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Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church and their titular churches in Rome

Arranged by the alphabetic order of their last names (surnames) in bold. NE in front indicates Cardinal non-electors, while E indicates Cardinal-electors (in parentheses). Each Cardinals upon their elevation to the College of Cardinals at the consistory are each given a titular church in Rome (essentially parish churches of the Diocese of Rome).

As the Cardinals may likely go and visit their titular churches throughout Rome this Sunday to pray for the election of the new Pope, let us all pray for them, and for those in Rome, or planning to go there, you can pray together with the Cardinals in their titular churches.

 

Thanks to GCatholic site (www.gcatholic.org) for the info on the titular churches of each Cardinals.

 

1. (E) Cardinal Santos Abril y Castello : S. Ponziano (Church of S. Ponziano / St. Pontian)

Address : Via Nicola Festa 50, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00137

 

2. (E) Cardinal Gerardo Majella Agnelo : S. Gregorio Magno alla Magliana Nuova

Address : Piazza Certaldo 85, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00146

 

3. (NE) Cardinal Bernard Agre : S. Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto

Address : Via Emilio De Marchi 60, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00141

 

4. (NE) Cardinal Gilberto Agustoni : Ss. Urbano e Lorenzo a Prima Porta

Address : Vicolo di Prima Porta 6, Prima Porta, Roma, Lazio 00188

 

5. (E) Cardinal George Alencherry : S. Bernardo alle Terme

Address : Via Torino 94, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

6. (NE) Cardinal Francisco Alvarez Martinez : S. Maria «Regina Pacis» a Monte Verde

Address : Via Maurizio Quadrio 21, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00152

 

7. (E) Cardinal Angelo Amato : S. Maria in Aquiro

Address : Piazza Capranica, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

8. (E) Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo : S. Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli

Address : Via Giulia 151, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

9. (NE) Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini : S. Spirito in Sassia

Address : Via dei Penitenzieri 12, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00193

 

10. (E) Cardinal Ennio Antonelli : S. Andrea delle Fratte

Address : Via di Sant’Andrea delle Fratte 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

11. (NE) Cardinal Lorenzo Antonetti : S. Agnese in Agone

Address : Via di Santa Maria dell’Anima 30/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

12. (NE) Cardinal Francis Arinze : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop of the suburbicarian see of Velletri–Segni)

 

13. (NE) Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns : S. Antonio da Padova in Via Tuscolana

Address : Piazza Asti 10, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00182

 

14. (E) Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis : Immacolata al Tiburtino (Chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata e San Giovanni Berchmans (al Tiburtino))

Address : Via degli Etruschi 36, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00185

 

15. (E) Cardinal Audrys Juozas Backis : Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo a Via Gallia

Address : Via Urbisaglia 2, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00183

 

16. (E) Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco : Gran Madre di Dio

Address : Via Cassia 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00191

 

17. (E) Cardinal Philippe Christian Ignace Marie Barbarin : SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio

Address : Piazza Trinità dei Monti 3, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

18. (NE) Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci : SS. Nomi di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata

Address : Via del Corso 45, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

19. (NE) Cardinal William Wakefield Baum : S. Croce in Via Flaminia

Address : Via Guido Reni 2/D, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00196

 

20. (NE) Cardinal Karl Josef Becker : S. Giuliano Martire

Address : Via Cassia 1036, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00189

 

21. (E) Cardinal Jorge Maria Bergoglio : S. Roberto Bellarmino

Address : Via Panama 13, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00198

 

22. (E) Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello : Ss. Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia

Address : Via Carlo Alberto 47, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00185

 

23. (E) Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop of the suburbication see of Frascati)

 

24. (E) Cardinal Giuseppe Betori : S. Marcello

Address : Piazza San Marcello 5, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

25. (NE) Cardinal Giacomo Biffi : Ss. Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio

Address : Via del Mascherone 61, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

26. (E) Cardinal Josip Bozanic : S. Girolamo dei Croati

Address : Via Tomacelli 132, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

27. (E) Cardinal Sean Baptist Brady : Ss. Quirico e Giulitta

Address : Via di Tor de’ Conti 31/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

28. (NE) Cardinal Walter Brandmuller : S. Giuliano dei Fiamminghi

Address : Via del Sudario 40, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

29. (E) Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz : S. Elena fuori Porta Prenestina

Address : Via Casilina 205, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00176

 

30. (E) Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke : S. Agata de’ Goti

Address : Via Mazzarino 16, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

31. (NE) Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan : Ss. Angeli Custodi a Città Giardino

Address : Via delle Alpi Apuane 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00141

 

32. (E) Cardinal Carlo Caffarra : S. Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini

Address : Via Acciaioli 2 (Via Giulia), Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

33. (E) Cardinal Domenico Calcagno : SS. Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria a Via Ardeatina

Address : Via di Grotta Perfetta 591, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00142

 

34. (NE) Cardinal Giovanni Canestri : S. Andrea della Valle

Address : Piazza Vidoni 6, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

35. (E) Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera : S. Pancrazio

Address : Piazza San Pancrazio 5/D, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00152

 

36. (NE) Cardinal Ricardo Maria Carles Gordo : S. Marie Consolatrice al Tiburtino

Address : Via Casal Bertone 80, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00159

 

37. (NE) Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy : S. Maria in Via Lata

Address : Via del Corso 306, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

38. (NE) Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos : SS. Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano

Address : Foro Traiano 89, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

39. (NE) Cardinal Marco Ce : S. Marco (Basilica di San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio)

Address : Piazza San Marco 48, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

40. (NE) Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk : S. Maria Immacolata di Lourdes a Boccea

Address : Via Santa Bernadette 23, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00167

 

41. (E) Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne : S. Camillo de Lellis

Address : Via Sallustiana 24, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

42. (NE) Cardinal Edward Bede Clancy : S. Maria in Vallicella

Address : Via del Governo Vecchio 134, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

43. (E) Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio : S. Giuseppe dei Falegnami

Address : Clivo Argentario 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

44. (E) Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins : S. Patrizio

Address : Via Boncompagni 31, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

45. (E) Cardinal Angelo Comastri : S. Salvatore in Lauro

Address : Piazza di San Salvatore in Lauro 15, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

46. (NE) Cardinal Desmond Connell : S. Silvestro in Capite

Address : Piazza di San Silvestro 17/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

47. (NE) Cardinal Giovanni Coppa : S. Lino

Address : Via Cardinale Garampi 60, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00167

 

48. (NE) Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo : S. Maria in Portico

Address : Piazza di Campitelli 9, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

49. (E) Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes : S. Lorenzo in Piscibus

Address : Via Padre Pancrazio Pfeiffer, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00193

 

50. (NE) Cardinal Georges-Marie-Martin Cottier : Ss. Domenico e Sisto

Address : Largo Angelicum 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

51. (E) Cardinal Godried Danneels : S. Anastasia (Basilica di Sant’Anastasia al Palatino)

Address : Piazza di Sant’Anastasia, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

52. (E) Cardinal Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja : S. Cuore di Maria

Address : Via del Sacro Cuore di Maria 5, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00197

 

53. (NE) Cardinal Serafim Fernandes de Araujo : S. Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort

Address : Viale dei Monfortani 50, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00135

 

54. (NE) Cardinal Salvatore de Giorgi : S. Maria in Ara Coeli

Address : Piazza del Campidoglio 4, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

55. (E) Cardinal Velasio de Paolis : Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola

Address : Via Luigi Perna 3, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00142

 

56. (NE) Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop and Cardinal-Patriarch of the Eastern Catholic Churches)

 

57. (E) Cardinal Ivan Dias : Spirito Santo alla Ferratella

Address : Via Rocco Scotellaro 11, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00144

 

58. (E) Cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo : S. Eusebio (Chiesa di Sant’Eusebio all’Esquilino)

Address : Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II 12/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00185

 

59. (NE) Cardinal Alexandre do Nascimento : S. Marco in Agro Laurentino

Address : Piazza Giuliani e Dalmati 20, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00143

 

60. (E) Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan : Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario

Address : Piazza Nostra Signora di Guadalupe 12, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00135

 

61. (NE) Cardinal Alexandre Jose Maria dos Santos : S. Frumenzio ai Prati Fiscali

Address : Via Cavriglia 8, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00139

 

62. (E) Cardinal Dominik Duka : Ss. Marcellino e Pietro

Address : Via Labicana 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

63. (E) Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz : S. Maria del Popolo

Address : Piazza del Popolo 12, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

64. (NE) Cardinal Edward Michael Egan : Ss. Giovanni e Paolo

Address : Piazza dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo 13, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

65. (E) Cardinal Willem Jakobus Eijk : S. Callisto

Address : Piazza di San Calisto 16, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

66. (E) Cardinal Peter Erdo : S. Balbina

Address : Piazza Santa Balbina 8, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

67. (E) Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa : S. Maria della Pace

Address : Arco della Pace 5, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

68. (NE) Cardinal Jose Manuel Estepa Llaurens : S. Gabriele Arcangelo all’Acqua Traversa

Address : Viale Cortina d’Ampezzo 144, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00135

 

69. (NE) Cardinal Roger Etchegaray : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop of the suburbicarian see of Porto-Santa Rufina)

 

70. (NE) Cardinal Jose Freire Falcao : S. Luca a Via Prenestina

Address : Via Luchino Dal Verme 50, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00176

 

71. (E) Cardinal Raffaele Farina : S. Giovanni della Pigna

Address : Vicolo della Minerva 51, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

72. (E) Cardinal Fernando Filoni : Nostra Signora di Coromoto in S. Giovanni di Dio

Address : Largo Nostra Signora di Coromoto 2, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00151

 

73. (NE) Cardinal Carlo Furno : S. Onofrio

Address : Piazza Sant’Onofrio 2, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00165

 

74. (E) Cardinal Francis Eugene George : S. Bartolomeo all’Isola

Address : Isola Tiberina 22, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

75. (E) Cardinal Oswald Gracias : S. Paolo della Croce a «Corviale»

Address : Via Poggio Verde 319, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00148

 

76. (NE) Cardinal Prosper Grech : S. Maria Goretti

Address : Via di Santa Maria Goretti 29, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00199

 

77. (E) Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski : S. Nicola in Carcere

Address : Via del Teatro di Marcello 46, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

78. (NE) Cardinal Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz : Immacolata Concezione di Maria a Grottarossa

Address : Via Flaminia 994, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00189

 

79. (E) Cardinal James Michael Harvey : S. Pio V a Villa Carpegna

Address : Largo San Pio V 3, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00165

 

80. (NE) Cardinal Julian Herranz Casado : S. Eugenio

Address : Viale delle Belle Arti 10 (Valle Giulia), Roma, Roma, Lazio 00196

 

81. (E) Cardinal Claudio Hummes : S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana

Address : Via Merulana 124, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00185

 

82. (NE) Cardinal Lubomyr Husar : S. Sofia a Via Boccea

Address : 478 Via Boccea (Via Cornelia), Roma, Roma, Lazio 00166

 

83. (NE) Cardinal Marian Jaworski : S. Sisto

Address : Piazza Numa Pompilio 8, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

84. (NE) Cardinal Estanislao Esteban Karlic : Beata Maria Addolorata a piazza Buenos Aires

Address : Viale Regina Margherita 81, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00198

 

85. (E) Cardinal Walter Kasper : Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova

Address : Via Appia Nuova 244, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00183

 

86. (NE) Cardinal William Henry Keeler : S. Maria degli Angeli

Address : Via Cernaia 9 (nelle Terme di Diocleziano), Roma, Roma, Lazio 00185

 

87. (NE) Cardinal Michael Michai Kitbunchu : S. Lorenzo in Panisperna

Address : Via Panisperna 90, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

88. (E) Cardinal Kurt Koch : Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore

Address : Corso del Rinascimento 27, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

89. (NE) Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec : Ss. Fabiano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli

Address : Via Terni 92, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00182

 

90. (E) Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo : S. Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio

Address : Via Lorenzo Ghiberti 2, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

91. (NE) Cardinal Bernard Francis Law : S. Susanna

Address : Via XX Settembre 14, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

92. (E) Cardinal Karl Lehmann : S. Leone I

Address : Via Prenestina 104, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00176

 

93. (E) Cardinal William Joseph Levada : S. Maria in Domnica

Address : Via della Navicella 10, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

94. (E) Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez : S. Pio X alla Balduina

Address : Via Attilio Friggeri 87, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00136

 

95. (NE) Cardinal Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy : S. Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri

Address : Piazza di Santa Maria alle Fornaci 30, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00165

 

96. (NE) Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan : S. Michele Arcangelo

Address : Largo Geltrude Comensoli 6, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00158

 

97. (NE) Cardinal Franciszek Macharski : S. Giovanni a Porta Latina

Address : Via di Porta Latina 17, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00179

 

98. (E) Cardinal Roger Michael Mahony : Ss. Quattro Coronati

Address : Via dei Santi Quattro 20, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

99. (NE) Cardinal Adam Joseph Maida : Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio

Address : Via Nazionale 194/B, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

100. (NE) Cardinal Francesco Marchisano : S. Lucia del Gonfalone

Address : Via dei Banchi Vecchi 12, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

101. (E) Cardinal Lluis Martinez Sistach : S. Sebastiano alle Catacombe

Address : Via Appia Antica 136, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00179

 

102. (NE) Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo : SS. Nome di Gesù

Address : Piazza del Gesù, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

103. (NE) Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino : S. Francesco di Paola ai Monti

Address : Piazza San Francesco di Paola 10, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

104. (E) Cardinal Reinhard Marx : S. Corbiniano

Address : Via Braies 29, Infernetto, Roma, Lazio 00124

 

105. (NE) Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe : S. Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza

Address : Via Lucrino 53, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00199

 

106. (NE) Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick : Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo

Address : Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 28, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

107. (NE) Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez : S. Saba

Address : Piazza Gian Lorenzo Bernini 20, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

108. (E) Cardinal Joachim Meisner : S. Pudenziana

Address : Via Urbana 160, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

109. (NE) Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia : S. Girolamo della Carità

Address : Via Monserrato 62/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

110. (E) Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya : S. Maria «Regina Pacis» in Ostia mare

Address : Piazza Regina Pacis 13, Lido di Ostia, Roma, Lazio 00122

 

111. (E) Cardinal Manuel Monteiro de Castro : S. Domenico di Guzman

Address : Via Vincenzo Marmorale 25, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00139

 

112. (E) Cardinal Francesco Monterisi : S. Paolo alla Regola

Address : Via di San Paolo alla Regola 6, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

113. (NE) Cardinal Lucian Muresan : S. Atanasio

Address : Via del Babuino 149, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

114. (NE) Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor : S. Maria sopra Minerva

Address : Via del Beato Angelico 35, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

115. (E) Cardinal Antonios Naguib : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop and Cardinal-Patriarch of the Eastern Catholic Churches)

 

116. (NE) Cardinal Stanislaw Nagy : S. Maria della Scala

Address : Piazza della Scala 23, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

117. (E) Cardinal Wilfird Fox Napier : S. Francesco d’Assisi ad Acilia

Address : Largo Cesidio da Fossa 18, Acilia, Roma, Lazio 00126

 

118. (E) Cardinal Attilio Nicora : S. Filippo Neri in Eurosia

Address : Via delle Sette Chiese 103, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00145

 

119. (E) Cardinal John Njue : Preziosissimo Sangue di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo

Address : Via Flaminia 732/T, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00191

 

120. (E) Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz : Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti

Address : Via del Monte Oppio 28, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

121. (E) Cardinal Edwin Frederick O’Brien : S. Sebastiano al Palatino

Address : Via di San Bonaventura 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

122. (E) Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien : Ss. Gioacchino ed Anna al Tuscolano

Address : Viale Bruno Rizzieri 120, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00173

 

123. (E) Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley : S. Maria della Vittoria

Address : Via XX Settembre 17, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

124. (NE) Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo : S. Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto

Address : Via Raffaele Aversa 44, Spinaceta, Roma, Lazio 00128

 

125. (E) Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie : S. Maria del Monte Carmelo a Mostacciano

Address : Piazza Beata Vergine del Carmelo 10, Torrino, Roma, Lazio 00144

 

126. (E) Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan : S. Saturnino

Address : Via Avigliana 3, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00199

 

127. (E) Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino : Ss. Aquila e Priscilla

Address : Via Pietro Blaserna 113, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00146

 

128. (E) Cardinal Marc Ouellet : S. Maria in Traspontina

Address : Borgo Sant’Angelo 15, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00193

 

129. (NE) Cardinal Bernard Panafieu : S. Gregorio Barbarigo alle Tre Fontane

Address : Via delle Montagne Rocciose 14, E.U.R., Roma, Lazio 00144

 

130. (NE) Cardinal Laszlo Paskai : S. Teresa al Corso d’Italia

Address : Corso d’Italia 37 (fuori Porta Salaria), Roma, Roma, Lazio 00198

 

131. (E) Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don : S. Lorenzo in Lucina

Address : Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina 16/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

132. (E) Cardinal George Pell : S. Maria Domenica Mazzarello

Address : Piazza Salvatore Galgano 100, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00173

 

133. (E) Cardinal Polycarp Pengo : Nostra Signora de La Salette

Address : Piazza Madonna de La Salette 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00152

 

134. (E) Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh-Man : S. Giustino

Address : Viale Alessandrino 144, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00172

 

135. (E) Cardinal Mauro Piacenza : S. Paolo alle Tre Fontane

Address : Via Laurentina 473, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00142

 

136. (NE) Cardinal Simon Ignatius Pimenta : S. Maria «Regina Mundi» a Torre Spaccata

Address : Via Alessandro Barbosi 6, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00169

 

137. (NE) Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli : S. Maria delle Grazie a Via Trionfale

Address : Piazza Santa Maria delle Grazie 5, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00136

 

138. (E) Cardinal Severino Poletto : S. Giuseppe in Via Trionfale

Address : Via Bernardino Telesio 4/B, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00195

 

139. (E) Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo : S. Antonio in Campo Marzio

Address : Via dei Portoghesi 2, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

140. (NE) Cardinal Paul Poupard : S. Prassede

Address : Via Santa Prassede 9/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

141. (NE) Cardinal Janis Pujats : S. Silvia

Address : Viale Giuseppe Sirtori 2, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00149

 

142. (E) Cardinal Vinko Puljic : S. Chiara a Vigna Clara

Address : Via Riccardo Zandonai 4, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00194

 

143. (E) Cardinal Bechara Pierre Rai : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop and Cardinal-Patriarch of the Eastern Catholic Churches)

 

144. (E) Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi : S. Giorgio in Velabro

Address : Via del Velabro 19, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

145. (E) Cardinal Giovanni Batista Re : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop of the suburbicarian see of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto)

 

146. (E) Cardinal Jean-Pierre Bernard Ricard : S. Agostino

Address : Via della Scrofa 80, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

147. (E) Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali : S. Prisca

Address : Via di Santa Prisca 11, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

148. (E) Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera : S. Francesco d’Assisi a Ripa Grande

Address : Piazza di San Francesco d’Assisi 88, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

149. (E) Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega : S. Maria della Presentazione

Address : Via di Torrevecchia 1104, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00166

 

150. (E) Cardinal Franc Rode : S. Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella

Address : Via Daniele Comboni 4, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00154

 

151. (E) Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga : S. Maria della Speranza

Address : Via Francesco Cocco Ortu 19, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00139

 

152. (E) Cardinal Paolo Romeo : S. Maria Odigitria dei Siciliani

Address : Via del Tritone 82, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

153. (NE) Cardinal Gaudencio Borbon Rosales : SS. Nome di Maria in Via Latina

Address : Via Centuripe 18/22, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00179

 

154. (E) Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela : S. Lorenzo in Damaso

Address : Piazza della Cancelleria 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

155. (NE) Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Saenz : Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo

Address : Piazza della Trasfigurazione 2, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00151

 

156. (NE) Cardinal Camillo Ruini : S. Agnese fuori le mura

Address : Via Nomentana 349, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00162

 

157. (E) Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko : S. Cuore di Cristo Re

Address : Viale Mazzini 32 (Piazza d’Armi), Roma, Roma, Lazio 00195

 

158. (E) Cardinal Jesus Ruben Salazar Gomez : S. Gerardo Maiella

Address : Via Romolo Balzani 74, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00177

 

159. (E) Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez : Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e S. Filippo Martire

Address : Via Aurelia 675, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00165

 

160. (E) Cardinal Leonardo Sandri : Ss. Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari

Address : Piazza Benedetto Cairoli 117, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

161. (E) Cardinal Robert Sarah : S. Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana

Address : Viale dei Salesiani 9 (Via Tuscolana), Roma, Roma, Lazio 00175

 

162. (NE) Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop of the suburbicarian see of Palestrina)

 

163. (E) Cardinal Paolo Sardi : S. Maria Ausiliatrice in Via Tuscolana

Address : Piazza Santa Maria Ausiliatrice 54 (Via Tuscolana), Roma, Roma, Lazio 00181

 

164. (E) Cardinal Theodore-Adrien Sarr : S. Lucia a Piazza d’Armi

Address : Via di Santa Lucia 5, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00195

 

165. (NE) Cardinal Eusebio Oscar Scheid : Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio

Address : Piazza Sant’Alessio 23, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

166. (E) Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer : S. Andrea al Quirinale

Address : Via del Quirinale 29, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

167. (E) Cardinal Christoph Schonborn : Gesù Divin Lavoratore

Address : Via Oderisi da Gubbio 16, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00146

 

168. (NE) Cardinal Henri Schwery : Ss. Protomartiri a Via Aurelia Antica

Address : Via Angelo Di Pietro 50, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00165

 

169. (E) Cardinal Angelo Scola : Ss. XII Apostoli

Address : Piazza dei Santi Apostoli 51, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

170. (NE) Cardinal Sergio Sebastiani : S. Eustachio

Address : Via di Sant’Eustachio 19, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

171. (E) Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe : Dio Padre misericordioso

Address : Largo Terzo Millennio 8, Tor Tre Teste, Roma, Lazio 00155

 

172. (NE) Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir : No titular church (Cardinal Bishop and Cardinal-Patriarch of the Eastern Catholic Churches)

 

173. (NE) Cardinal Elio Sgreccia : S. Angelo in Pescheria

Address : Via della Tribuna di Campitelli 6, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

174. (NE) Cardinal Achille Silvestrini : S. Benedetto fuori Porta S. Paolo

Address : Via del Gazometro 23, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00154

 

175. (NE) Cardinal Adrianus Johannes Simonis : S. Clemente

Address : Via Labicana 95, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

176. (NE) Cardinal Angelo Sodano : S. Maria Nuova (Cardinal Bishop of the suburbicarian see of Albano and Ostia, but also given S. Maria Nuova in commendum)

Address : Piazza di Santa Francesca Romana 4, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

177. (NE) Cardinal James Francis Stafford : S. Pietro in Montorio

Address : Piazza San Pietro in Montorio 2, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

178. (NE) Cardinal Edmund Casimir Szoka : Ss. Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio

Address : Piazza San Gregorio 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

179. (E) Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle : S. Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle

Address : Piazza San Felice da Cantalice, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00172

 

180. (E) Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran : S. Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine

Address : Piazza Sant’Apollinare 49, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

181. (E) Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval : S. Giovanni Battista de’ Rossi

Address : Via Cesare Baronio 127, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00179

 

182. (E) Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi : Ss. Ambrogio e Carlo

Address : Via del Corso 437, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

183. (E) Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal : S. Gregorio VII

Address : Via del Cottolengo 4, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00165

 

184. (NE) Cardinal Jozef Tomko : S. Sabina

Address : Piazza Pietro d’Illiria 1, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00153

 

185. (E) Cardinal John Tong Hon : «Regina Apostolorum» (Basilica di Santa Maria Regina degli Apostoli alla Montagnola)

Address : Via Antonino Pio 75, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00145

 

186. (NE) Cardinal Ersilio Tonini : SS. Redentore a Valmelaina

Address : Via Monte Ruggero 63, Roma, Roma, Lazio00139

 

187. (E) Cardinal Placidus Telesphore Toppo : S. Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia

Address : Via Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna 70, Vitinia, Roma, Lazio 00127

 

188. (NE) Cardinal Roberto Tucci : S. Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio

Address : Via del Caravita 8/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

189. (NE) Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi : Ss. Martiri dell’Uganda a Poggio Ameno

Address : Via Adolfo Ravà 31, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00142

 

190. (E) Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte : Nostra Signora del SS. Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi

Address : Via Giovanni Battista De Rossi 46, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00161

 

191. (E) Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson : S. Liborio

Address : Via Tino Buazzelli 70, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00137

 

192. (E) Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino : S. Maria ai Monti

Address : Via della Madonna dei Monti 41, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

193. (E) Cardinal Agostino Vallini : S. Pier Damiani ai Monti di S. Paolo

Address : Via Guido Biagi 16, Casal Bernocchi, Roma, Lazio 00125

 

194. (NE) Cardinal Albert Vanhoye : S. Maria della Mercede e S. Adriano a Villa Albani

Address : Via Basento 100, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00198

 

195. (E) Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio : S. Cesareo in Palatio

Address : Via di Porta San Sebastiano, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00179

 

196. (E) Cardinal Raul Eduardo Vela Chiriboga : S. Maria in Via

Address : Via del Mortaro 24, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00187

 

197. (E) Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi : S. Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio

Address : Via Marsala 42, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00185

 

198. (NE) Cardinal Ricardo Jamin Vidal : Ss. Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense

Address : Piazzale dei Santi Pietro e Paolo 8, E.U.R., Roma, Lazio 00144

 

199. (E) Cardinal Andre Armand Vingt-Trois : S. Luigi dei Francesi

Address : Piazza di San Luigi de’ Francesi 5, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00186

 

200. (NE) Cardinal Miloslav Vlk : S. Croce in Gerusalemme

Address : Piazza di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme 12, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00185

 

201. (NE) Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala : S. Ugo

Address : Viale Lina Cavalieri 3, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00139

 

202. (NE) Cardinal Friedrich Wetter : S. Stefano al Monte Celio

Address : Via di Santo Stefano Rotondo, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

203. (NE) Cardinal Thomas Stafford Williams : Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti

Address : Via Vittorio Montiglio 18, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00168

 

204. (E) Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki : S. Giovanni Maria Vianney

Address : Via Lentini 6, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00133

 

205. (E) Cardinal Donald William Wuerl : S. Pietro in Vincoli

Address : Piazza di San Pietro in Vincoli 4/A, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00184

 

206. (NE) Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun : S. Maria Madre del Redentore a Tor Bella Monaca

Address : Via Duilio Cambellotti 18, Tor Bella Monaca, Roma, Lazio 00133

 

207. (E) Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako : S. Atanasio a Via Tiburtina

Address : Via Achille Benedetti 11, Roma, Roma, Lazio 00157

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Seventh General Congregation of the College of Cardinals, and the Eighth (decision on the Conclave date)

During the Seventh General Congregation of the College of Cardinals this Friday morning, 8 March 2013, the College of Cardinals had accepted the letters of the two Cardinals who are unable to attend the Conclave due to health issue (Cardinal Darmaatmadja of Jakarta) and other reasons (Cardinal O’Brien of Scotland, UK), according to the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis and the modifications in the Motu Proprio Normas Nonnullas.

The morning meeting had also discussed the modifications made on the Article 37 of the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, which deals on the earliest starting date of the Conclave, which originally must be at least 15 days from the Vacancy of the Apostolic See, but then because the modifications made by the Motu Proprio Normas Nonnullas, which provided for a waiver of the 15 days waiting period, allow for an earlier start providing all the Cardinal-electors are already in Rome.

As all the Cardinal-electors are already in Rome, they can immediately decide on when to begin the Conclave, which is scheduled to be done and voted in the Eighth General Congregation on Friday afternoon. Fr. Federico Lombardi confirmed that the Conclave will not begin either tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday. The Conclave is likely to begin either Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday (11-13 March 2013)

There will be only one General Congregation session on Saturday morning, that is the Ninth General Congregation of the College of Cardinals. The Cardinals too may go and visit (may not be all of them) their titular Churches in Rome (I will publish the list of the titular Churches for each Cardinals, and if possible, the addresses of each in Rome, in case anyone looking to meet any of the Cardinals in Rome for the Sunday Mass) for Sunday Mass to pray for the election of the new Pope and for the Conclave. Each of the Cardinals are given a titular church in Rome upon his appointment as a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church.

Cardinal Prosper Grech from Malta, who is a Cardinal non-elector, will be the one giving out the second of the two meditations as mandated by the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, to be given out prior to the beginning of the Conclave.

18 Cardinals spoke in the morning meeting and several inteventions had also been made, on several issues from rules of the Conclave to other matters. Issues covered are bioethics, interreligious dialogue, collegiality, role of the Church in the world, in justice, and others.

A video is shown to the reporters during the press briefing by Fr. Federico Lombardi, head of the Holy See Press Office, on Friday afternoon, on the place where the Cardinal-electors will reside during the duration of the Conclave (currently the Cardinals are staying in different locations in Rome, but will move in to the place after the Conclave begins), which is called Domus Sancta Marthae, commissioned by the late Blessed Pope John Paul II, and was also used in the 2005 Conclave. Shown was the spartan but comfortable lodgings of the Cardinal-electors. The Cardinals will be assigned the rooms randomly.

Add : 220,000 people had ‘adopted’ a Cardinal through the Adopt a Cardinal website, and pray for them during this period.

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Thursday, 7 March 2013 : 3rd Week of Lent, Memorial of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs (Scripture Reflection)

Brothers and sisters in Christ, today let us stand with God and declare our faith and love in Him, that we would not be like the stiff-necked people in Israel in the past, and those who spurned God’s love and even accused Him of doing evil in His divine ministry in this world. For they were blind, blinded by their human weaknesses, blinded by sin and evil that they have committed.

For they have no true love for the Lord in their hearts. They love not the Lord but the praise of men and worldly honour. For these people failed to see the works of the Holy Spirit in Jesus, in healing the disabled, and casting out demons from the possessed. They instead submitted to their human jealousy and hatred of the good deeds of the Lord. There were also those, as mentioned in the Gospel today, put the Lord to the test, to see if He is really sent by God, to test His powers by sending a sign for them to see.

In fact, the act that Jesus did in casting out demons from the possessed had been the very sign that they have sought, in order for them to believe in Him. But they still failed to see, for their eyes were veiled with a thick layer of worldly sin and filth, that prevented them from seeing the works of God that is good. Jealousy is another thing, that it was indeed possible that in the hearts of some of the people gathered there, there brewed jealousy for the powers that God had, in Christ. It was the same case in the Acts of the Apostles, where Simon the sorceror attempted to bribe the Apostles to have the same authority and power given to them. But the authority of God is not purchaseable, and God gives it only to those whom He deems worthy.

Indeed, brothers and sisters, today God wants to show us that we have to believe in God, and not to be distracted by the evil one, that we begin to accuse God’s works as evil, out of our blindness to see the truth, which eventually will cause divisions between us, and in the end, as Christ had said, we will not be able to stand united, and shall fall down.

Truly, we are One, One in Christ, one as a member of the One Body of Christ, that is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, that is our Catholic Church. We must all always remember the warning that Christ had given us today, that no house divided against itself will be able to stand and survive. The devil will not survive if he is divided against his servants and his collaborators, and therefore, so does our Church.

Throughout the millenia since the birth of the Church, there had been many dissents and divisions that led to the painful separation and destruction of unity in the Church of Christ, in parallel to the civil war of the nation as mentioned by Christ. We managed to stay together as the Catholic Church, and even managed to welcome some of our separated brethren back into unity with the One and only Church of our Lord. But even within our Church today, there are divisions, that will threaten to destroy the unity and harmony between all the faithful ones in God.

There are those who are blinded to the reason for unity, and chose to separate themselves from the Universal Church to pursue their own goals and ideas, rejecting all other ideas and anything that our Church had come through in the past 50 years since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. On the other hand, there are many who had succumbed to the world, and buoyed by the evils of the world, begin to demand for worldly changes and innovations to enter the Church.

We must learn to be courageous and say no to all these things that brought disunity and discord into the holy Church of God. We must stand firm despite all the pulls that the world and evil that tried to break up the unity of the Church. How are we to bring back our separated brethren in Christ, those who had been lost in their long journeys in the faith, into the One Church of God, if we ourselves are divided in a civil war against ourselves?

Therefore. brothers and sisters, once again let us pray for unity, both among ourselves, the faithful in Christ already united in His Church, and ourselves and our separated brethren in the myriads of ‘churches’ throughout the world, with our brethren in the Eastern Orthodox and Syriac Orthodox Churches, and that very soon, Christ’s prayer and wish that all of us may be one (That they all may be One) just as He and the Father is one and indivisible, will be fulfilled, and all faithful in God, will be One.

Today, we also commemorate the memorial of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, who were martyrs in the early days of the Church. Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicity were a noble mother and her slave respectively, who were martyred in the height days of the Roman Empire, due to their steadfastness to stand by their faith and their God, and refused all forms of persuasion for them to leave their faith and convert back into paganism. Their faith in God and solid stand had earned them martyrdom and thus eternal life and place in heaven with God who loves them and all of us.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, let us not be divided among ourselves and instead strive for unity, beginning from those near to us, and gradually let us work for unity of all, reach out to our brother Christians who is not yet in full communion with the Holy Church of God. Pray that all will soon return and be united in Christ in the Church He had established on Peter, the Rock.

Pray for us, Saints Perpetua and Felicity, that we also can follow in your footsteps and imitate the strong and unshakeable faith both of you had in the Lord, even to giving up your life for God’s sake, out of love for Him and His children, all of us. Amen.

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(Update) Summary of the Fifth General Congregation of the College of Cardinals : Thursday, 7 March 2013

http://www.news.va/en/news/general-congregations-with-all-electors-present-st

Rumour had mentioned that the St. Peter’s Basilica is booked for the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff (Missa pro Eligendo Pontifice), but has been dismissed as untrue by Fr. Federico Lombardi, head of the Holy See Press Office.

152 Cardinals attended the Fifth General Congregation, with 114 Cardinal-electors attending. The last Cardinal-elector to arrive, Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh-Man of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam will arrive in time to attend the Sixth General Congregation on Thursday evening.

New Particular Congregation leaders are elected to aid the Camerlengo during this period with term of 3 days each cycle. Particular Congregation is only limited to Cardinal-electors and divided into three groups depending on the orders of the Cardinals (Bishops, priests, or deacons), and also scheduled to meet among themselves for discussions.

1. Cardinal Bishops : Cardinal Bechara Rai (Cardinal-Patriarch)

2. Cardinal Priests : Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Zaire

3. Cardinal Deacons : Cardinal Velasio de Paolis

Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano has also read and sent the letter of condolence to the late Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez.

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Wednesday, 6 March 2013 : 3rd Week of Lent (Psalm)

Psalm 147 : 12-13, 15-16, 19-20

Exalt the Lord, o Jerusalem; praise your God, o Zion! For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your children within you.

He sends His command to the earth and swiftly runs His word. He spreads snow like wool; He scatters frost like ashes.

It is He who tells Jacob His words, His laws and decrees to Israel. This He has not done for other nations, so His laws remain unknown to them.

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Fourth General Congregation of the College of Cardinals : Some news and summary

http://www.news.va/en/news/general-congregations-profile-of-future-pope-emerg

After the end of the Fourth General Congregation of the College of Cardinals this morning, Wednesday, 6 March 2013, the dates of the Conclave had yet to be finalised. It is most likely that the decision on the date of the Conclave awaits the remaining Cardinal-electors who has yet arrived in Rome.

113 of the 115 Cardinal-electors slated to vote in the Conclave have arrived and taken part in the Fourth General Congregation this morning, and therefore, there are only two remaining Cardinal-electors still on their way to Rome.

Some Cardinals expresses the wish to have more time for discernment and the need to have more time to wait until the Conclave begins for careful considerations, but many others also express the wish to have the Conclave completed with the election of a new Pope before the Holy Week commences on Sunday, 24 March 2013. The College of Cardinals had signalled that they will give a few days notice prior to the beginning of the Conclave on the date.

51 Cardinals have so far used their right to give speech in front of the College of Cardinals, and through the meetings so far, qualities necessary for the next Pope has been emerging. The need for an intellectual and deeply rooted Pope like Pope Benedict XVI, but with a broader reach and willingness to approach others for discussions such as in the matter of interreligious dialogue.

Also the need for a more pastoral pope with experience as pastor and not just as theologian or curialist, that is to have significant work experience as bishop/archbishop of diocese/archdiocese (My personal opinion here shows that, just as many others have pointed out that these qualities can be found in the person of Cardinal Scola of Milan, but let God decide on that).

Fr. Federico Lombardi, head of the Holy See Press Office, in the following press conference has also confirmed that Cardinal Angelo Comastri as the Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Peter, will be the presider of the prayer for the Universal Church service at 5 pm Rome time (CET) today (Wednesday, 5 March 2013), live from Vatican Player at http://www.vatican.va/video/ at St. Peter’s Basilica.

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(Live from Rome) Prayer for the Universal Church : Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 5 pm CET / Rome Time

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, members of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church throughout the world. Let us all join together with the prayers for the Church that will be held today in Rome at 5 pm, and wherever we are in the world, let us spend the time for prayer for the Church, for the Cardinal-electors, and for the election of our new Pope.

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The event will be live from Rome at Vatican Player, at either http://www.vatican.va/video/ or http://player.rv.va/?language=en&visual=VaticanTic. Do join in the prayers, and if you are unable to do so, and still in the workplace or busy with other commitments, just pray in your hearts, for the sake of our Holy Church.

 

Timing :

1. Rome : Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 5 pm (UTC+1)

2. UTC : Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 4 pm

3. EST : Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 11 am (UTC-5)

4. PST : Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 8 am (UTC-8)

5. WIB : Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 11 pm (UTC+7) (West Indonesian Time, Bangkok, etc.)

6. Singapore : Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 0.00 am (UTC+8) (Singapore, Malaysia, HK, Macau, China, etc.)

 

The Cardinals, led by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, will pray together at St. Peter’s Basilica, and also participate in Eucharistic Adoration, led by the Cardinal Dean of the College. Let us pray for them, and pray that the Conclave will begin soon, and a new Pope, and a good Pope can be soon elected.

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3rd Week of Lent (Reading for Baptismal Catechesis to prepare for Easter Vigil Baptism)

During the weekdays of this 3rd Week of Lent, it is highly advisable to include anytime within the week, the readings of the Third Sunday of Lent, Year A in order to promote catechism and preparation for the elects waiting for their baptism this coming Easter, particularly appropriate is the Gospel on Jesus and the Samaritan woman :

 

First Reading : Exodus 17 : 1-7

Psalm : Psalm 95 : 1-2, 6-7, 8-9 (Psalm 94 in the Greek Bible, and Psalm 95 in Hebrew Bible)

Gospel Reading : John 4 : 5-42

 

Let us pray for our elects and those preparing for Baptism this coming Easter, that God will continue to guide them in their journey, and we also extend our hands to welcome them soon into the one Church, one Body of Christ, as our brothers and sisters in God.

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A beautiful, artistic representation of the Sede Vacante with coat-of-arms of the Cardinal Camerlengo, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

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The Umbrella above the keys (silver and gold) in the place of the usual papal tiara is the symbol of the sede vacante, to represent that the Papacy, the position of the Bishop of Rome is vacant. A more complete version of the symbol is with the coat-of-arms of the Cardinal Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, who is currently the Cardinal Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of Italy.

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The Cardinal Camerlengo is in charge of the events and governance of the Holy See, and also of the conclave during the sede vacante, until the new Pope is elected. He is also the one entrusted to seal the previous Pope’s private apartments and the destruction of the Ring of the Fisherman.

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Summary of the Third General Congregation of the College of Cardinals (Tuesday, 5 March 2013)

http://www.news.va/en/news/general-congregations-5-electors-yet-to-arrive

 

Here is a rough summary of what was concluded yesterday morning in the Third General Congregation of the College of Cardinals :

1. 110 Cardinal-electors are already in Rome by yesterday morning, only 5 more Cardinal-electors remaining to arrive.

2. No rush to fix the date of the Conclave, but it is still possible to begin by next Monday, 11 March 2013.

3. Sistine Chapel had been closed to public as of yesterday morning, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 to prepare for the Conclave.

4. 33 Cardinals had spoken so far and 11 interventions were made in yesterday’s General Congregation, with issues pertaining to activities of the Holy See and the Church, evangelisation, and many others.

5. Focus on the timeline of the Conclave as specified in the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis and the modifications made by the Motu Proprio Normas Nonnullas.

6. The Cardinals sent a thank-you letter to the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, now living in the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo.