The best way to take action towards addressing the issues exposed on this blog is to respectfully voice your concerns–in writing–to the people listed below. (Instructions for sending faxes via the Web for free in the U.S. and internationally can also be found below). We are advising readers to have the courage to start high in your letter writing–it’s easier to get a boulder to roll down from the top of the hill than it is to push it up the hill. The issues are important enough that we ask you to take the time to send a message to everyone below. Send letters or faxes to:
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI
Apostolic Palace
Via del Pellegrino
Citta del Vaticano
Vatican City State, 00120
email: BenedictXVI@vatican.va
email: av@pccs.va (Vatican press office. If sending email, send to both this address and BenedictXVI@vatican.va)
Phone: 011.39.06.6988.10.22
Fax: 011.3906.6988.53.73
(note, 011 gets out of the U.S. , 39 is Italy’s country code, 06 is Rome)
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Apostolic Nunciature
3339 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008-3610
Phone: (202)333-7121
Fax: (202) 337-4036
nuntiususa@nuntiusa.org
(Note: U.S. Mail or fax are the best ways to reach the Papal Nuncio directly, but email will also get through)
Congregation for Bishops
Telephone: 011.39.06.69.88.42.17
Fax from U.S: 011.39.06.69.88.53.03
Cardinal Raymond L. Burke
Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
Palazzo della Cancelleria
00186 Roma, Piazza della Cancelleria, 1
Telephone: 011.39.06.69.88.75.20
Fax: 011.39.06.69.88.75.53
Cardinal William J. Levada, Prefect
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Piazza del S. Uffizio ll
00l93 Rome Italy
Phone: 011.3906.69.88.33.57
Phone: 011.3906.69.88.34.13
Fax: 011.3906.69.88.34.09
email: cdf@cfaith.va
Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect
Congregation for Catholic Education
Piazza Pio XII 3
00l93, Rome, Italy
Phone: 011.3906.6988.4167
Fax: 011.3906.6988.4172
Email: educatt@ccatheduc.va, vati133@ccatheduc.va, univ@ccatheduc.va
(He’s responsible for the promotion and organization of Catholic Education, for clerics and laity both. He oversees Catholic schools in the dioceses, as well as universities, faculties, and any institute of higher learning which has the name of ‘Catholic’ including.)
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley
66 Brooks Drive
Braintree MA 02184-3839
Phone: 617-782-2544
Fax: 617-746-5762
Email
Sending a free Fax via the Web: It is now possible to send a fax for free using a standard web browser. (Priests and church employees who fear repercussions will be pleased to know that no fax/phone number or email address appears on the transmission!) So, you can send a fax at no cost to papal nuncio, Archbishop Sambi in Washington, DC or to Archbishop Burke, the Holy Father, or the Holy Father’s chief of staff, American Archbishop James Harvey in Italy at www.myfax.com/free. (2 free faxes/day anywhere in the world). Write your letter in Word, save it, upload it, add text for the cover page, and hit Send. About 3-4 minutes later (be patient), you’ll get an email request to confirm delivery. Just click on the link in the email and voila–your fax is sent. Another service that’s free for U.S. faxes and $2.55 for Italy is GotFreeFax.com.
Also, please share this blog with like-minded priests and laity you know and ask them to voice their concerns to the individuals listed above.
