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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
Warri: Consecration & Installation of new Bishop on 9 February, 2023 The date for the Installation of the new Bishop of Warri Diocese, Rt. Rev. Anthony Ovayero Ewherido, has been fixed for Thursday, 9 February, 2023. The event will hold at the Holy Martyrs of Uganda Seminary in Effurun, Warri Delta State, starting from 10am.
The Spiritual Testament of Benedict XVI, written on Aug. 29, 2006 Spiritual testament is written by every pope but made public only after their death. ————————— My spiritual testament If in this late hour of my life I look back at the decades I have been through, first I see how many reasons I have
Following the announcement of the passing on of Pope Emeritus, Benedict xvi today more tributes from Church hierarchy, Political leaders and people from all walks of life have continued to pour in. Cardinal Francis Arinze, on hearing of the death of Pope Emeritus, Benedict xvi, cut short his holidays to return to the Vatican
Peter Seewald journalistically accompanied Benedict XVI for more than a quarter of a century. “Next time I’ll see you in heaven,” he said, waving goodbye to me. “Everything about Benedict XVI seemed modest, unpretentious, accessible. I had left the Church, but I was impressed by the way Ratzinger spoke about love.” Peter Seewald (1954) journalistically
CBCN: Deeply spiritual & highly cerebral Pope Benedict kept everyone on path of orthodoxy – Archbishop Ugorji By Padre Mike Nsikak Umoh, CSN The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has expressed regrets over the loss, to the Church and humanity, of the Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI,
“Pope Benedict was a great Church man who spent his whole life working for the Church” – Cardinal Onaiyekan By Padre Mike Nsikak Umoh, CSN A foremost ecclesiastic of the Catholic Church in Nigeria, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has called on all Catholics and men and women of good will not to mourn, but to “celebrate
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican says that Pope Francis will celebrate the funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday. It will be an unprecedented event in which a current pope will celebrate the funeral for a former one. Francis was elected after Benedict resigned in 2013. The latest on
BREAKING NEWS: POPE BENEDICT RETURNS TO GOD The 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. By Vatican News Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. The Holy See Press Office announced that he died at 9:34 AM on
Former RECOWA Secretary General Appointed Bishop for Yamoussoukro Diocese, Ivory Coast Pope Francis has appointed Mons. Joseph Kakou Aka, the immediate former Secretary General of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA), as Bishop for Yamoussoukro Diocese in Ivory Coast. The appointment of Mons. Aka was published by the Holy See Press Office on
Pope Francis calls for prayers for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI By Delia Gallagher and Rob Picheta, Rome CNN Pope Francis has said that his predecessor Pope Benedict, the 95-year-old former pontiff who resigned from the post nine years ago, is “very sick” after a deterioration in his health on Wednesday. “I want to ask you