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KatyA	Wednesday, 13. February 2008, 23:00
Administrator Posts: 5,408 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	The Holy See Press Office today announced that at 11.30 a.m. on Monday, 18 February, a press conference will be held to present the Instruction of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, "Sanctorum Mater", concerning norms regulating the opening of causes for beatification. Participating in the press conference - during which the supplement to the "Index ac status causarum" will also be presented - will be Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., Archbishop Michele Di Ruberto and Msgr. Marcello Bartolucci, respectively president, secretary and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The document contains "certain instructions on how to proceed in the examination of the admissibility of new cases, and about what to do to concretely begin and carry forward the diocesan phase of the process," Cardinal Saraiva Martins told L'Osservatore Romano last month. "It involves very important innovations, capable of effectively highlighting the theology of the local Church as it was energetically reaffirmed by the Second Vatican Council." The announcement coincides with the news that the cause of beatification of Sister Lucia, one of the three Fatima visionaries, is to begin. The news was announced today in the cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal, by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, on the third anniversary of the Carmelite's death. The Holy Father dispensed with the established waiting period once before for the cause of Pope John Paul II. Benedict XVI made the announcement on May 13, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, some 42 days after the Pontiff's death in 2005. John Paul II waived the waiting period in the case of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. The blessed died Sept. 5, 1997, and was beatified by John Paul II on Oct. 19, 2003. A communiqué of the Vatican press office states: "Benedict XVI, taking into account the petition presented by Bishop Albino Mamede Cleto of Coimbra, and supported by numerous bishops and faithful from all parts of the world, has revoked the five-year waiting period established by the canonical norms (cf. Article 9 of the 'Normae Servandae'), and he has allowed for the diocesan phase of the Carmelite's cause of beatification to begin three years after her death." KatyA


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