Pontifical academy

Father Carlo Balic founded the Pontifical International Marian Academy, PAMI, in 1946.

As a pontifical academy, it was established to advance research on the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mariology, coordinate international Marian studies, and organize congresses in her honor.

In 1959, Pope John XXIII granted it the official pontifical title, elevating its status.

Father Balic was a maximalist Mariologist who strongly advocated for the titles of Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces to be conferred on the Blessed Virgin Mary, along with the formal affirmation of the related doctrines.

Following the path of beauty, it fosters expressions of the human heart as manifested through religious veneration, devotions, pilgrimages, and all forms of art.

Following the path of charity, it strives to ensure that Marian study and devotion are not reduced to sterile devotionism, but give life to Marian places that promote the well-being and integral development of the human person in harmony with the environment.

The Pontifical Academy identifies and dynamically pursues forms and methods that favor the dissemination of sound Mariological knowledge according to the path of culture, which synthesizes the three aforementioned paths in service of the church and universal brotherhood and solidarity of justice and world peace.

That is PAMI's new preamble.

And finally, a remarkable medieval Bible is beginning a new chapter in the Vatican.

The first volume of a faithful facsimile of the Bible of Aquileia was presented on Monday to the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences in the Vatican Gardens.

As Linda Bordoni reports, the project aims to reproduce all five volumes of the monumental manuscript by 2031.

The original Bible is preserved in the treasury of the Cathedral of Gorizia, where according to tradition, St.

The physical facsimile, meanwhile, is being reproduced using methods inspired by medieval bookmaking.

Materials, inks, and colors have been developed according to historical techniques, while the gatherings are assembled and bound by hand.

For the Pontifical Academies, the project highlights the Bible's continuing influence on European culture and its role in shaping language, literature, and the collective imagination.

But the initiative also looks beyond the preservation of the past.

Consequence.

And in the spiritual consequence of living a life apart from God, choosing to reject him and dying in that state, then what's the purpose of following the Ten Commandments or striving to have a relationship with God on a deeper level? So that being said, we have, I know one story that had come out, this priest, Father Stefano, who is, he basically, it sounds like he's the head of the Pontifical Academy for the Blessed Mother.

Is that right? Is that the title he's given? Yeah.

Marian Academy, International Marian Academy, Pontifical Head of the Marian Academy.