Ad Maoirem De Gloriam

M A NIL A , Feb. 25, 2012— A bishop from the Diocese of Dum a guete h a s been n a med the new he a d of the A rchdiocese of P a lo in E a stern Vis a y a s. Pope Benedict XVI a nnounced in Rome tod a y the a ppointment of Bishop John Du, 57, a s a rchbishop of P a lo. He will now t a ke the title of A rchbishop-design a te a he a d of his offici a l inst a ll a tion soon, succeeding A rchbishop Jose P a lm a who w a s tr a nsferred to the A rchdiocese of Cebu in October 2010. P a p a l nuncio to the Philippine A rchbishop Guiseppe Pinto rel a yed the news of the Du’s a ppointment to Msgr. Pedro Quitorio, medi a director of the C a tholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. Du w a s born on Oct. 18, 1954, in B a nt a y a n, Cebu. He w a s ord a ined a priest on June 1, 1979. In 1997, Pope John P a ul II a ppointed him A uxili a ry Bishop of Cebu. He w a s a ppointed Bishop of Dum a guete on A pril 21, 2001. Currently, the a rchbishop-elect is CBCP’...

ROME, Feb. 23, 2 0 12 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI says the somber Ash Wednesday declaration "You are dust and to dust you shall return" is not only an invitation to humility, but also an announcement of the path to salvation. The Pope made this reflection Wednesday as he celebrated evening Mass for the start of Lent at Rome's Basilica of Santa Sabina. Referring to the Genesis description of the fall of Adam and Eve and God's response, the Holy Father explained: "When [God] says to man, 'You are dust and to dust you shall return!' together with the just punishment he also intends to announce a path of salvation, which will travel through the earth, through that 'dust,' that 'flesh' that will be assumed by the Word." "It is in accord with this salvific perspective that the verse of Genesis is taken up by the Ash Wednesday liturgy: as an invitation to penance, to humility and to an awareness of our mortal conditio...