Vatican

• 18 May 2006
  VATICAN - “We too like Peter must continually convert, correct our course. We must follow Jesus, not precede Him: he shows us the way. It is the Lord who says to me, and says to you, follow me! We must have the courage and the humility to follow Jesus because He is the Way, the Truth and the Life”: Pope Benedict XVI chooses for his teaching the figure of St Peter Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the new series of catechesis we started first of all by trying to understand better the Church, and the Lord’s idea about this new family of his - Pope Benedict XVI said as he began ...
• 18 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “The Method of Tradition” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Method of Tradition”. Obedience to Tradition, that is to that form of teaching to which we are committed, is documented in time by means of the dynamics of the encounter which defi ...
• 16 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Vita consecrata: Duc in altum!” Celebrating 10th anniversary of Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 20 May 2006, the Pontifical College Regina Apostolorum in Rome will host a conference on "Vita consecrata: Duc in altum!", organised by the College together with the Legionaries ...
• 16 May 2006
  VATICAN - “We live at a time when Christians are called to foster a style of open dialogue on the question of religion while not renouncing to present the Christian proposal consistent with their identity to interlocutors” Pope Benedict XVI said to plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The Catholic Church is ever more aware that inter-religious dialogue is part of her service to humanity in today’s world. This conviction has become, so to say, ‘daily bread’ for p ...
• 15 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: little members of Holy Childhood all over the world collect ever larger funds for less fortunate peers Rome (Fides Service) - The Secretary General of the Pontifical Mission Society Holy Childhood Fr. Patrick Byrne, SVD., was the last of the general secretaries of the four PMS to present to the general assembly which ende ...
• 15 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict addresses participants at plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family: “The family founded on marriage constitutes the "heritage of humanity ", a fundamental social institution, vital nucleus and pillar of society which concerns believers and non” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 13 May, receiving in audience participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Pope Benedict XVI said: “The family founded on marriage constitutes "herita ...
• 15 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Christian life is a mystery of communion with Jesus” the Pope says at the midday Regina Cæli prayer. He also recalled the assassination attack 25 years ago on John Paul II and his miraculous escape thanks to the intervention of a ‘maternal hand’ Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 14 May addressing thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square for the midday Marian prayer Pope Benedict XVI reflected on Union with God by means of the sacrament of the Eucharist a ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at a Congress promoted by the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and the Family: “Only the rock of total and irrevocable love between a man and a woman can found the construction of a society which is a home for all men and women” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Benedict XVI on 11 May received participants in an international congress promoted by the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family of the Pontifical Lateran University. ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: Africa, the continent which will receive most help from the World Mission Sunday collection 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith distributed during the General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies PMS which today closes its annual meeting at Ciampino (Rome), the ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: vocations flourish in young Churches, more than 80,000 seminarians and almost 10,000 novices sustained by the Pontifical Society St Peter Apostle Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Society St Peter Apostle which has the charisma to promote and support the formation of local clergy, during 2005 assigned subsidies for the upkeep of 81.200 seminarians studying at ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Tradition or Treason” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Tradition or Treason”. To avoid also in our day what Pope Paul VI termed “the Church’s self-demolition”, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI chose the Church as the subject for his ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Migration and Moving to and from Muslim countries” Complex and topical subject of relations with Muslim world: 17th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - A sign of the times, the phenomenon of human mobility poses no few problems religious and spiritual, and also social, economic and political. What is more the complexity, topicality and im ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s general audience teaching: Apostolic Succession, “succession in the function of bishops presents itself as continuity in the apostolic ministry, guarantee of perseverance in apostolic Tradition, word and life the Lord has entrusted to us” Vatican City (Fides Service) - After meditating at the past few audiences on the significance of Tradition in the Church- “which is the permanent presence of the word and the life of Jesus among his people”, on Wedn ...
• 10 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: “The Pontifical Missionary Union must be the driving belt of missionary spirituality ” says Fr Vito del Prete, PMU general secretary Rome (Fides Service) - In his report on the activity of the Pontifical Missionary Union in the past year PMU secretary general Fr Vito del Prete, PIME, told the Superior Council of the Pontifical Mission Societies meetin ...
• 10 May 2006
  VATICAN - Beatification of two women Religious 13 and 14 May, Sr Maria Teresa of Saint Joseph and Sr Maria della Passione City (Fides Service) - Two religious will be beatified on May 13 and 14, in separate celebrations due to be held in Holland and Italy respectively. Servant of God Maria Teresa of St Joseph, nee Anna Maria Tauscher van de ...