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Benedict XVI announces "Year of Faith"; presents Apostolic Letter, "Porta fidei" From Vatican Information Service:VATICAN CITY, 16 OCT 2011 (VIS) - During Mass this morning in the Vatican Basilica, celebrated to mark the end of an international meeting on new evangelisation organised by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation, Benedict XVI announced that he was calling a forthcoming "Year of Faith". The Year will begin on 11 October 2012, fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Vatican Council II, and will come to an end on 24 November 2013, Feast of Christ the King. Its aim "is to give renewed...

-September-2010 -- Catholic News Agency   Commemorative Stamps Celebrate Pope's UK Visit And Newman Beatification LONDON, ENGLAND, August 31 (CNA/EWTN News) - The post office of the Isle of Man, a small independently-governed island near the U.K., issued a set of commemorative stamps this month honoring Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, along with Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope will officially beatify the English cardinal at the end of his visit to England and Scotland from September 16 to 19. The stamps were part of a miniature sheet issued on August 11, the 120th anniversary of Cardinal Newman's death. Since...