News

• 25 March 2008
  VATICAN - At the midday Marian prayer of the Regina Caeli on Easter Monday the Pope recalls the “new Annunciation” which calls Mary to rejoice, “because the Lord is risen” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - On Easter Monday, 24 March the Pope led the recitation of the ‘Regina Caeli’ from his Summer Residence at Castel Gandolfo: “once again after the days of Lent the song of the Allelu ...
• 23 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Holy Father's Easter Message: “humanity needs Christ: in Him, our hope, ‘we are saved’” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “At the rising of the Easter sun, the Church recognizes the voice of Jesus himself who, on rising from death, turns to the Father filled with gladness and love, and exclaims: My Father, h ...
• 22 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope says during the Easter Vigil: Jesus' death is an act of love which becomes immortal because “his going away is transformed into a new coming, into a form of presence which reaches deeper and does not come to an end. ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During the solemn Easter Vigil Mass, the Holy Father Benedict XVI administered the Sacraments of Christian initiation to a group of catechumens from various different countries. To them he ...
• 21 March 2008
  VATICAN - At the end of the Way of the Cross on Good Friday at the Colosseum the Pope says “do not be afraid”, because “by dying the Lord has saved sinners, all of us, on the cross the Redeemer restored the dignity which belongs to us ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Good Friday, 21 March, at the Colosseum at nine in the evening Pope Benedict presided the Way of the Cross, “on the day on which our eyes have seen once again the suffering and anguish ...
• 20 March 2008
  VATICAN - During the Chrism Mass Benedict XVI underlines that “to serve means closeness, but it means above all obedience” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Every year the Chrism Mass urges us to repeat that 'yes' to God's call which we said on the day of our priestly Ordination”. With these words the Holy Father began his homily during th ...
• 20 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope presides the Mass ‘: “We need confession as it has taken form in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. In the Sacrament again and again the Lord washes our soiled feet that we may sit at table with Him ”. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the early evening of Holy Thursday, 20 March, at Rome's Cathedral, the Basilica of St John in the Lateran, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI presided the concelebration of the 'Mass of the L ...
• 19 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Easter Triduum was the subject of the Pope's teaching at his General Audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19 Pope Benedict focussed his weekly teaching on the meaning of the Easter Triduum, the culmination of the Lenten journey. These three days are called ‘holy’ because “they en ...
• 18 March 2008
  Dossier - Best Wishes Holy Father! Best Wishes Holy Father! on St Joseph's Day, the name day of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, Fides News Agency looks back at these first three years of his Pontificate Introduction Why the name ...
• 18 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope's condolences for the death of Chiara Lubich Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI , through the Cardinal Secretary of State, sent a message of condolence to the, Work of Mary, or Focolari Movement, on the occasion of the death of the movement ...
• 17 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope on Palm Sunday: “Together with the young people of the whole world let us go to meet Jesus. Let us allow him to guide us to God, to learn from God himself how to be men... that we too become with him and beginning from him messengers of his peace” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI presided the liturgical celebration of Palm Sunday and the Lord’s Passion held in Saint Peter’s Square on March 16. Following the blessing of the palms and ...
• 17 March 2008
  VATICAN - “Enough with the bloodshed, enough with the violence, enough with the hatred in Iraq! Beloved Iraqi people, lift up your heads and let it be you yourselves who, in the first place, rebuild your national life!” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The “beautiful witness of fidelity to Christ, to the Church and his people” of the late Chaldean Archbishop of Mossul, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, who met his tragic fatal end just d ...
• 17 March 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics have lived an intense Lent of preparation, with works of charity, for Holy Week and Easter Sunday Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholics have been living a spiritually intense Lent in preparation for Holy Week and Easter, through prayer and works of fraternal charity, in union with the Universal Church. According t ...
• 17 March 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Science for Man”: inauguration of the new Biomedical Campus in Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, March 14, in Trigoria (Rome), the new site of the Biomedical Campus University of Rome founded in 1993 as an apostolate of the Prelature Opus Dei, was inaugurated. The new campus occupie ...
• 17 March 2008
  VATICAN - Promulgation of the Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints: among them are Fr. Clemente Vismara, missionary in Birma for 65 years; Capuchin Fr. Mariano, apostle of the television; and the founder of the “Knights of Columbus” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 15, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI received Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, Prefect for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in a private audience during which the Holy Father authori ...
• 17 March 2008
  VATICAN - “Archbishop Rahho took up his cross and followed the Lord Jesus, thus he contributed to bringing justice to his martyred country and to the whole world, bearing witness to the truth”: Holy Father’s homily in the funeral mass for the Archbishop of Mossul Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In the Passion of Christ, we see the fulfillment of this mission, when He, faced with an unjust condemnation, bears witness to the truth, remaining faithful to the law of love. On this s ...