Vatican

• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - “LIKE THE EARLY CHRISTIANS WE ARE A LITTLE FLOCK CALLED TO FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS SO AS TO BE A GREAT SIGN” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Geraldo Majela Agnelo, Archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia Brazil, the new president of the Brazilian Catholic Bishops’ Conference CNBB was recently in Rome to present Pope Joh ...
• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE APPOINTS 18 CONSULTORS FOR CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Vatican City (Fides Service ) – On Saturday 26 July 2003 Pope John Paul II appointed 18 Consultors for the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: 7 archbishops, 4 bishops, 6 priests, 1 woman religious. Arch ...
• 28 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “EUROPE TODAY NEEDS THE PRESENCE OF CATHOLICS ADULT IN THEIR FAITH AND CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY COMMUNITIES WHO BEAR WITNESS TO GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL PEOPLES – APPEAL FOR LIBERIA Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – On Sunday 27 July from his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II launched a call to all Christians in Europe to “rediscover the enthusiasm of proclaiming the Gospel a ...
• 24 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEEKLY TEACHING: “WE ARE NOT ABANDONED TO OURSELVES OR TO THE COSMIC FORCES, WE ARE ALWAYS IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD IN HIS PLAN FOR SALVATION” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II met about 2,500 people in the courtyard of his Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo for the weekly audience on Wednesday July 23. His teaching focussed on Psalm 146: � ...
• 23 July 2003
  VATICAN - INTERNATIONAL LAW, A PATH TO PEACE: INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL JUSTICE AND PEACE, ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTINO ON POPE JOHN PAUL II’S THEME FOR WORLD PEACE DAY 2004 Vatican City (Fides Service) – "Humanity is facing a crucial challenge: if it does not succeed in providing really efficacious institutions to avert the scourge of war, the risk is that the law of force will prevail ov ...
• 21 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PARTICIPANTS AT EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE: JUST AS NEW EUROPE CANNOT BE PLANNED WITHOUT DRAWING FROM ITS ROOTS, THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF THE UNIVERSITY Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “Just as the new Europe cannot be planned without drawing from its own roots, the same can be said of the university. It is in fact the place par excellence for research for the trut ...
• 21 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: THE NEW EUROPE MUST BE HELPED TO BUILD ITSELF BY REVITALISING THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS FROM WHICH IT ORIGINATED Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “In recent months intense work has been undertaken to draft a European Constitution, the final version of which will be examined for approval by the intergovernmental Conference from ...
• 17 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING: IN THE PSALMS THE MATERNAL TENDERNESS OF JERUSALEM IS AN IMAGE OF GOD’S LOVE FOR MANKIND Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II held his first Summer audience for a small group of lucky people on Wednesday 16 July in the courtyard of his residence at Castel Gandolfo in the cool of the Roman hi ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - DIGNITY OF HUMAN PROCREATION AND REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS. THEME OF 10TH ANNUAL MEETING OF PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR LIFE Vatican City (Fides Service) – The next general meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which will take place early next year 19-22 February in the Vatican, will be especially important since it will mark the 10th ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - ROLE OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE IN PROMOTING BROTHERLY RELATIONS AT THE SERVICE OF PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 7-9 July the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, led by its president Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, held a meeting for its members, consultors and guests in Syria at th ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - 102nd APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF POPE JOHN PAUL ANNOUNCED: REPUBLIC OF SLOVAKIA WILL WELCOME THE POPE IN SEPTEMBER 11-14 Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 11-14 September 2003 Pope John Paul II will make his 102nd apostolic journey which will take him to Slovakia, to visit four cities Trnava, Banska Bystrica, Roznava and Bratislava. ...
• 14 July 2003
  VATICAN - PUTTING THE LAST FIRST; COMBINING GLOBAL AND LOCAL ACTION; ENSURING THAT WORK IS INSPIRED BY THE SOCIAL TEACHING OF THE CHURCH: CARITAS APPROVES FOUR YEAR PLAN 2003-2007 Vatican City (Fides Service) – Four years of hard work lie before Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 154 national Catholic aid agencies operating in 198 countries all over the world. During its recent General ...
• 14 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE AT ANGELUS: TO EUROPE THIRSTING FOR HOPE, THE CHURCH OFFERS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT WHICH NO ONE ELSE CAN GIVE: FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, SOURCE OF HOPE WHICH IS NEVER DISAPPOINTED Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “At this time in history when an important process of re-unification of Europe is underway with the extending of the European Union to more countries, the Church looks with love on t ...
• 11 July 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE FOR 60TH COMMEMORATION OF TRAGEDY IN WOŁHYNIEN: THE NEW MILLENNIUM DEMANDS THAT UKRAINIANS AND POLES LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER WITH EYES OF RECONCILIATION Vatican City (Fides Service) – On the occasion of the official commemoration on July 11th of Ukraine-Poland reconciliation, 60 years after the tragic events in Wołhynien, Ukraine, Pope John Paul II sent a message ...
• 10 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING: OUR GREATEST GOOD IS THE UNION OF OUR WILL WITH THE WILL OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the audience on Wednesday 9 July, Pope John Paul II continued his teaching on the psalms, reflecting this week on psalm 142, a “prayer in time of tribulation.” “Our mornin ...