Vatican

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  13 April 2025
  VATICAN - Palm Sunday, the Pope: like Simon of Cyrene, he who carries the cross of Christ shares his redemptive love Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "Faced with the appalling injustice of evil, we never carry the cross of Christ in vain; on the contrary, it is the most tangible way for us to share in his redemptive love." Under a gray ...
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  12 April 2025
  Cardinal Parolin: A Christian perspective on the encounter between the Gospel and China by Cardinal Pietro Parolin* Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish Cardinal Pietro Parolin's preface to the book by the missionary and priest Antonio Sergianni, "The journey of the Gospel in China. In the footsteps ...
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  9 April 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: Jesus' love is free Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Eternal life is not "an inheritance, something that is obtained by right", but Jesus' "free love." Pope Francis recalled this during his third week of convalescence at Santa Marta in the Va ...
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  9 April 2025
  VATICAN - Subsidies and support to achieve financial autonomy: How the Dicastery for Evangelization supports local Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - How much funding does the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches) allocate to help the dioceses in the territories under its jurisdic ...
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  7 April 2025
  VATICAN - A study day on subsidies for new particular Churches at the Pontifical Urbaniana University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Subsidies and financial autonomy of the Churches subject to the Dicastery for Evangelization will be the focus of a study day of shared reflections and insights to be held on Tuesday, Apr ...
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  6 April 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis participates in the Jubilee of the sick: God does not leave us alone, we can turn to him and entrust our pain to him Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Happy Sunday to everyone. Thank you very much". In St. Peter's Square, the voice of Pope Francis echoes once again, as this morning he decided to take part in the Jubilee of the sick and t ...
• 4 April 2025
  VATICAN - Archbishop Leo Boccardi appointed Member of the Dicastery for Evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Leo Boccardi, titular of Bitetto and apostolic nuncio, as member of the Dicastery for Evangelization, in the Section for First Evangelization and th ...
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  2 April 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "God does not pass by without looking for those who are lost" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "God does not pass by without looking for those who are lost", Pope Francis writes in the text of the catechesis prepared for today's general audience and released only in written form. The ...
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  30 March 2025
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: "Lent, a time of healing. I too am experiencing it this way, in my soul and in my body" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us live this Lent as a time of healing, all the more as it is the Jubilee. I too am experiencing it this way, in my soul and in my body," said Pope Francis in the text published by the ...
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  28 March 2025
  VATICAN - The Missionary Exhibition in the Vatican Gardens, which 100 years ago introduced the world to the “Church in a state of mission” by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Books, black and white photographs, artifacts from deserts and tropical rainforests. Letters with testimonies and accounts of excursions to impenetrable and inaccessi ...
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  26 March 2025
  GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: "mission springs precisely from the experience of feeling loved" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "To go and proclaim the Gospel, we first need to set down the burden of our history at the feet of the Lord, to consign to Him the weight of our past. Only reconciled people can bring the ...
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  24 March 2025
  VATICAN - Jubilee of the Missionary World: "Paths of Hope" in the Mission "ad gentes" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – They want to be signs of hope by proclaiming Christ, who consoles humanity, frees it from slavery, and restores divine dignity. These aspects are at the heart of the experiences and refle ...
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  23 March 2025
  Angelus, Pope Francis at the window of the Gemelli Hospital: "I was able to experience the Lord’s patience" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After 38 days of hospitalization at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome for bilateral pneumonia, Pope Francis returned to public life, greeting the faithful from the hospital balcony, who applauded him fr ...
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  19 March 2025
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle consecrates Bishops Sangalli and Sarrió Cucarella: Like Saint Joseph, be 'silent' heralds of the Word of God Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops are called to be "silent" heralds of the Word of God. They do their work well when, without being protagonists, they become humble "guardians of the active presence of God in his Ch ...
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  16 March 2025
  Angelus - Pope Francis from the Gemelli Hospital: "I join with so many brothers and sisters who are sick: Our bodies are weak but, even like this, nothing can prevent us from loving and praying" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the Transfiguration, "Jesus shows the disciples what is hidden behind the gestures He performs in their midst: the light of His infinite love," reads Pope Francis's text for the Angelus prayer, ...