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24 November 2008
VATICAN - On the Solemnity of Christ the King, the Pope recalls that “the Kingdom of God is not a question of honors and appearances...God will accept into his eternal kingdom those who have made the effort every day to put his word into practice.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The kingship of Christ is, indeed, the revelation and the implementation of the kingship of God the Father, who governs all things with love and with justice. The Father entrusted the So ...
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24 November 2008
VATICAN - Agenzia Fides launches its 8th language: new on-line version in Arabic, dedicated to the Pope's Teachings
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Just days before the celebration of the feast of Saint Francis Xavier, Patron of the Missions (December 3), also Agenzia Fides' 81st birthday, its website (www.fides.org) will now feature ...
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21 November 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life: “Monasticism can, for all forms of religious and consecrated life, become a reminder of what is of essential and primary importance for all the baptized: seeking Christ and placing nothing before His love.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “By virtue of the absolute primacy reserved by Christ, monasteries are called to be which room is given for celebrating the glory of God, where the mysterious yet real divine presence in ...
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20 November 2008
VATICAN THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Marx, freedom and the Word of God
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the part of the Encyclical Spe salvi devoted to “The transformation of Christian faith-hope in modern times ”, Pope Benedict XVI affirms "Marx not only omitted to work out how this ...
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20 November 2008
VATICAN - “Paul knows that in the double love of God and neighbor the whole law is fulfilled”: the Pope's catechesis dedicated to Saint Paul's preaching on justification
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “How is a man just in the eyes of God?” This was the question posed by the Holy Father Benedict XVI during the General Audience held on Wednesday, November 19, dedicated to the preachin ...
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19 November 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA: Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Man is not the master of eternity
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - How many talents we have received and continue to receive from the Lord; who can ever count them? Beginning with the gift of life, our existence on this earth is studded with “gifts-tale ...
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18 November 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells new Ambassador of Lebanon: “Particularly sensitive to the sufferings undergone for so long by the people of the Middle East, the Holy See continues with determination its commitment to peace and reconciliation in Lebanon and throughout that region so beloved to all believers.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ "In this important phase in your nation's history, the Holy See continues to follow events in Lebanon very closely and pays particular attention to the efforts made to find a definitiv ...
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18 November 2008
VATICAN - “The Universality of Beauty: a comparison between aesthetics and ethics,” theme for the 13th Public Conference for the Pontifical Academies, on November 25
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The 13th Public Conference for the Pontifical Academies, organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Academies coordinated by the Dicastery, will be held on Tuesday ...
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17 November 2008
VATICAN - “The work in the great vineyard of the Lord is in need of 'christifideles laici' who, like the Most Holy Virgin Mary, pronounce and live a 'fiat' to the plan of God in their lives,” the Holy Father tells the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Every situation, circumstance, and activity in which the unity between faith and life can shine, is entrusted to the responsibility of the faithful laity, moved by the desire to communic ...
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17 November 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI reminds participants of the Congress promoted by the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care of “the importance of respecting the child as a precious gift and good for society, recognizing the human dignity that they fully possess beginning in their mother's womb.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Even the ancients themselves recognized the importance of respecting the child, as a precious gift and good for society, recognizing the human dignity that they fully possess beginning i ...
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17 November 2008
VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus: “Indeed, what Christ gives us is multiplied when we give it away! It is a treasure that is made to be spent, invested, shared with all, as the Apostle Paul, that great administrator of Jesus' talents, has taught us;” the presence of the cloistered religious communities in the Church and the world “is indispensable.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The parable of the talents, told in the Gospel of St. Matthew (25:14-30) is the Gospel read on the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, and it “invites us to be vigilant and active, in awaiti ...
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14 November 2008
VATICAN - Solemn Commemorative Act: a concert attended by the Holy Father and presentation of awards by the Saint Matthew Foundation, in memory of Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân, for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church believes that human rights express the transcendent dignity of the person, the only creature that God has willed for himself as an end and never a means, and she believes that ...
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13 November 2008
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Beyond the “shady areas”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Recent discussion about the borders of the possibility for a state organ to legislate with regard to the most sensitive issues of life and to recognise or, even worse, declare, “non-l ...
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13 November 2008
VATICAN - The Pope at the close of his General Audience: “Come, Lord! Come to your world, in the way that you know. Come where there is injustice and violence. Come to the refugee camps, in Darfur and in North Kivu, in so many places in the world...In this sense, we pray with St. Paul: Maranà, thà! Come, Lord Jesus!”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During the General Audience held on November 12, in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father Benedict XVI continued his catechesis on the Apostle St. Paul, highlighting his preaching on the se ...
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12 November 2008
VATICAN - “Pastoral Care in the Treatment of Sick Children”: 23rd International Conference of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the last decade more than two million children have been killed in the course of armed conflict, six million have been left handicapped, tens of thousands mutilated by antipersonnel mine ...
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