Vatican

• 17 July 2006
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI leads the Angelus prayer at his mountain holiday retreat in Val d’Aosta: “I entrust to the Queen of Mount Carmel communities of contemplative life all over the world”. New appeal for the Holy Land: “I ask local Churches to offer special prayers for peace in the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East” Les Combes (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 16 July Pope Benedict XVI led the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer from a field next to the little house put a his disposal by the local Salesian community in Les Combes, Val ...
• 17 July 2006
  VATICAN - Seminar on Ecumenism 17 - 21 July in Korea on the theme "The Search for Christian Unity: Where We Stand Today” Statement by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity issued the following statement through the Holy See Press Office: “Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for P ...
• 14 July 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD, Mgr. Massimo Camisasca - “Education to silence” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is impossible to be in His Presence, in the presence of Christ in person, now, unless we are educated to silence. Laurentius the Hermit used to say: «It was then that I understood I w ...
• 13 July 2006
  VATICAN - "The Human Person, the Heart of Peace " theme chosen by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for 40th World Peace Day 1 January 2007 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - ‘The Human Person, the Heart of Peace’ is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for the 40th World Peace Day on 1 January 2007. The theme for reflection chosen by the Holy Father expres ...
• 12 July 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Rev. Luciano Alimandi - “Mother of Mercy”; ““Jesus came into the world through Mary, through Mary He must reign in the world.”” (St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We might ask what is the greatest urgency of our day, the most pressing necessity for the individual and for the whole world. Of course we could make a list of priorities but in the end we ...
• 12 July 2006
  VATICAN - Following yesterday’s bomb explosions in Bombay Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples sends telegramme of solidarity to diocesan Administrator of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples sent the following telegramme to the Diocesan Administrator of Bombay Bishop Bosco Penha. “Your Excelle ...
• 11 July 2006
  VATICAN - THE STONES, SOUNDS AND COLOURS OF GOD'S HOUSE Bishop Mauro Piacenza: “Sacred music, one of the Church’s cultural treasures” (I) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The beloved Pope John Paul II celebrated in keeping with the ‘mind’ of the Catholic Church the hundredth anniversary of the Motu proprio issued by Saint Pius X Tra le sollecitudini, whi ...
• 11 July 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI appoints Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi new director of the Holy See Press Office Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the renunciation of the position as Director of the Holy See Press office presented by Mr Joaquín Navarro-Valls, thanking him for his long a ...
• 10 July 2006
  VATICAN - From Valencia Pope Benedict XVI launches a message of hope to the families of the world and announces that Mexico City will be the venue of the next World Meeting of Families in 2009 Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 9 July at 9.30am the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI returned to the City of Arts and Sciences to preside a concelebration of Mass the culminating event of the 5th World Meeting of Fami ...
• 10 July 2006
  VATICAN - During Family Prayer Vigil, the Pope says : “It is a great responsibility of all to proclaim the integral truth of the family founded on marriage, a domestic church, the shrine of life” Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - In the evening of Saturday 8 July, at Valencia’s futuristic City of the Arts and Sciences Pope Benedict XVI presided the Family Prayer Vigil which closed the week of events for the 5th World ...
• 10 July 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Valencia for the 5th World Meeting of Families: “I wish to propose the central role which the family founded on marriage has for the Church and for society” Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - “The reason for my visit it to take part in the 5th World Meeting of Families on the theme ‘Handing on the faith in the Family. I wish to propose the central role which the family founded ...
• 7 July 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD: Massimo Camisasca “The liturgy is ongoing education” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Liturgy, in a way, is the first place for the education and formation of a seminarian and this continues for the priest with ever deeper profundity. The Liturgy is an event which forms ...
• 6 July 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI says Christians must learn from St John the Apostle “the great lesson of love so we may realise we are loved by Christ “to the very end” and decide to spend our life for Him” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - John son of Zebedee and the brother of James, whose name in Jewish means "the Lord has given grace", called by Jesus with his brother when the two men were re-arranging their fishing nets o ...
• 6 July 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Updating the Church and the role of the Roman Curia” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since the ecclesiastical institution has a human face it is always in need of revision from the head to the furthest ramifications. Now the Church of Rome, mother and head of all Churches, ...
• 5 July 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA Rev Luciano Alimandi - “Our Lady and the Visitation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - One of the outstanding events in the life of Jesus and Mary is undoubtedly the one narrated by Luke in the chapters dedicated to the childhood of Jesus: the Visitation (cfr. Lk 1, 39-56). I ...