Vatican
4 March 2008
VATICAN - Message of the Holy Father for the Salesian General Chapter: “evangelization must be the principal and priority frontier of their mission today”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Following the example of your beloved Founder, the Salesians should be inflamed with apostolic zeal. Evangelization should be the principal and priority frontier of their mission today. ...
3 March 2008
VATICAN - Reply from the Doctrine of the Faith on the Baptismal formulae
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public by the Holy See Press Office, February 29, were the responses of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to two questions concerning the validity of Baptism conferred wit ...
3 March 2008
VATICAN - Cardinal Dias, Holy Father’s Special Envoy for the celebrations of the New Christian Millenium in Ethiopia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect for the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, as his Special Envoy for the celebrations of the New Christian Mil ...
3 March 2008
VATICAN - Speaking to the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum,” the Pope reminded them that the charitable activity of the Church “must never be reduced to mere philanthropy but must be a tangible expression of evangelical love”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Those who work in the many forms of charitable activity of the Church cannot, then, content themselves just with offering technical services or resolving practical problems and difficult ...
3 March 2008
VATICAN - Pope tells University Students: “Today God is calling on you European and American young people to cooperate with your contemporaries throughout the world so that the lifeblood of the Gospels can renew the civilization of these two continents and all of humanity.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Saturday, March 1, there was a prayer vigil held in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, in commemoration of the 6th European Day for University Students, promoted by the Co ...
3 March 2008
VATICAN - Pope’s appeal for the release of the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, Iraq; an end to violence in the Holy Land; caring for the world’s children
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, March 2, the Holy Father Benedict XVI launched three appeals. “With profound sadness, I have followed the events surrounding the kidnapp ...
3 March 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI, in the Angelus: “the tendency in man to construct an ideological system of security is strong,” with an exhortation to allow Jesus to heal us, “Jesus who can and wants to give us the light of God”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In this Sunday of Lent, the Gospel of John, from the reading Cycle A, we find “a true and real baptismal itinerary,” Pope Benedict XVI said, prior to the recitation of the Angelus with ...
29 February 2008
VATICAN - “You heard it said but I say to you …” - an intervention by Prof. Michele Loconsole on Pope Benedict XVI's new prayer "for the Jews"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following the annual Day for Catholic-Jewish Dialogue on 17 January, virulent polemic broke out in Italy and the rest of the world with regard to a new version, in Latin, of the customary P ...
29 February 2008
VATICAN - Presentation of Pontifical Yearbook 2008 to the Holy Father
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, February 29, the Pontifical Yearbook 2008 was presented to the Holy Father Benedict XVI. A communique regarding the presentation highlights some of the salient facts contained ...
29 February 2008
VATICAN - 28th Plenary Assembly for the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum” underway
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From Thursday, February 28th to Saturday, March 1 the 28th Plenary Assembly for the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum” is being held in Rome. The theme is: “Human and spiritual qualities ...
29 February 2008
VATICAN - The Pope to the Bishops of El Salvador in their Ad Limina visit: “promote ambitious and audacious efforts at evangelization in your diocesan communities, to ensure that all the faithful may experience that intimate meeting with the living Christ which is at the basis and origin of Christian existence.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The El Salvadorian people are characterized by their living faith and deep religious sentiment. The Gospel, taken there by the first missionaries and fervently preached by pastors full o ...
29 February 2008
VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (fourth part)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “L’Osservatore Romano” has made it possible for Agenzia Fides to publish the entire text of the speech given by Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine ...
28 February 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI, in the General Audience, concludes his catechesis on Saint Augustine: “may we be granted the grace every day to follow the example of this great convert, finding the Lord in every moment of our lives, as he did.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The General Audience on Wednesday, February 27, has also taken place in two phases: first, in the Basilica of St. Peter and later, in the Paul VI Hall, where the Holy Father Benedict XVI co ...
28 February 2008
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Politics, Catholics, witness and mission
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ Look: as Yahweh my God commanded me, I have taught you laws and customs, for you to observe in the country of which you are going to take possession. Keep them, put them into practice, ...
27 February 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - God desires to give us Himself
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Gospel of the 3rd Sunday of Lent cycle A, about the Samaritan woman, is exceptionally rich. Every time we read it we are passionately moved by that intense conversation between Jesus an ...
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