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Beatification

January 14, 2011 by · Comments Off on Beatification 

Beatification, (AP) – John Paul II to be beatified on May 1 – a key step on the road to sainthood – the Vatican announced Friday, after Pope Benedict XVI has signed an official decree.  The beatification has been cleared by Benoit because of John Paul II “the reputation of holiness … impose life, death and after death, “said the Vatican in a statement.

The process of beatification of Pope is generally long, but calls John Paul II came to be canonized immediately after his death in 2005.

Work is underway in St. Peter’s Basilica to make room for the tomb of John Paul II, French religious imedia new information, and the agency said Thursday.

According to tradition, the remains of popes who were beatified rose from the crypt to the nave of the basilica.

Preparations are underway in the chapel of St. Sebastian, on the right side of the nave, between the chapel Michelangelo’s Pieta and the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.

“The coffin of John Paul II will be transferred to the Basilica of St. Peter in the crypt of the Vatican without opening it,” spokesman Federico Lombardi, the Vatican said Friday’s announcement.

The body of the former pope “will not be displayed, it will be placed in a tomb closed by a simple marble headstone with the words: Beatus Ioannes Paulus II” (the Blessed John Paul II), Lombardi said.

The beatification following the announcement this week that the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has approved the first miracle of the Polish pope.

The Commission has confirmed that French nun Marie Simon-Pierre was miraculously cured of Parkinson’s disease through the intercession of John Paul II, who also suffered from Parkinson’s disease.

Simon Peter was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2001. After the death of John Paul II’s condition has rapidly deteriorated, and her community began praying for the intercession of the late Pope in his recovery.

Simon-Pierre recovered one night in June 2005, an event that doctors could not explain.

The process to canonize John Paul began immediately after his death, waving banners with parade on St. Peter’s Square during his funeral in 2005 that read “Santo Subito!” (Holiness now!)

A miracle is needed for beatification and a second is needed for sainthood.

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Pope Benedict

November 13, 2010 by · Comments Off on Pope Benedict 

Pope Benedict, ROME Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” has a cool reception from some critics. Pope Benedict XVI banker accumulate on.

President of the Vatican Bank Ettore Gotti Tedeschi dismissed the film as “predictable and banal” in an interview in L’Osservatore Romano, official Vatican newspaper. Gotti Tedeschi told the newspaper he had been to the cinema with high hopes, having been a fan of 1987, predecessor of the film and its villain known, Gordon Gekko.

“I did not like anything about the” sequel, Gotti Tedeschi said. “The first movie Wall Street has moral character. Even Gordon Gekko, the speculator, was wonderful, wonderful negatively.”

The sequel, however, does not delve into the causes of financial crisis, like the bubble of subprime mortgages, focusing instead on the melodrama and clichés, the banker said.

“It’s all about the different symbolic revenge against: the banker. He is evil. It has created the crisis. This film carries no positive message,” he said.

Gotti Tedeschi, a prominent Italian economist who has written extensively on ethics in finance, disagree with Stone’s sequel to the celebration of the villainous Gordon Gekko. “The film is acquitted, but praised the figure of the financial sharks alla Gekko” lamented Gotti Tedeschi.

Gotti Tedeschi is facing scrutiny of their own. Italian prosecutors recently put under investigation for allegedly violating the laws of Italy, money laundering. Prosecutors allege that the Vatican bank, formally known as the Institute for Religious Works, carried out international money transfers without revealing the names of their clients or the nature of operations, required under Italian law.

As part of the investigation, prosecutors also have frozen 23 million euros in funding from IOR. The Vatican has rejected the allegations as the result of a “misunderstanding” between the bank of the Vatican and Italian regulators. Gotti Tedeschi has denied wrongdoing, adding that the operations were “absolutely transparent.”

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