Vatican

• 13 February 2008
  VATICAN - Pope meets with pastors and clergy from the Diocese of Rome, at the start of Lent (2). Among the topics of discussion: liturgy and participation, obedience and freedom, ethical formation, schools, dialogue Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, February 7, the Holy Father Benedict XVI held a meeting in the Hall of Blessings, with the pastors and clergy from the Diocese of Rome in their traditional visit at the start o ...
• 13 February 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA: We pilgrims to Lourdes by Mgr. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Anyone who has made a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Lourdes will not have missed the opportunity to pray at the Grotto where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared on the 11th of February 1858. A m ...
• 13 February 2008
  VATICAN - Pontifical Academy for Life: International Congress: “Close by the Incurable Sick Person and the Dying: Scientific and Ethical Aspects” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 25, 26, and 27 of 2008, in the Vatican’s New Hall of the Synod, there will be an International Congress “Close by the Incurable Sick Person and the Dying: Scientific and Eth ...
• 13 February 2008
  VATICAN - Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture on secularisation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - March 6-8, 2008, the Pontifical Council for Culture will celebrate their Plenary Assembly, a meeting of Cardinals, Bishops, priests, and laity from the seven continents, on Via della Concil ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI to participants at a Meeting to mark the 20th anniversary of Mulieris dignitatem: “it is necessary to recall God's design that created the human being masculine and feminine, with a unity and at the same time an original difference and complimentary ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ A renewed anthropological study is certainly necessary based on the great Christian tradition, which incorporates new scientific advances and, given today's cultural sensitivity, in thi ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - Pope meets with pastors and clergy from the Diocese of Rome, at the start of Lent. Among the topics of discussion: the deaconate, youth, sin and the 4 last things, silence, dialogue and mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, February 7, the Holy Father Benedict XVI held a meeting in the Hall of Blessings, with the pastors and clergy from the Diocese of Rome in their traditional visit at the start o ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope tells FIES: "in an age in which there is an ever stronger influence of secularisation, and on the other hand, in which there is experienced a widespread need to find God, we should never lack the possibility of dedicating time to an intense listening to his Word in silence and prayer." Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Benedict XVI reaffirmed the importance of spiritual exercises in his address to the participants of the National Assembly of the Italian Federation of Spiritual Exercises, whom he received ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - Holy Father expresses his condolences for the death of the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI has sent a telegram expressing his condolences to the lieutenant ad interim of the order, for the death of the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - Announcement of Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Trip to the United States of America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office released a communique announcing that from 15 to 21 April, the Holy Father will make an apostolic trip to the United States of America and to the headquarters of t ...
• 12 February 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope in the Angelus: “The message that the Virgin continues to spread in Lourdes reminds us of Jesus’ words at the start of His public ministry, words that we frequently hear in these days of Lent: ‘Convert and believe in the Gospel.’” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ ‘Entering into Lent’ means beginning a time of particular commitment to the spiritual fight against the evil present in the world, in each one of us, and in our surroundings. It mea ...
• 8 February 2008
  VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (first 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 ...
• 7 February 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI General Audience: Lent “keeps alive the understanding that being a Christian is a path that constantly demands renewed effort.” - Appeal for Chad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “We are entering into an “intense” liturgical season that, as we prepare for the celebration of Easter - the heart and centre of the liturgical year and of our entire existence - invi ...
• 7 February 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Gospel, banner of true peace Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Rémi Brague, professor of Arab Philosophy at the Sorbonne, in an interview with the Italian Catholic daily Avvenire (Brague: Rather than values, I prefer benefits”, 13 December 2007, p 2 ...
• 7 February 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI presides First Station of Lent on the Aventine Hill: “prayer of supplication filled with hope is the leit motiv of Lent, and enables us to experience God, as our only anchor of salvation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “At the beginning of this penitential itinerary I would like to reflect briefly on prayer and suffering as qualifying aspects of the Liturgical Season of Lent”: with these words the Hol ...
• 6 February 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - Lent: a season for God's work Mgr. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Evangelists give us testimony of many miracles worked by Jesus and we are amazed to see how God's power cures the sick, frees those possessed by demons, brings the dead back to life, co ...