Vatican

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  26 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis on the feast of Saint Stephen: Christian martyrs also pray for the salvation of their executioners Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Love, humanly impossible, also addressed to one's executioners, is one of the characteristics of Christian martyrdom, which makes it incomparable to all human forms of sacrifice that arise from sel ...
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  25 December 2024
  VATICAN/URBI ET ORBI - Christmas, the Pope: Mercy dispels hatred and the spirit of revenge, let us open the doors to gestures of dialogue by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "God’s mercy can do all things. It unties every knot; it tears down every wall of division; God’s mercy dispels hatred and the spirit of revenge. Come! Jesus is the ...
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  24 December 2024
  VATICAN - On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opens the Jubilee: in our world of suffering and sighs, the hope of Christ is alive by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Haec porta Domini. Iusti intrabunt in eam". On Christmas Eve, the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica opens onto a world torn apart by wars and violence. The Jubilee of t ...
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  22 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: “No child is a mistake”, “let us learn to experience wonder and gratitude before the mystery of the life that is born” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us learn to “experience wonder and gratitude before the mystery of the life that is born” because “no child is a mistake”. This was the central message of Pope Francis during th ...
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  20 December 2024
  In Rome, in the Holy Land and throughout the World. Vademecum to obtain Indulgences in the Jubilee Year 2025 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In 2025, the Catholic Church will once again celebrate the Jubilee Year, a special time of remission and forgiveness, designed as an opportunity to intensely experience heali ...
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  19 December 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Supporting the missionary works of the universal Church is an expression of the encounter with Christ" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Supporting the missionary and charitable works of the universal Church is a concrete expression" of the "authentic and personal encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we must proclaim ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: sinners and "foreign" women among the ancestors of Jesus, because Christ's mission is for everyone Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we look at Jesus’ genealogy as described in the Gospel of Matthew, we notice "the presence of foreign women" because, as Benedict XVI wrote, "through them the world of the Gentiles ... ...
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  12 December 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis on foreign debt: “Instrument of control” of governments and private financial institutions at the expense of the poorest countries by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis lists three possible measures to overcome foreign debt, this "instrument of control" over poor countries, and thus reopen a "path of hope" towards peace, in ...
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  11 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "Hope is the most beautiful gift that the Church can give to all of humanity" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Spirit is the ever-gushing source of Christian hope ". And "if the Church is a boat, the Holy Spirit is the sail that propels it and lets it advance on the sea of history, today a ...
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  8 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: May we reach the feast of the Nativity with a ceasefire on all fronts of war Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “May we reach the feast of the Nativity with a ceasefire on all fronts of war”. This is the appeal that Pope Francis launched at the end of the Angelus on the Solemnity of the Immacul ...
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  4 December 2024
  VATICAN - Wednesday Papal Audiences also in Chinese. The importance of a new gift
  by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “With great pleasure.” With these words, Pope Francis announced today the addition of Chinese among the languages in which ...
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  1 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: "If habituation and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the whole, entire human family is defeated" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If habituation and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the whole, entire human family is defeated. The whole human family is defeated!", said Pope Francis at the end of Sunday's An ...
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  27 November 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: “Saint Philip Neri preached the Gospel through joy, be like him!” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian should be like Saint Philip Neri, who was “in his time, a true evangelizer through joy”. This is what Pope Francis said during today's general audience, Wednesday, November ...
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  26 November 2024
  VATICAN - Cardinal Ayuso Guixot dies: a life marked by mission and dialogue Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The life of Spanish Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, who has died at the age of 72 in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he had been treated for cancer for some time, was marked by mission and ...
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  24 November 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis on the solemnity of Christ the King: World events have not escaped God's control Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is not true, as some think, that world events have “escaped” God’s control. Everything is ultimately subject to the judgement of God," said Pope Francis during the Eucharistic litu ...