Vatican

• 24 November 2006
  VATICAN - SEASON OF ADVENT- « Alma Redemptoris Mater » (2) Rome (Fides Service) - "Alma Redemptoris Mater... The Virgin Mother of the Redeemer...". In the Christmas season we invoke Mary using an ancient, evocative Marian Antiphon which continues with the words: "Tu quae genuis ...
• 23 November 2006
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI concludes his reflections on Saint Paul: “Paul was converted to Christ and the Church at the same time, and so we understand why the Church is so present in his thought, his heart and his work” - appeal for peace in Lebanon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the General Audience on Wednesday 22 November Pope Benedict XVI concluded his reflections on Saint Paul focussing on “one of the decisive components of his activity and one of the mos ...
• 23 November 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The Event of Education Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Like every reality which concerns the human, education is also a question of interpersonal relationship between an “I” conscious, educating and adult, and an “I” in formation, in ...
• 23 November 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI sends telegramme of sympathy after Polish coal mine accident in which 23 miners were killed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On behalf of Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. sent a telegramme of sympathy to Metropolitan Archbishop Damian Zimon of Katowice, Poland, after Tuesday' ...
• 23 November 2006
  VATICAN - THE SEASON OF ADVENT -With Mary waiting for the coming of the Lord Rome (Fides Service) - Advent is a Season of waiting for the Lord’s coming: the Jewish people’s waiting for the Messiah in the Old Testament; our waiting for the birth of Jesus, our waiting for his Second coming at t ...
• 22 November 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Mary Queen of our hearts” by don Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Mary is Queen of heaven and earth through grace, just as Jesus is King by nature and by conquest. Since the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is first of all an inward fact which comes about in th ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - “The Catholic Church though the faithful has always cared for people with infectious diseases”: President of Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care presents next international conference on "Pastoral aspects of the treatment of infectious diseases." Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 November at the Holy See Press Office, the presentation took place of the annual international conference organized by the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care. The conference, ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, addresses Italian President: “Even those who do not share the Christian faith regard the Pope as the Spokesman for highest moral instances and heed his calls for respect for human dignity, promotion of peace and development and sincere collaboration among peoples, religions and cultures” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the meeting with the Pope, in the Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace, the President of Italy Mr Giorgio Napolitano met on Monday 20 November, the Diplomatic Corps accredited t ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives the President of Italy on official visit: “Church and State, although quite distinct, are both called, according to their respective mission and proper aims and means, to serve man, receiver and agent of the salvific mission of the Church and citizen of the state” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Church and State, although quite distinct, are both called according to their respective mission and proper aims and means, to serve man who is both receiver and agent of the salvific mi ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Gospel Values and Cultures: The Challenge of witnessing the Christian Faith in Indian Cultures”: Cardinal Poupard presides meeting of directors of Catholic Cultural Centres in India Goa (Agenzia Fides) - “Gospel Values and Cultures: The Challenge of witnessing the Christian Faith in Indian Cultures” was the title of a keynote address given by Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Co ...
• 21 November 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD: Ecclesiastical Archives (1) Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To use an image, in my opinion appropriate, an ecclesiastical archive can be compared to a family photograph album. It is an album which speaks of our history and although it refers to the ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Music can lead to prayer “it invites us to lift our mind to God to find in Him the reasons for our hope and the strength to face the difficulties of life”: Pope Benedict XVI’s address after a Concert in his honour given by the Philharmonic Quartet Berlin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Soloists playing together demands of the individual not only commitment of all one’s technical and musical ability to execute one’s own part, but at the same time the ability to list ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - “Convents and monasteries of contemplative life are an ‘oasis’ where man, a pilgrim on earth, can more easily draw from the sources of the Spirit and quench his thirst on his way. These apparently useless places are indispensable, like the green ‘lungs’ of a city”: Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus stresses the importance of the enclosed religious life Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Holy Mary in the Temple, 21 November, the Church celebrates the “Day pro Orantibus” and recalls with prayer and concrete aid communitie ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - A Day to recall those who help build the Kingdom of God through a contemplative life: 3,534 convents of enclosed nuns in the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was Pope Pius XII who instituted on 21 November 1953, on the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, the “Day Pro Orantibus”. On this recurrence the faithful ar ...
• 20 November 2006
  VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Monks and nuns of enclosed orders are visible signs of God’s tent in the world: contribution from the Poor Clares at Otranto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, on 21 November in Italy believers are urged to celebrate the Day Pro Orantibus, to recall those men and women who still today choose to live for God alone at the margins of hu ...