Congratulations to Archbishop Raymond Burke for his appointment as a member of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints.

June 2008: Appointed as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura

October 7,  2008: Appointed President of the Commission for Advocates
October 19, 2009: Appointed a member of the Congregation for Bishops
July 6, 2010: Appointed a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship
July 26, 2010: Appointed a member of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints

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Our recently completed feature length film on the life of Bl. John Duns Scotus has been selected as the official movie of the upcoming World Youth Day in Madrid Aug 16-21 2011. Our Italian friars just watched the whole film for the first time as an institute on Sunday, Dec 26. Below is a special poster we made for the occasion complete with the Madrid WYD (JMJ) logo. A rough trailer can be seen here. The DVD should be available with English subtitles in early 2011. We will keep you posted.

The translation of the poster is as follows

Duns Scotus

The Doctor of the Immaculate

Producer: Fr. Alfonso M. Bruno, FI

Director: Fernando Muraca

With Adriano Braidotti as John Duns Scotus

Official Movie of the Madrid World Youth Day 2011

John Duns Scotus successfully defends Mary’s Immaculate Conception in the dispute at the University of Paris in 1305

December 8th 1854 Pope Pius the IX solemnly proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Beatified by John Paul II on March 2oth, 1993

Exclusive preview for the Franciscans of the Immaculate on Sunday, December 26, 2010 at 9pm in the auditorium of St. Mary of Nazareth Parish, Casalotti, Rome

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( 36min) >>> Play

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For those who are on their way to W.Y.D in Spain here is Audio/Visual recitation of the Holy Rosary in Spanish which you might find useful.

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The AirMaria team is in Madrid and will start posting video soon – hopefully.  After a long flight, with a long layover, and travel time (36 hours all told) we finally arrived on Monday at the hotel in Madrid late in the afternoon, but there seems to be great confusion reigning here and a few technical mishaps that have delayed getting things on AirMaria.

We have, in fact, been quite productive but we are doing multilingual videos for some of the European sites through Fr. Alfonso Bruno, the FI communications director and this has taken most of our time as well as spending a good hour to get anywhere on the Metro Train. We may even be doing some live streaming at some point, again, hopefully.

The Pope will have his first Mass this evening and they expect upwards of a million people coming for the final event at the Madrid Aerodrome. So far the trains are already packed full of super energetic Catholic youth from around the world.

I cant imagine how busy and crowded it will be later on and how enthusiastic they will all be now that the Holy Father is in Madrid.

Packed likes Sardines.

Viva Italia!

Go America!

We will be attending the first public showing of the John Duns Scotus film at 5:15pm this evening where we will do an interview. The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate produced this movie in conjunction with TVCO in Italy. It is the official World Youth Day film and won the Vatican’s Silver Fish Award.

A map showing the incidents of persecution against Catholics at the Photographic Presentation of Christian Persecution at St Jerome’s parish in Madrid set up by the . This was narrated for our French site by Cristina Tatu of Aid to the Church in Need. Wait for the Video.

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If you want to watch the World Youth Day in Madrid Live click the image below:

It is from Madrid11TV via CTV (Vatican TV Center) Much of the announcing is in Spanish. And the FIs are contributors to the content.

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Roving Reporter #121 – Friar Roderic on the Pope’s welcoming ( 04min) >>> Play

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Friar Roderic gives a rundown of the grand Welcoming Celebration for Pope Benedict last night at the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid.

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Lightning bolts come down at the vigil at WYD. No one got hurt. But many got wet.

Below is a photo by Fra Didacus. Nice!!

Below is a professional photo by Madrid11.com. Nice! Which do you like best?

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Photo by Madrid JMJ 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/madrid011/6064499261/sizes/z/in/photostream/

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Variety #159 – 2 Million Youth Camping Out ( 09min) >>> Play

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The exact estimates on how many came to Cuatro Vientos were prohibited by the Spanish government, but depending on which media sources, there where between 1.4 Million to 2 Million youth gathered to be with the Pope (an estimated 200,000 people were refused entry when the gates were closed at 5pm Saturday).

Don’t be surprised that the Spanish Government was not very cooperative, just over 70 years ago between July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939 the government killed 1/3 of the Catholic Priests in Spain.

While we were in Spain we visited Alcala, a town 33 miles east of Madrid. We stopped by a Poor Clare Convent and they told us that one of their nuns was killed during the persecution.

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Face of Pro-Life #159 – Friar Roderic on Face of Pro-life ( 30min) >>> Play

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Friar Roderic discusses with Corinn Dahm the work of AirMaria and the recent trip to Madrid.

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