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3 December 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - The One awaited by the nations!
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Advent, the season of waiting for the Lord who comes, and will not delay, has just begun! This special time of waiting is offered to the whole of humanity, because Jesus is the Saviour of e ...
2 December 2008
VATICAN - The Pope tells teachers and students from the University of Parma: “Truly free, according to the Gospel and the tradition of the Church, is the person, community or institution that fully responds to its own nature and goals, and the vocation of the University is the scientific and cultural formation of the person for the progress of the entire community.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI focused on the spiritual inheritance left by the great reformer Saint Peter Damian in his address to teachers and students from the University of Parma, whom h ...
1 December 2008
VATICAN - Pope tells seminarians: “the Word of God that you must sow with your hands full and that carries eternal life, is Christ Himself, the only One who can change the human heart and renew the world”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In addressing a group of students from the Pontifical Seminaries of the Italian regions of the Marche ("Pio XI"), Puglie ("Pio XI"), Molfetta, and Chieti (“San Pio X”) received in an ...
1 December 2008
VATICAN - The Pope celebrates Mass in the Parish of San Lorenzo, on the 1,750th anniversary of his martyrdom: “holiness, namely, going out to meet Christ who comes continually to visit us, does not go out of fashion”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “At this beginning of Advent, what better message to receive from Saint Lawrence than that of holiness? He repeats to us that holiness, namely, going out to meet Christ who comes continually to v ...
1 December 2008
VATICAN - Holy Father's homily at First Vespers for the 1st Sunday of Advent: “Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Celebrating the liturgical seasons, we actualize the mystery -- in this case the coming of the Lord -- in such a way as to be able, so to speak, to 'walk in it' toward its full realizati ...
1 December 2008
VATICAN - On the First Sunday of Advent, Benedict XVI refers to the three great “hinges” of time and expresses his “horror and the disapproval of the explosion of such cruel and senseless violence” in India and Nigeria
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As the First Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of a new liturgical year, before the recitation of the Angelus with the faithful gathered in Saint Peter's Square on November 30, the Hol ...
28 November 2008
VATICAN - On the eve of the Doha Conference, the Holy See calls for new guidelines for financial markets that favor poor countries; the grave problem of the offshore financial centers
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Intervene in the flight of capital in offshore financial centers which are an enormous diversion of resources through financial evasion; impose politics based on cooperation in favor of p ...
28 November 2008
VATICAN - The Holy Father Benedict XVI launches an appeal “for an end to all acts of terrorism” in a telegram to the Archbishop of Bombay
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Following the series of terrorist attacks in Bombay (Mumbai), the economic capital of India, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, sent a telegram to the Archbishop of Bombay, Ca ...
27 November 2008
VATICAN - General Audience, with Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians; Holy Father invites all to pray for the ecumenical path and mentions in his Catechesis: “Christian ethics is not born from a system of commandments, but rather is the consequence of our friendship with Christ.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “This fraternal visit is a significant occasion for strengthening the bonds of unity already existing between us, as we journey towards that full communion which is both the goal set befo ...
27 November 2008
VATICAN - Holy See Press Office issues a declaration on the two kidnapped Italian nuns in Kenya
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office issued the following declaration from Director Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ
“More than a fortnight has passed since the two Italian nuns, Sr. Maria Teresa Olive ...
27 November 2008
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The goal of faith is the triumph of reason
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - There was considerable reaction from Media communication after a recent statement of Benedict XVI, when the Pope affirmed that in actual fact, there can be no dialogue between religions, bu ...
26 November 2008
VATICAN - Pope's Message to the Pontifical Academy: “our announcement of the Gospel should be perceived in its beauty and novelty, our daily mission should be an eloquent manifestation of the beauty of God's love”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The urgent need for a renewed dialogue between aesthetics and ethics, between beauty, truth and goodness,” was addressed by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in his Message sent to the Pres ...
26 November 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - The presence of Jesus
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Then he got into the boat followed by his disciples. Suddenly a storm broke over the lake, so violent that the boat was being swamped by the waves. But he was asleep. So they went to him ...
25 November 2008
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI tells Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians: “Surely the growth in understanding, respect and cooperation which has emerged from ecumenical dialogue promises much for the proclamation of the Gospel in our time.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, November 24, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, in an audience. After the private audience and that of the Bisho ...
24 November 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells members of the Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni: “May Saint Andrew help you to increasingly rediscover the importance and urgency of bearing witness to the Gospel in every part of society.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, November 22, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received a large representation from the Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni, who had come to Rome on a pilgrimage with the relic ...
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