Letter from Bishop Bernard Fellay, SSPX Superior General, for the 250th issue of DICI

To Fathers Christian Thouvenot and Alain Lorans
Dear Fathers,
Please accept my warmest congratulations for the publication of the 250th issue of Dici. In this time of confusion and relativism, I rejoice much in it: it is a true comfort to be able to give to the faithfuls a few lights that may help them see a [...]

Lenten Message of Benedict XVI

On February 7, Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Council Cor Unum, presented the pope’s Lenten Message.  “Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works” (Heb 10:24).  This document, he announced, is intended to draw the attention of the faithful to their neighbor’s good, to communion, attention, [...]

Germany: Father Schmidberger in Die Welt

On February 13th, in an interview with German daily Die Welt, Father Franz Schmidberger, District Superior of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in Germany, said that dialogue with the Vatican was not broken, while reaffirming that full recognition of Vatican II, “no ifs, ands, or buts,” could not be considered by the FSSPX, [...]

DICI 250

FROM ROME
Lenten Message of Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI invites Christians to react to all lack of respect toward God
Benedict XVI considers the other side of modern communication
Vatican City:  The Vatican Museums rival the Louvre and the Metropolitan…
On the occasion of the 250th issue of DICI…
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Gabon:  The Catholic Church fights against ritual crimes
Afrique [...]

South Africa: Over a Million Abortions in 15 Years

Archbishop Buti Tlhagale, archbishop of Johannesburg and president of the South African Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), took up a firm position in a declaration published January 30, on the Bishops’ Conference website, in which he assesses the 15 years since abortion was legalized in South Africa.
“Since 1997, we count more than a million children who should [...]

Benedict XVI invites Christians to react to all lack of respect toward God

Reacting to news of scheduled performances in Italy of the play, On the Concept of the Face of the Son of God by Romeo Castellucci, the Italian website Vatican Insider published on January 19 a letter originating from the Secretariat of State of the Holy See.  In this letter, the writer, assessor Brian Wells mentions [...]

Benedict XVI considers the other side of modern communication

For the third consecultive year, Benedict XVI mentioned the Internet and social networks in his Message for the 2012 World Day of Social Communications.  Entitled Silence and Word:  Path of Evangelization and published on January 24, this message gave the pope the opportunity to insist particularly that silence and speech “need to be kept in [...]

Vatican City: The Vatican Museums rival the Louvre and the Metropolitan…

The Vatican Museums had more than 5 million visitors in 2011, and as of December 31, 2011, the very precise count was 5,078,004.  This is an “objectively impressive” statistic, said Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, in an interview that appeared in the January 11 issue of L’Osservatore Romano.
“In Europe,” he assured the interviewer, [...]

No scoop, no buzz!

This 250th issue of DICI is an occasion to recall that the patron saint of Catholic journalists is Saint Francis de Sales, who, seeing no Protestants in church when he preached, had his sermons printed and slipped them under their doors.
On his feast day, January 29, 1959, during a Mass celebrated in Rome, Cardinal Ottaviani [...]

Gabon: The Catholic Church fights against ritual crimes

The Association to Fight Ritual Crimes (L’Association de lutte contre les crimes rituels, ALCR) in Gabon records between 37 and 62 cases of ritual crimes in the country each year.  In 2011 the ALCR registered 62 cases:  28 children, 20 women and 14 men.  These figures, however, remain approximate because the association does not cover [...]

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