VATICAN: POPE: PART OF TV PROGRAM ON GOOD FRIDAY

RADIO VATICANA REPORT: For the first time ever, a Pope will take part in a TV program. This Good Friday, Italian State TV Raiuno, will broadcast the Holy Father’s answers to three questions about Jesus chosen from those submitted by the faithful, during the program “A Sua Imagine” or, “In His Image”. The footage will be pre-recorded by Vatican Television Centre.

Also Tuesday it was announced that a televised press conference will be held Thursday to mark the presentation of the second of the three volume work by Pope Benedict XVI on Jesus of Nazareth. Chaired by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the conference will take place at 5pm Rome time in the Vatican Press Office. http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=468145

VATICAN CITY, 8 MAR 2011 (VIS REPORTS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Rolando Jose Alvarez Lagos of the clergy of the archdiocese of Managua, Nicaragua, pastor of the parish of "San Francisco de Asis", secretary of the department for the social communications media of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, and adjunct secretary of the secretariat of the Central American Episcopate, as bishop of Matagalpa (area 6,794, population 544,000, Catholics 521,000, priests 48, religious 60), Nicaragua. The bishop-elect was born in Managua in 1966 and ordained a priest in 1994.