Vatican

• 3 April 2008
  VATICAN - Grandparents: topic of 18th Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The presence and witness of grandparents in the family is the theme of the 18th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family being held in the Vatican from 3-5 April. More than ...
• 3 April 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The urgency of ethics, the silence of politics Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the most elementary of moral distinctions, the distinction between the acts of man and human acts, it is said that only human acts can be properly considered moral acts. Human acts are ...
• 2 April 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Divine Mercy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the light of merciful Jesus we are invited to treasure the gift of grace of Easter we have just celebrated. Faith in the Risen Lord was renewed especially in those who took to heart the ...
• 2 April 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI on the 3rd anniversary of the death of John Paul II: “Let us thank the Lord for giving the Church this faithful and courageous servant... May the Church, following his teaching and his example, continue faithfully and without compromise her evangelising mission ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The date of April 2nd remains impressed on the memory of the Church as the day that the servant of God Pope John Paul II departed from this world … and today too, just as three years a ...
• 1 April 2008
  VATICAN - The Church and the paths of the Christian community (1) - “They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were ...
• 1 April 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI tells the Salesian General Chapter: “The predilection for and commitment to young people, so characteristic of Don Bosco’s charism, must be translated into a similar commitment to the involvement and formation of families.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The appeals addressed to us by young people, especially their questions on fundamental problems, indicate their intense desires for full life, authentic love and constructive freedom. Th ...
• 31 March 2008
  TODAY ON THE INTERNET/ITALY - “Peace is an arduous act that requires self-criticism.” Fr. Samir Khalil ...
• 31 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Holy Father at the Regina Caeli: “All that the Church says and does shows the mercy that God feels for man. From divine mercy, which puts hearts at peace, also arises the authentic peace of the world, peace among peoples, cultures and religions.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Mercy is truly the central nucleus of the Gospel message. It is the equivalent of God’s very name, the way He has manifested Himself in the Old Testament, and fully in Jesus Christ, wh ...
• 28 March 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Catholic impact on the life of the world depends on being Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From America to Europe, passing by way of China - as we were reminded by this year's meditations for the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday composed by the Archbishop of Hong Kong - in th ...
• 28 March 2008
  VATICAN - Mass for the third anniversary of the death of John Paul II Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday 2 April, Benedict XVI will preside at Mass in the Vatican Basilica to mark the third anniversary of the death of Servant of God John Paul II. (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...
• 28 March 2008
  VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (seventh part) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “L’Osservatore Romano” has made it possible for Agenzia Fides to publish the entire text of the speech given by Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine ...
• 27 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope at the General Audience explains the meaning of Easter: “the weakening of faith in the Resurrection of Jesus leads to the weakening of the testimony of believers” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Every Sunday, with the Creed, we renew our profession of faith in the resurrection of Christ, the amazing event that lies at the heart of Christianity. In the Church, everything is under ...
• 26 March 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - One day He will appear to us! Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - When will it be our turn to see the Risen Lord, to be in ecstasy in His presence? We can say with certainty: at the end of our days when our heart comes to its final beats of life, then, we ...
• 26 March 2008
  VATICAN - “You heard it said, but I say to you…” - intervention by Michele Loconsole on Rabbi Jacob Neusner's defence of the Good Friday prayer “Oremus et pro Iudaeis” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is since last July, following the publication of Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, that polemic among Jews and Catholics has resumed with regard to a new formula of t ...
• 25 March 2008
  VATICAN - At the midday Marian prayer of the Regina Caeli on Easter Monday the Pope recalls the “new Annunciation” which calls Mary to rejoice, “because the Lord is risen” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - On Easter Monday, 24 March the Pope led the recitation of the ‘Regina Caeli’ from his Summer Residence at Castel Gandolfo: “once again after the days of Lent the song of the Allelu ...