Vatican

• 30 October 2006
  VATICAN - HOMAGE TO BENEDICT - Today we set out on a path to discover the thought and the achievements of the great Saint Benedict of Nursia, the key to correct and deeper reception of the Magisterium of the present Pontiff, setting it in the context of life in Benedictine communities in Italy and other countries Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - One of the elements which had a major impact on public opinion when Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the Chair of Peter was the Pope’s choice of name: Benedict XVI. A decision which drew m ...
• 30 October 2006
  VATICAN - PRAYER (I): «Lord teach us to pray »… «When you pray say: PATER NOSTER» (Lk 11, 1.2) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Sunday, Fides published a Dossier on the three prayers which form the devotional practice of the Rosary, the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Glory be…. ...
• 28 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI appoints Cardinal Ivan Dias member of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion o ...
• 27 October 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD, Mgr Massimo Camisasca - “Remaining in the presence of Christ, vicars of Christ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - There exists one chief aspect of the life of those whom Christ has chosen for the vocation of priests, an aspect overlooked by the majority. The priestly vocation fills life with responsibi ...
• 26 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Military Ordinaries: “The Church is by nature missionary and her first task is evangelisation which aims to announce and bear witness to Christ and promote in every environment and culture his Gospel of peace and love” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, the Holy Father received participants in the fifth international congress of Military Ordinaries. The congress marks the twentieth anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution "S ...
• 26 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI says Paul of Tarsus is an example to follow: “The important thing is to put Jesus Christ at the centre of our life so that our identity is essentially marked by encounter and communion with Christ and with his word” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his weekly audience on Wednesday 25 October, having concluded his reflections on the twelve Apostles Pope Benedict XVI said he was beginning a new series of meditations on prominent ...
• 26 October 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Ecclesiastic Celibacy in the present-day secularised context Vatican City (Fides Service) - The sad case of African Bishop Milingo reopened the controversial question of marriage for priests, perhaps updated as an opportunity or convenience to avoid cases of paedophilia and homose ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: FRENCH - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The profound changes which occur in the spiritual life of a nation are nearly always enveloped in mystery. The disappearance of the Gaulish language replaced by popular Latin is one example ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA, Rev Luciano Alimandi -“Mary, New Eve: the path to happiness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us reflect together on the first chapters of the Book of Genesis: Gen. 3, 1-13 tells of the fall of our first parents, original sin which caused Adam and Eve to fall from heights of gra ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - “We must learn to listen with the heart to God who speaks” Pope Benedict XVI tells students and teachers of Pontifical Universities in Rome for the opening of the new academic year Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following a Eucharistic concelebration in St Peter’s Basilica on 23 October presided by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, to mark the beginn ...
• 24 October 2006
  VATICAN - “Pastoral and Spiritual Care of Patients with Incurable Pathologies”: theme of 15th World Day for the Sick 2007 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Pastoral and Spiritual Care of Patients with incurable Pathologies” is the theme of World Day for the Sick 2007 for which the main celebrations on February 11, Feast of Our Lady of Lou ...
• 24 October 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD”: Inspiring Principles for the building of churches and places for the celebration and the adoration of the Eucharist (2) by Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The compositive criteria of a church depend on the nature of the cultural habitat. It is a complex and organic, symbolic and iconographic place offered to Christifideles convoked in holy as ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Lateran University XVI: “God is the ultimate truth to which all reason naturally tends … God is not empty word or abstract hypothesis, on the contrary, God is the foundation on which to build our life” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I am happy to be here at "my" University, because this is the Bishop of Rome’s own University. I am aware that here you seek the truth and so, in ultimate analysis, you search for Chri ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - “John Paul II, philosopher and theologian, a great shepherd of the Church, left a legacy of writing and gestures which express his desire to spread the Gospel of Christ in the world”: Pope Benedict XVI receives members of the Fondazione Giovanni Paolo II Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “John Paul II, philosopher and theologian, a great shepherd of the Church, left a legacy of writing and gestures which express his desire to spread the Gospel of Christ in the world, usin ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus on Mission Sunday: “Mission starts from the heart: when we stop to pray in front of the Crucifx, and we see that pierced side, we cannot fail to be filled with joy at the knowledge that we are loved and with a desire to love and be channels of mercy and reconciliation” - Appeal for Iraq Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Sunday was the focus of Pope Pope Benedict XVI’s address before the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 23 October. Here is what the Pope said. “Today we are celebrating the ...