News

• 23 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops denounce spreading culture of death which robs man of his fundamental rights and dilutes society’s awareness of the value of life and the dignity of every human person : Message for the annual Day for Life Madrid (Fides Service) - In a message for the national Day for Life in Spain, March 25th , the country’s Catholic Bishops write “As the Bishops of the ‘People of Life’ we denounce a spreading culture of death and ...
• 23 March 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “We must raise our voices to unmask interpretations which dare to put aside the truth of the Gospel on the grounds that it is culturally outdated and inadequate for the problems of our epoch”: Cardinal Cipriani addresses Pro Life and Family Congress Guayaquil (Fides Service) - With the participation of over 3,000 people Ecuador is holding its first National Pro Life and Pro Family congress in Guayaquil in 6 different parishes. The first conference was given by ...
• 23 March 2007
  AMERICA - Numerous initiatives all over the continent for Pro-Life Day Sunday 25 March: prayers, demonstrations, marches, publications Rome (Fides Service) - Latin American countries are preparing to mark Pro-Life Day Sunday 25 March with numerous activities to underline the sacredness of the gift of life and the need to protect life in all its stages. ...
• 22 March 2007
  VATICAN - “The figure and works of Justine mark the early Church’s firm decision for philosophy and reason rather than the religion of the pagans”: the Pope’s catechesis on Saint Justine the most important Christian apologist of the 2nd century Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing his catechesis on the Apostolic Fathers, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his audience teaching on Wednesday 21 March to the figure of Saint Justine, philosopher and martyr, “the mo ...
• 22 March 2007
  VATICAN - Prayers for Lent - Act of Faith (5) Vatican City (Fides Service) - God, Creator and Father gives his commandments to his children. After creating man and woman in his own image a likeness God put them in the Garden of Eden where he used to visit them and s ...
• 22 March 2007
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - “Address spiritual hunger in mission work before material needs”: Annual European Meeting for National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies Durham (Fides Service) - From 16 to 20 March 25 national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Europe met for their annual assembly, this year hosted by St Cuthbert's College Ushaw, in the city Durham, in nort ...
• 22 March 2007
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The Pope accepts resignation of the Bishop of Freetown and Bo Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 March 2007 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Freetown and Bo (Sierra Leone) presented by Bishop Joseph Henry Ga ...
• 22 March 2007
  VATICAN - “Sacramentum Caritatis” “Sacrament of Charity” post-synodal apostolic exhortation: 200,000 copies sold in a few days Vatican City (Fides Service) - ‘Sacramentum caritatis’ the post synodal apostolic Exhortation by Pope Benedict XVI made public last week is proving highly popular. In a few days the Vatican Publishers and Book Shop s ...
• 22 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Evangelisation, education and formation for women: missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles commemorate Founder on the centenary of his death Rome (Fides Service) - “Our spirituality is essentially apostolic, marked by the simplicity of our Founder: ‘to know and love God and to make Him known and loved - Superior General Eileen Curran of the Sisters of Our ...
• 22 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fr. Augustin Planque and the missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles Rome (Fides Service) - Fr. Augustin Planque was born in Chemy, in the north of France in 1826 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1850. Augustin felt called to the priesthood at an early age and he left his father’s ...
• 22 March 2007
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 1st national “Pro-Life and Pro-Family Congress” to uphold the whole truth on life and the family in the light of the Gospel and the teaching of the Church and condemn the culture of death Guayaquil (Fides Service) - “The Whole Truth about Life and the Family” is the theme of Ecuador’s 1st National Pro-Life and Pro-Family Congress 21 - 24 March which opened yesterday in Guayaquil. Some 3,000 experts, ...
• 22 March 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - An Exhortation which convinces and admonishes Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Fides Service) - It is an ‘exhortation’, from the Latin etymology convincere; and it is ‘apostolic’, because it has the authority of the college of the Successors of the Apostles with Pope Benedict ...
• 21 March 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope visits Penal Institute for Minors: “we can be deprived of everything, even freedom or health, and yet if God is in our heart, we can live in peace and joy. This is the secret: giving God first place in our life” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Sunday 18 March, 4th Sunday of Lent, Pope Benedict XVI visited Rome’s Casal del Marmo Penal Institute for Minors. Welcomed by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Vicar General for the Diocese of Ro ...
• 21 March 2007
  VATICAN - At the Angelus the Pope speaks of the Eucharist the “Sacrament of Charity”: “in the Eucharist Christ gives us his love, that love which moved him to give his life for us on the Cross” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The source of Christian joy is the Eucharist “which Christ left us as spiritual Food while we are pilgrims on this earth … The Eucharist nurtures in believers of every epoch that deep j ...
• 21 March 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA: Immersed in the silence of God, Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Such was his intention when suddenly the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said to him: «Joseph son of David, have no fear about taking Mary as your wife. It is by the Ho ...