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• 9 September 2006
  Instrumentum mensis Augusti pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI spent the month of August at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the Albanian hills outside Rome. Here, after three weeks rest at Les Combes in Valle d’Aosta, he resumed his o ...
• 29 July 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS IULII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI, PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The month of July for Pope Benedict XVI started with his third Apostolic visit outside Italy, when he travelled to Valencia, in Spain, to take part in the 5th World Meeting of Families promoted by the Pontifical Council ...
• 8 July 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS IUNII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI, PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM For the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI the month of June opened with an important event, the meeting in St Peter’s Square with Church Movements and new Communities. The meeting, eight years since the first such event c ...
• 10 June 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS MAII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM Pope’s Benedict’s month of May culminated with his memorable visit to Poland, his second apostolic journey outside of Italy. A journey which was “a pilgrimage to retrace the steps of John Paul II, a pilgrimage of f ...
• 13 May 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS APRILIS PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The month of April for the Holy Father Benedict XVI was marked by the last days of Lent and Holy Week and then Easter, days of intense prayer. Pope Benedict XVI presided the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum, the same Vi ...
• 27 April 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS MARTII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The month of March began for the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, with his Lenten Spiritual Exercises. In the papal Redemptoris Mater chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, with the members of the Curia the Pope list ...
• 4 March 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS FEBRUARII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI intervened several times in the month of February with regard to incidents in various parts of the world following the publication in certain European newspapers of cartoons on the Prop ...
• 4 February 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS JANUARII PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI, PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The principal event in the month of January was the publication of Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical Letter presented at the Holy See Press Office on 25 January. The document takes its title from the first words of ...
• 7 January 2006
  INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS DECEMBRIS PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI, PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM The month of December 2005 for the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI was an opportune time to explain the true significance of Advent and Christmas. Advent, Pope Benedict XVI underlined several times, is a season of expectat ...
• 3 December 2005
  Instrumentum mensis Novembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Among the most significant interventions by the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI during the month of November we mention an address given on 25 November on the occasion of the inauguration of the Academic Year of the Univer ...
• 26 November 2005
  History of the Catholic Church in Vietnam The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, will visit Vietnam from November 28th to December 6th, upon invitation of the Bishops’ Conference of the Country. During his ...
• 12 November 2005
  Instrumentum mensis Octobris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum The celebration of the 11th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme “Eucharist, source and summit of the Church’s life and mission” an event which closed the Year of the Eucharist was the central eve ...
• 21 October 2005
  World Mission Sunday 2005: Catholic Church Statistics Vatican City (Fides Service) - Here is Fides annual report on Catholic Church statistics which is prepared every year in view of World Mission Sunday 23 October. Figures regarding members of the Church, church structures ...
• 8 October 2005
  Instrumentum mensis Septembris pro lectura Magisterii Summi Pontifici Benedicti XVI, pro evangelizatione in terris missionum Although Pope Benedict XVI spent most of September at his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, he continued is normal activity of meeting visitors from all over the world on Sundays for the midday Angelus prayer, he rece ...
• 1 October 2005
  “The Eucharist source and summit of the Church’s life and mission” on the occasion of the 11th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the 11th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops 11- 23 October, during which Bishops representing the Catholics of the world are reflecting on the topic “The ...