Vatican

• 26 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES PHILIPPINES BISHOPS: BE A CHURCH OF THE POOR, TRUE COMMUNITY OF THE LORD’S DISCIPLES, COMMITTED TO RENEWED INTEGRAL EVANGELISATION Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “Three key pastoral priorities emerged from the plenary council: the need to be a Church of the poor, the pledge to become a true community of the Lord’s disciples, and the commitm ...
• 25 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE GREATNESS OF GOD AND THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON: THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING ON PSALM 8, “ AN ADMIRABLE HYMN OF PRAISE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II was unable to join visitors to St Peter’s for the usual Wednesday Audience on 24 September, due to a slight indisposition. On his behalf Cardinal Angelo Sodano read th ...
• 25 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 5 OCTOBER - JOSEPH FREINADEMETZ 1852-1908: A LIFE FOR MISSION IN CHINA Vatican City (Fides Service) - Joseph Freinademetz was born on the 15th of April 1852 in Oies, a small hamlet of five houses situated in the Dolomite Alps of northern Italy. The region, known as “South Tyrol,” was th ...
• 24 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SENDS MESSAGE TO INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING IN KAZAKHSTAN: RELIGION, PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD, SHOWS ITSELF TO BE A SOLID INSTRUMENT FOR THE PROMOTION OF PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a message through Cardinal Jozef Tomko to an Interreligious Meeting taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan. Cardinal Tomko is leading the Holy See delegation to the me ...
• 24 September 2003
  VATICAN - ON 7 OCTOBER THE POPE TRAVELS TO POMPEI MARIAN SHRINE TO LEAD RECITATION OF ROSARY FOR PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) – The programme for Pope John Paul II’s one day pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei, in Pompei, near Naples, on October 7th feast of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary, has be ...
• 24 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 5 OCTOBER:ARNOLD JANSSEN (1837-1909)“ANNOUNCING THE GOOD NEWS IS FIRST AND BEST WAY TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOUR” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Arnold Janssen was born on November 5, 1837 in Goch, a small city in lower Rhineland (Germany). The second of ten children, his parents instilled in him a deep devotion to religion. He was ...
• 23 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATION 5 OCTOBER - DANIEL COMBONI 1831-1881: PIONEER OF EVANGELISATION IN CENTRAL AFRICA: “SAVING AFRICA WITH AFRICA” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Daniel Comboni: the son of poor gardeners became the first Catholic Bishop of Central Africa, and one of the great missionaries in the Church's history. It is a fact. When God decides to t ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SAYS TO UGANDAN BISHOPS: “ASSURING YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE OF MY SPIRITUAL CLOSENESS IN THESE DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES, I JOIN YOU IN CONDEMNING EVERY ACT OF BLOODSHED AND DESTRUCTION” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Welcoming Uganda Bishops for their ad limina visit on 20 September Pope John Paul II said: “Your presence here today fills me with joy and brings back memories of my visit ten years ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - “CALLED TO HOLINESS, WITNESSES OF TRUTH AT THE SERVICE OF EVANGELISATION” SEMINAR FOR NEW BISHOPS IN ENGLISH SPEAKING MISSION TERRITORIES COMES TO A CLOSE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Be examples of brotherhood and prayer. Let us continue along this path of fraternal friendship, aware of our call to holiness. Getting to know each other personally facilitates buildin ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - PROGRAMME OF EVENTS TO MARK 25TH YEAR OF JOHN PAUL ELECTION TO THE PAPACY RELEASED: CELEBRATIONS TO CULMINATE WITH BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA ON MISSION SUNDAY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Vatican has released the programme of events to mark the 25th anniversary of John Paul II’s election to the See of Peter, 16th October 1978-2003. On Wednesday 15 October the Pope ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “IN THESE LAST WEEKS OF THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY LET US FEEL MORE THAN EVER UNITED IN PRAYING THE HOLY ROSARY, PARTICULARLY FOR FAMILIES AND FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Continuing his spiritual pilgrimage towards the Shrine of Pompei where he will go on 7 October the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, on Sunday 21 September, during the Angelus address P ...
• 19 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO BISHOPS FROM ENGLISH-SPEAKING MISSION COUNTRIES: FOR YOU ALSO, THE CALL OF JESUS RESOUNDS FORCEFULLY: “GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE CREATION!” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – On Friday 19 September Pope John Paul II received in a private audience a group of Bishops from English speaking mission countries attending a course of Aggiornamento organised by the ...
• 19 September 2003
  VATICAN - COMMUNION AMONG BISHOPS, FORMATION; GUIDELINES FOR MISSION: SEMINAR FOR NEW BISHOPS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING MISSION TERRITORIES COMES TO A CLOSE Vatican City (Fides Service) – A successful event which has already borne fruits of communion and will undoubtedly serve to boost the mission of evangelisation: these positive reactions were voiced by Bishops taking pa ...
• 18 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: MAY SLOVAKIA “TREASURE THE GOSPEL, THE GREATEST GOOD, SHARE IT AND WITNESS TO IT WITH OF HOLINESS OF LIFE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the audience on Wednesday 17 September the Pope told the thousands of visitors from various parts of the world present in St Peter’s Square about his recent apostolic journey to ...
• 15 September 2003
  VATICAN - PACEM IN TERRIS TEACHING STILL VALID TODAY: A REFLECTION BY THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE UNDER THE BANNER OF CHRISTIAN HOPE AND OPTIMISM Vatican City (Fides Service) – The indispensable elements for building a new social order in the era of globalisation, drawn from the teaching, as valid as ever today, of the Pacem in Terris encyclical by John XXIII, a ...