Vatican

• 25 June 2004
  VATICAN - “Tourism at the service of the meeting of peoples”: 6th Congress on Pastoral of Tourism Vatican City (Fides Service) - The 6th International Congress on Pastoral of Tourism organised by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples will be held 5 to 8 July 2004 in Bangkok, ...
• 25 June 2004
  VATICAN - “Sport and Tourism, two Vital Forces at the Service of Reciprocal Understanding”: Pope John Paul II issues Message for the Church’s 25th World Tourism Day Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The event tourism should be seen not as one of many events of human activity but as a phenomenon inserted in a unitary and community understanding of humanity and society”, a projectio ...
• 24 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope receives participants at a meeting of the Union of Aid Agencies for Eastern Catholic Churches: “Your visit brings to mind the situation of the Christian communities in the Churches of the East, in our times sorely tried because of wars, terrorism and other difficulties ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Your visit brings to mind the situation of the Christian communities in the Churches of the East, in our times sorely tried because of wars, terrorism and other difficulties.” Receivin ...
• 23 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly Wednesday teaching: “ Expectation for judgement present in every culture, the need for truth and love felt by every spirituality contain a tending towards the Lord which only on reaching Him is placated ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Canticle “Hymn of adoration and praise” (cfr Rev 15,3-4 - Vespers Friday Week one) was the subject of Pope John Paul II’s teaching during the weekly general audience this morning ...
• 22 June 2004
  VATICAN - On the feast day of Peter and Paul, patron saints of Rome, the Pope will preside a solemn Mass in St Peter’s Square. This year a most welcome guest will be Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Vatican City (Fides Service) - In St Peter’s Square at 6pm, on Tuesday 29 June, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, patron saints of Rome, Pope John Paul II will preside a solemn Mass, attended by the Orthodox Ecumenic ...
• 22 June 2004
  VATICAN - Special holiness of numerous Catholic priests, men and women religious and lay people, persecuted in Mexico and Spain in the 20th century recognised with 16 solemn decrees by Congregation for the Causes of Saints Vatican City (Fides) - This morning, 22 June, in the Sala Clementina in the Vatican, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints promulgated Decrees regarding the heroic virtues, mirac ...
• 21 June 2004
  VATICAN - Pope sends President of Pontifical Council Cor Unum to Haiti and Dominican Republic where at least 2,000 people perished in recent floods Vatican City (Fides Service) -Pope John Paul II has sent Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum to Haiti and the Dominican Republic where at least 2,000 people perished and thousands w ...
• 21 June 2004
  VATICAN - Statement from Director of Holy See Press Office on newly approved European Constitutional treaty: satisfaction for new step towards integration but regret for failure to recognise the continent’s Christian roots Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 19 June the Director of the Holy See’s press office Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, issued the following press statement in Italian: (our English translation). “The means of s ...
• 21 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Sunday message : “Everyone needs a safe place in which to live. This is something to which Refugees aspire but in many countries millions are still at collection points or in any case are limited for a long time in the exercise of their rights.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - A vibrant appeal “not to forget our refugee brothers and sisters!” was launched by Pope John Paul II in his message before the Angelus prayer on Sunday 20 June, World Refugee Day. Reca ...
• 17 June 2004
  VATICAN - A reflection on the occasion of the Church’s World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests: Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 18 June 2004 Vatican City (Fides Service) - In Italy we have a saying: “you can tell by the way a priest celebrates the Eucharist, the devotion with which he lifts his hands during Mass how much love he has in his heart for Jesus!� ...
• 16 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses members of the post-synodal Council for the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops: the new chains binding the continent must be broken “a joint effort must be made by all the forces of society, and especially those of the Church already at work with interventions at every level with abnegation and dedication ”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “I called the first Special Assembly the "Synod of resurrection and hope" (Ecclesia in Africa, 13) and it was true because already, here and there, we see the first signs of this new bloo ...
• 16 June 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the General Audience: unwavering trust in God “our refuge and our strength always near in times of anguish…the world and its vicissitudes are governed by the Lord ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 45, which Pope John Paul II commented during his teaching at the Wednesday audience in St Peter’s Square, “celebrates the Holy City of Jerusalem, «the City of God, the holy dwell ...
• 15 June 2004
  VATICAN - “The Church wished to ask forgiveness not in a disordered manner but with effective knowledge of that happened because from the truth there is nothing to fear ” Card. Georges Cottier said at the presentation of the Acts of a 1998 International Symposium on the Inquisition Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the modern epoch in Europe there were roughly about 100,000 trials in civil and ecclesiastical courts. Of these 50,000 were trials by civil courts which led to condemnations to the st ...
• 14 June 2004
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope recalls Corpus Christi and newly called Year of the Eucharist: “Contemplating more assiduously the face of the Incarnate Word, truly present in the Sacrament, the faithful will learn the art of prayer and commitment themselves to that high measure of Christian life indispensable to development effectively new evangelisation.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ and the announcement of the Year of the Eucharist were the focal point of Pope John Paul II’s address on Sunday 13 June be ...
• 12 June 2004
  VATICAN - “Carry Christ to every environment of daily life” is the mission of Cursillos of Christianity Mons. Ubaldo Speranza of the Italian branch of the movement told Fides the day after the consignment of the Decree of Canonical Recognition. Vatican City (Fides) - “You are the deanery of truth and the power of communion” Pope John Paul II said to members of the Movement Cursillos of Christianity during an audience in St Peter’s Square in 2000. Deanery ...