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16 January 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA: True greatness is to make oneself small
Mgr Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of John the Baptist accompanied us through the season of Advent and we met him again on our liturgical and spiritual journey on the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. The figure of ...
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16 January 2008
VATICAN - Holy See Press Office statement with regard to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the La Sapienza University
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the afternoon of 15 January the Holy See Press Office issued the following statement in Italian: “Following incidents known to all with regard to the Holy Father's visit to La Sapienza ...
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14 January 2008
VATICAN - Thursday 17 January the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will visit the Chapel at Rome's La Sapienza University on the 60th anniversary of its foundation
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 17 January at midday the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will pay a visit to the Chapel of Rome's La Sapienza University. The programmes includes a meeting with the Chaplains, ...
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14 January 2008
VATICAN - At the Angelus the Pope says: pray that all Christians “may come to an ever deeper understanding of the gift of Baptism and strive to live it which consistency, bearing witness to the love of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,”. He also mentioned the International Day Migrants and Refugees
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The entire mission of Christ can be summarised in this: to baptise us in the Holy Spirit, in order to free us from the slavery of death and ‘open us to heaven', give us access to true ...
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14 January 2008
VATICAN - Benedict XVI administers the sacrament of Baptism: “at Baptism this tiny human person receives a new life, the life of grace, which enables the child to enter into a personal relationship with the Creator, which will last for ever, for all eternity”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 13 January, on the Feast of the Lord's Baptism, Pope Benedict XVI Mass in the Sistine Chapel during which he administered the Sacrament of Baptism to 13 children. In his homily ...
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11 January 2008
VATICAN - In the wake of recent attacks the Holy Father sends message of solidarity to Christian communities in Iraq
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI has sent a telegramme expressing solidarity in the wake of recent attacks against Christian communities in Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk on 6 and 9 January. The te ...
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11 January 2008
VATICAN - Education emergency, support for the family based on matrimony, spreading poverty, penalisation of Catholic hospitals: Pope Benedict XVI addresses administrators of the Lazio Region and Rome Municipality and Province
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The times and situations change, but the Pope's love and concern for those who live in this land, distinguished by a great living heritage of Christianity, never weakens”. With these s ...
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10 January 2008
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: “Jesus was not Spartacus” (Spe salvi 4), Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The second Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI Spe salvi, contains various concise and effective judgements passages which facilitate the reader's comprehension. Even those who are less familia ...
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10 January 2008
VATICAN - “The greatest Father of the Latin Church, Saint Augustine: a man of passion and of faith, keen intelligence and tireless pastoral concern” subject of Pope Benedict XVI teaching at the Wednesday general audience
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Christmas festivities, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI resumed his reflections on the Church Fathers during his Wednesday general audience on January 9: “The greatest Father ...
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9 January 2008
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - We cannot see God, because God is immense! Mgr. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A couple of days before the solemnity of Christmas, I had the joy of celebrating Mass with primary school children and their parents and teachers in preparation for the coming of Jesus. The ...
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8 January 2008
VATICAN - The Church's Missionary nature: relationship dialogue-mission - by Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -Vatican II and the documents of papal teaching since the Council inaugurated a new missionary attitude which always commences with a sentiment of deep esteem for what is in every human perso ...
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8 January 2008
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Diplomatic Corps: “God can never be excluded from the horizon of man or of history. God’s name is a name of justice, it represents an urgent appeal for peace”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The traditional audience with members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See for the presentation of new year wishes, held in the Apostolic Palace on 7 January, offered the Hol ...
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7 January 2008
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI sends a Letter to the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Kenya: “Violence is futile as a means of resolving problems… the country needs peace that is based on justice and brotherhood ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following tragic events in Kenya, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, asked Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. to address a letter to Cardinal John Njue, archbishop of Nair ...
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7 January 2008
VATICAN - The spiritual light of the star which guided the Three Wise Men “can guide every person to Jesus "the Pope says at the Angelus on the feast of the Epiphany and he thanks the children of Missionary Childhood who “ care for the needs of other children spurred on by the love brought on earth by the Son of God who became a child ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “After stopping ‘above the place where the child lay’, the star which guided the Three Wise Men ceased its function, but its spiritual light is always present in the word of the Gospe ...
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7 January 2008
VATICAN - On the solemnity of the Epiphany Pope Benedict XVI says “the Church is faithful to her mission only if she reflects the light of Christ the Lord, and thus helps all the peoples of the world on the path towards peace and true progress”.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The arrival of the Three Wise Men in Bethlehem to adore the new born Messiah, is the sign of the manifestation of the universal King to all peoples and to all men and women in search of ...
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