Vatican

• 18 March 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s annual Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday: “The words of institution of the Eucharist must be more than a formula of consecration: they must be a "formula of life". Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Dear priests, I particularly welcome our annual spiritual encounter for Holy Thursday, the day when Christ's love was manifested "to the end" (cf. Jn 13:1), the day of the Eucharist, the ...
• 18 March 2005
  VATICAN - Interview with the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Archbishop Henryk Hoser, who will be ordained tomorrow Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the feast of St Joseph, Saturday 19 March, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, will ordain Archbishop Henryk Hoser, the new Secretar ...
• 16 March 2005
  VATICAN - “We all have the sublime vocation and grave responsibility to see that the proclamation of the Good News resounds everywhere with joy”: Cardinal Sepe celebrates Mass in Propaganda Fide chapel for Portuguese Missionários dà Boa Nova marking the 75th anniversary of their foundation Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning 16 March Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples (CEP), presided a special Mass in the chapel of Propaganda Fide, to celebrate t ...
• 14 March 2005
  VATICAN - Three priorities for the Bishops of Tanzania on ad limina visit: the family, the clergy and the common good of society. The Pope writes his message at Gemelli Hospital “where I offer my prayers and suffering for you” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “While I regret that I cannot receive you in the Vatican at this time, nevertheless I gladly welcome you, the Pastors of the Church in Tanzania, on your visit ad limina Apostolorum. I gre ...
• 14 March 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s reflection at the Sunday Angelus: “In this season of Lent which invites us to nourish ourselves more abundantly with the Word of God, I wish to recall that it is possible to nourish the spirit also through radio, television and the Internet. I am grateful to those committed to this new form of evangelisation which valorises the mass media” Vatican City (Fides Service) - As on the previous two Sundays, yesterday, 5th Sunday of Lent, it was the Substitute Secretary of State, Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, in St Peter’s Square who on behalf of the Pope read th ...
• 14 March 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope appoints delegate Presidents, Relator and Secretary for the 11th Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to be held in October in Rome at the end of the Year of the Eucharist Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has appointed the Presidents, Relator and Secretary for the 11th Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to be held in the Vatican October 2 to 29 2005, on the t ...
• 11 March 2005
  VATICAN - In Mexico Cardinal Sepe addresses missionaries: “Revive the grace of your vocation and intensify, faithful to your original charisma, your path towards mission ad gentes. Prefer the most places most humble and arduous, to the far ends of the earth!” Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Institute of Santa Maria de Guadalupe for Foreign Missions in Mexico City hosted the last event on Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe’s brief pastoral visit to Mexico. Here, on Thursday 10 Marc ...
• 10 March 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe meets the clergy in Tarahumara, Mexico: “Have trust in Jesus Christ who called you and trust the Church our Mother; offer your trust also to the new Bishop, who is the foundation of your own ministry” Guachochi (Fides Service) - Before presiding the Eucharistic concelebration for the Ordination of the new Bishop of Tarahumara, in the morning of Wednesday 9 March, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation ...
• 10 March 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe ordains new Bishop of Tarahumara in Mexico: “A Church called to offer from the riches of its faith and testimony of communion among its different peoples an important contribution to the universal Church” Guachochi (Fides Service) - “The Church entrusts you with the responsibility and care of a part of the People of God: the Particular Church of Tarahumara in western Sierra Madre resplendent in the beauty of creation. A ...
• 9 March 2005
  VATICAN - From the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Cardinal Sepe makes new appeal for Mission: “There is no more urgent task, no higher vocation than that of co-operating like Mary with the apostolic mission of the Church” Mexico City (Fides Service) - “From this Marian Shrine, here at the feet of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I wish today to launch a new appeal for mission ad gentes. Humanity anxiously awaits the light and the Truth of the Lo ...
• 7 March 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Card. Crescenzio Sepe on pastoral visit to the diocese of Tarahumara the only territory in Mexico still under the care of the missionary Congregation. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples will be in Mexico 8-10 March for a pastoral visit. On Tuesday 8 March he will preside Mass in the Ba ...
• 7 March 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Sunday Angelus reflection: “Together we continue our preparation for Easter, offering God also our suffering for the good of humanity and our own purification” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In St Peter’s Square at midday yesterday, the 4th Sunday in Lent, the Substitute Secretary of State Archbishop Leonardo Sandri read a message from Pope John Paul II for the recitation of ...
• 5 March 2005
  VATICAN - Contemplation of beauty helps penetration of the mystery and prompts conversion of life: The Immaculate Conception in Art, exhibition in the Vatican, interview with Archbishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Fides Service) - “A woman clothed in the sun” - The Immaculate Conception in words of the Great Masters- is the title of an exhibition organised by the Pontifical Commission for Cultural Heritage of the ...
• 3 March 2005
  VATICAN - “It is urgent that in parish communities and church associations and movements adequate formation be guaranteed so that the liturgy and the richness of its language may be better known and lived to the full” the Pope says in a message to the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Vatican City (Fides Service) - From the Gemelli hospital Pope John Paul sent a message to African born Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, on the ...
• 28 February 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus message: “It is by contemplating Christ and following him with patient trust that we come to understand that every form of human suffering holds within it God’s promise of salvation and happiness”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 27 February, 3rd Sunday in Lent, the Pope’s customary message at the midday Angelus prayer was read out in St Peter’s Square by Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute of the ...