Audiance with the Pope
 

Can anyone advise me as to how to go about being chosen to meet with the Pope. I understand that there a certain number of people who are let in for what has been termed " audiance with the Pope". When does this happen and how can I make it happen. Thank you.

I had an audiance with the Pope a few years back. I got the information from Fodors guide. You write a letter telling where and when you will be in Rome and they will mail you back. The vatican hand deliverd our tickets to our hotel. We were less then 10 feet from him!!!! The POPE is very sick. Good luck!

I hear that your best bet is to work directly through your bishop. I suspect that it would help if you have a long term relationship with him, and perhaps an illustrious record of service to your church and your diocese.<BR><BR>I am really guessing on this. My father-in-law had quite a close relationship with his second cousin who IS the bishop for their diocese. But I've never heard of anyone from their diocese actually having such an audience arranged.<BR><BR>Best wishes...<BR><BR>and also with you...<BR><BR>wink...<BR><BR>Rex<BR>

Warning: The Pope hates misspellers. It is audience, not audiance. It is well known that the Pope actually throws darts at a picture of Dan Quayle because of tomatoe. You don't want the Pope throwing darts at you, do you? (Although, his palsy would probably render them harmless. A worse fate would be if he dribbled on you.) :)

Richard: The Pope speaks and writes about 11 languages. He's not gonna dole out an AUDIENCE to someone who can't spell it in the King's English. And in case you haven't been forewarned, an "audience" with the Pope generally means you and about a thousand other people crammed into a huge room with him - it's not like it's personal or anything. He gives a canned speech in all the languages that he speaks that lasts about a zillion hours. You can write to the Swiss Guard at the Vatican and request an "audience," and within a month or two can expect a reply giving you a date and time, which you gotta remember to bring with you and show upon arrival. Remember, it ain't personal...........You could also just show up at St. Peter's any day there's a papal greeting - I think it's Wednesdays - and see him as a tiny little speck of red in the center of the square and see him on the big TV screens they've placed around the piazza. He's very old and very hard to understand in any language, but it's a moving scene....in its way.

My answer was with regard to being in one of the 50-100 people who get to sit up near him - - generally 50 feet or less away. If it were to be a day when there's a class of new priests up for ordination, there might only be a handful of any other dignitaries accorded that privilege.<BR>

Hi<BR>Look up:<BR>www.italywithus.com/<BR>Click on ezine and then May 2001<BR>I explained the procedure of obtaining tickets to the audience.<BR>Unfortunately the Pope is not very strong now and last week, for example, the audience was cancelled.<BR>

You mean he is too pooped to pope? <BR>:-)

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Richard,<BR><BR>The USO is around the corner from St. Peter's Square, you can get tickets from them for the Wednesday audience, good seats for a couple of bucks.

I attended a papal audience in January. They are held on Wednesday mornings at 10:30. In my case, I faxed a letter to the Cardinal's office in my local diocese. The Cardinal's secretary phoned me, stating that she'd need a second fax from me, with the name, address and telephone number of my hotel in Rome. I furnished this. The following day, I received a fax from my Cardinal's office, and it contained a copy of a fax from the Prefect of the Vatican, which directed me to retain the fax, bring it to Rome, and present it at the Prefect's office either the day prior to Papal Audience, or the early morning of Papal Audience. I did this, and the Prefect gave me a blue "reparto speciale" ticket. Folks with green tickets sit further in the back of the audience hall. The Pope is noticeably ill, but this was an experience I will never forget, and I'm glad I did it.<BR><BR>Buon Viaggio, BC

Richard, you don't really need to write to Him, The Pope being God on earth know already you want to see Him and His Excellence will send you tickets. PS. If you are a child molester, your chances to get tickets are doubled. Have a blessed day my son.

to the top<BR><BR>although you would think His Holiness could bring this message back up to the top without having to go through with this "topping" ritual.<BR>

Celeste, you are a shit.

Ticked, you are using bad language, you need to be punished now; assume the position and the Holly Father is going to slap your ass...just the way you like it!

Hey MamaMia, you mean he can say God Bless you in 11 language?.... that's not bad for someone who pretends being God and knows everything!

ttt

Understand the new (and only) hotel within Vatican City and with Vatican Museum access. Don't know the details, but perhaps someone else here does.

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In addition to the "audience" (a few hundred of nearest & dearest) on Wednesdays, you can also get a glimpse of Il Papa on Sundays. Unless he's out of town or more likely, not feeling well, he appears at the Sunday morning service. Appearance may only be a wave from a window overlooking the square. I was lucky on a visit to Rome years ago. They were having a beatification ceremony in addition to the mass and I saw the Pope actively participate in Sunday service. You could go up to rail & accept communion (Cardinals giving out the wafers). I'm not Catholic, but found it a moving experience to witness this event in St. Peter's Square.