From January 11, 1984
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Mrs. Catherine Baxter, 90, of Bay
St. Louis was awarded the Pro Ecclesia
et Pontifice medal by Bishop Howze
on Dec. 21 at in a private ceremony at
the diocesan chancery office in Biloxi.
Mrs. Baxter was nominated for the
papal award in recognition of her life
of loyalty and service to the Church.
A New Orleans native, Mrs. Baxter
is the mother of four sons, one of
whom, Lionel, was named a Knight of
St. Gregory in 1947 by Pope Pius XII.
Her husband, Joseph Baxter, was a
convert to Catholicism at age 66.
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Jan. 5 Mass, Nativity BVM
Cathedral, 11 am
Jan. 5-9 Bishops’ Retreat
Jan. 6 Mass for Deceased Irish
Priests, Our Lady of Fatima
Parish, Biloxi, 6 pm
Jan. 12 Mass, Nativity BVM
Cathedral, 11 am
Jan. 14 Good Leaders, Good
Shepherds, Sacred Heart
Center, Biloxi
Vatican news highlights of 2013
By Francis X. Rocca
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In terms of
Vatican news, 2013 was surely one of the
most eventful years in living memory. Here
are the highlights at a glance:
>
Feb. 11: Pope Benedict XVI announces
that he will become the first pope in more
than 600 years to resign.
>
Feb. 25: Cardinal Keith O’Brien of
Scotland, under accusation of “inappropriate
conduct” with priests, announces that he will
not vote in the upcoming papal conclave.
>
Feb. 28: On his last day in office, Pope
Benedict flies to the papal summer residence
at Castel Gandolfo in a spectacular helicop-
ter ride televised around the world.
>
March 13: Cardinal Jorge Mario Ber-
goglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is elected
pope. The first pope from the Americas and
the first Jesuit to hold the office, he is also the
first to take the name Francis.
>
March 26: The Vatican announces that
Pope Francis will not move into the papal
apartments in the Apostolic Palace but re-
main in the Vatican guesthouse, where he
stayed during the conclave.
>
April 13: The Vatican announces that
Pope Francis has named an international
group of eight cardinals to advise him on
governance of the universal church and re-
form of the Vatican bureaucracy. (The pope
formally establishes the body as the Council
of Cardinals in September.)
>
May 2: Retired Pope Benedict returns
from Castel Gandolfo and moves into a refur-
bished monastery within the Vatican walls.
>
June: Leaked notes from Pope Francis’
private June 6 meeting with leaders of reli-
gious orders in Latin America describe the
pope referring to a “gay lobby” in the Vati-
can.
>
July 5: The Vatican announces that
Pope Francis has cleared the way for the
canonizations of Blessed John XXIII and
Blessed John Paul II. The same same day, the
Vatican publishes Pope Francis’ first encycli-
cal,
“Lumen Fidei”
(
“The Light of Faith”
),
which he acknowledges to have been written
mostly by Pope Benedict.
>
July 8: Pope Francis visits the southern
Mediterranean Island of Lampedusa, a major
entry point for immigrants without permis-
sion to enter Europe, where he decries hostil-
ity and indifference to the immigrants’ plight.
>
July 22-28: Pope Francis visits Bra-
zil for World Youth Day. His modest car
is mobbed on the streets of Rio de Janeiro,
he visits a notorious “favela” slum and cel-
ebrates Mass for more than 3 million people
on Copacabana beach.
>
July 28: On his flight back to Rome,
the pope takes questions from the press on
such controversial topics as homosexuality
in the priesthood, divorced and remarried
Catholics, the ban on female ordination and
corruption in the Vatican.
>
August: Pope Francis works through
the summer at the Vatican, breaking with his
predecessors’ summertime practice of relo-
cating to the cooler climate of Castel Gan-
dolfo.
>
Sept. 7: Pope Francis leads a prayer
vigil for peace in Syria, drawing 100,000
people to St. Peter’s Square.
Pope Francis speaks to the media aboard the papal flight from Rio de Janeiro to Rome
during an 80-minute press conference July 28. The pope answered questions on a number
of controversial topics during the press conference, revealing the tone for his new papacy.
CNS photo/Paul Haring
See 2013 vATICAN hIGHLIGHTS,
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