Vatican

• 19 June 2007
  VATICAN - "The Human Family: Community of Peace" is the theme of the 41st World Day for Peace on 1 January 2008 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Human Family: Community of Peace" is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for the annual Day for Peace on 1 January next year. The choice stems from the conviction that the perceptio ...
• 19 June 2007
  VATICAN - Cardinal Ivan Dias the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples marks the 25th anniversary of his ordination as Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and Grand chancellor of the Pontifical Urban University is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his ordin ...
• 19 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Assisi: “It is time for young people like Francis to take Jesus seriously and build a personal relationship with Him. It is time to look at the history of the third millennium which has just started as a history more than ever in need of the leaven of the Gospel ” Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - The Pope's last appointment in Assisi on Sunday 17 June was a meeting with young people in front of the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. “This is a special moment of my pilgrimage- the Pop ...
• 18 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Assisi - “Francis is a man for others, because to the core he is a man of God. If in his message we separate the ‘horizontal’ and the ‘vertical’ dimension we render Francis unrecognisable” Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - In the afternoon of Sunday June 17in the cathedral of Assisi, dedicated to Saint Rufino, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI had a meeting with the priests, men and women religious, and the super ...
• 18 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Assisi - “Every Friar must be an authentic contemplative, with his eyes set on the eyes of Christ. Like Francis with the leper, he must see the face of Christ in our brothers and sisters who suffer, and offer to all the announcement of peace.” Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - In the afternoon of Sunday June 17 during his day's visit to Assisi, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to the community of German Poor Clare Sisters at Holy Cross Convent in Assisi ...
• 18 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Assisi - “I feel it is my duty to launch from here a pressing appeal for an end to all the armed conflicts which bloody the earth. May weapons be silent, and everywhere may hatred give way to love, offence to forgiveness and discord to union!” Assisi (Fides Service) - On Sunday 17 June at the end of Mass in front of the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi Pope Benedict XVI sent greeting to the members of other Christian confessions and other religions who accepte ...
• 18 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Assisi- “Assisi tells us that loyalty to one's religious convictions, loyalty above all to Christ, crucified and risen, is expressed not with violence or intolerance, but rather with sincere respect for others, with dialogue, and with proclamation which appeals to freedom and reason, and with commitment for peace and reconciliation” Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 17 June, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to Assisi on the occasion of the eighth centenary of the Conversion of Saint Francis of Assisi. The Pope travelled by helicopte ...
• 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 ...