Vatican
28 March 2006
VATICAN - Planning and building God’s house. Contribution by Bishop Mauro Piacenza, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church. “The Altar”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The altar on which the sacrifice of the cross is made present in sacramental signs is also the Lord’s table at which the people of God are called to participate when they are gathered ...
28 March 2006
VATICAN - On the first anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II Rome diocese organises evening prayers in St Peter’s Square
Rome (Fides Service) - For Sunday 2 April the first anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II the diocese of Rome is organising with his successor Pope Benedict XVI a prayer vigil in St Peter’s Square to thank God ...
27 March 2006
VATICAN - Final statement of the 12th General Assembly and of the International Congress on: «The Human Embryo before Implantation. Scientific Update and Bio-ethical Considerations»
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of its 12th general assembly the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) organised an international congress on the «The Human Embryo before Implantation. Scientific Update and ...
27 March 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI pastoral visit to parish of God the Merciful Father: “despite our unworthiness, we are the objects of the infinite mercy of God. God loves us with a love which we might call “obstinate” and he holds us close in his inexhaustible tenderness
Rome (Fides Service) - On the fourth Sunday of Lent, 26 March Pope Benedict, the Bishop of Rome, made a pastoral visit to one of his parishes, the parish of God the Merciful Father built at the request of Pope John Paul ...
27 March 2006
VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope remembers persecuted Christians and martyr missionaries “the Consistory was an event which made us feel closer than ever to Christians who are persecuted for their faith”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - At midday on Sunday 26 March, following his morning visit to the Roman parish of God the Merciful Father, Benedict XVI appeared at the window of his study to pray the Angelus with thousands ...
25 March 2006
VATICAN - The Pope celebrates Mass with fifteen new cardinals and consigns to them the cardinal’s ring, ‘sign of dignity, pastoral concern and communion with the See of Peter’
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today 25 March, Feast of the Annunciation, Pope Benedict XVI presided Mass in St Peter’s Square at which the 15 new Cardinals concelebrated. During the Mass the Pope gave each of them the ...
24 March 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI presides first Consistory for 15 new Cardinals
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI presided this morning 24 March 2006 in St Peter’s Square his first Ordinary Public Consistory for the creation of fifteen new Cardinals.
The first of ...
23 March 2006
VATICAN - “Beauty as a way to Evangelization and Dialogue”. Pontifical Council for Culture prepares plenary assembly
Vatican City (Fides Service) - This year's annual plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture, due to be held on March 27 and 28, will be dedicated to the "Via pulchritudinis," in other words, to beauty as a w ...
22 March 2006
VATICAN - At his general Wednesday audience Pope Benedict XVI makes an appeal for World TB Day and reflects on “the Apostles witnesses and envoys of Christ”
Vatican City (Fides Service)- During his Wednesday audience in St Peter’s Square on 22 March Pope Benedict XVI made the following appeal: “The day after tomorrow, 24 March, United Nations World TB Day to stop Tubercu ...
20 March 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives Bishops of Cameroon: may the ecclesiological and spiritual intuitions of Ecclesia in Africa give “new impulse to the salvific mission which the Church received from Christ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The tenth anniversary of the post-synodal Exhortation Ecclesia in Africa which Pope John Paul II signed and consigned to Africa’s Catholics in Yaounde in September 1995 was the main focus ...
20 March 2006
VATICAN - The Pope celebrates Mass with workers: “Work is of primary importance for the realisation of the person and the development of society which is why it must be organised and undertaken with full respect for human dignity and as a service to the common good.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Work is important for self realisation but on no account should it be seen as the ultimate purpose of life Pope Benedict XVI said on Sunday 19 March, the feast of St Joseph, during Mass cel ...
20 March 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus: “St Joseph’s example urges us to carry out with fidelity, simplicity and modesty the task assigned to us by Divine Providence"
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Before leading the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 19 March with people gathered in St Peter’s square to receive his blessing Pope Benedict XVI said: “Today 19 March i ...
18 March 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at the Plenary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications “I urge you to renew your efforts to assist those working in the world of media to promote what is good and true, especially in regard to the meaning of human and social existence, and to denounce what is false”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Friday 17 March in the Sala Clementina in the Vatican when he received the participants at the Plenary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Pope Benedict XVI said “I ur ...
16 March 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Culture and Inter-religious Dialogue. Some see the arrival of Muslims in Europe as a ‘sign of the times’; it could be in the framework of a vast migratory movement of non Christians who ...
15 March 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI begins new cycle of catechesis dedicated to the mystery of the relationship between Christ and the Church: the light of the face of Christ is reflected in the face of the Church “despite the limits and shadows of our fragile and sinful humanity”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In today's general audience, held in St. Peter's Square in the presence of 30,000 people, Benedict XVI began a new cycle of catechesis dedicated to the mystery of the relationship between C ...
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