Vatican
5 December 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Humility, how high the price!
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The real battle within the human heart is between pride and humility. The Lord Jesus knows well the hearts of men and so, from beginning to end, his Gospel is a call to become small, to bec ...
5 December 2007
VATICAN - Opening of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Immaculate Mary at Lourdes - Pope Benedict XVI grants special plenary indulgence
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 December 2007 to 8 December 2008 Lourdes will celebrate a Jubilee Year for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions at the grotto of Massabielle. The intense calendar of 12 months, d ...
4 December 2007
VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Freedom to believe or not to believe in Him. Comment by Prof. Michele Loconsole - From the editor's desk: Letter to missionaries, MISNA news agency 10th birthday- Archbishop Bruno Forte: authority is condition of the Church's “synodality”, Comment on the Document of Ravenna by the Mixed Catholic-Orthodox Commission. - The evangelical perspective is the key to the promotion of women, says Papal Nuncio in India.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tell me who is your God and I will tell you who you are. It is known in the ambit of the phenomenology delle religions, that the spiritual experience man has inherited from his forefathers ...
4 December 2007
VATICAN - The missionary nature of the Church in post-Council Magisterium (part 2) - by Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his first Deus caritas est (25 December 2005) wrote: The task of the Church is to communicate this divine love through the vivifying action of the Spirit. "The Spirit ...
4 December 2007
VATICAN - Presentation of 70th Bibliographia Missionaria at the Pontifical Urban University
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 6 December, at 5pm at the Pontifical Urban University (Newman Hall) in via Urbano VIII, 16 (Roma), the University Library and the Urban University Press will present the 70th vo ...
4 December 2007
VATICAN - Clericus Cup athletes will attend Papal General Audience tomorrow
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - An important appointment awaits the participants in the second Clericus Cup event: on Wednesday 5 December representatives of each of the 16 teams in the championship will take part in the ...
4 December 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Bishops of Korea and the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar on ad limina visit: “ I am aware of the practical gestures of reconciliation undertaken for the well-being of those in North Korea. I encourage these initiatives and invoke Almighty God’s providential care upon all North Koreans.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ The Church in your countries has made remarkable progress since the arrival of missionaries in the region over four hundred years ago, and their return to Mongolia just fifteen years ag ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Blog by Andrea Tornielli: The Encyclical on Christian Hope - Blog by Luigi Accattoli: Benedict and the self-critique of modern Christianity - Marco Tosatti: In his Encyclical the Pope writes his own divine comedy. - Palazzo apostolico.it: Ratzinger's encyclical, between the hereafter and hope. An Oblate in Thai prisons
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Encyclical on Christian Hope: Not elements of the cosmos, the laws of matter which definitively government the world and man, but a personal God who governs the starts, that is the uni ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - “You were told, but I tell you…” -intervention on Christian-Jewish dialogue by Prof. Michele Loconsole
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ You have heard how it was said…but I say to you…”, these famous words of Jesus are recurrent in his earthly preaching, especially with regard to the Jewish religious leaders; and ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - On the feast of St Francis Xavier, Fides is 80 years old
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides News Service of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples started its activity in December 1927 immediately after the feast of the Patron Saint of the missions, St Francis Xa ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs: “What is needed, in fact, is a spirit of solidarity conducive for promoting as a body those ethical principles which, by their very nature and their role as the basis of social life, remain non-negotiable”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To express gratitude and appreciation for what they do collaborating actively with Papal Representatives at Interantional Organisations and render still closer and more effective this share ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope presides first Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent “Advent is a favourable time for rediscovering hope, not vague or false, but certain and confident, since it is ‘anchored’ in Christ, God made man, the rock of our salvation”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Advent is, par excellence, the season of hope. Every year this fundamental attitude of the spirit is rekindled in the hearts of Christians as they prepare to celebrate the great feast of ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI makes a pastoral visit Hospital San Giovanni Battista: “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will we will experience the power of his love”
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “In trials and sickness God visits us in a mysterious manner and, if we are docile to His will, we will experience the power of His love. Hospitals and nursing homes, precisely because the inmate ...
3 December 2007
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Man and the world need God- the true God! - otherwise they cannot hope. Science does much for the good of humanity - undoubtedly - but it cannot save it.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 December the first Sunday of Advent, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his reflection before the recitation of the Angelus prayer to the significance of the Advent Season wh ...
30 November 2007
SPECIAL - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
SPE SALVI, the second Encyclical of His Holiness Benedict XVI
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A magnificent fresco on Christian hope, the new Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI: Spe Salvi facti sumus, “In hope we were saved” (Cf Rom 8,24) is the title and I wager it will occupy no ...
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