Vatican

• 20 May 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope stresses the importance of interreligious cooperation and exhorts Bishops of Thailand to make “a concerted effort to uphold the spiritual and moral soul of your people.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The coexistence of different religious communities today unfolds against the backdrop of globalization... The negative aspects of this cultural phenomenon, which cause dismay to yourselv ...
• 20 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - “Man does not achieve fulfillment in absolute autonomy, by fooling himself into thinking that he is God but, on the contrary, by recognizing himself as a son, a creature open to and reaching out towards God and towards his brothers.” Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - “From this central Piazza della Victoria, that welcomes us into a choral act of praise and thanksgiving to God, with which I will close my pastoral visit, I send my sincerest greeting to the ent ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - “We need to cultivate the same missionary spirit that inspired Saint Paul, with a constant spiritual, ascetic, and pastoral formation.” Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - After the encounter with young people and the praying of the Angelus on Sunday, May 18, in Genoa's Piazza Matteotti, Benedict XVI went to the city's cathedral of St. Lawrence, where the relics of ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - “May the Gaslini Institute be an authentic ‘sanctuary of life’ and ‘sanctuary of the family,’ where along with the professionality of workers in every area, there is also affection and personal attention.” Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - At 9am on Sunday, May 18, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made a private visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Guard in Cerànesi-Campomorrone. After adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, the Pope ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - “Each one of you, dear young people, if you remain united to Christ and the Church, can achieve great things.” Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, May 18, after his visit to the Gaslini Hospital, the Pope held an encounter with young people in Genoa’s Piazza Matteotti. “You are the youth of Genoa! I embrace you with the Heart ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Pontifical Mission Societies: “The mission is a task and duty for all Churches, that as communicating vessels share the persons and resources for fulfilling it.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, May 17, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received participants in the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies in an audience in the Clementine Hall (in the Vati ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - General Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: interview with Archbishop Henryk Hoser, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies is taking place in Rome from 5 to 21 May (see Fides 4/4/2008). The pastoral-formative session on the 15 and 16 May closed on ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - At the Angelus, he recalled the many missionaries who had set off from the Port of Genoa for America and other far-off lands, and the Conference on cluster bombs Savona (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI lead the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, May 18, in Genoa's Piazza Matteotti, at the close of an encounter held with young people. Prior to the prayer, the Holy ...
• 19 May 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Savona and Genoa - “The example of serene fortitude given by Pope Pius VII invites us to firmly maintain our trust in God in the midst of trials, aware that even when He allows the Church to experience difficult moments, He never abandons her.” Savona (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Saturday, May 17, the Holy Father Benedict XVI began his pastoral visit to Savona and Genoa paying homage to the Blessed Virgin Mary with a visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...