Vatican

• 2 June 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Mission Sunday 2007: "All the Churches for all the World" Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below the text of the Message of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI for the 81st World Mission Sunday celebrated on the penultimate Sunday in the month of October, this year Sunday ...
• 1 June 2007
  VATICAN - June, the Month of the Sacred Heart: Saint Margherita Maria Alacoque Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque or Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (22 July 1647-17 October 1690) was a French Catholic nun and mystic, who originated the Catholic devotion of the Sacred Hear ...
• 1 June 2007
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI closes the month of May: “We pray for all Christians that with St Paul they may say: ‘the love of Christ urges us on', and with Mary's help may they spread the dynamism of charity throughout the world ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Vatican Gardens in the evening of 31 May, the Feast of the Visitation, the traditional procession with the recitation of the Rosary made its way from the little ancient church of St ...
• 31 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary- «Meryemana»: the House of Mary at Ephesus Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the Gospels we read that shortly before he died on the cross Jesus entrusted his Mother Mary to the care of St John the evangelist. John is said to have taken the Blessed Virgin Mother w ...
• 31 May 2007
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Authentic participation in the Liturgy Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - So far we have reflected on the sense of authentic participation in the Liturgy. The Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum caritatis dedicates a conspicuous part to the subject because it has b ...
• 31 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Holy See and the United Arab Emirates establish Diplomatic Relations Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A communique made public today announced that the Holy See and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), "being desirous of promoting bonds of mutual friendship and of strengthening international coo ...
• 31 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict at the general Audience: in the writings of Tertullian “we find numerous themes which still today we are called to face. They involve us in a rich interior quest to which I exhort all the faithful ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing along the gallery of great figures of the early Church Pope Benedict XVI devoted his teaching at the Wednesday general audience on 30 May to Tertullian, known as the African, � ...
• 30 May 2007
  VATICAN - “God: peace or dominion” - Tomorrow in the presence of members of the Curia, Church Movements and religious institutions the chairman of the Italian Senate will present a television programme on the connection between religions for peace and harmony among peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - It has taken three years to collect documentation on the coexistence of peoples through situations, opinions and unreachable realities some unknown or some manipulated one against the other ...
• 30 May 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA “The Hour of the Holy Spirit” , Rev Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart” (Mt 11, 29). These words resound loudly in the hearts of those who wish to be illuminated by the Spirit of God and never tire of sea ...
• 29 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (5) : Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique Vatican City (Fides Service) - Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the world's most Marian countries. Saint Frumentius (4th century) called the first church built in Axum, the capital, Edda Mariam, which means House of Mary. Ma ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (4) : Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt Vatican City (Fides Service) - CAMEROON: Shrine of Our Lady of the Apostles in Mvolye Hill in Yaoundé. REPUBLIC OF CONGO. At Linzolo, at one of the first missions opened in 1883 by Spiritan Missionaries a few km from ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of Mozambique: “Try to ensure that missionary proclamation has first place in your priorities and tell those who have the grace of being Christians that they must help accomplish this task” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ Try to ensure that missionary proclamation has first place in your priorities and tell those who have the grace of being Christians that they must help accomplish this task”, Pope Ben ...
• 28 May 2007
  VATICAN - “The Church is by nature missionary and since the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit never ceases to guide her along the roads of the world, to the ends of the earth, until the end of time” Pope Benedict XVI says at the midday Regina Cæli prayer on Pentecost Sunday Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The essential and qualifying traits of the Church" was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI's reflection at midday on Sunday 27 May the “great feast of Pentecost”, fifty days after Easte ...
• 26 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - Marian Shrines in Africa (3): Angola, Benin, Burkina-Faso Vatican City (Fides Service) - ANGOLA “Land of Mary”. L’Angola viene chiamata la terra di Maria. The first Catholic missionaries, who were Portuguese, arrived in Angola on, 29 April 1491, and built a church dedi ...
• 26 May 2007
  VATICAN - A “short cut” to holiness for the priests of the third millennium: “Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort show us how to know, love and serve Our Lord with Mary as our Mother, Model and Guide ” - Testimony by Cardinal Ivan Dias Dublin (Fides Service) - The “Treaty on true devotion to Mary”, written by Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) at the beginning of 1700, although addressed to all Christians in general can be especially appl ...