Recent Appointments

• 2010.03.15: Fr. Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M. (57) was elected Titular Bishop of Summa and Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• 2010.03.15: Bishop Želimir Puljić (62), Bishop of Dubrovnik (Croatia), was promoted as Archbishop of Zadar (Croatia)
• 2010.03.15: Msgr. Stanislav Lipovšek (66) was elected Bishop of Celje (Slovenia)
• 2010.03.13: Archbishop Eugene Martin Nugent (51) was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio of Mauritius and Apostolic Nuncio of Seychelles
• 2010.03.13: Bishop Paul John Marx, M.S.C. (75) resigned from the office of Bishop of Kerema (Papua New Guinea)
• 2010.03.13: Bishop Patrick Taval, M.S.C. (53) succeeded as Bishop of Kerema (Papua New Guinea)
• 2010.03.13: Bishop Ricardo Blázquez Pérez (67), Bishop of Bilbao (Spain), was promoted as Metropolitan Archbishop of Valladolid (Spain)
• 2010.03.13: Bishop Ramón José Viloria Pinzón (50) resigned from the office of Bishop of Puerto Cabello (Venezuela)
• 2010.03.12: Bishop Jean-Claude Ézechiel Jean-Baptiste Boulanger (65), Bishop of Séez (France), was appointed as Bishop of Bayeux (France)
• 2010.03.12: Bishop Pierre Auguste Gratien Pican, S.D.B. (75) resigned from the office of Bishop of Bayeux (France)

Upcoming Celebrations

• 2009.06.19 – 2010.06.11: Year for Priests
• 2009.12.31 – 2010.12.31: Jubilee Year of Compostela 2010
• 2010.02.17 – 2010.04.01: Lent 2010
• 2010.03.28: World Youth Day 2010
• 2010.04.01 – 2010.04.04: Triduum 2010
• 2010.04.17 – 2010.04.18: Apostolic Journey to Malta
• 2010.04.25: World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2010
• 2010.05.02: Pastoral Visit to Torino
• 2010.05.11 – 2010.05.14: Apostolic Journey to Portugal
• 2010.05.16: World Communications Day 2010

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

• 2010.01.29: Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, Message “For the 57th World Day of Leprosy (2010)”
• 2009.12.19: Secretariat of State, Declaration “On the protection of the figure of the Pope”
• 2009.12.08: Synod of Bishops, Lineamenta “Special Assembly for the Middle East - 2010”
• 2009.11.10: Secretariat of State, Curial Letter “To all the Priests of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China”
• 2009.11.04: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Norms “Complementary Norms for the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus”

Recent Minor Papal Documents

• 2010.02.27: Message “To the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I of Constantinople for his 70th birthday”
• 2010.02.22: Message “For the 24th World Youth Day (2010)”
• 2010.02.08: Message “For the Brotherhood Campaign in Brazil”
• 2010.01.24: Message “For the 44th World Communications Day (2010)”
• 2010.01.22: Letter “To the newly-elected Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church”

Recent Papal Speeches

• 2010.03.12: Speech “To the participants in the Conference organized by the Congregation for the Clergy”
• 2010.03.11: Speech “To the participants in the Course on the Internal Forum organized by the Tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary”
• 2010.03.07: Homily “Pastoral Visit to the Parish of St John of the Cross, Rome”
• 2010.03.06: Speech “To the Board of Directors, personnel and volunteers of the Italian National Civil Defence”
• 2010.03.05: Speech “To Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Uganda on their ad Limina visit”