Vatican

• 17 October 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Bishops of Ecuador: “under the divine impulse of the Holy Spirit, the missionary zeal of the initial stages of the preaching of the Gospel, and the first proclamation of the Good News in your land, are renewed.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I note with satisfaction that one of the pastoral initiatives you consider to be most important for the Church in Ecuador is implementing the 'great mission' identified by the Latin Amer ...
• 16 October 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Living faith as hope Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his Encyclical Spe salvi reflects on the nature of Christian hope in order to comprehend St Paul's statement that we are already redeemed. The theory is that “faith i ...
• 16 October 2008
  VATICAN - Pope’s catechesis at the General Audience: “Paul shows he knows well and he brings us to understand that the Church is not his and is not ours: the Church is the body of Christ, it is ‘Church of God,’ ‘field of God,’ construction of God … ‘temple of God.’” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Paul’s teaching on the Church was the main focus of the catechesis given by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in his General Audience held on Wednesday, October 15. The Pope primarily focuse ...
• 15 October 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - An undivided heart for God Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Lord Jesus came on earth to reveal the will of God for each one of us: the path of holiness, that is, profound communion with Him and through Him with the Father, in the love of the Hol ...
• 14 October 2008
  VATICAN - The Vatican at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Cardinal Lajolo gives a preview of the novelties from Vatican Museum Editions and the wide-ranging publishing activity of the Holy See Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City and President of the Governing of the State of Vatican City, will be present at the Book Fai ...
• 14 October 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI encourages acceptance of the teaching of the Apostle Paul, who “compares the Church to the human body, made up of members very different one from the other but all indispensable to its correct functioning. In the same way, this orchestra and choir are formed of various instruments and voices which, in harmony together, produce a melody sweet to the ear and to the spirit.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the evening of October 13, in the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls the Holy Father attended a concert given by the Fondazione pro Musica e Arte Sacra, during the XII Ordinary G ...
• 13 October 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to the Pontifical Shrine in Pompei, Sunday October 19 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, October 19, the Holy Father XVI will make a pastoral visit to the Pontifical Shrine of Pompei. According to the schedule issued by the Holy See Press Office, at 9am he will lea ...
• 13 October 2008
  VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus asks that the perpetrators of the violence “renounce these acts” and work together “in building a civilization of love,” and encourages all to pray for peace and reconciliation in North Kivu (Congo), Iraq, and India Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I urge the perpetrators of violence to renounce these acts and join with their brothers and sisters to work together in building a civilization of love.” These were the words of Pope ...
• 13 October 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI canonizes four Saints: “Let us thank the Lord for the gift of sanctity... Jesus invites us all to follow him, like these saints, on the way of the cross, to inherit the eternal life that he, dying, made a gift to us.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On October 12, XXVIII Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided the Mass held at Saint Peter’s Basilica, in which he canonized four Saints: Italian priest Gaetano E ...
• 10 October 2008
  VATICAN - “While we pray that the cause of beatification of the Servant of God Pius XII may continue smoothly, it is good to remember that sanctity was his ideal, an ideal he never failed to propose to everyone”: Benedict XVI on the 50th anniversary of his death, recalls the “notable impulse” of Pius XII in the Church’s missionary activity. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The passage of the book of Sirach, in which it says that those who follow the Lord will find trials, difficulties and suffering, and the prologue of the First Letter of Saint Peter, in wh ...
• 9 October 2008
  VATICAN - Message from Benedict XVI for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “Today too the message of salvation must be presented with the same approach as that of the Apostle to the Gentiles, taking into account the different social and cultural situations and special difficulties of each one as a consequence of his or her condition as a migrant or itinerant person.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The life and preaching of Saint Paul “were wholly directed to making Jesus known and loved by all, for all persons are called to become a single people in him. This is the mission of th ...
• 9 October 2008
  VATICAN - “The words and actions of Jesus for Paul do not pertain to a historic time, to the past. Jesus lives now and speaks with us now, and lives for us”: catechesis of the Pope in the General Audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – After speaking in the most recent General Audiences on Saint Paul’s encounter with the Risen Christ and his relationship with the 12 Apostles and the Church of Jerusalem, in his cateche ...
• 9 October 2008
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Pius XII, fifty years after his death: no discontinuity with the Church of the Council Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “A Church which is silent, when she should speak; a Church which waters down the law of God, adapting it to the taste of human desires, when she should nobly proclaim and defend it; a Chu ...
• 8 October 2008
  VATICAN - “AVE MARIA” by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Jesus, I trust in you" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The act of faith “ Jesus, I trust in you ”, which permeates the spirituality of Divine Mercy and devotion to the Merciful Jesus spread by Saint Faustina Kowalska, should also animate ou ...
• 8 October 2008
  VATICANO - Father Timothy Lehane, the new Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, tells Agenzia Fides: “I hope to be able to accompany the missionaries and National Directors, so that they can feel the support of the Universal Church in their work.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I have been a missionary for the last 25 years in Ecuador, a country with a great natural beauty and wonderful people, but at the same time, with many needs. I have worked in a parish, ...