Vatican

• 21 September 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Bishops of Benin on ad limina visit: “Do not be afraid to propose the radical newness of the life brought by Christ and offered to enable every man and every women to fulfil their integral vocation!” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - “In recent years you have shown great courage worthy of the Gospel in guiding the people of God through the numerous difficulties experienced by your society, demonstrating in this way ...
• 20 September 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE -The Church is by nature missionary , Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During Mass on Sundays and feast days the congregation prays the Creed and proclaims faith in “one holy, catholic and apostolic” Church, mentioning four traits of the Church as Traditio ...
• 20 September 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI recalls unfading value of the thought of Saint John Chrysostom, irresistibly impelled to preach the Gospel: “The missionary ideal threw him, heart of fire, into pastoral care” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The year is the sixteenth centenary of the death of Saint John Chrysostom (407-2007). John of Antioch, also called Chrysostom or ‘Golden mouth' because of his eloquence, can be said t ...
• 19 September 2007
  VATICAN- AVE MARIA “Conversion cannot wait”, Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A frequent temptation for those walking along the way of the Lord is to give in to sin, to their sinful tendencies and convince themselves that instead of being fought these tendencies shou ...
• 17 September 2007
  VATICAN - “Ecumenical cooperation in the area of the university helps maintain tension towards the desired communion among all Christians”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses Message to 10th Catholic-Orthodox Inter-Christian Symposium Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - “Ecumenical cooperation in the area of university helps maintain tension towards the desired communion among all Christians. In this regard the Second Vatican Council saw in this field ...
• 17 September 2007
  VATICAN - Love for Christ, dedication to the Church, openness to others: five years since the death of Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan the Vatican appoints Postulator of his cause for beatification Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “A luminous witness of unity and forgiveness, of justice and peace, forged by the suffered experience of prison lived in union with Christ crucified and under the maternal protection of M ...
• 17 September 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Angelus reflection: “God does not want to lose even one of his children and his soul overflows with joy when a sinner repents … in our day humanity needs powerful proclamation and witness of God's mercy” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - The readings of the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time includes the passage of Saint Luke's Gospel on the three parables on divine mercy: the lost sheep, the lost coin and the merciful Father ...
• 15 September 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI receives Poor Clare Sisters: “The silent commitment of persons like you who strive to put into practice the Gospel ‘sine glossa’ with simplicity and joy, rarely causes a stir in public opinion, but - rest assured - the contribution you offer to the Church's apostolic and missionary activity in the world is truly exceptional ” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - “This, dear Sisters, is what the Pope expects of you: be burning torches of love, ‘joined hands' that keep watch in unceasing prayer, totally detached from the world, to sustain the ...
• 15 September 2007
  VATICAN - Made public today response from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to certain questions raised by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops concerning artificial nutrition and hydration Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public today was a response from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to certain questions raised by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops concerning artificial nu ...
• 15 September 2007
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI receives President of the Republic of Sudan in audience: Holy See Press Office Statement Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 14 September at the Palazzo Apostolico in Castel Gandolfo, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI received in audience the President of the Republic of Sudan (see Fides 14/9/2007). ...
• 13 September 2007
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - An urgent priority for bishops and priests should be to explain the Catechism, Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - School is once again to start with grammar, syntax, arithmetic tables: they have realised that boys and girls know little about elementary things. The Church too in the past used the Catec ...
• 13 September 2007
  VATICAN - During his general weekly audience Pope Benedict XVI reports on his recent pastoral visit to Austria: “what we saw was the living, faithful and varied reality of the Catholic Church … a joyful and involving presence of a Church which, like Mary, is called always to "look to Christ" in order to be able to show him and offer him to everyone ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - His recent pastoral visit to Austria was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI's address at the Wednesday general audience on September 11 in St Peter's Square in the Vatican, which he reached ...
• 12 September 2007
  VATICAN - Pontifical Missionary Union publishes Acts of the International Congress organised earlier in the year to mark 50th anniversary of Pius XII Encyclical Fidei donum Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ Fidei Donum Missionaries: the Future of Evangelisation” is the title of a special issue of the July-September magazine Omnis Terra containing the Acts of the International Congress or ...
• 12 September 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Look to the Star of the Sea …invoke Mary!” , Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - God's love is poured into our heart when it finds us open to true love, which consists in loving God for the sake of God and others for the sake of others. In other words authentic love is ...
• 11 September 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Austria - “Volunteer work is a service to human dignity, inasmuch as men and women are created in the image and likeness of God … the volunteer work carried out by children is at times impressive; we need only think of the activity of the Sternsinger at Christmastime” Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - “ It is good to meet people who are trying to give a face to the Gospel message in our communities; to see people, young and old, who concretely express in Church and society the love which we, ...