Vatican

• 5 February 2009
  VATICAN - Note from the Secretariat of State Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Here is the text from the Note from the Secretariat of State, released by the Holy See Press Office: In the wake of reactions provoked by the recent Decree from the Congregation for Bish ...
• 5 February 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope concludes his Catecheses on Saint Paul: “there remains luminous before us the figure of an extremely fruitful and deep apostle and Christian thinker, from whose closeness, every one of us can benefit” - Appeal for Sri Lanka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In his General Audience on February 4, the Holy Father Benedict XVI concluded his series of catecheses on the Apostle Saint Paul, focusing on his death and his legacy. “Ancient Christia ...
• 3 February 2009
  VATICAN - On the 13th Day of Consecrated Life, the Pope tells religious that imitating Saint Paul in following Christ, is “the best way to respond fully to your vocation of special consecration in the Church” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of Monday, February 2, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple and 13th Day of Consecrated Life, Cardinal Franc Rode, Prefect of the Congregation for Institut ...
• 3 February 2009
  VATICAN - Pope tells Bishops of Turkey it is important “for Christians and Muslims to work together to promote humanity, life, peace and justice, The distinction between the civil and the religious sphere is clearly a value that deserves to be protected.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Your visit, that is providentially taking place in the year dedicated to St. Paul, assumes particular importance as you are pastors in the land where the Apostle of the Gentiles was born ...
• 3 February 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Benedict XVI's Message to His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and of All Russia, upon his enthronement Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, February 1, in Moscow, in the Cathedral of Christ Savior, there was a special ceremony of enthronement for the new Patriarch of Moscow and of All Russia, His Holiness Kirill. T ...
• 3 February 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father's Intentions for 2010 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Here we publish the list of Pope Benedict XVI’s prayer intentions for the year 2010. JANUARY Young people and Social Communications Media General: That young people may learn to us ...
• 2 February 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells leaders from the Italian CISL Trade Union: “In order to overcome the economic and social crisis we are currently experiencing...what is needed is to overcome individual and sectorial interests, and unite to confront the difficulties affecting all areas of society, and particularly the world of work.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In order to overcome the economic and social crisis we are currently experiencing, we know that free and responsible efforts must be made by everyone. In other words what is needed is to ...
• 2 February 2009
  VATICAN - February 2, World Day of Consecrated Life: a treasure for the ecclesial community, in the variety of charisms and institutions Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Vita Consecrata,” published on March 25, 1996, gathering together the fruits of the Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops celebrated in ...
• 2 February 2009
  VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus reminds faithful that “euthanasia is a false solution to the drama of suffering...The true answer cannot be putting someone to death, however “kindly,” but to bear witness to the love that helps us to face pain and agony in a human way.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, February 1, before reciting the Angelus with faithful gathered in Saint Peter's Square, the Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled that in the Sunday celebrations of this liturgical ...
• 2 February 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father tells members of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches: “The world needs a visible sign of the mystery of unity that binds the three divine Persons and, that two thousand years ago, with the Incarnation of the Son of God, was revealed to us.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At the close of the Meeting held by the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Holy Father Benedict XV ...
• 30 January 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Roman Rota: “Above all, there is a need for a positive rediscovery of the capacity that normally every person has to be married, by virtue of their very nature as man or woman. We run the risk of falling into a sort of anthropological pessimism that, in light of the present cultural situation, considers it practically impossible to be married.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Above all, there is a need for a positive rediscovery of the capacity that normally every person has to be married, by virtue of their very nature as man or woman. We run the risk of fal ...
• 30 January 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope tells Bishops of Russia in their Ad Limina visit: the Catholic community is called to offer the youth a pure transmission of “the wealth of holiness and fidelity to Christ and to the human and spiritual values that are at the basis of efficient human and evangelical progress.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Communion with the Bishop of Rome, guarantee of ecclesial unity, allows the communities entrusted to your pastoral care, although minorities, to feel 'cum Petro and sub Petro,' living pa ...
• 29 January 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Revocation of excommunication: an act of real ecumenism. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI expressed a wish in a Letter which accompanied the Motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, addressed to the Catholic bishops of the world, on 7 July 2007: “ I ...
• 29 January 2009
  VATICAN - Pope encourages faithful to pray to the Lord and to Saint Paul, that “as Christians, we can be ever more characterized, in relation with the society in which we live, as members of the 'family of God'...and that the pastors of the Church have increasingly more paternal sentiments, both gentle and strong, in the formation of the house of God, of the community, of the Church.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The final letters of Saint Paul, called the pastoral letters, two sent to Timothy, and one to Titus, his close collaborators, were the focus of the catechesis of the Holy Father Benedict ...
• 29 January 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father's telegram to the new Patriarch of Moscow and of All Russia, Kirill Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI sent the following telegram to the new Patriarch of Moscow and of All Russia, Kirill. “I have received with gladness the news of your election as patriarch ...