Things Are Jumping At The Vatican

Earlier I linked a Catholic News Service story regarding B16’s forthcoming encyclical. That was only one small point in the article, though.

The piece as a whole dealt with things that are happening at the Vatican these days. Among them:

— The Vatican’s chief ecumenist, Cardinal Walter Kasper, traveled to Jerusalem, Turkey and Geneva in November for meetings to commemorate the Second Vatican Council’s major documents on ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.

— A flurry of beatification Masses were held at the Vatican and elsewhere, all for sainthood causes that were advanced under Pope John Paul. Unlike his predecessor, Pope Benedict has opted not to preside over these liturgies.

— The Congregation for Catholic Education prepared to release a document on homosexuals and seminary admission, under preparation since 2001.

— At the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, a commission held another in a series of meetings on reworking liturgical translations in English.

— The Vatican’s major pontifical academies sponsored a series of international conferences in November on a wide range of topics: the science and ethics of water distribution, globalization and education, and the concept of the human person.

— This year even saw "dueling conferences," when a bioethics congress sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life coincided with an international conference on the human genome, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers.

The article also focused singificantly on B16’s management style, which made for fascinating reading.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “Things Are Jumping At The Vatican”

  1. Cool! I like this pope.
    He must know that his pontificate will be relatively short, and that his period of meaningful activity may be even shorter.
    It looks like he is clearing his table of everything but the truly essential, which is great. If he frustrates the media, well, that’s just a bonus.

  2. Pope Benedict’s first encyclical will be entitled On The Slaying Of Heretics, just watch!
    🙂

  3. Pope Benedict’s first encyclical will be entitled On The Slaying Of Heretics, just watch!
    Naw, I’m think On the Immolation of Heretics. 😉

  4. Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, indeed and who is its most “famous” member if not its leader? You guessed it, the infamous Cardinal Law. B16 is hardly doing his tenure any good by keeping this guy around!!!

  6. I don’t think Popes fire Cardinals, who had been previously appointed.
    What will be quite interesting will be the new Cardinals that are appointed.

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