Vatican

• 19 December 2006
  VATICAN - Saint Joseph: “Privileged witness to the birth of the Son of God into the world” (2) Vatican City (Fides Service) - Joseph was about thirty years old when he took his cousin Mary aged 15, daughter of Anna and Joachim as his betrothed spouse. Both descendents of David, their marriage was probably arranged ...
• 19 December 2006
  VATICAN - At the Service of the Mysteries of Christ - Cardinal Francis Arinze gives Opening Address at a Colloquium to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Institut Supérieur de Liturgie of the Institut Catholique de Paris, 26 October 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - We give below an address given by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments at a Colloquium to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of ...
• 18 December 2006
  VATICAN - “Museums can help foster a culture of peace if, retaining their nature as temples of historic memory, they are also places of dialogue and friendship”: Pope Benedict XVI addresses International Conference to mark 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church has always supported and promoted art in the world considering its language a privileged means for human and spiritual progress … The expansion in time of the Vatican Museum ...
• 18 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (8) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Messiah Saviour of the Nations. The Israelites leave Egypt and camp in the step-land of Moab. The King of Moab questions one of his prophets a pagan, a «false prophet», as he is calle ...
• 18 December 2006
  VATICAN - Saint Joseph: “Privileged witness to the birth of the Son of God into the world” (I) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Saint Joseph was a “privileged witness to the birth of the Son of God into the world on Christmas night in Bethlehem” Pope John Paul II writes in his apostolic exhortation “Redemptori ...
• 16 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives new Patriarch of Alexandria of Copt Catholics: “In today’s world your mission is of great importance for your faithful and for all men and women, to whom the love of Christ urges us to announce the Good News”” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “In today’s world your mission is of great importance for your faithful and for all men and women, to whom the love of Christ urges us to announce the Good News”: Pope Benedict XVI sa ...
• 16 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas: CHRIST ANNOUNCED BY THE SCRIPTURES- Announcement and fulfilment (7) Rome (Fides Service) - BETHLEHEM TOWN OF DAVID David is anointed King by Samuel, in Bethlehem where his family lived and where he tended the flocks, (1 Samuel 16,). « But you Bethlehem, Ephrata… from you will be bor ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD - “The priest: first son and then father of many” Mgr Massimo Camisasca Vatican City (Fides Service) - For twenty two years I have been involved in the formation of young men for the priesthood and I have followed in detail the itinerary of over a hundred priestly vocations, authentic or onl ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, they sign a Common Declaration: “It is our common responsibility to overcome, in love and truth, the many difficulties and sad experience of the past”. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI in his address to His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, received in audience in the Vatican on December 14th, said “Greece and Rome intensifi ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Rome’s university students: “The Eucharistic mystery is the privileged point of convergence for the different ambits of Christian life, including that of intellectual research” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for Christmas at the end of a special Mass for students at the many universities in Rome celebrated by Cardinal Vicar Camillo Ruini in St Peter’s at 5pm on 14 December, Pop ...
• 15 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas Christ announced by the Scriptures - Announcement and Fulfilment (6) Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH WILL BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. The prophet Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, about 740 BC announces the future glory of Jerusalem at the time humiliated by Sennacherib, and ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Message for World Day of the Sick 2007: “Once again the Church turns her eyes to those who suffer and calls attention to the many incurably ill on every continent, particularly in places where poverty and hardship cause immense misery and grief ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father's Message for the 15th World Day of the Sick was made public on December 13. The event is due to be celebrated in Seoul, South Korea on February 11, 2007, Feast of Our Lady ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - The Primacy of Peter Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Church should return to the courage and the intellectual strength of the early centuries and launch a new rational challenge in all fields. What attracted pagans, and not only in the fi ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - Timothy and Titus “teach us to serve the Gospel with generosity knowing that this involves a service to the Church”: Pope Benedict XVI illustrates the figure of two of St Paul’s co-workers Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Vatican Basilica this morning, the Holy Father met with faithful from dioceses in the Italian region of Calabria, accompanied by their bishops who are in the process of completing th ...
• 14 December 2006
  VATICAN - Walking towards Christmas CHRIST ANNOUNCED IN THE SCRIPTURES - Announcement and Fulfilment (5) Rome (Fides Service) - THE FUTURE MESSIAH « For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. » (Isaiah 9, 5). ...