PAPAL AUDIENCE: Pope Benedict reflects on the “wondrous” and joyful
mystery of Jesus’ incarnation at Christmas during his first Wednesday general audience
of the New Year.... MEMORIES OF 1964 PAPAL VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND:
On January 4th, 1964 Pope Paul the 6th began the first ever papal visit
to the Holy Land and we speak to several eye witnesses about their memories of this
historic pilgrimage.... REBUILDING LIVES AFTER DISASTER: Pope
Benedict’s prayer intentions for January are that the victims of natural disasters
may receive the spiritual and material comfort they need to rebuild their lives and
we shine the spotlight on one aid project sponsored by the Catholic development agency
CAFOD in Haiti following the earthquake there... SPOTLIGHT ON THE U.S. ORDINARIATE:
We speak to the head of the U.S. Ordinariate set up this week by the Vatican for Anglicans
seeking full communion with Rome according to the norms laid down in the document
“Anglicanorum Coetibus.”......