do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, dies at the age of 91.
10: The
Holy Father makes a pastoral visit to the Italian diocese of
Frascati, near Rome.
16:
Announcement of the theme chosen by the Holy Father for the
forty-sixth World Day of Peace, which will fall on 1 January 2013:
"Blessed are the peacemakers".
25:
Publication by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of
Migrants and Itinerant Peoples of the Message for World Tourism Day.
The theme for this year's Day, which falls on 27 September, is:
"Tourism and Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable
Development".
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 31 July 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience
Bishop Antoni Stankiewicz, dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 31 July 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
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Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the
archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Germany, presented by Bishop
Engelbert Siebler, in accordance with canons 411 and 401 para. 1 of
the Code of Canon Law.
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Appointed Msgr. Lawrence T. Persico of the clergy of the diocese of
Greenburg, U.S.A., vicar general and pastor of the parish of St.
James in New Alexandria, as bishop of Erie (area 25,734, population
860,340, Catholics 223,668, priests 193, permanent deacons 61,
religious 317), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Monessen, U.S.A.
in 1950 and ordained a priest in 1977. He has acted as chaplain and
chancellor of Assumption Hall, and is vice president of the
Pennsylvania Catholic Conference. He succeeds Bishop Donald W.
Trautman, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same
diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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