Vatican

• 15 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Act of Contrition (I) Vatican City (Fides Service) - The formula of the Act of Contrition may vary a little according to the language. The Catechism of the Catholic Church in English gives the follow text: “O my God, I am heartily sorry f ...
• 15 March 2007
  VATICAN - Notification from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on certain writings by Fr Jon Sobrino Vatican City (Fides Service) - Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made public on 14 March, a Notification with regard to certain writings by Fr Jon Sobrino, SJ - “Jesucristo liberador. Lectura histórico-teoló ...
• 15 March 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope appoints Cardinal Dias his Special Envoy to celebrations to mark the Centenary of the evangelisation of Ghana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples his Special Envoy to celebrations to mark the Centenary of ...
• 15 March 2007
  VATICAN - Saint Ignatius of Antioch urges us to attain “progressive synthesis between configuration to Christ and dedication to his Church”: Pope Benedict XVI’s catechesis at Wednesday General Audience Vatican City (Fides Service) - Saint Ignatius, third Bishop of the town of Antioch in what today is Turkey between the year 70 and 107AD the year he was martyred, was the second of the Apostolic Fathers, after Saint Clem ...
• 14 March 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Itinerary towards prayer of the heart” Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they want and more, and here am I dying of hunger!I will leave this place and go to my father an ...
• 14 March 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives the President of the Russian Federation Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the evening of 13 March the Holy See Press office issued the following statement in Italian with regard to the Papal Audience with the President of the Russian Federation. “At 6pm toda ...
• 14 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Acts of Faith, Hope, Charity and Sorrow (2) Vatican City (Fides Service) - One often sees even very young children at Sunday Mass, in the arms of the mother as she receives communion. From their mother and father children learn to know, love and believe in Jesus, ...
• 13 March 2007
  VATICAN - Presentation of ‘Sacramentum Caritatis’ Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church signed by Pope Benedict XVI is the mature fruit of ...
• 13 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Acts Faith, Hope, Charity and Sorrow (I) Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Quasi modo geniti infantes: rationabiles, sine dolo lac concupiscite” (1 Peter 2,2) (“Like new-born babies all your longing should be for milk-the unadulterated spiritual milk-which ...
• 13 March 2007
  VATICAN - Statutes of the Shalom Community approved by Pontifical Council for the Laity Vatican City (Fides Service) - About 500 members of the Shalom community, Catholics of all walks of life, priests, couples, single people, arrived in Rome to celebrate Pontifical recognition of the Shalom Catholic Commun ...
• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI and European University Day: “Intellectual charity can unite the existential journey of young people who live far apart but nevertheless feel connected with each other at the level of interior research and witness ” Vatican City (Fides Service)- In the late afternoon of Saturday 10 March in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican Pope Benedict XVI addressed university students taking part in the 5th European University Day on the theme "Int ...
• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Christ calls us to counter to evil with a serious examination of conscience and commitment to purify our life … individuals and societies which live without ever questioning their style of life are destined to ruin”: Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus Vatican City (Fides Service) - Conversion was the subject of the Pope’s reflection before the midday Angelus prayer in Sunday 11 March focussed on the Sunday Gospel and Jesus’ warning: "
• 12 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - The programme of our next reflections Vatican City (Fides Service) - Our Prayers for Lent so far have presented in different languages the texts of the hymns Ave Regina Caelorum and Stabat Mater and the complete Stations of the Cross as celebrated in Rome on ...
• 10 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Much of what is transmitted in various forms to the homes of millions of families around the world is destructive. By directing the light of Christ’s truth upon such shadows the Church engenders hope.”: Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Vatican City (Fides Service) - On March 9 in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which is presided by Archbishop John P. Foley “U ...
• 10 March 2007
  VATICAN - The diocesan investigation into the life, virtues and fame of holiness of John Paul II will conclude in the Cathedral of Rome on 2 April the 2nd anniversary of the death of the late Pontiff Rome (Fides Service) - The diocesan investigation into the life, virtues and fame of holiness of John Paul II will conclude on 2 April in the Cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of Saint John in the Lateran. This was announc ...