Recent Appointments

• 2010.07.28: Cardinal Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I. (77) resigned from the office of Ordinary of Ordinariato para os Fiéis de Ritos Orientais no Brasil of the Eastern Rite (Brazil)
• 2010.07.28: Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (56) was appointed as Ordinary of Ordinariato para os Fiéis de Ritos Orientais no Brasil of the Eastern Rite (Brazil)
• 2010.07.27: Bishop Jacques Blaquart (58), Titular Bishop of Ieper and Auxiliary Bishop of Bordeaux (France), was appointed as Bishop of Orléans (France)
• 2010.07.27: Bishop André Louis Fort (74) resigned from the office of Bishop of Orléans (France)
• 2010.07.27: Bishop Andraos Abouna, Bishop of Curia of Babylon of the Chaldeans (Iraq), passed away at the age of 67
• 2010.07.21: Diocese of Karonga was established (from Diocese of Mzuzu)
• 2010.07.21: Bishop Domingos Gabriel Wisniewski, C.M., Bishop emeritus of Apucarana (Brazil), passed away at the age of 82
• 2010.07.21: Fr. Martin Anwel Mtumbuka (52) was elected Bishop of Karonga (Malawi)
• 2010.07.20: Archbishop Raúl Arsenio Casado, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Tucumán (Argentina), passed away at the age of 80
• 2010.07.20: Fr. Carlos Manuel Escribano Subías (45) was elected Bishop of Teruel y Albarracín (Spain)

Upcoming Celebrations

• 2009.12.31 – 2010.12.31: Jubilee Year of Compostela 2010
• 2010.09.05: Pastoral Visit to Carpineto Romano
• 2010.09.16 – 2010.09.19: Apostolic Journey to the Great Britain
• 2010.09.27: World Tourism Day 2010
• 2010.10.10 – 2010.10.24: Special Assembly for Middle East of the Synod of Bishops
• 2010.10.16: World Food Day 2010
• 2010.10.24: World Mission Sunday 2010
• 2010.11.06 – 2010.11.07: Apostolic Journey to Spain
• 2010.12.25 – 2011.01.01: Christmas Octave 2010
• 2011.03.09 – 2011.04.21: Lent 2011

Recent Major Papal Documents

• 2009.11.04: Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum cœtibus Providing for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans Entering into Full Communion with the Catholic Church
• 2009.10.26: Motu Proprio Omnium in mentem Modifying some canons of the Code of Canon Law
• 2009.07.07: Motu Proprio “Approving the new Statute of the Labour Office of the Holy See”
• 2009.07.02: Motu Proprio Ecclesiæ unitatem On the Society of St. Pius X
• 2009.06.29: Encyclical Charity in Truth / Caritas in Veritate On integral human development in charity and truth

Recent Curial Documents

• 2010.07.05: Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Curial Letter “To bishops and priests in China”
• 2010.06.06: Synod of Bishops, Instrumentum laboris The Catholic Church in the Middle East: Communion and Witness
• 2010.05.21: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Curial Letter “On the modifications introduced in Normae de gravioribus delictis”
• 2010.05.21: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Norms “New norms on the more grave delicts”
• 2010.05.21: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Note “The norms of the Motu Proprio “Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela”: Historical introduction”

Recent Minor Papal Documents

• 2010.06.30: Message “For the 4th centenary of the Baptism of the Grand Chief Membertou of the Mik’maq (1st August 2010, Chapel Island, Nova Scotia, Canada”
• 2010.06.27: Message “To the Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, President of the Episcopal Conference of Belgium”
• 2010.05.17: Message “To the Buddhists for the Feast of Vesakh 2010”
• 2010.05.11: Message “For the 50th anniversary of the founding of Christ the King Shrine in Almada”
• 2010.05.10: Message “For the opening of the Second Ecumenical Kirchentag celebrated in Munich of Bavaria”

Recent Papal Speeches

• 2010.07.05: Speech “Inauguration of a new Fountain in the Vatican Gardens dedicated to Saint Joseph”
• 2010.07.04: Speech “Meeting with the young people in the Cathedral of Sulmona”
• 2010.07.04: Homily “Mass in Garibaldi Square, Sulmona”
• 2010.07.02: Speech “To the new Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the Holy See”
• 2010.06.29: Homily “Mass and imposition of the Pallium on Metropolitan Archbishops”