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4 May 2009
VATICAN - Pope tells Bishops from Argentina on Ad Limina visit: “to be bishop is an honor when lived with that spirit of service to others and as a humble and disinterested participation in the mission of Christ.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In exercising his episcopal ministry, a bishop must always act as a servant among his faithful, drawing constant inspiration from the One Who came not to be served but to serve, and to g ...
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4 May 2009
VATICAN - On the Day of Prayer for Vocations, the Pope ordains 19 priests: “always be men of prayer and service, so that in faithfully exercising your ministry you may become holy priests according to God's heart”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, May 3, the 4th Sunday of Easter, the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided a Mass in the Vatican Basilica during which he ordained 19 priests ...
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4 May 2009
VATICAN - Holy Father reminds members of the Papal Foundation that, especially when times are difficult, “we must continue to be beacons of hope, strength and support for others, most especially those who have no one to watch over or assist them.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In just a few days I will have the privilege of visiting the Holy Land. I go as a pilgrim of peace. As you are well aware, for more than sixty years, this region — the land of our Lord ...
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4 May 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Regina Caeli encourages faithful to “pray a lot for vocations” and for his trip to the Holy Land: “I will be a pilgrim of peace, in the name of the one God, Father of all.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “As much personally as in community, we have to pray a lot for vocations, so that the greatness and the beauty of the love of God attracts many to follow Christ on the path of the priesth ...
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30 April 2009
VATICAN; WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - The authority of an Episcopal Conference derives solely from the Apostolic See
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Share thoughts with Church authorities and do what the authorities advise. This is the secret of the unity between Catholic Bishops and the Pope, from which none of the forms which express ...
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30 April 2009
VATICAN - Final day of the Congress organized by the Saint Joseph Missionary College: “The identity and role of the lay catechist in the Church, communion and mission.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The second and final day of workshops promoted by the Saint Joseph Missionary College in the Aula Magna of the Pontifical University Urbaniana was dedicated to the identity of the lay cat ...
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30 April 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the General Audience: “Let us pray to God so that he teaches us to see in the Church his presence, his beauty, to see his presence in the world, and that he helps us also to be transparent for his light.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI spoke of the Patriarch Germanus of Constantinople in the General Audience on April 29. As the Pontiff recalled, Saint Germanus “does not belong to the most ...
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29 April 2009
VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Who can ever separate us from the love of Christ?
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Easter Season leads us to contemplate the boundless loving mercy of God opened to us with the Resurrection of Jesus. Gone are the shadows of sin and death, put to flight by the glorious ...
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29 April 2009
VATICAN - Pastoral Care of Tourism today, 40 years after “Peregrinans in terra”: Meeting on Europe promoted by the Pontifical Council for for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – This morning, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People at San Calixto Palace in Rome, a meeting on the Pastoral Care of Tourism ...
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29 April 2009
VATICAN - “The identity of the lay catechist in the evangelization of peoples” Congress at the Urbaniana, for 30th anniversary of Saint Joseph Missionary College
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The figure of the lay catechist in the ad gentes mission is at the center of the Congress that was organized by the Saint Joseph Missionary College in Rome, at the Pontifical University U ...
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29 April 2009
VATICAN - May 24, worldwide spiritual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Sheshan, to pray for the gift of communion and reconciliation; letter from Cardinal Dias to all Bishops on the Day of Prayer for the Church in China
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, in his letter written on May 27, 2007 to the Catholics of the People's Republic of China, expressed his desire that May 24 of every year be a Day of Prayer f ...
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28 April 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI visits Abruzzo's earthquake victims: “Dear friends, my presence among you is intended as a tangible sign of the fact that the crucified Lord is risen and does not abandon you.”
L'Aquila (Agenzia Fides) – Hope for the living, prayers for the dead. In brief, this is the message that the Holy Father Benedict XVI launched to the earthquake victims of Abruzzo, in a visit that lasted a matter of ho ...
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27 April 2009
VATICAN - Holy Father Benedict XVI reminds Catholic religion teachers of their role in “giving soul to the school and assuring the Christian faith of a full citizenship in areas of education and culture.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “May your teaching be similar to that of Saint Paul, capable of showing your students that dimension of freedom and full appreciation of man redeemed by Christ, as is present in God's pla ...
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27 April 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI encourages faithful to follow example of the new saints “so that our lives may be hymns of praise to God, following the footsteps of Jesus, whom we adore with faith in the mystery of the Eucharist and serve with generosity in our neighbor.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The light radiating from the countenance of the Risen Christ shines on us today, especially in the evangelical lives of the five blesseds, who in this celebration are inscribed in the li ...
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27 April 2009
VATICAN - Seven Cardinals as Special Envoys of the Holy Father for the concluding acts of the Year of Saint Paul in Pauline sites
Vatican City(Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the close of the Year dedicated to the Apostle Saint Paul, which will take place simultaneously on June 29, 2009 in various “Pauline sites,” the Holy Father Benedict ...
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