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10 March 2008
VATICAN - Positivism and materialism “have led to a boundless enthusiasm for progress” and the past appears “as a dark backdrop against which the present and future glitter with misleading promise,” Pope tells the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis of historiography, that must “fight for its very existence in a society ruled by positivism and materialism,” was denounced by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in an audience he ...
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10 March 2008
VATICAN - Meeting for the commission established by Pope Benedict XVI to study life of the Church in China
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office has released the following communique: “The commission established by Pope Benedict XVI to study the most important questions concerning the life of the Church i ...
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10 March 2008
VATICAN - The Pope calls for “an untiring and generous mission to face, in the area of dialogue and in the encounter with the various cultures, preaching the Gospel and testimony, the concerning threat from secularism”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Secularization, which often leads to secularism when it strays from the positive acceptance of the secular, is an arduous trial for faithful and pastors in living their Christian life, ...
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10 March 2008
VATICAN - The Holy Father offers condolences for the death of Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery, retired archbishop of Tamale, one of the first Catholics of the northwestern region of Ghana
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery, retired archbishop of Tamale (Ghana) died March 6, at 89 years of age. The Holy Father Benedict XVI expressed his condolences and prayers in a telegram, sent to ...
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10 March 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells participants of the Course from the Apostolic Penitentiary: “The heart of the sacrament’s celebration is not in the sin, but in the mercy of God, that is infinitely greater than any of our sins.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Those who trust in themselves and in their own merits are, as it were, blinded by their own ‘I’ and their hearts harden in sin. On the other hand, those who recognize themselves as w ...
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10 March 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the Angelus: Christ “is the image, indeed, the incarnation of God who is love, mercy, and paternal and maternal tenderness, of the God who is Life”; additional appeal for the Holy Land and Iraq
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The resurrection of Lazarus, narrated in the Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Liturgical Cycle A, says Benedict XVI, is “the last great sign worked by Jesus, after which the high prie ...
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7 March 2008
VATICAN - Pope tells Bishops of Guatemala: “I encourage you to continue with renewed energy the Church's evangelizing mission in the context of modern cultural movements and globalization, giving fresh vigor to preaching and catechesis”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “As did my venerated predecessor, John Paul II, in his first visit to your country, I encourage you to continue with renewed energy the Church's evangelizing mission in the context of mod ...
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7 March 2008
VATICAN - Joint Communique Released by Cardinal Bertone and Catholicos Karekin II
Etchmiadzin (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of March 4, Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone initiated his official visit to Armenia, in Etchmiadzin with His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians. I ...
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7 March 2008
VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (fifth part)
Christ's grace and non Christians: Viis sibi notis (Ad gentes, n. 7); Modo Deo cognito (Gaudium et spes, n. 22)
Having established this picture of doctrinal reference, we come now to two questions. The first concerns ...
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7 March 2008
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
'Idea of man' central to Catholic commitment in politics
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - When two months ago an Italian Catholic weekly said that Catholics did not wish to be mortified within a political party, immediately one of them hastened to contradict; however recent even ...
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6 March 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in the General Audience: "Let us learn with Saint Leo Magno, to believe in Christ, true God and true Man, and to renew this faith every day in our efforts for peace and in love for our neighbor."
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I hope that all may live this time of study as a unique opportunity for an authentic integral formation. I encourage you to strengthen your adherence to the Gospel, so that you may always ...
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6 March 2008
VATICAN - Statement from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue on the Catholic-Muslim Forum
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, through the Holy See Press Office, issued the following statement on the Catholic-Muslim forum: In the light of the open letter "A Commo ...
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6 March 2008
VATICAN - Visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to Rome, in honor of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Pontifical Oriental Institute
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for Eastern Churches has announced that the Ecumenical Patriarch, His Holiness Bartholomew I, has accepted the invitation of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, on the occas ...
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5 March 2008
VATICANO - Benedict XVI will preside the March 9th opening celebration for the 25th anniversary of the “San Lorenzo” International Youth Center
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of Sunday 9 March, the Pope will celebrate the Eucharist in the Roman church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus. The church is part of the San Lorenzo International Youth Center whic ...
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5 March 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Msgr. Luciano Alimandi - Looking at reality through Jesus
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Jesus reveals to the blind man whom he had healed that he had come into the world for judgement, to separate the blind who can be healed from those who do not allow themselves to be hea ...
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