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30 May 2008
VATICAN - The Pope tells new Ambassadors: “The international community is also called to act -- over and above simple justice -- by showing its solidarity with the poorest and ensuring a better distribution of wealth.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On May 29, the Holy Father received the Letters of Credence of nine new ambassadors to the Holy See (Tanzania, Uganda, Liberia, Chad, Bangladesh, Belarus, Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria). ...
30 May 2008
VATICAN - Program of Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Journey to Sydney for the 23rd World Youth Day
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has released the program for the Apostolic Journey of the Holy Father Benedict XVI to Sydney, Australia, for the 23rd World Youth Day. The Pope will depart from ...
30 May 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Italian Bishops: “For us Bishops, for our priests, for catechists, and for the entire Christian community, the educational emergency assumes a very specific form: that of the transmission of the faith to the new generations."
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “In Italy, as in many other countries, there is a strong sense of what we could call an authentic ‘educational emergency,’” said the Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 29, in a meeti ...
30 May 2008
VATICAN - “You heard it said, but I say to you …” -intervention by Prof. Michele Loconsole: Jesus is Jewish and always will be
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Very often, especially in the past, the Christian community forgot to teach that Jesus was a Palestinian Jew; to all effects a member of the Jewish religion. Still today, more than 40 years ...
29 May 2008
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Abortion: the silence of life
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This year 2008, is the fortieth anniversary, only a few days ago to be exact, of the approval of the famous Law 194 which de-penalised abortion in Italy. An anniversary on which there is li ...
29 May 2008
VATICAN - May 30: World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – This year, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated on May 30, which has been declared the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests. In the Letter sent on this oc ...
29 May 2008
VATICAN - Holy Father’s Catechesis on Saint Gregory the Great “During a disastrous and desperate time, he was able to create peace and hope. This man of God shows us the true fonts of peace, from which true hope comes, and so becomes a guide also for us today.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis during the audience on Wednesday, May 28, to the figure of “one of the greatest fathers in the history of the Church, one of the fo ...
28 May 2008
VATICAN - “Communication is not simply a product of pure luck or causality, nor is it of our human capacities; at the light of Scripture, it reflects our participation in the creative, communicative, and unifying Trinitarian Love that is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” says Benedict XVI.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The various forms of communication – dialogue, prayer, testimony, announcing – and its various instruments – press, electronics, visual arts, music, voice, gestures, and contact ...
28 May 2008
VATICAN - “AVE MARIA” by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The “sea of Love”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Lord often used parables to explain with effective similitude the mystery of His kingdom, opening the minds and hearts of his disciples to enable them to share the marvellous vocation t ...
28 May 2008
VATICAN - Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, as a person and as a priest, was “a marvelous blend of the characteristics of the African soul with those of the Christian spirit, of African culture and identity with evangelical values.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the “perspective of faith and hope in the resurrection,” a Memorial Mass was celebrated in the Vatican Basilica for Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, retired Dean of the College of Cardinal ...
27 May 2008
VATICAN - African Continental Congress in Nairobi Kenya June 2-5: “Towards a better pastoral care of Migrants and Refugees in Africa at the dawn of the Third Millenium.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomena of human mobility, voluntary or forced has always marked human history, but in the last few decades it has taken on an almost universal dimension and with increasingly complex ...
26 May 2008
VATICAN - Congress for Catholic University Communications Departments: developing not only new technologies, but also knowledge and reflection
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “While the development of new technologies is extraordinary, no less importance should be given - in our perspective - to what we could call the development of knowledge and reflection. ...
26 May 2008
VATICAN - “God Bless China!”: Apostolic Blessing imparted by Cardinal Dias on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI at the close of the celebration for the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Tian Zhuu Jiang Fu Zhong Guo! (God Bless China!)” These were the words of Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, at the close of his homily at the M ...
26 May 2008
VATICAN - “Those who eat the Bread of Christ cannot remain indifferent before those who, even in our days, lack daily bread,” the Pope said in the Angelus, while he also expressed his continued support for the Chinese people suffering the aftermath of the earthquake.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The solemnity of Corpus Domini is celebrated in Italy and in various countries today. It was observed in the Vatican and in other countries Thursday. It is the feast of the Eucharist, th ...
24 May 2008
VATICAN - Archbishop Henryk Hoser, Secretary Adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, appointed by the Pope to be Archbishop of Warsaw-Praga. Bishop Vacchelli will be new President of PMS
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed today, May 24, Archbishop Henryk Hoser, S.A.C. as Archbishop of Warsaw-Praga (Poland), remaining Archbishop. Until now, Archbishop Hoser served as Sec ...
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