Vatican

• 27 May 2005
  VATICAN - “The Corpus Christi procession responds symbolically to the command of the Risen Lord: I am going before you to Galilee. Go out to the ends of the earth, carry the Gospel to the world.” The Pope says during Mass celebrated in front of the Cathedral of Rome Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The procession on Holy Thursday accompanies Jesus in his solitude towards the "via crucis". The procession on Corpus Christi, instead responds symbolically to the command of the Risen Lo ...
• 25 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope comments on Psalm 115: “The entire people of God, thank the Lord of life, Who never abandons the just in the dark bosom of pain and death, but leads then to hope and to life." Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the original Hebrew Psalm 115 forms one composition with the previous psalm 114. Both form a unitary act of thanksgiving to the Lord who frees us from the nightmare of death. In our ...
• 24 May 2005
  VATICAN - Papal Letter to the Church in Spain on the occasion of the national pilgrimage to Zaragoza: “May the Blessed Virgin Mary preserve every family from all forms of social justice, from all that offends its dignity and restricts its freedom” Zaragoza (Fides Service) - “At this time of discernment for many hearts you the Bishops of Spain are looking towards the One who welcomed with total availability the life of God who was entering history” Pope Benedic ...
• 23 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Sunday reflection at the Angelus: “God is not solitude, but perfect communion. This is why the human person, the image of God, is realised through love, sincere gift of self ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The words which summarise all revelation are these: ‘God is love’ (1 Jn 4,8.16); and love is always a mystery, a reality which goes beyond reason although without contradicting it, ...
• 21 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Bishops from Rwanda: “May the Spirit of Pentecost render fruitful the efforts of those who strive to build brotherhood among all Rwandans in a spirit of truth and justice!” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, Saturday 21 May Pope Benedict XVI received the Bishops of Rwanda on ad limina visit to Rome”. “Through you I greet affectionately your communities” the Pope said, encour ...
• 20 May 2005
  VATICAN - After a Seminar ‘Liturgy a great school of peace’ Justice and Peace president Cardinal Martino promises paper on the subject Vatican City (Fides Service) - The start of fruitful relations between scholars of liturgy and scholars of social doctrine was, according to Cardinal Renato Martino president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Pea ...
• 20 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses students of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy: “cultivate "the two constitutive and complementary dimensions of the Church: communion and mission, unity and passion for evangelisation Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, the Holy Father received students of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, accompanied by their president, Archbishop Justo Mullor, calling on them to use their formative yea ...
• 19 May 2005
  VATICAN - Political commitment as a demanding way of living Christian commitment at the service of others: Cardinal Martino at a Seminar of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Lack of attention for its ethical dimension leads inevitably to the de-humanisation of life and institutions which transforms social and political life into a jungle at the mercy of viol ...
• 19 May 2005
  VATICAN - “Love, nourish and hand on the faith in your families as the most precious heritage! Bear witness to the faith!”: Benedict XVI encourages Peruvian Catholics Lima (Fides Service) - The celebration and final lap of the great City Mission “Remar Mar Adentro” which for more than two years has involved more than 10,000 city missionaries mostly lay people in a programme of new ...
• 18 May 2005
  VATICAN - “I wish to recommend CELAM to give special attention to pastoral of the family threatened in our day by serious dangers which undermine the very foundation of Christian marriage and family”: Pope Benedict XVI sends message to Latin American Bishops for 50th CELAM anniversary Vatican City (Fides) - On the occasion of the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM, Pope Benedict XVI has sent a message of good wishes dated 14 May 2005 in which ...
• 18 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Wednesday Audience teaching “the Lord stoops attentively to our smallness and indigence which would make us draw back in fear” on Psalm 112 Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Psalm 112 is a short hymn which in the original Hebrew consists of only sixty words all filled with sentiments of trust, praise and joy.” During the general audience this morning in St ...
• 17 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope tells pilgrims in Rome for the beatification of Mothers Ascension de Corazon de Jesus Nicol Goni, and Marianne Cope “Exemplary witnesses of Christ's charity these two new Blessed help us to better understand the meaning and the value of our Christian vocation” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Monday 16 May Pope Benedict XVI received pilgrims who participated in Saturday's ceremony for the beatification of Mothers Ascension de Corazon de Jesus Nicol Goni, and Marianne Cope. "E ...
• 17 May 2005
  VATICAN - Catholic Church’s Message to the Buddhists of the world on occasion of the Feast of Vesakh 2005: “where Buddhists and Catholics live together may they use the moment to consolidate the good relations which already exist between them” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, on the occasion of the Feast of Vesakh 2005, has sent on behalf of the Catholic Church ...
• 16 May 2005
  VATICAN - On the solemnity of Pentecost Benedict XVI ordains 21 priests: “The wind and the fire of the Holy Spirit must ceaselessly open the frontiers that we human beings continue to build between ourselves; we must always pass anew from Babel, from closing in on ourselves, to Pentecost” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the Vatican Basilica on Sunday May 15, Solemnity of Pentecost, Benedict XVI presided at Mass during which he ordained 21 deacons of the diocese of Rome. We give excerpts from the Pope’ ...
• 16 May 2005
  VATICAN - Beatification of Marianne Cope and Ascensión Nicol Goñi: “Our two Blessed opened their lives to the Spirit of God letting themselves be led by him to serve the Church, the poor, the sick and youth ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the afternoon of Saturday 14 May Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided Mass at the Altar of the Chair in the apse of St Peter’s ...