Vatican

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  11 January 2023
  VATICAN - "We proclaim the Lord, we do not proclaim ourselves". Pope Francis inaugurates the catecheses "on the passion for evangelization, that is, apostolic zeal" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christians proclaim the Lord, they do not proclaim themselves. The Church grows "by attraction", and not "by proselytism". But when Christian life loses sight of the horizon of evangelization, hori ...
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  9 January 2023
  VATICAN - First celebration of the liturgical memory of Blessed Pauline-Marie Jaricot Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, January 9, 2023, we celebrate for the first time the feast of the foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith and inspiration of all the Pontifical Mission ...
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  5 January 2023
  VATICAN - Funeral of Benedict XVI: "we too have come with the fragrance of gratitude and the balm of hope" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of the Supreme Pontiff Emeritus Benedict XVI took place this morning in St. Peter's Square. Below is the complete text of the homily of Pope Francis, who presided over the funer ...
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  4 January 2023
  Joseph Ratzinger's gifts to Chinese Catholics by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - For the past 15 years, Catholics from all over the world have been invited to pray for their brothers and sisters in the Church in China once a year. Since then, the World Day of ...
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  3 January 2023
  From experience to experience. Proclaiming Christ according to Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith". This was the title of the XIII General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the last in which Benedict XVI to ...
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  31 December 2022
  Like a beautiful sunny day. The "good life" of Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Now that the increasingly fragile figure of Joseph Ratzinger has left this earth, the Church is more alone on this earth. And Pope Francis is also more alone. The unparalleled p ...
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  31 December 2022
  Benedict XVI , "humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord" has returned to the Father’s House Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. His heart stopped beating at 9.34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Po ...
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  30 December 2022
  VATICAN - Missionaries killed in the year 2022 by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 18 missionaries were killed in the world in 2022: 12 priests, 1 re ...
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  30 December 2022
  VATICAN - In grateful memory of the murdered missionaries. Witnesses, not "testimonial" by Gianni Valente This year, as at the end of each year, Fides Service remembers the names and lives of the missionaries and people involved in the pastoral work of the Catholic Church (priests, men and women religio ...
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  23 December 2022
  VATICAN - "Profession of faith" and oath of fidelity of Father Emilio Nappa, President of the President of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We assure our closeness and our communion with Msgr. Emilio Nappa who today makes his profession of faith and the oath of fidelity before his episcopal consecration". The homily of Cardina ...
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  22 December 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to the Curia: in the idea of a "pure Church for the pure" the repetition of the Cathar heresy emerges Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude, conversion, peace. These are the three "gifts" that Pope Francis waished to ask for himself and for others, in his speech addressed to cardinals, bishops and members of the Roman ...
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  3 December 2022
  VATICAN - The secret of Francis Xavier, "fire that kindles other fires" by Gianni Valente "The greatest of all missionaries of the modern age". Thus the monumental History of the Church edited by the great historian Hubert Jedin qualifies Francis Xavier, the Jesuit saint whose liturgical me ...
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  3 December 2022
  VATICAN - Appointment of adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Emilio Nappa, until now official of the Secretariat for the Economy, as adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization with the office of p ...
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  26 November 2022
  VATICAN - The Holy See: "surprise and regret" over installation of Chinese Bishop which did not take place in conformity with the Provisional Agreement Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See took note "with surprise and regret" of the news of the “installation ceremony” that took place on November 24, in Nanchang of "His Exc. Msgr. Giovanni Peng Weizhao, Bishop ...
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  23 November 2022
  VATICAN - Bishop Arrieta: the Agreement on the appointment of Chinese Catholic Bishops is not new in the history of the Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called "sinicization" of the Catholic Church in China, that is, the adaptation of the forms of ecclesial life to the Chinese cultural and social context, in itself "is not ...