Vatican

• 4 May 2007
  VATICAN - “We are here to serve the missionary Church. Your hearts must be large enough to reach out to all regardless of the effort involved”: Cardinal Ivan Dias opens Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and Archbishop Henryk Hoser, CEP secretary adjunct and president of the Pontifical Mission Societies, were both pres ...
• 3 May 2007
  VATICAN - Month of Mary, Month of May - «QUÉ SOY ERA IMMACULADA COUNCEPCIOU» 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (2) Vatican City (Fides Service) - 2ND Apparition SUNDAY 14th FEBRUARY «The second apparition was on the following Sunday. I went because I felt inwardly drawn to return to the place. But my mother had forbidden me to go ...
• 3 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI continues his general audience teaching on Origen and his ever valid teaching on prayer and the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI chose the teachings of Origen on prayer and the Church as the subject of his weekly teaching during the general audience on Wednesday 2 May in St Peter's Square where des ...
• 2 May 2007
  VATICAN - «Qué era Immaculada Councepciou» The 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (1) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in 1850. Four years later in the small French town of Lourdes, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a little girl Bernad ...
• 2 May 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “The golden thread of life” by Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Fides Service) - “ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. 'Peace be with you,' he said. Then he sp ...
• 2 May 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI's Message for 13 plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences: “ only love for neighbour can inspire within us justice at the service of life and the promotion of human dignity” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Three specific challenges facing the world today, environment and sustainable development, full justice, the values of the spirit, were identified by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in ...
• 30 April 2007
  VATICAN - The Month of May, Month of Mary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Traditionally for Catholics the month of May is the Month of Mary. With this in mind, during this month Fides section on prayer will focus on prayers and devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mar ...
• 30 April 2007
  VATICAN - At the midday Regina Caeli prayer the Pope urges the faithful to pray for young men preparing for the priesthood, for Formators at Seminarians and for families “so that in families seeds of the call to the priestly ministry may continue to flower and ripen ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “All the faithful are encouraged to pray especially for vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life”: Pope Benedict XVI said as he prepared to lead the recitation of the midda ...
• 30 April 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI ordains 22 priests for the diocese of Rome: “may the certainty that Christ never leaves us and that nothing can prevent the achievement of His universal plan for salvation, be for you a source of constant consolation and steadfast hope even in times of difficulty” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In St Peter's Basilica on 29 April, the 4th Sunday of Easter, also called Good Shepherd Sunday, the Pope told the 22 deacons of Rome diocese he was about to ordain to the priesthood “The ...
• 27 April 2007
  VATICAN - Leaven: In 3 volumes the reasons and leavens of hope and a history today protagonist of the modernity of the Catholic Church: CL Vatican City (Fides Service) - Communion and Liberation, the reality of an event. And a great mission. Monsignor Massimo Camisasca, outstanding witness of the ecclesial movement founded by don Giussani, narrates his hist ...
• 26 April 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope's catechesis at the general audience: Origen reminds us “through prayerful reading of Scripture and consistent commitment in life, the Church is ever new, ever young ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Origen of Alexandria, “a personage who was determinant for the development of all Christian thought ”, was the subject the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI chose for his catechesis during ...
• 26 April 2007
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Liturgy is essentially adoration, Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum caritatis recalls that there exists an intrinsic relationship between eucharistic celebration and eucharistic adoration, which, immediat ...
• 25 April 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Cast your nets on the side of mercy ” by Rev. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “3Simon Peter said, 'I'm going fishing.' They replied, 'We'll come with you.' They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night. 4When it was already light, there stood Je ...
• 25 April 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: Norwegian (2) THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In two centuries Christianity spread throughout Norway thanks to contact and trading with Christian Europe and missionaries who came from England, Germany and Denmark. At the beginning of ...
• 25 April 2007
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives in audience the president of the Palestinian Authority. Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 24 April the Holy See Press Office published the following communiqué on the Pope's audience with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), president of the Palestinian Authority. "This morning, the H ...