Vatican

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  13 May 2023
  VATICAN - "Antiquum ministerium", fruit of the Second Vatican Council by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Although the figure of the catechist appears already after the First Vatican Council (1870), with the emergence of a great catechetical movement, the driving impulse ...
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  12 May 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: mission "is not our work, but God's" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Mission, like communion, "is above all a mystery of grace". Mission "is not our work, but God’s; we do not do it alone, but moved by the Spirit and docile to his action". Thus Pope Francis once a ...
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  10 May 2023
  VATICAN: Pope Francis at the General Audience together with Pope Tawadros: "the martyrs of the Coptic Church are also ours" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I pray that Christ will preserve you in full health and grant you the blessing of a long life". Thus the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II addressed Pope Francis, in his brief speech read in A ...
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  8 May 2023
  VATICAN - Cardinal Semeraro: here is what Venerable Matteo Ricci says to our present time by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A priest "zealous for the glory of God and the salvation of souls". A wise, chaste, obedient religious, detached from material goods and humble", support ...
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  6 May 2023
  VATICAN - "Antiquum ministerium": a new ministry for an ancient service by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in the history of the Church, the lay ministry of the catechist was recognized and established with the Apostolic Letter "Antiquum ministerium" of ...
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  2 May 2023
  VATICAN - Holy Childhood Society: four online meetings on "The Sacraments of Christian Initiation and the Mission of Children" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Four virtual meetings in different languages, dedicated to the theme "The Sacraments of Christian Initiation and the Mission of Children". This is the initiative proposed in these first days of May ...
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  26 April 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: prayer is the "invisible force" of monks and nuns that sustains the mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I understood it was Love alone that made the Church’s members act, that if Love ever became extinct, apostles would not preach the Gospel and martyrs would not shed their blood", wrote Saint Ter ...
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  25 April 2023
  VATICAN - Appointment of under-secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for first evangelization and the new particular Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. Samuele Sangalli, until now official of the Dicastery for Bishops, as under-secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for first evangelizati ...
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  20 April 2023
  VATICAN - The Apostolic Letter "Antiquum ministerium" and the memory of the martyred catechists, "friutful source" of Christian spirituality Two years after the publication of the Apostolic Letter "Antiquum ministerium", with which Pope Francis instituted the ministry of catechist in the Church (May 10, 2021), and in the context of the tenth year of his Ponti ...
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  19 April 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: martyrs, quintessential witnesses of Christ Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After the generation of the Apostles, the witnesses "par excellence" of the Gospel of Christ have always been the martyrs, those who shed their blood for Christ and also experienced in their flesh ...
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  13 April 2023
  VATICAN - Appointment of Coadjutor Archbishop of Tabora, Msgr. Protase Rugambwa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, former secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, in the Section for First Evangelization and the new particular Churches, as ...
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  12 April 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the Gospel is proclaimed by walking, far from the controversy of the 'keyboard warriors' Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The strength of those who proclaim the salvation of Christ is not based on "plausible words of wisdom"; but "in demonstration of the Spirit and power", which always leads to set oneself in motion a ...
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  10 April 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Jesus comes to us every time we proclaim him Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We encounter Jesus by witnessing him". He himself "comes to meet us every time we announce him". And when one encounters Jesus, no obstacle, no human calculation "can prevent us from proclaiming h ...
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  29 March 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: only the encounter with Jesus changes hearts and also frees us from a "Christianity without Christ" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - One becomes a Christian and proclaims the Gospel with passion, not because he studies the Bible or theology, but only through a real encounter with Jesus, who when he enters our lives "changes ever ...
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  24 March 2023
  The beatitude of martyrs, friends in Paradise by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 24, 2023, marks the 31st Day of Missionary Martyrs. In 1992, the then Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies (today Missio Giovani) proposed for ...