Vatican

• 6 May 2009
  VATICAN - Heroic testimony of catechists from the Church in Mozambique martyred in the civil war Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In his recent talk during the Congress organized by the Saint Joseph's International Missionary College (see Fides 29 and 30/04/2009), Father Osorio Citora Afonso, IMC, from the Church in ...
• 5 May 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope in the Holy Land to encourage Christians and contribute with reconciliation throughout the entire region Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – A journey to confirm Christians in their faith, to speak as a pilgrim of peace in a land devastated by long decades of conflict, to continue on the path of ecumenism and dialogue among th ...
• 5 May 2009
  VATICAN - “Letter from Catechists to Catechists” in the Pauline Year, on the 30th anniversary of Saint Joseph's International Missionary College: “we feel called, right where we live, to be first and foremost the voice and the living presence of Christ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The “Letter from Catechists to Catechists,” which hopes to “confirm us in our vocation” and “give thanks to God” for the gift of believers who respond to the call to become ev ...
• 5 May 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences: “Human rights, therefore, are ultimately rooted in a participation of God, who has created each human person with intelligence and freedom. If this solid ethical and political basis is ignored, human rights remain fragile since they are deprived of their sound foundation.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The natural law is The natural law is a universal guide recognizable to everyone, on the basis of which all people can reciprocally understand and love each other. Human rights, therefor ...
• 4 May 2009
  VATICAN - Five years after the Instruction “Erga migrantes caritas Christi,” the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People to hold World Congress in November Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the approval and publication of the Instruction “Erga migrantes caritas Christi” (The love of Christ towards migrants), the Pontifical Coun ...
• 4 May 2009
  VATICAN - Concert offered by President of the Italian Republic for the Holy Father, on the fourth anniversary of his Pontificate: “music becomes prayer” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “My deepest gratitude for an excellent musical tribute. I thank the Lord President for his courteous words and I greet his kind wife. The skill and enthusiasm with which it was performed ...
• 4 May 2009
  VATICAN - Pope tells Bishops from Argentina on Ad Limina visit: “to be bishop is an honor when lived with that spirit of service to others and as a humble and disinterested participation in the mission of Christ.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In exercising his episcopal ministry, a bishop must always act as a servant among his faithful, drawing constant inspiration from the One Who came not to be served but to serve, and to g ...
• 4 May 2009
  VATICAN - On the Day of Prayer for Vocations, the Pope ordains 19 priests: “always be men of prayer and service, so that in faithfully exercising your ministry you may become holy priests according to God's heart” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, May 3, the 4th Sunday of Easter, the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided a Mass in the Vatican Basilica during which he ordained 19 priests ...
• 4 May 2009
  VATICAN - Holy Father reminds members of the Papal Foundation that, especially when times are difficult, “we must continue to be beacons of hope, strength and support for others, most especially those who have no one to watch over or assist them.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In just a few days I will have the privilege of visiting the Holy Land. I go as a pilgrim of peace. As you are well aware, for more than sixty years, this region — the land of our Lord ...
• 4 May 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Regina Caeli encourages faithful to “pray a lot for vocations” and for his trip to the Holy Land: “I will be a pilgrim of peace, in the name of the one God, Father of all.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “As much personally as in community, we have to pray a lot for vocations, so that the greatness and the beauty of the love of God attracts many to follow Christ on the path of the priesth ...
• 30 April 2009
  VATICAN; WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - The authority of an Episcopal Conference derives solely from the Apostolic See Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Share thoughts with Church authorities and do what the authorities advise. This is the secret of the unity between Catholic Bishops and the Pope, from which none of the forms which express ...
• 30 April 2009
  VATICAN - Final day of the Congress organized by the Saint Joseph Missionary College: “The identity and role of the lay catechist in the Church, communion and mission.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The second and final day of workshops promoted by the Saint Joseph Missionary College in the Aula Magna of the Pontifical University Urbaniana was dedicated to the identity of the lay cat ...
• 30 April 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the General Audience: “Let us pray to God so that he teaches us to see in the Church his presence, his beauty, to see his presence in the world, and that he helps us also to be transparent for his light.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI spoke of the Patriarch Germanus of Constantinople in the General Audience on April 29. As the Pontiff recalled, Saint Germanus “does not belong to the most ...
• 29 April 2009
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA : Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Who can ever separate us from the love of Christ? Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Easter Season leads us to contemplate the boundless loving mercy of God opened to us with the Resurrection of Jesus. Gone are the shadows of sin and death, put to flight by the glorious ...
• 29 April 2009
  VATICAN - Pastoral Care of Tourism today, 40 years after “Peregrinans in terra”: Meeting on Europe promoted by the Pontifical Council for for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – This morning, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People at San Calixto Palace in Rome, a meeting on the Pastoral Care of Tourism ...