Vatican

• 25 January 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI's Message for World Communications Day: “also in the sector of social communications essential dimensions of the human person and the truth concerning the human person come into play. ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “There is no area of human experience, especially given the vast phenomenon of globalisation, in which the media have not become an integral part of interpersonal relations and of social, ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Life is nonnegotiable! Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With rulings in Cagliari and Florence, Italian judges have once again scrapped the famous Law number 40, on fertility treatment. The TAR of Lazio Region sent the norms to the Consulta to be ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI addresses a Letter to the diocese and the city of Rome on the urgent task of education: “at the root of the education crisis there is a crisis of confidence in life ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We all have at heart the good of those we love, especially our children, adolescents and young people. We know in fact that it is on them that the future of our city depends. So we canno ...
• 24 January 2008
  VATICAN - At the general audience Pope Benedict XVI recalls “what has vivified and continues to vivify the path towards full communion among all Christians, is first of all prayer” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Christians of different Churches and ecclesial Communities for the past few days have been united in a choral prayer to ask the Lord Jesus to restore full unity among all his disciples � ...
• 23 January 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - Only when we forget self, do we truly love! Mgr Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Prepare the way for the Lord who comes!" The call of John the Baptist resounds in every epoch of history and it is addressed to all who desire to open their heart to God. If we truly bel ...
• 23 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope's Message for the World Day of the Sick: “The Eucharist, Lourdes and pastoral care of the sick ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Eucharist, Lourdes and pastoral care of the sick” is the theme of Pope Benedict XVI's Message for the 16th Day of the Sick to be celebrated on 11 February, feast-day of Our Lady o ...
• 22 January 2008
  VATICAN - Missionary activity and non Catholic Churches and ecclesial communities, Fr Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The title might sound strange and inadequate in the light of Vatican II which speaks of “various elements of sanctification and truth” present “outside her [Catholic Church] visible o ...
• 22 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Year of St Paul: programme of initiatives at the Papal Basilica of St Paul's outside the Walls Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of St Paul's outside the Walls, presented the programme of initiatives planned by the Basilica for the Year of ...
• 22 January 2008
  VATICAN - “Everyone in fact must be offered, through the grace of the Holy Spirit, the opportunity to encounter the living Word, Jesus Christ ”: the Pope addresses the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The main duties of the ecclesial community in the world today - among many I underline evangelisation and ecumenism - are focused on the Word of God and at the same time are supported an ...
• 22 January 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Catholic Education: “teaching is an expression of the charity of Christ and it is the first spiritual work of mercy to which the Church is called” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 21 January the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI received in audience the participants at a Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Catholic Education and in his address he highli ...
• 21 January 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Latin Bishops in Arab regions: “By privileging dialogue among all parties, violence may cease, real and lasting peace be restored and relations of solidarity and collaboration established” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I wish first of all to reaffirm the importance I attribute to the witness offered by your local Churches” said the Holy Father Benedict XVI in his address to Bishops of the Latin Rite ...
• 21 January 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI visits Capranica College: “Without friendship with Jesus it is impossible for a Christian, and even more so for a priest, to bring to completion the mission entrusted by the Lord ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Under various circumstances I have reminded seminarians and priests of the urgency of nurturing a profound interior life, personal and continual contact with Christ in prayer and contemp ...
• 21 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope's Angelus: “The Church's evangelising mission is part of her ecumenical path”; “I am bound to the university world by love for the quest for truth, for discussion, frank dialogue, respectful of reciprocal positions. All this is also part of the Church's mission ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 20 January the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his midday Angelus reflection to the issue of ecumenism, this being the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and to his pl ...
• 18 January 2008
  VATICAN - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 100th edition. This year's theme “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thess 5,17) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From the 18 to 25 January we celebrate the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity which marks its 100th anniversary in 2008. The theme chosen for reflection this year are St Paul's words ...
• 17 January 2008
  VATICAN - “You heard it said, but I tell you…” - intervention by Prof Michele Loconsole on the annual Day for Dialogue between Catholics and Jews on the theme “Thou shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain” (Es 20,7) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For more than a decade every year the 17 January has been celebrated as the Day of reflection to promote the development of Catholic-Jewish dialogue: inaugurated in 1990 by the Italian Bish ...