Vatican

• 15 June 2007
  VATICAN - “Faced with secularisation, the proliferation of sects and the poverty of so many brothers and sisters it is urgent to form communities united in faith, like the Holy Family of Nazareth”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Council of Administration of the Populorum Progressio Foundation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Since my beloved predecessor John Paul II created the Populorum Progressio Foundation, entrusting the responsibility to the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the latter has devoted itself to ...
• 15 June 2007
  VATICAN - “Benedict XVI in Assisi: announce with St Francis the simplicity of the Gospel in a complex world ”. A contribution by Fr. Pietro Messa, OFM Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 17 June the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to Assisi on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the conversion of Saint Francis. Fides gives below an ample co ...
• 15 June 2007
  VATICAN - “The Divine Liturgy a channel of Mission”, Chrysostomos II receives honorary Doctorate in Missiology at the Pontifical Urban University Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 14 June, at the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Urban University there was a ceremony to confer an Honorary Doctorate in Missiology to His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Primate of the ...
• 15 June 2007
  VATICAN - Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests: “That priests may be valid witnesses of the love of Christ Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Saintly Cure d’Ars said “the priesthood is the Heart of Christ”. It is certainly the act of supreme love that Christ has for those who accept to be his apostles whom he calls to l ...
• 14 June 2007
  VATICAN - “Benedict XVI goes to Assisi to announce with St Francis the simplicity of the Gospel in a complex world”. Tomorrow Fides will publish an ample contribution by Fr. Pietro Messa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 17 June the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to Assisi on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the conversion of Saint Francis. Tomorrow Fides will publish a ...
• 14 June 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The “Missionary world” 50 years since the publication of the Encyclical Fidei donum by Pius XII, Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we put God to one side “in the name of things more important ” such as major social questions, “it is precisely these supposedly more important things that come to nothing. It is n ...
• 14 June 2007
  VATICAN - “Still today Eusebius of Cesarea calls believers, calls us, to be speechless, to contemplate the great works of God in history for the salvation of mankind. And just as energetically he calls us to conversion of life”: the Holy Father's Audience teaching Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Eusebius, Bishop of Cesarea in Palestine, where he was born in about the year 260AD, can be considered “the most qualified exponent of Christian culture of his day in many different conte ...
• 13 June 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Close to the Heart of the Son is the Heart of the Mother”, Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Church, in this month of June, giving us the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, wishes us to understand the consequential devotion to Our Lady traditionally lived in the Maria ...
• 13 June 2007
  VATICAN - “Jesus is Lord. Education to the faith, to discipleship to witness”: Pope Benedict XVI inaugurates Rome Diocese Annual Assembly Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the evening of Monday 11 June Pope Benedict XVI went to the cathedral of Rome the Basilica di San Giovanni in Lateran to inaugurate the Annual Assembly of the diocese of Rome on the th ...
• 12 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives Document of Aparecida. CELAM general assembly in July will discuss the Great Continental Mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 11 June Pope Benedict XVI was presented with the Final Document of the 5th General Conference of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean held in Ap ...
• 12 June 2007
  VATICAN - Populorum Progressio Foundation Council of administration meeting Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The members of the Council of Administration of the Populorum Progressio Foundation at the service of indigenous peoples, Afro-Americans, poor mixed race peasants in Latin America, will mee ...
• 12 June 2007
  VATICAN - For the first time in history Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II visits the Vatican Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Starting today 12 June 2007, the Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II is visiting the Vatican and Rome. The visit will conclude with a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI on S ...
• 12 June 2007
  VATICAN - For the first time Caritas Internationalis has a lady secretary general: “Priority to humanitarian emergencies, integral development and peace building, ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian aid offered by Caritas Internationalis speaks in the feminine voice: Lesley-Anne Knight, age 51, from Zimbabwe and of British nationality, is the new secretary general of t ...
• 11 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses participants at the General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis: “The heart of Caritas is the sacrificial love of Christ, and every form of individual and organised charity in the Church must always find its point of reference in him, the source of charity.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Your Confederation does not simply work on behalf of the Church, is truly a part of the Church, intimately engaged in the exchange of gifts that takes place on so many levels of ecclesia ...
• 11 June 2007
  VATICAN - “ Following the example of Blessed Charles de Foucauld, may the Christians of your countries be credible witnesses to the universal brotherhood which Christ taught his disciples!”: Pope Benedict XVI encourages the members of the Regional Bishops' Conference of North Africa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The diversity of the human and ecclesial situations in your countries is no impediment to the fraternity which you live in your Bishops' Conference, where you find appreciable support fo ...