Pontifical Messages 2009     Message to the Archbishop of Vancouver on the occasion of the 21st Olympic Winter Games and the 10th Paralympic Winter Games (December 30, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on the occasion of the opening of the Compostela Holy Year 2010 (December 19, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco on the occasion of the Conference on the theme "God Today. With him or without him everything changes" (December 7, 2009) [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message of the Holy Father Benedict XVI, signed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, on the occasion of the Second Review Conference of the landmark Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction [30 November - 4 December 2009, Cartagena - Colombia] [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to Archbishop Rino Fisichella, Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, on the occasion of the Conference on the theme: "From Galilei's Telescope to Evolutionary Cosmology. Science, Philosophy and Theology in Dialogue" (November 26, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to His Holiness Bartholomaios I, Archbishop of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch, on the occasion of the feast of St. Andrew (November 25, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to the President of the Episcopal Conference of Vietnam (November 17, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]   Message on the occasion of the death of His Holiness Pavle, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (November 16, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to H.Em. Card. Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on the occasion of the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation on: "Saint Paul and the New Areopagi" [Pontifical Urban University, 16-18 November 2009] (November 13, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to the President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (November 4, 2009) [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to the President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity on the occasion of the Study Seminar entitled: Sports, education, faith: for a new season for the Catholic sports movement [Rome, 6 - 7 November 2009] (November 3, 2009) [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to His Holiness Karekin II on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of His election as Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians (October 27, 2009) [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Video message to participants in the International Retreat for Priests [Ars, 27 September - 3 October 2009] (September 28, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Videostatement to the UN 2009 Summit of Climate Change (September 24, 2009) [English] Message to Card. Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity on the occasion of the 11th Inter-Christian Symposium (August 28, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to altar boys from Northern Germany, taking part in the pilgrimage to Kevelaer (August 27, 2009) [German] Message of Card. Tarcisio Bertone, on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI, on the occasion of the 30th Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples [Rimini, 23-29 August 2009] (August 17, 2009) [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to the Bishop of Macerata on the fourth centenary of the death of Fr. Matteo Ricci (May 6, 2009) [English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to Archbishop Giuseppe Molinari of L'Aquila on the occasion of the funeral Mass for the victims of the earthquake (April 9, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to participants in the International Conference on the theme "Life, Family and Development: the Role of Women in the Promotion of Human Rights" (Vatican, 20-21 March 2009) [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to Card. James Francis Stafford, Major Penitentiary, and to participants in the 20th edition of the course in the Internal Forum, organized by the Apostolic Penitentiary (March 12, 2009) [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to faithful of Brazil on the occasion of the Brotherhood Campaign 2009 (February 25, 2009) [English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Letter to His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and of All Russia on the occasion of his enthronement (January 28, 2009) [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message for the concession of ecclesiastical communion to His Beatitude Ignatius Youssif III Younan, Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (Lebanon) (January 22, 2009) [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to the Archbishop of Tarragona on the occasion of the closing of the Jubilee Year commemorating the 1,750th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bishop St Fructuosus and the deacons St Augurius and St Eulogius (January 19, 2009) [English, Italian, Spanish] Message to the President of the Catholic Union of the Italian Press on the occasion of the National Congress of UCSI on the 50th anniversary of its foundation (January 19, 2009) [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Message to participants at the recitation of Holy Rosary on the occasion of the Sixth World Meeting of Families held in Mexico City (January 17, 2009) [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]