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30 April 2007
VATICAN - The Month of May, Month of Mary
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Traditionally for Catholics the month of May is the Month of Mary. With this in mind, during this month Fides section on prayer will focus on prayers and devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mar ...
30 April 2007
VATICAN - At the midday Regina Caeli prayer the Pope urges the faithful to pray for young men preparing for the priesthood, for Formators at Seminarians and for families “so that in families seeds of the call to the priestly ministry may continue to flower and ripen ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “All the faithful are encouraged to pray especially for vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life”: Pope Benedict XVI said as he prepared to lead the recitation of the midda ...
30 April 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI ordains 22 priests for the diocese of Rome: “may the certainty that Christ never leaves us and that nothing can prevent the achievement of His universal plan for salvation, be for you a source of constant consolation and steadfast hope even in times of difficulty”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In St Peter's Basilica on 29 April, the 4th Sunday of Easter, also called Good Shepherd Sunday, the Pope told the 22 deacons of Rome diocese he was about to ordain to the priesthood “The ...
27 April 2007
VATICAN - Leaven: In 3 volumes the reasons and leavens of hope and a history today protagonist of the modernity of the Catholic Church: CL
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Communion and Liberation, the reality of an event. And a great mission. Monsignor Massimo Camisasca, outstanding witness of the ecclesial movement founded by don Giussani, narrates his hist ...
26 April 2007
VATICAN - The Pope's catechesis at the general audience: Origen reminds us “through prayerful reading of Scripture and consistent commitment in life, the Church is ever new, ever young ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Origen of Alexandria, “a personage who was determinant for the development of all Christian thought ”, was the subject the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI chose for his catechesis during ...
26 April 2007
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Liturgy is essentially adoration,
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum caritatis recalls that there exists an intrinsic relationship between eucharistic celebration and eucharistic adoration, which, immediat ...
25 April 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Cast your nets on the side of mercy ” by Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “3Simon Peter said, 'I'm going fishing.' They replied, 'We'll come with you.' They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night. 4When it was already light, there stood Je ...
25 April 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Norwegian (2)
THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In two centuries Christianity spread throughout Norway thanks to contact and trading with Christian Europe and missionaries who came from England, Germany and Denmark.
At the beginning of ...
25 April 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives in audience the president of the Palestinian Authority.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 24 April the Holy See Press Office published the following communiqué on the Pope's audience with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), president of the Palestinian Authority. "This morning, the H ...
24 April 2007
VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Norwegian (1) THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Geography and History - The Kingdom of Norway, de Nordhrvegr, or The Northern Path, is situated in northern Europe in the western side of the Scandinavia peninsula. To the east it borders ...
24 April 2007
VATICAN - International study-seminar on the question “Climate Change and Development” 26 and 27 April, organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Great concern was aroused in world public opinion after the ecological alarm sounded recently by the UN Security Council on the basis of a Report issued by environment experts. What is the ...
24 April 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict' s letter to Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany “I welcome the fact that the question of poverty, with specific reference to Africa, now appears on the agenda of the G8”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today a letter addressed by Pope Benedict XVI to Dr Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, dated 16 December 2006, on the occasion of the German presi ...
24 April 2007
VATICAN - " “The vocation to the service of the Church as communion” Pope Benedict XVI issues message for 44th World Day of Prayer for Vocations
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 29 April, 4th Sunday of Easter, the Church celebrates the 44th World Day of Prayer for Vocations. This year the theme is “The vocation to the service of the Church as communion”. ...
24 April 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Vigevano and Pavia - “Here, before the tomb of Saint Augustine I would ideally consign to the Church and to the world my first Encyclical, which contains precisely this central message of the Gospel: Deus caritas est, God is love”
Pavia (Fides Service) - In the afternoon of Sunday 22 April the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI went to the University of Pavia, “one of the oldest and most illustrious Italian universities”, where he met the local w ...
23 April 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Vigevano and Pavia - “Let us thank God for the great light which radiates from the wisdom and humility of Saint Augustine and pray that the Lord may grant each of us day after day the necessary conversion and so lead us to true life”
Pavia (Agenzia Fides) - At 9am on Sunday 22 April the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to San Matteo Hospital in Pavia where he met the hospital directors, doctors, patients and some family members. To the pati ...
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