Vatican

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  25 January 2023
  VATICAN CITY - Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Mission Day 2023 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today we publish the Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 97th World Mission Day to be celebrated on Sunday, October 22, 2023 on the theme "Hearts on fire, feet on the move" (cf. Lk ...
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  24 January 2023
  Evangelii Gaudium, 10 years later. A "road map" to be rediscovered by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - It could have been a "Papal Exhortation" like the others. A series of useful and appropriate considerations and recommendations, offered by the Pope and inspired by the work car ...
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  21 January 2023
  VATICAN - "Evangelii Gaudium 2023", a 'missionary formation journey' inspired by the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A Missionaries and all those interested are invited to a "missionary formation journey" in 10 stages, inspired by the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium and whose aim is "the proclamation of t ...
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  18 January 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: intimacy with Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is the "soul" of every apostolic work Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus, the Good Shepherd, "does not remain contemplating the sheep pen, nor does he threaten them so they won’t leave". If one of the sheep of his flock goes away and gets lost, he "does not aban ...
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  11 January 2023
  VATICAN - "We proclaim the Lord, we do not proclaim ourselves". Pope Francis inaugurates the catecheses "on the passion for evangelization, that is, apostolic zeal" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christians proclaim the Lord, they do not proclaim themselves. The Church grows "by attraction", and not "by proselytism". But when Christian life loses sight of the horizon of evangelization, hori ...
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  9 January 2023
  VATICAN - First celebration of the liturgical memory of Blessed Pauline-Marie Jaricot Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, January 9, 2023, we celebrate for the first time the feast of the foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith and inspiration of all the Pontifical Mission ...
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  5 January 2023
  VATICAN - Funeral of Benedict XVI: "we too have come with the fragrance of gratitude and the balm of hope" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of the Supreme Pontiff Emeritus Benedict XVI took place this morning in St. Peter's Square. Below is the complete text of the homily of Pope Francis, who presided over the funer ...
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  4 January 2023
  Joseph Ratzinger's gifts to Chinese Catholics by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - For the past 15 years, Catholics from all over the world have been invited to pray for their brothers and sisters in the Church in China once a year. Since then, the World Day of ...
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  3 January 2023
  From experience to experience. Proclaiming Christ according to Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith". This was the title of the XIII General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the last in which Benedict XVI to ...
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  31 December 2022
  Like a beautiful sunny day. The "good life" of Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Now that the increasingly fragile figure of Joseph Ratzinger has left this earth, the Church is more alone on this earth. And Pope Francis is also more alone. The unparalleled p ...
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  31 December 2022
  Benedict XVI , "humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord" has returned to the Father’s House Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. His heart stopped beating at 9.34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Po ...
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  30 December 2022
  VATICAN - Missionaries killed in the year 2022 by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 18 missionaries were killed in the world in 2022: 12 priests, 1 re ...
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  30 December 2022
  VATICAN - In grateful memory of the murdered missionaries. Witnesses, not "testimonial" by Gianni Valente This year, as at the end of each year, Fides Service remembers the names and lives of the missionaries and people involved in the pastoral work of the Catholic Church (priests, men and women religio ...
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  23 December 2022
  VATICAN - "Profession of faith" and oath of fidelity of Father Emilio Nappa, President of the President of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We assure our closeness and our communion with Msgr. Emilio Nappa who today makes his profession of faith and the oath of fidelity before his episcopal consecration". The homily of Cardina ...
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  22 December 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to the Curia: in the idea of a "pure Church for the pure" the repetition of the Cathar heresy emerges Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude, conversion, peace. These are the three "gifts" that Pope Francis waished to ask for himself and for others, in his speech addressed to cardinals, bishops and members of the Roman ...