Vatican

• 26 January 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Deus Caritas est” central for missionary activity - brief reflection by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - The missionary world has received new, illuminating and essential guidance for its presence in so many different places and contexts. With his first Encyclical the Holy Father Pope Benedict ...
• 26 January 2006
  VATICAN - “Unity is our common mission; it is the condition for the light of Christ to spread ever more effectively to every corner of the earth and for men and women to convert their hearts and be saved”: Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Deus caritas est (1 Jn 4,8.16), God is love. Upon this solid rock rests the whole faith of the Church. And in a special way it is the basis of patient striving for full communion among a ...
• 25 January 2006
  VATICAN - Weekly teaching of Pope Benedict XVI: psalm 143: blessed the people « whose God is the Lord », “a people who does not renounce its faith and spiritual and moral values” Vatican City (Fides Service) - During his weekly audience this morning in the Paul VI Hall, Pope Benedict XVI illustrated the second part of Psalm 143 (the King’s Prayer - Vespers Thursday week 4. “We have the entry ...
• 25 January 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict publishes first Encyclical “Deus Caritas est” on Christian love:addressed to the bishops, priests and deacons, men and women relgious and all the faithful Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the John Paul II Hall of the Holy See Press Office this morning at midday there was the official presentation of the first encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI "Deus Caritas est" date ...
• 25 January 2006
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI’s first encyclical: a comment by Rev Nicola Bux, docent at Puglia Philosophy Faculty. vice director of the Bari Ecumenical Institute “Love’s reasoning” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Christ said to his disciples: unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. In what does this surpassing consist? In ...
• 25 January 2006
  VATICAN - “God himself comes to fill our eros with his agape” : A reflection on Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical, Mgr Massimo Camisasca founder and superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo Vatican City (Fides Service) - What is surprising is not that the first Encyclical written by Pope Benedict XVI is about charity and love. Love is the name of God as St John writes in his letter and as the encyclical say ...
• 24 January 2006
  VATICAN - The Media: A Network for Communication, Communion and Cooperation -Pope Benedict XVI's Message for the World Day of Social Communications 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the wake of the fortieth-anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, I am happy to recall its Decree on the Means of Social Communication, Inter Mirifica, whi ...
• 23 January 2006
  VATICAN - Solemn opening of celebrations for 5th centenary of the founding of the Pontifical Swiss Guards. Cardinal Sodano tells Swiss Guards and families at special mass in Sistine Chapel: “I encourage you to love the Church of Christ ever more deeply” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Today is the official start of celebrations to mark the 5th centenary of the presence in the Vatican of the Swiss Guards. On 22 January 1506, the first 150 Swiss soldiers passed Piazza d ...
• 23 January 2006
  VATICAN - Angelus of Benedict XVI during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “We know not how, or when, because it is not given to us to know, but we can be sure that one day we will be “one” as Jesus and the Father are united in the Holy Spirit”. Appeal for peace in Côte d'Ivoire. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Half way through the annual "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ", 18 to 25 January, on Sunday 22 January Pope Benedict XVI devoted his midday Angelus reflection to the theme of ecumenism. ...
• 21 January 2006
  VATICAN - “There is need for well-trained and courageous priests who, without ambition or fear but convinced of gospel truth, make the announcement of Christ their first concern and, in His name, are ready to reach out to human suffering”: Pope Benedict receives the community of Almo Collegio Capranica Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI today received the rector and students of the diocesan seminary of Rome, the Almo Collegio Capranica on the eve of the feast day of their patroness St Agnes. The Almo Coll ...
• 18 January 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching on the first day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “brothers and sisters let us continue to pray because we know that the holy cause to re-establish unity among Christians is beyond our poor human capabilities and that definitively unity is a gift of God” Vatican City (Fides Service) - During the General Audience this morning in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity which started today. This “important oppo ...
• 16 January 2006
  VATICAN - “Christ is the same, yesterday, today and always, but we, the world and history, are never the same and He comes to give us his communion and the fullness of life”: seek Christ and find him says Pope Benedict XVI at Sunday’s midday Angelus prayer Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his reflection before the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 15 January Pope Benedict XVI dwelt on two verbs of ‘special significance’ “seeking” and “finding” taken from the Su ...
• 13 January 2006
  VATICAN - Spirituality of Communion theme of annual retreat for priest-students at Pontifical College San Paolo in Rome Vatican City (Fides Service) - Spirituality of Communion was the theme of the annual retreat organised 2-6 January for priest-students from mission territories residing for the academic year 2005-2006 at the Pontifical ...
• 13 January 2006
  VATICAN - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: St Paul’s Basilica to hold special daily Vespers at tomb of the Apostle, Pope Benedict XVI present for closing solemn Vespers Vatican City (Fides Service) - This year the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 18 to 25 January, theme “Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am with them” (Mt 18,18-20), will be celebrated with speci ...
• 11 January 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching on Psalm 143: although aware that he is weak and far from the splendour of God, the psalmist discovers “Emmanuel God-with-us who for Christians has the loving face of Jesus Christ, God made man” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning at the General Audience held in the Paul VI Audience Hall Pope Benedict XVI resumed his teaching on the psalms and canticles prayed in the Liturgy of the Hours, reflecting tod ...