Vatican

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  19 December 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Supporting the missionary works of the universal Church is an expression of the encounter with Christ" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Supporting the missionary and charitable works of the universal Church is a concrete expression" of the "authentic and personal encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we must proclaim ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: sinners and "foreign" women among the ancestors of Jesus, because Christ's mission is for everyone Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we look at Jesus’ genealogy as described in the Gospel of Matthew, we notice "the presence of foreign women" because, as Benedict XVI wrote, "through them the world of the Gentiles ... ...
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  12 December 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis on foreign debt: “Instrument of control” of governments and private financial institutions at the expense of the poorest countries by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis lists three possible measures to overcome foreign debt, this "instrument of control" over poor countries, and thus reopen a "path of hope" towards peace, in ...
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  11 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "Hope is the most beautiful gift that the Church can give to all of humanity" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Spirit is the ever-gushing source of Christian hope ". And "if the Church is a boat, the Holy Spirit is the sail that propels it and lets it advance on the sea of history, today a ...
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  8 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: May we reach the feast of the Nativity with a ceasefire on all fronts of war Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “May we reach the feast of the Nativity with a ceasefire on all fronts of war”. This is the appeal that Pope Francis launched at the end of the Angelus on the Solemnity of the Immacul ...
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  4 December 2024
  VATICAN - Wednesday Papal Audiences also in Chinese. The importance of a new gift
  by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “With great pleasure.” With these words, Pope Francis announced today the addition of Chinese among the languages in which ...
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  1 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: "If habituation and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the whole, entire human family is defeated" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If habituation and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the whole, entire human family is defeated. The whole human family is defeated!", said Pope Francis at the end of Sunday's An ...
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  27 November 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: “Saint Philip Neri preached the Gospel through joy, be like him!” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian should be like Saint Philip Neri, who was “in his time, a true evangelizer through joy”. This is what Pope Francis said during today's general audience, Wednesday, November ...
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  26 November 2024
  VATICAN - Cardinal Ayuso Guixot dies: a life marked by mission and dialogue Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The life of Spanish Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, who has died at the age of 72 in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he had been treated for cancer for some time, was marked by mission and ...
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  24 November 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis on the solemnity of Christ the King: World events have not escaped God's control Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is not true, as some think, that world events have “escaped” God’s control. Everything is ultimately subject to the judgement of God," said Pope Francis during the Eucharistic litu ...
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  20 November 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: charisms are gifts given to some to be useful to all Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - What are charisms? Pope Francis answered this question during today's General Audience. The Pontiff, continuing the cycle of catechesis on the Holy Spirit, began his reflection by quoting t ...
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  19 November 2024
  Blessed are the Poor by Gianni Valente “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God,” says Jesus in the Gospel according to Luke. And those who follow Jesus on the path of world history notice and recognize that on this pa ...
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  14 November 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: The charity and patience of the martyrs in Christ unites the churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "To be a saint does not only require human effort or personal commitment to sacrifice and renunciation. First of all, we must allow ourselves to be transformed by the power of God's love, w ...
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  13 November 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - "Ad Iesum per Mariam". Pope Francis proposes Marian piety as a path to sanctification Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of the endless profusion of words said and written about God, the Church and holiness (that very few, or no-one, is able to read and understand fully) ", Our Lady "suggests a ...
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  11 November 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Mission is not only the goal of the ecumenical journey, it is also its means" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is not only the goal of the ecumenical journey, it is also its means" said Pope Francis during the audience for the members of the Holy Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church, who refe ...