News
23 February 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - National Directors Pontifical Mission Societies in Oceania aim to increase mission awareness among young people in view of WYD 2008 and consider a 1st Mission Congress hosted by Oceania
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - To share experience, impressions and ideas, intensify contact: in this spirit Father Terry Bell, National Director of Catholic Mission Australia, Father Paul Shannahan (New Zealand), Father Nick ...
23 February 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - In Lent Archbishop of Buenos Aires calls Catholics to “give impulse to new evangelisation, to go beyond known things, towards the fringes and frontiers where humanity suffers most”
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, has urged Catholics of the archdiocese to "live the season of Lent as a Church which prays and reflects and does penance so that ...
23 February 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Commission for Catholic Education will promote a course on Morals and Religion in Catholic schools in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Schools of Hong Kong will offer a new optional course on Morals and Religion starting in 2009. According to the Hong Kong diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao the decision was taken by ...
23 February 2007
VATICAN - The Church is to have five new Saints, exemplary educators, preachers, confessors, devoted to serving others and promoting ecumenism
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the course of an Ordinary Public Consistory held this morning in the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI established that on Friday, May 11, during the course of his Apostolic journey to Brazil, ...
23 February 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Latin America Day “as lively as ever Spanish Church’s concern for evangelisation in America: 800 of the 898 Spanish diocesan priests presently on mission serve in America
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - For the Church in Spain the first Sunday in March (this year March 4) is Latin America Day promoted by the Spanish Bishops’ Commission for Missions and Cooperation among Churches to recall the ...
23 February 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Catholics help curtail farmers’ suicide rates in the country
New Delhi (Fides Service) - In the name of the sacredness of human life Caritas India, the largest national NGO of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), has devised an integrated programme "Save Farmers-Save ...
23 February 2007
VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT
THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
2nd Station JESUS TAKES UP HIS CROSS
Rome (Fides News Service) -
V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.
R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
From the Gospel according to Matthew. 27:27-31
Then the soldiers of the governor took ...
23 February 2007
AFRICA/SENEGAL - “Sunday’s elections will be an important test for the life of Senegal once a beacon of democracy for all Africa” says a local Church source
Dakar (Fides Service)- “The elections will reveal the vitality of the country’s democratic system” said local Church sources in Dakar capital of Senegal, where a first round of presidential elections will be held ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - “This Lent, by a more fervent participation in the Eucharist, may we learn to enter more deeply into the Paschal Mystery and to “re-give” Christ’s love to others, especially the suffering and those in need”: the Pope’s teaching at the general audience
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again, given the large number of visitors for the General Audience on Wednesday 21 February, Ash Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI gave his audience in two stages. First to St Peter’s Bas ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - de facto couples and homosexual persons (2)
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since some Catholics have adopted an individualistic ‘liberal’ idea of conscience, rejecting the idea of communion of conscience, in which the individual Christian and the Church are on ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- « STABAT MATER »
Rome (Agence Fides) - STABAT MATER
Stabat Mater is a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic hymn attributed to Jacopone da Todi. Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa ("The sorrowful mother ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - The Pope presides the first Lenten ‘station’ Mass at the basilica of Santa Sabina: “Works of charity (almsgiving), prayer and penance (fasting), and other sincere efforts for conversion find their highest significance and values in the Eucharist, source and summit of the life of the Church and the history of salvation”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Ash Wednesday is considered the ‘gateway’ to Lent. In fact today’s Liturgy and its distinctive actions anticipate in a synthetic form the very physiognomy of the Lenten Season. In ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - Message to Catholics in Brazil for the Lenten Fraternity Campaign 2007, the Pope recalls with gratitude the many courageous men and women missionaries dedicated, “even at the risk of their life, to spreading the Catholic faith in the villages and towns of the region”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the annual Lenten Brotherhood Campaign in Brazil, this year with the theme “Fraternity and Amazon" and the motto "Life and Mission in that Land " (see Fides 20/2/2007 ...
22 February 2007
EUROPE/SCOTLAND - Catholic Bishop of Paisley calls for action to protect the religious freedom of the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom
Paisley (Agenzia Fides) - In a Pastoral Letter read out at all Masses in the Diocese of Paisley on Sunday (18 February 2007) Bishop Philip Tartaglia called for action to protect "the religious freedom of the Catholic Chu ...
21 February 2007
VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT: THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Rome (Fides News Service) The STATIONS OF THE CROSS (or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis; also called the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, or simply, The Way) refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) ...
Total articles: 43400 - Page 2305 of 2305