Vatican

• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Gospel Values and Cultures: The Challenge of witnessing the Christian Faith in Indian Cultures”: Cardinal Poupard presides meeting of directors of Catholic Cultural Centres in India Goa (Agenzia Fides) - “Gospel Values and Cultures: The Challenge of witnessing the Christian Faith in Indian Cultures” was the title of a keynote address given by Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Co ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD: Ecclesiastical Archives (1) Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To use an image, in my opinion appropriate, an ecclesiastical archive can be compared to a family photograph album. It is an album which speaks of our history and although it refers to the ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Music can lead to prayer “it invites us to lift our mind to God to find in Him the reasons for our hope and the strength to face the difficulties of life”: Pope Benedict XVI’s address after a Concert in his honour given by the Philharmonic Quartet Berlin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Soloists playing together demands of the individual not only commitment of all one’s technical and musical ability to execute one’s own part, but at the same time the ability to list ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Convents and monasteries of contemplative life are an ‘oasis’ where man, a pilgrim on earth, can more easily draw from the sources of the Spirit and quench his thirst on his way. These apparently useless places are indispensable, like the green ‘lungs’ of a city”: Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus stresses the importance of the enclosed religious life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Holy Mary in the Temple, 21 November, the Church celebrates the “Day pro Orantibus” and recalls with prayer and concrete aid communitie ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - A Day to recall those who help build the Kingdom of God through a contemplative life: 3,534 convents of enclosed nuns in the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was Pope Pius XII who instituted on 21 November 1953, on the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, the “Day Pro Orantibus”. On this recurrence the faithful ar ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Monks and nuns of enclosed orders are visible signs of God’s tent in the world: contribution from the Poor Clares at Otranto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, on 21 November in Italy believers are urged to celebrate the Day Pro Orantibus, to recall those men and women who still today choose to live for God alone at the margins of hu ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Enclosed monastic life: importance and significance for the world today, reflections by enclosed Benedictine nuns at S. Maria di Rosano Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Everyone admires the beauty of a splendid rose bush or the sumptuous majesty of a great oak tree, but how many think of the root below these wonders of nature? Everyone knows the root is in ...
• 18 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Ecumenism of love” says Pope Benedict XVI to plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Unity of Christians: “The dialogue of charity by nature promotes and illuminates dialogue of truth… certainly relativism or easy and false Irenaenism will not help ecumenical efforts Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 17 November Pope Benedict XVI received in audience the participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians. In his address ...
• 18 November 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict’s prayer for vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Agenzia Fides thinks it opportune to recall the prayer for Vocations composed by Pope Benedict XVI for this year’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations last May, held on Sunday 7th May. � ...
• 17 November 2006
  VATICAN - Holy See Press Office statement with regard to Pope Benedict XVI's meeting with Heads of Roman Curia Offices Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The following statement was issued by the Holy See Press Office in the afternoon of Thursday 16 November: “Today 16 November in the morning, in the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father presi ...
• 16 November 2006
  VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the Languages of the World: Portuguese (2) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With regard to the necessity to foster greater awareness of the importance of prayer, let us listen to what the Blessed Virgin Mary said when she appeared to the three shepherd children at ...
• 16 November 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE rev. Nicola Bux and rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Priestly celibacy, horizon of a greater love Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote in his «Report on the Faith» published in 1985 «A priest is always tempted to grow accustomed to greatness, making it a routine. Today he might feel the g ...
• 16 November 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the General Audience: “We learn from Paul that the working of the Spirit orients our life towards the great values of love, joy, communion and hope. It is up to us to experience this every day heeding the promptings of the Spirit” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For the third Wednesday running Pope Benedict XVI devoted his General Audience teaching to the thought of Saint Paul: “We have before us a giant not only at the level of concrete aposto ...
• 15 November 2006
  VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: Portuguese (I) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Portugal is a republic in the western part of the Iberian peninsula, capital Lisbon. The Gospel arrived here before the 4th century. From the fifth century to the early eighth century the ...
• 15 November 2006
  VATICAN - Message from Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on the occasion of the 1st West African Mission Congress in Ouagadougou: “The formation missionary of apostolic personnel is a priority among priorities” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On occasion of the 1st West African Mission Congress promoted by the Regional Bishops’ Conference of French-speaking West Africa. CERAO, which opens today in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) an ...