This version of The Weekly Benedict covers material released in the last week from 16 January 2012 – 10 February 2013 (subscribe here; get as an eBook version for your Kindle, iPod, iPad, Nook, or other eBook reader):
Index of Source Links
List of direct document links on Vatican.va used.
Angelus
General Audiences
Homilies
Letters
- 23 January 2013 – Words of condolences for the death of Card. Jozef Glemp
- 1 February 2013 – Letter to the new Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans for the concession of the Ecclesiastica Communio
Motu Proprio
- 16 January 2013 – Apostolic Letter Issued Motu Proprio “Fides per Doctrinam” whereby the Apostolic Constitution “Pastor Bonus” is modified and competence for catechesis is transferred from the Congregation for the Clergy to the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
- 16 January 2013 – Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio “Ministrorum Institutio” whereby the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus is modified and responsibility for seminaries is transferred from the Congregation for Catholic Education to the Congregation for the Clergy
Messages
Speeches
- 26 January 2013 – To Prelate Auditors, Officials and Advocates of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota on the occasion of the inauguration of the Judicial Year
- 9 February 2013 – To the members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Papal Tweets
Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord’s loving Heart. | |
Today I have a special though for every religious: may they always follow Christ faithfully in poverty, chastity and obedience. | |
Today I have a special thought for every religious: may they always follow Christ faithfully in poverty, chastity and obedience. | |
Let us imitate the Virgin Mary in welcoming and guarding the word of Jesus, in order to recognize him as Lord in our lives | |
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace. | |
We must trust in the mighty power of God’s mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new. |