Events
General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
5 October to 26 October 2008, Vatican City
Sunday 5 October marked the start of the Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
The Synod will begin with a Mass, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, in the basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls - the first time a Synod of Bishops will be open in a basilica other than St. Peter's.
The Synod's theme is "The Word of God in the Life and the Mission of the Church".
Archbishop Patrick Kelly, Archbishop of Liverpool and Bishop David McGough, Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham will represent the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
Keep the Promise - End Child Poverty event
On Saturday 4 October the End Child Poverty coalition organised what was billed as the UK's biggest ever event to end child poverty. It aims to remind the government of its pledge to halve child poverty by 2010 and end it by 2020.
Bishop John Hine, Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark and the Catholic Church's Bishop for Marriage and Family Life in England and Wales will attend the Keep in Promise event.
Pope Benedict XVI visits France and Lourdes
Pope Benedict XVI travels to France for an Apostolic visit to mark the jubilee anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes.
The visit begins on 12 September in Paris when the Holy Father will meet with priests, religious, seminarians and deacons in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame before greeting the thousands of young people expected to gather in the square in front of the cathedral that evening.
The Holy Father will travel from Paris down to Lourdes, at the foot of the Pyrenees on 13 September - a day after his arrival in France.
Click here for our full Lourdes section.
The Cause of John Henry Cardinal Newman
21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890
The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman was an Anglican received into the Catholic Church in 1845.
He was made a Cardinal in 1879. The cause for his beatification is currently being considered. He was declared a Venerable by the late Pope John Paul II in 1991 after the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints decreed that he exercised all of the Christian virtues in a heroic degree.
Click to read more about the Cause of Cardinal Newman.
Pope Benedict XVI has declared 28 June 2008 to 29 June 2009 the ‘Year of St. Paul’ to celebrate of the 2,000th anniversary of St Paul’s birth. St Paul was born a Jew and later became a Christian after a powerful experience of Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus.
After some time away in prayer, he spent the rest of his life encouraging the early Christian communities through his personal witness and his letters. As the ‘Apostle to the Gentiles’, St Paul made many missionary journeys and endured great sufferings to preach the Gospel message. Thirteen of the letters in the New Testament are attributed to St Paul.
Here you will find our full section on the Year of St Paul.
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