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16 December 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives new Patriarch of Alexandria of Copt Catholics: “In today’s world your mission is of great importance for your faithful and for all men and women, to whom the love of Christ urges us to announce the Good News””
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In today’s world your mission is of great importance for your faithful and for all men and women, to whom the love of Christ urges us to announce the Good News”: Pope Benedict XVI sa ...
16 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: CHRIST ANNOUNCED BY THE SCRIPTURES- Announcement and fulfilment (7)
Rome (Fides Service) - BETHLEHEM TOWN OF DAVID
David is anointed King by Samuel, in Bethlehem where his family lived and where he tended the flocks, (1 Samuel 16,). « But you Bethlehem, Ephrata… from you will be bor ...
15 December 2006
VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD - “The priest: first son and then father of many”
Mgr Massimo Camisasca
Vatican City (Fides Service) - For twenty two years I have been involved in the formation of young men for the priesthood and I have followed in detail the itinerary of over a hundred priestly vocations, authentic or onl ...
15 December 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, they sign a Common Declaration: “It is our common responsibility to overcome, in love and truth, the many difficulties and sad experience of the past”.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his address to His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, received in audience in the Vatican on December 14th, said “Greece and Rome intensifi ...
15 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope addresses Rome’s university students: “The Eucharistic mystery is the privileged point of convergence for the different ambits of Christian life, including that of intellectual research”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for Christmas at the end of a special Mass for students at the many universities in Rome celebrated by Cardinal Vicar Camillo Ruini in St Peter’s at 5pm on 14 December, Pop ...
15 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas
Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (6)
Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH WILL BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. The prophet Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, about 740 BC announces the future glory of Jerusalem at the time humiliated by Sennacherib, and ...
14 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s Message for World Day of the Sick 2007: “Once again the Church turns her eyes to those who suffer and calls attention to the many incurably ill on every continent, particularly in places where poverty and hardship cause immense misery and grief ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father's Message for the 15th World Day of the Sick was made public on December 13. The event is due to be celebrated in Seoul, South Korea on February 11, 2007, Feast of Our Lady ...
14 December 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Primacy of Peter
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Church should return to the courage and the intellectual strength of the early centuries and launch a new rational challenge in all fields. What attracted pagans, and not only in the fi ...
14 December 2006
VATICAN - Timothy and Titus “teach us to serve the Gospel with generosity knowing that this involves a service to the Church”: Pope Benedict XVI illustrates the figure of two of St Paul’s co-workers
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Vatican Basilica this morning, the Holy Father met with faithful from dioceses in the Italian region of Calabria, accompanied by their bishops who are in the process of completing th ...
14 December 2006
VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas CHRIST ANNOUNCED IN THE SCRIPTURES - Announcement and Fulfilment (5)
Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH
« For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. » (Isaiah 9, 5).
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13 December 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA The Immaculate Conception, Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Liturgy of the Word which the Church offers us on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December, presents a marked contrast: the first reading from the Book of Genesis speaks of Ad ...
13 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s message for the World Day of Peace 2007: a summary of the main points
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Pope addresses a special message of prayerful good wishes for peace to Governments, leaders of nations and all men and women of good will. In his Message for World Peace Day ...
13 December 2006
VATICAN - WALKING TOWARDS CHRISTMAS - Announcement and Fulfilment (4)
Rome (Fides) - BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY
Isaiah 7, 14 : « Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.».
Luke 1, 31-32, 34-35) : « ...
12 December 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s Message for the World Day of Peace 2007: “The human person, the heart of peace”. “I am convinced that respect for the person promotes peace and that, in building peace, the foundations are laid for an authentic integral humanism”.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pope’s annual Message for the World Day of Peace, 1 January 2007 was made public this morning at the Holy See press office. “The human person, the heart of peace” is the theme cho ...
12 December 2006
VATICAN - STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF GOD’S HOUSE: Ecclesiastic Archives (4)
Bishop Mauro Piacenza
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ecclesiastic Archives «a treasure in vases of clay». The importance indeed essentiality of archives for the very mission of the Church is directly in proportion to their complexity and fr ...
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