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CHALLENGE The Eucharistic Festival on the Feast of Christ the King was a challenge to the
diocese, Dean Foley said this week. "The Lord is calling us and we generally late in November At 7.30 p.m . the Blessed are responding by pledging our when summer daytime heat can Sacrament will be carried in for loyalty in a way that will be expected. the eucharistic segment. Dean Foley said that numbers The public will stay in position influence our lives," he said. "But we all have to make the at Aquinas over the past few and will not take part in a effort" he added, referring to the years had shown that Sunday procession. new experiment of having the mid -afternoon functions were function in the central city not popular. The new central location and Supreme Court Gardens. early -evening start ought to encourage people to make the The function should conclude effort to come. There will be no reserved by 8 p.m. Priests and acolytes should The site has been changed this sections except for the sick in year from the traditional cars which have been officially vest and assemble for the Aquinas College venue where it authorised to enter. (but only procession in the courtyard below the Supreme Court was held for almost all of the before 6.30 p.m.) past 40 years. No seating will be provided. building for the One of the reasons people may bring cushions or The public should allow sufficient time to park either change is that in the revised chairs if they wish. liturgical calendar the Feast of The ceremony commences below the Concert Hall or at the Christ the King is no longer at punctually at 6.30 p.m. with a foot of William Street and to be the end of October but at the warmup of folk hymns. At 7 in position for the 6.30 p.m. commencement. end of the Church year, p.m. the reflection begins.
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The Supreme Court Gardens orchestral shell, the place of the Marian Congress Mass, will again become a Eucharistic focus for the Christ the King function, November 25.
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Cardinals ponder Rome's VATICAN CITY: The Before those elections the cardinals had top-level meetings Vatican deficit, the work- on the state of the Church, ings of the Roman Curia
and the role of the Vatican Academies such as that of Science, were the topics placed on the agenda for the historic meeting of Cardinals in Rome earlier this month. It was the biggest -ever meeting
of cardinals with 123 present. This was Iseca use the invitation went out to all the 129 living cardinals, some of whom are over 80 and cannot attend the papal elections. There were 111 cardinals at the elections of both Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II.
presided over by the dean. Cardinal Confalonieri. Vatican sources say that the state of the Vatican finances was mentioned at these pre -election meetings and that the then Cardinal Wotyla signed a letter requesting that the flatter be discussed further. In hishomily to the meeting this month Pope John Paul II said he had called the cardinals together to follow up some of these issues. He pointed out that the meeting of cardinals was not to be confused with theSynod of Bishops which was getting ready for next years discussion on the Christian Family. In contrast, he linked his roleas Bishop of Rome to the meeting with the cardinals, since the first cardinals were bishops near Rome with whom the Pope met regularly.
1929 in settlement
Savings Centres for the Papal
States that were confiscated in the unification of Italy in 1870.
It is from this invested capital that the running expenses of the Vatican have been met. The meetings had been going on for over 1000 years, the Pope said. Proceedings of the meeting which ran one day over the planned four days were kept secret. No firm details of the Vatican finances were revealed except for large operating deficits in many departments.
This year Vatican employees sent a letter to Pope John Paul II protesting at the virtual wage squeeze while their cost of living has increased. Apart from the operating costs and the operating income that is channeled in each year for
specific purposes, most
Making the investment retain its value in the face of world inflation is the key to t he Vatican being able to have enough money to pay all its employees including the officials who have to handlethe millions of tourists who pass through the area each year.
speculation hinges on the
invested capital of the Vatican. In his closing talk the Pope Deficits were increasingly This is the indemnity money complained of the myths and mentioned in news stories from that the Italian State, under fables about the Vatican 1976 onwards. Mussolini paid the Vatican in finances.
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officials into a panic when he announced in St. Peter's Square that from November 28 to 30 he would go to the Turkish capital, Ankara. to Istanbul, and to Ephesus, in western Turkey, where Christ's mother, Mary, reputedly once lived. The main purpose of his visit will be to meet the Orthodox
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who visited Turkey in 1967. the feet of Dimitrios' emissary, Pope John Paul is not likely to His visit was intended to the Metropolitan Meliton of think of that tree as growing strengthen the links with the Chalcedon, in a Sistine chapel anywhere but in his own backyard. Front,the Guardian Orthodox churches and the ceremony in 1975.
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