Vatican

• 6 September 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA “Mother of Priests” by don Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To contemplate the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mother of Priests means first of all to dwell on the Fruit of her womb: Jesus, the eternal High Priest. Contemplating the Incarnation we discover t ...
• 4 September 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for the 20th anniversary of the 1986 Inter-religious Meeting of Prayer for Peace Assisi: “even when we find ourselves together to pray for peace, it is important that prayer take place according to those distinct paths proper to the various religions” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI sent a Message to Bishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi-Nocera-Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy, for the 20th anniversary of the 1986 Inter-religious Meeting of Prayer for Peace, ...
• 4 September 2006
  VATICAN - “To enter into communion with Christ and contemplate his face, to see the face of Our Lord in that of our brothers and sisters and in the vicissitudes of everyday, we must have hands which are innocent and hearts which are pure”: Pope Benedict XVI visits the Shrine of the Holy Face at Manoppello (Chieti) Manoppello (Agenzia Fides) - ““To enter into communion with Christ and contemplate his face, to see the face of Our Lord in that of our brothers and sisters and in the vicissitudes of everyday, we must have hands whi ...
• 4 September 2006
  VATICAN - “The life of the shepherd of souls must be a balanced combination of contemplation and activity… may the example and teaching of Saint Gregory the Great be followed by the bishops and clergy of the Church and also by those responsible for civil institutions” said Pope Benedict XVI at his Sunday midday Angelus reflection Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday September 3rd before reciting the midday Angelus prayer with people gathered at his Summer Residence, Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the “singular, almost unique figure” of ...
• 1 September 2006
  VATICAN - “Upendo, Kiini Cha Umisionari” Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for World Mission Sunday 2006 now in Swahili Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for World Mission Sunday, to be celebrated this year on Sunday 22 October, has been translated into Swahili. The translation of the Message “Charity, Soul o ...
• 31 August 2006
  VATICAN - 8th meeting of the Special Council for Oceania of the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops on the implementation of the post synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in Oceania” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The eighth meeting of the Special Council for Oceania of the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops was held in Suva, Fiji Islands 4 and 5 August on the eve of the plenary Assembly of ...
• 31 August 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Faith and Reason: doubt which paralyses” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The election of Cardinal Ratzinger to the Pontificate produced many effects, one specifically from the cultural point of view, above all with regard to dialogue between believers and non be ...
• 30 August 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI reflects on Saint Matthew the Apostle: “in the Gospel we continue to hear, in a way, the persuasive voice of the publican Matthew who, having become an Apostle, continues to announce to us God’s redeeming mercy” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, flew by helicopter from his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo to Rome to give the general Wednesday Audience in the Paul VI Hall in the Va ...
• 29 August 2006
  VATICAN - “Tourism reveals a universal richness, which does not reject the human person, but rather preserves his footprints, his trace.”: Message issued by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples for World Tourism Day 2006 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Tourism enriches precisely insofar as it helps in rendering the so-called “rich” systems “relative” and opens them up to the perception of other forms of “being rich”. Natur ...
• 29 August 2006
  VATICAN - Christian prayers in the languages of the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To continue the urgent task of new evangelisation launched by Pope John Paul II, Fides News Service is planning a section on Christian Prayers in as many languages as possible. The French d ...
• 28 August 2006
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope recalls Saint Augustine and his mother Saint Monica: to Mary “we entrust Christian parents that like Monica they may accompany the growth of their children with their example and their prayers. To the Virgin Mother of God we also entrust young people that, like Augustine, they may seek Christ, the fullness of Truth and Love” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - At midday on Sunday 27 August Pope Benedict XVI led the recitation of the Angelus prayer with several hundred people gathered in the inner courtyard of his Summer Residence in Castel Gan ...
• 28 August 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe his Special Envoy to Asian Mission Congress in Thailand in October Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Metropolitan Archbishop of di Naples (Italy), his Special Envoy to the Asian Mission Congress, in Chang Mai (Thail ...
• 28 July 2006
  VATICAN - In September 97 newly appointed bishops from mission territories will be in Rome for Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In September 97 newly appointed Bishops will travel to Rome from 44 different mission areas in Africa, Asia, America and Oceania to take part in a Study Seminar organised by the Congregatio ...
• 27 July 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Nicola Bux and Salvatore Vitiello - “The truth of the family” (part 2) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In a situation today in which no few Catholics have adopted a “liberal” individualistic, idea of conscience rejecting the communional idea which sees the individual Christian and the Ch ...
• 27 July 2006
  VATICAN - Interview with Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo on the subject of the International Conference for Lebanon held in Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office made public an interview given by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, Holy See secretary for Relations with States, to Vatican Radio on the subject of the International Co ...