Vatican

• 23 May 2007
  VATICAN - The month of Mary «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (18) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Thursday 16 July 1858: 18th and last apparition. Mary's call comes unexpectedly while Bernadette is praying in the early evening in the parish church. Because by order of the authorities th ...
• 23 May 2007
  VATICAN AVE MARIA - Mary, the Bride of the Spirit - Rev Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the time between Ascension and Pentecost the Church calls the faithful to be in prayer in the Upper Room, especially in front of Jesus in the Eucharist, to prepare to receive the Holy Sp ...
• 22 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858 (17) Vatican City ( Fides Service) - Wednesday 7 April 1858, miracle of the candle: 17th apparition. “Our Lady called Bernadette in the evening of April 6. The news that Bernadette was going to the Grotto spread and about ...
• 22 May 2007
  VATICAN - “The Christian faith, which is shared by the majority of Rwandans, if lived coherently and fully, is a real help in overcoming a past of errors and death,”: Pope Benedict XVI Message to the President of Rwanda Vatican City (Fides Service) - Made public today was a Message, dated April 3, from the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, for that country's annual day of national mourni ...
• 21 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (16) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Thursday 25 March 1858, revelation of the “Name”: 16ª Apparition. “ What was next? After three weeks, life had regained some normalcy. The faithful still gathered at the grotto, but ...
• 21 May 2007
  VATICAN - “Only a process of globalisation attentive to the need of solidarity can guarantee humanity a future of authentic wellbeing and stable peace for all”: the Pope tells participants at International Meeting sponsored by the Centesimus Annus - Pro Pontifice Foundation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The basic commitment of the Centesimus Annus - Pro Pontifice Foundation, namely the study of the most topical aspects of the Church's Social Teaching regarding the most urgent problems and ...
• 21 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Bishops of Mali: “Today diocesan clergy is called to play a more active role in evangelisation in fraternal and confident collaboration with missionaries … priests must live their priestly identity giving themselves wholly to the Lord for disinterested service of their brothers and sisters ” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - “Your local Churches must know that they have a place in the heart and prayers of the Pope” Pope Benedict XVI told the Bishops of Mali whom he received in audience on Friday 18 May ...
• 21 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Regina Cæli prayer: “I ask you to continue to pray for the Conference in Aparecida… I appeal once again to leaders in the media industry to safeguard the common good, to respect and truth and to defend the dignity of the person and the family ” - Appeal for peace in the Middle East Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Church's World Communications Day were the two themes of the midday address given by Pope B ...
• 19 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Vurgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (15) Vatican City (Fides Service) - Thursday 4 March 1858: 15th apparition. “Thursday 4 March is the most awaited day the last day of the two weeks. The crowd about 8,000 expects a miracle. Bernadette goes to the Grotto af ...
• 19 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Communications Day: "Formation of Children and Formation of the Media: Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education” is the theme of Pope Benedict XVI's message for the 41st World Communications Day which most local Churches celebrate on 20 May. In ...
• 18 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858 (14) Vatican City (Fides Service) - Wednesday 3 March: the smile 14th apparition. “According to the local police officer, that morning 4000 people waited for Bernadette who arrived about 6.45am. After praying on her knees ...
• 16 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (13) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tuesday 2nd March 1858: 13th Apparition. Go and tell the priest to build a chapel here and to have people come in procession." At the end of her ecstasy on this fifteenth apparition, Ber ...
• 16 May 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA- “The lights of Fatima on the world” - Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Today is the 90th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima. With her heartfelt call for conversion and penance she is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions” ...
• 15 May 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (12) Vatican City (Fides Service) - Monday 1st March 1858: first miracle, 12th apparition. “ Almost fifteen hundred people gathered. An astounding number of conversions were taking place, and the town parish was not cert ...
• 15 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Brazil - the Holy Father inaugurates 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean: “ Church totally enlivened and impelled by the love of Christ …releases an irresistible missionary power which is the power of holiness ” Aparecida (Fides Service) - In his homily during the Mass on Sunday 13 May in the square in front of the national Marian Shrine of Aparecida to open the 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America ...