Vatican

• 28 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI Christmas message: “God becomes man in Jesus Christ, He is born of the Virgin Mary, he is born again today in the Church. He brings the love of the heavenly Father to all men and women. He is the Saviour of the world! Do not be afraid, open your hearts, welcome Him, so that His Kingdom of love and peace may be a common heritage for all mankind” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At 12 noon on 25 December, Christmas Day, from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica Pope Benedict XVI delivered his Christmas Message and imparted his special Urbi et Orbi blessin ...
• 21 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (11) Vatican City (Fides Service) - God’s Temple. The Prophet of Ezekiel has a vision of the Messianic Temple (Ezekiel, chapter 47): “He brought me back to the door of the temple; and, behold, waters issued out from unde ...
• 21 December 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- "A Year of Continuity", Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 December 2005, exactly a year ago, on the occasion of the traditional exchange of Christmas greetings Pope Benedict XVI addressed the Roman Curia. That extraordinary discourse will st ...
• 21 December 2006
  VATICAN - “Humanity today is in search of a path of renewal, salvation, in search of a Saviour and waits, at times unawares, the advent of the Saviour who renews the world and our life, the advent of Christ, the one and only Redeemer of the human person and the whole person”: Pope Benedict XVI gives catechesis at general audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Does humanity in our day still await a Saviour?” Pope Benedict XVI asked during his general Wednesday Audience on 20 December in which he reflected on the mystery of Christmas. “One ...
• 21 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (10) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I am he who is”. On Horeb, the mountain of God, Moses sees the blazing bush (Exodus Chapter 3) and hears God who sends him to Pharaoh to bring the Israelites out of Egypt?… “Moses ...
• 20 December 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “The embrace of Mary” by Rev Luciano Alimandi - Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the heart of Advent we find Mary! Two thousand years ago, at the fullness of time, the Word of God became a Child in the womb of the Virgin Mary, who “ab eterno” was known and loved ...
• 20 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (10) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Son of Man. The prophet Daniel, deported to Babylon by King Nabucodonosor around 597 BC had this vision: “behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he c ...
• 20 December 2006
  VATICAN - LANGUAGE IN THE ROMAN RITE LITURGY: LATIN AND VERNACULAR - Keynote Address at Gateway Liturgical Conference, St Louis, Missouri, 11 November, 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below an address given by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, at Gateway Liturgical Conference, St Louis, M ...
• 19 December 2006
  VATICAN - “The people of the Great Lakes region have suffered too much, too long”: Message from Pope Benedict XVI signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, to 2nd session of the international conference on the Great Lakes Region Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, through Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., sent a Message to Mwai Kibaki, president of the Republic of Kenya and current president of the International Co ...
• 19 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (9) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Good Shepherd. The Word of God is addressed to the prophet Ezekiel (chapter 34) against the shepherds of Israel who did not care for the flock which was prey to wild beasts. “Behold ...
• 19 December 2006
  VATICAN - Saint Joseph: “Privileged witness to the birth of the Son of God into the world” (2) Vatican City (Fides Service) - Joseph was about thirty years old when he took his cousin Mary aged 15, daughter of Anna and Joachim as his betrothed spouse. Both descendents of David, their marriage was probably arranged ...
• 19 December 2006
  VATICAN - At the Service of the Mysteries of Christ - Cardinal Francis Arinze gives Opening Address at a Colloquium to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Institut Supérieur de Liturgie of the Institut Catholique de Paris, 26 October 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below an address given by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments at a Colloquium to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of ...
• 18 December 2006
  VATICAN - “Museums can help foster a culture of peace if, retaining their nature as temples of historic memory, they are also places of dialogue and friendship”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses International Conference to mark 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church has always supported and promoted art in the world considering its language a privileged means for human and spiritual progress … The expansion in time of the Vatican Museum ...
• 18 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (8) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Messiah Saviour of the Nations. The Israelites leave Egypt and camp in the step-land of Moab. The King of Moab questions one of his prophets a pagan, a «false prophet», as he is calle ...
• 18 December 2006
  VATICAN - Saint Joseph: “Privileged witness to the birth of the Son of God into the world” (I) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Saint Joseph was a “privileged witness to the birth of the Son of God into the world on Christmas night in Bethlehem” Pope John Paul II writes in his apostolic exhortation “Redemptori ...