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30 October 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses International Conference of Catholic Pharmacists: “We cannot anesthetize consciences as regards, for example, the effect of certain molecules that have the goal of preventing the implantation of the embryo or shortening a person's life. Pharmacists must seek to raise people's awareness… ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The “educational” role of pharmacists with regard to patients, to guide them to a correct use of medicines “is above all to make known the ethical implications of the use of certain d ...
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29 October 2007
VATICAN - The Pope receives the Bishops of Gabon: “In your ministry with the living forces of your dioceses, you are called to develop, ever more organic diocesan and national pastoral care. The deeper communion among you and all Catholics, the stronger and more effective evangelisation”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - ““In your ministry with the living forces of your dioceses, you are called to develop, ever more organic diocesan and national pastoral care. At the same time you must organise more app ...
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29 October 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI sends a letter to the new editor of the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano: “Seeking and creating occasions of comparison, the Osservatore Romano will serve the Holy See demonstrating the fecundity of the encounter of faith and reason, which renders possible cordial collaboration between believers and non believers”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter to the new editor of the Osservatore Romano, Prof. Giovanni Maria Vian, the day he assumed his new responsibility. On the Letter, dated 27 O ...
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29 October 2007
VATICAN - “True joy lies in the freedom that only God can give” Pope Benedict XVI remarks at the end of a Concert given in his honour by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the afternoon 27 October in the Paul VI in the Vatican, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir gave a concert in honour of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI. After listening t ...
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29 October 2007
VATICAN - “The inscription in the Register of the Blessed of such a great number of Martyrs at the same time is a demonstration that the supreme witness of bloodshed is not an exception reserved for a few, it is a realistic possibility for the whole Christian people”: Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus recalls the Beatification of 498 Spanish martyrs of the 20th century
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The shining witness given by Spain's martyrs ” and “the silent heroic witness of many Christians who live the Gospel without compromise” were mentioned by the Holy Father, Pope Ben ...
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26 October 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses students at Pontifical Universities in Rome: “The whole culture of man today must be imbued with the Gospel”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of a Mass in St Peter's Basilica for the inauguration of the new Academic Year 2007-2008, on Thursday 25 October XVI Pope Benedict addressed thousands of students from all o ...
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25 October 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Chastity and personal integrity , Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The realism to which frequentation of Christ and the Church has accustomed us, forces us to recognise that the path towards integrity, or maturity, or fulfilment, or balance of the person, ...
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25 October 2007
VATICAN - Benedict XVI dedicates general audience to Saint Ambrose: “From the life and the example of Bishop Ambrose, Augustine learned to believe and to preach”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The life and witness of the holy Bishop of Milan, Ambrose who died at dawn on Holy Saturday 4 April in the year 397, was the theme of the catechesis given by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict ...
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24 October 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA: “Let your thoughts be on heavenly things”, Rev Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Heaven is not a fairy tale told to children it is a certainty which Jesus gave his disciples, to all who believe in him and do his will. He said this explicitly: “there are many rooms in ...
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22 October 2007
VATICAN - “Ethnic and social differences lived in a spirit of reciprocal respect and love, become a common enrichment rather than a motive for division”: Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of Congo on ad limina visit
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “May our meeting, expression of communion with the Successor of St Peter, be a source of ever more intense communion among yourselves and among your diocesan Churches, filling you with co ...
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22 October 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Naples - “With respect for the differences of the various religions, we are all called to work for peace and to concrete commitment to promote reconciliation among peoples”
Naples (Agenzia Fides) - In Naples on Sunday 21 October after the Mass in Piazza del Plebiscito, Pope Benedict XVI went to the Aula Magna of the Archdiocesan Seminary at Capodimonte, where he greeted the leaders of Dele ...
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22 October 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Naples - “Today we pray in a special way for missionaries. May we never fail to offer spiritual and material help to those working on the frontiers of mission ”
Naples (Agenzia Fides) - Before leading the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 21 October at the end of Mass celebrated in Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, Pope Benedict XVI thanked those present, “dear ...
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22 October 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Naples - “The power, which in silence and without clamour changes the world and transforms it into the Kingdom of God, is faith, and the expression of this faith is prayer … The Church's mission is to nourish continually the faith and hope of the Christian people”
Naples (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 21 October the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, made a pastoral visit to Naples. On his arrival at the Stazione Marittima, at the Port of Naples the Pope was welcomed by Cardinal Crescen ...
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19 October 2007
VATICAN - “The daily chronicle reveals that society of our day faces many ethic and social emergencies which can undermine its stability and seriously jeopardise its future” Pope Benedict XVI says in a Message to Italy's 45th Catholic Social Week
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The importance of the theme chosen for the 45th Catholic Social Week being held in Pistoia and Pisa from the 18 to the 21 October - “The common good today: a commitment which comes from a ...
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18 October 2007
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE From the “spirit” to the “ghost” of the Council, Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If, when the Lord sent his disciples into the world, he had given them an agenda of problems with regard to the relationship they should have with societies and cultures, the poor men woul ...
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