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23 June 2009
VATICAN - Closing Day of the Year of St Paul with Benedict XVI in St Paul's Basilica; Papal Letter appointing seven Cardinal Envoys to closing celebrations in 'St Paul' places
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 28 June at 6pm in St Paul's Basilica in Rome, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, will preside solemn Vespers on the occasion of the closing of the Year of St Paul. Monday 29 June, at 5.3 ...
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22 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI in San Giovanni Rotondo recalls “Padre Pio offered everything to God, who used it freely to prolong the work of Christ” and warns of the “risk of activism and secularisation” which can lead to neglect “the truly necessary thing: listening to Christ in order to do the will of God ”
San Giovanni Rotondo (Agenzia Fides) – Sunday 21 June the Holy Father Benedict XVI made a pastoral visit to San Giovanni Rotondo. At 10am he arrived at the shrine of Santa Maria delle Grazie and, after being welcomed b ...
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22 June 2009
VATICAN - At the Angelus from San Giovanni Rotondo the Pope entrusts to the intercession of Our Lady and san Pio da Pietrelcina the Year of the Priesthood and launches an appeal in aid of refugees: “ Receiving them creates no few difficulties yet it is nonetheless our duty”
San Giovanni Rotondo (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of the Holy Mass celebrated in front of the church of San Pio da Pietrelcina at San Giovanni Rotondo, Sunday 21 June, the Holy Father Benedict XVI, led the recitation o ...
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22 June 2009
VATICAN - the Pope in San Giovanni Rotondo - “Being ‘reserves of love: this is the mission to which our Saint this evening calls you who, with different roles, form the great family of this Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”
San Giovanni Rotondo (Agenzia Fides) – In the afternoon of Sunday 21 June, in front of the monumental entrance of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza at San Giovanni Rotondo, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, addressed the ...
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22 June 2009
VATICAN - The Pope in San Giovanni Rotondo - to priests, religious and young people: “Like Padre Pio, be faithful friends of the Lord Jesus, establishing with Him a daily relationship through prayer and listening to his Word, assiduous reception of the Sacraments and cordial membership of his family, the Church”
San Giovanni Rotondo (Agenzia Fides) – The last appointment of the pastoral visit of the Holy Father Benedict XVI at San Giovanni Rotondo, in the afternoon of Sunday 21 June, was with the local clergy, men and women re ...
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22 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Council of the Alcide De Gasperi Foundation: “may the memory of his experience of government and his Christian witness be of encouragement and impulse for those who have in their hands the destiny of Italy and other peoples ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Formed at the school of the Gospel, De Gasperi expressed the faith he professed with concrete and coherent action. Spirituality and politics were two dimensions which lived side by sid ...
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20 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI opens the Year of the Priesthood: “To be ministers at the service of the Gospel, study is certainly useful, but even more necessary is the ‘science of love’ which can only be learned ‘heart to heart' with Christ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the solemnity of the Most Scared Heart of Jesus, Friday 19 June, in St Peter's Basilica the Holy Father, Benedict XVI presided the Celebration of second Vespers of the Solemnity on the ...
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20 June 2009
VATICAN - The Pope addresses the Catholic patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians: “I pray incessantly for peace in the Middle East, especially for the Christians living in the beloved nation of Iraq”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I follow with satisfaction the full resuming of the functioning of your Synod and encourage efforts to promote unity, understanding and forgiveness, which you should always consider pr ...
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20 June 2009
VATICAN - Sunday 21 June the Holy Father Benedict XVI at San Giovanni Rotondo
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Sunday 21 June, the Holy Father Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to San Giovanni Rotondo. According to the programme issued by the Holy See Press Office, the Papal helicopter, comi ...
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20 June 2009
VATICAN - Holy See Press Office Statement on the cause for the beatification of Pius XII
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On 19 June the Holy See Press Office released the following statement of Father Federico Lombardi, S.J. : “Concerning statements reported by news agencies with regard to the cause for t ...
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19 June 2009
VATICAN - Holy Father Benedict XVI's Letter to Priests proclaiming the Year for Priests
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI has issued a Letter to all priests, for the opening of the Year for Priests, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 19, 2009), proclaimed by him ...
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19 June 2009
VATICAN - In the footsteps of Matteo Ricci, “a Jesuit in the Kingdom of the Dragon”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The reflections of Archbishop Celli, quotes from the Pope's message by Bishop Giuliodori, the dreams of Fr. Lombardi, the work of the Chinese Ambassador in the footsteps of Matteo Ricci w ...
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18 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI's catechesis: “Indeed, Cyril and Methodius are a classic example of what is today referred to with the term 'inculturation': Each people should make the revealed message penetrate into their own culture, and express the salvific truth with their own language.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis at the Wednesday General Audience on June 17, held in St. Peter's Square, to Saints Cyril and Methodius, “brothers of the same pare ...
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18 June 2009
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The Creator 's Love is inscribed in the human person's DNA
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "God is wholly and only love, the purest, infinite and eternal love. He does not live in splendid solitude but rather is an inexhaustible source of life that is ceaselessly given and commun ...
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17 June 2009
VATICAN - Statement from the Holy See Press Office on the ordinations announced by the Fraternity of Saint Pius X
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office released the following statement today: "In response to the frequent questions that have been raised over recent days concerning the priestly ordinations by the ...
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