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16 May 2008
VATICAN - Communication, intercultural relations, and mission: Congress at the Pontifical Urban University
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Communication, intercultural relations, and mission were the central themes of the International Congress celebrated on May 15, at the Pontifical Urban University, at the end of which a pre ...
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16 May 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Ordo Virginum Congress: “Let your figures constantly irradiate the dignity of being Spouse of Christ and express the novelty of Christian existence and serene expectance for the life to come.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To the participants in the Congress of the Ordo Virginum with the theme: “Consecrated virginity: a gift in the Church and for the Church,” whom he received in an audience on the morning ...
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16 May 2008
VATICAN - The Pope gives Chinese Catholics another gift: a Prayer to Our Lady of Sheshan
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 27 of last year, on the feast of the Solemnity of Pentecost, Benedict XVI signed the “Letter to the Bishops, Priests, Consecrated persons, and Lay faithful of the Catholic Church i ...
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15 May 2008
VATICAN - The Pope addresses the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People: “We must not forget that the family, migrant and itinerant families included, represents the original cell of society that must not be destroyed, but courageously and patiently defended.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church's solicitude toward emigrant families does not diminish her concern for itinerant families. On the contrary, this effort to maintain a unity between vision and action between ...
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15 May 2008
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - An educative emergency
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his meeting with Italian Catholic Action, on May 4, the Holy Father Benedict XVI said: “In a missionary Church, placed before an educational emergency such as that which is found i ...
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15 May 2008
VATICAN - In his General Audience, Benedict XVI shows the relevance of Dionysius the Areopagite, who “appears as a great mediator in the modern dialogue between Christianity and the mystical theologies of Asia,” and launches an appeal for earthquake-hit China
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Resuming his series of catecheses on the Fathers of the Church during the General Audience on May 14, the Holy Father Benedict XVI reflected on “very mysterious figure: a theologian from ...
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15 May 2008
VATICAN - Telegram of condolences of the Holy Father for the death of Cardinal Bernardin Gantin
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Upon hearing of the death of Benin’s Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Dean Emeritus of the College of Cardinals on May 13, Benedict XVI sent the following telegram to Archbishop Marcel Honorat ...
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14 May 2008
VATICAN - The death of Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Dean Emeritus of the College of Cardinals, first African appointed by the Pope to a prominent position in the Roman Curia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Bernardin Gantin died yesterday, May 13, in a hospital in Paris, where he had been in recovery for some time. The Cardinal was a native of Benin and Dean Emeritus of the College of ...
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14 May 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The transforming power of the Holy Spirit
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Solemnity of Pentecost brings the Easter Season to a close and the Liturgy leads us back to Ordinary Time. However the change from Pentecost to Ordinary Time would seem somewhat brusque ...
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13 May 2008
VATICAN - Plenary Session of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of
Migrants and Itinerant People: “The family, vital cell of every society, can remain united even amidst mobility”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The 18th Plenary Session of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People was opened the morning of May 13, at the Dicastery’s headquarters in Piazza San C ...
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13 May 2008
VATICAN - The Pope tells Hungarian Bishops: “the crisis of the family presents a great challenge for the Church, as it places in question conjugal fidelity and, more in general, the values on which society is based.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The first to pay the price in the spread of secularization, is the family, that in Hungary is also experiencing a serious crisis. The symptoms are evident in the declining number of marr ...
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13 May 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Pro-Life Movement: “It is necessary to bear concrete witness to the fact that respect for life is the first form of justice that must be applied. For those who have the gift of faith this becomes an imperative that cannot be deferred.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Looking back on the past thirty years and considering the present situation, we cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, becau ...
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12 May 2008
VATICAN - Pontifical Commission for Latin America celebrates 50 years at the service of the Church in the “Continent of Hope”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Commission for Latin America (CAL), which was created by Pope Pius XII on April 21, 1958, celebrated its 50th anniversary on Friday, May 9 with an Conference at the Pontifical Urban ...
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12 May 2008
VATICAN - The Pope on the 40th anniversary of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae: “At the light of new scientific discoveries, its teaching becomes more pertinent and urges us to reflect on the intrinsic value it possesses.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Servant of God Paul VI, published the Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae on July 25, 1968. That document soon became a sign of contradiction...often misunderstood and taken incorrectly, it ...
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12 May 2008
VATICAN - Decree from the Apostolic Penitentiary grants the faithful Plenary Indulgence for the occasion of the Pauline Year
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Penitentiary has issued a Decree through which the Holy Father Benedict XVI will grant the faithful Plenary Indulgence for the occasion of the two-thousandth anniversary of th ...
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