BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

Tuesday, November 29, First Week of Advent


The site of St. Patrick's Church in Washington, DC, used to carry an admirable compendium of all the saints and blesseds venerated by the Church for every day of the year, with substantial biographies or known accounts based on legend and hagiography and good illustrations, but they discontinued the service. In the past three years, I have relied on the 'Saints of the Day' calendar published by American Catholic.org - which, I assume, reports on the liturgical feast days for the year prescribed in the United States - for the designated 'saint of the day' in the current year, but it does not have anyone listed for November 29 this year (nor last year), although other calendars mention the two Saints Saturninus, bishops of Carthage and Toulouse, respectively, who were martyred in the 4th century,. Obviously, the saints and blesseds who somehow never make it to the calendar of liturgical feasts observed throughout the universal Church during the year are nonetheless venerated on their feast day in their countries of origin or where they served most.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/112911.cfm


No events scheduled for the Holy Father today,
nor other bulletins from the Vatican Press Office.




- According to the Belgian media today, a Brussels court has ruled that the raid and search ordered by a local judge on the Archbishop's Palace and the residence of Cardinal Godfreed Danneels, former Archbishop of Brussels, on June 24, 2010, were illegal, and that all materials seized should be returned forthwith. However, those conducted in this connection in the State Archives of Belgium itself and in the Cathedral of St. Rombaut in Mechlen (where the tombs of two archbishops were opened and searched) were considered legal. The raids were carried out in connection with inquiries into alleged abuses committed by priests against minors, at the recommendation of the former head of Belgium's Commission on Sexual Abuse. The Vatican promptly protested the raids at the time, especially since while the raids were being done, the members of Belgium's conference of bishops who were meeting at the Archbishop's Palace, were sequestered for several hours.