Vatican

• 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 ...
• 12 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ Announced by the Scriptures- Announcement and Fulfilment (3) Rome (Fides Service) - A FUTURE KING The Patriarch Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham blesses his children before he dies. To Juda, his fourth son he says: « The sceptre shall not pass from Judah, nor the ruler's sta ...
• 11 December 2006
  VATICAN - The complex issue of society/nomad peoples relations at the centre of a Meeting for National Directors of Pastoral Care for Gypsies held in the Vatican, a year since the publication of the “Guidelines for Pastoral Care of Gypsies” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 in the Vatican National Directors of Pastoral Care for Gypsies are attending a meeting organised by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinera ...
• 11 December 2006
  VATICAN - Message to the Superior General of the Society of African Missions on the occasion of the Society’s 150th anniversary of foundation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In a message to the members of the Society of African Missions on the occasion of their 150th anniversary on December 8, Pope Benedict XVI writes “Assuring you of my prayers, I give tha ...
• 11 December 2006
  VATICAN - “Some try to exclude God from every ambit of life presenting Him as man’s antagonist. As Christians we must show that God is love and He desires the good and happiness of all mankind.”: the Pope addresses participants at a study congress on "Secularity and secularities” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pope on 9 December received participants in the 56th national study congress, promoted by the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists, held in Rome on the theme: "Secularity and secularities. ...
• 11 December 2006
  VATICAN - “The feast of the Immaculate conception illuminates like a beacon the Season of Advent, time of trustful watching for the coming of the Saviour”: the Pope’s prayer on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Today we celebrate one of the most beautiful and popular feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary: her Immaculate Conception. Mary never committed sin, indeed she was preserved even from that c ...
• 11 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Dedication of a new church: “Particularly in our widely secularised social context today, the parish is a beacon which irradiates the light of the faith and responds to the deepest and truest longings of the human heart” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 10 December, as Bishop of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI went to dedicate a new church in the southern outskirts of Rome dedicated to Saint Mary, Star of Evangelisation. This was the fir ...
• 11 December 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: “Preparing for Christmas means striving to build ‘God’s dwelling place among us. No one is excluded; everyone can and must help to make this home of communion spacious and beautiful” - appeal for the Middle East and Lebanon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 10 December, as Bishop of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI went to consecrate a new parish church in the outskirts of Rome dedicated to Mary, Star of Evangelisation. Before the Angelus pra ...
• 11 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas - Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and fulfilment (2) Rome (Fides Service) - THE WOMAN, HER OFFSPRING. VICTORY OVER THE EVIL ONE, SALVATION OF MANKIND After the sin and fall of Adam and Eve, God announces salvation and says to the serpent: « I shall put enmity between you ...
• 9 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas,the Scriptures announce Christ: announcement and fulfilment(1) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The disciples at Emmaus. In the evening of the day of his Resurrection Jesus appears to two disciples, known as the Disciples of Emmaus (Gospel according to Saint Luke chapter 24). He says ...
• 7 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict retraces the events of his apostolic visit to Turkey: “May the Holy Spirit render my apostolic visit fruitful and may he vivify in the whole world the mission of the Church instituted by Christ to announce the Gospel of truth, peace and love to all peoples” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 6 December the Pope gave his general audience in two places, first of all in St Peters where he met Italian visitors mostly from the dioceses of Lazio accompanied by their Bish ...
• 7 December 2006
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Esperanto Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Esperanto language was invented by Dr L. Zamenhof in 1887 and completed in 1951. A major contribution was given by German American Alexander Gode, (1906-1970) whose works include inter- ...
• 7 December 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Chastity and Truth Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The recent debate, smouldering for two thousand years, with regard to the discipline of ecclesiastical celibacy for priests, is an opportunity for reflection not limited exclusively to the ...