Vatican

• 26 October 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE Rev Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Ecclesiastic Celibacy in the present-day secularised context Vatican City (Fides Service) - The sad case of African Bishop Milingo reopened the controversial question of marriage for priests, perhaps updated as an opportunity or convenience to avoid cases of paedophilia and homose ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - Catholic Prayers in the Languages of the World: FRENCH - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The profound changes which occur in the spiritual life of a nation are nearly always enveloped in mystery. The disappearance of the Gaulish language replaced by popular Latin is one example ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA, Rev Luciano Alimandi -“Mary, New Eve: the path to happiness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Let us reflect together on the first chapters of the Book of Genesis: Gen. 3, 1-13 tells of the fall of our first parents, original sin which caused Adam and Eve to fall from heights of gra ...
• 25 October 2006
  VATICAN - “We must learn to listen with the heart to God who speaks” Pope Benedict XVI tells students and teachers of Pontifical Universities in Rome for the opening of the new academic year Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following a Eucharistic concelebration in St Peter’s Basilica on 23 October presided by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, to mark the beginn ...
• 24 October 2006
  VATICAN - “Pastoral and Spiritual Care of Patients with Incurable Pathologies”: theme of 15th World Day for the Sick 2007 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Pastoral and Spiritual Care of Patients with incurable Pathologies” is the theme of World Day for the Sick 2007 for which the main celebrations on February 11, Feast of Our Lady of Lou ...
• 24 October 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD”: Inspiring Principles for the building of churches and places for the celebration and the adoration of the Eucharist (2) by Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The compositive criteria of a church depend on the nature of the cultural habitat. It is a complex and organic, symbolic and iconographic place offered to Christifideles convoked in holy as ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Lateran University XVI: “God is the ultimate truth to which all reason naturally tends … God is not empty word or abstract hypothesis, on the contrary, God is the foundation on which to build our life” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I am happy to be here at "my" University, because this is the Bishop of Rome’s own University. I am aware that here you seek the truth and so, in ultimate analysis, you search for Chri ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - “John Paul II, philosopher and theologian, a great shepherd of the Church, left a legacy of writing and gestures which express his desire to spread the Gospel of Christ in the world”: Pope Benedict XVI receives members of the Fondazione Giovanni Paolo II Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “John Paul II, philosopher and theologian, a great shepherd of the Church, left a legacy of writing and gestures which express his desire to spread the Gospel of Christ in the world, usin ...
• 23 October 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus on Mission Sunday: “Mission starts from the heart: when we stop to pray in front of the Crucifx, and we see that pierced side, we cannot fail to be filled with joy at the knowledge that we are loved and with a desire to love and be channels of mercy and reconciliation” - Appeal for Iraq Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Sunday was the focus of Pope Pope Benedict XVI’s address before the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 23 October. Here is what the Pope said. “Today we are celebrating the ...
• 19 October 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE rev Nicola Bux and rev Salvatore Vitiello - Reform within the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Universal reform within the Church was all important for the Saints who followed the example of the Apostles and started with themselves: this is the trademark of authentic reform within th ...
• 18 October 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Luciano Alimandi - “Holy Mary, gives us your spontaneity of heart” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Spontaneity is one of the great values of life, it vivifies the human heart keeping it open to the truth. This is clearly seen in children: who better than they to teach us to be spontaneou ...
• 17 October 2006
  VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD”: Inspiring Principles for the building of churches and places for the celebration and the adoration of the Eucharist (I) by Bishop Mauro Piacenza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The plan for the building of the church is complex and articulated. It is based on the concept of the act of worship which the place is destined to host and manifest. Corresponding to the l ...
• 16 October 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope appoints Cardinal Dias member of Special Council for Asia of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, a member of the Special Council for Asia of the General Secretariat of the ...
• 13 October 2006
  VATICAN - “Governments must honour promises made with regard to debt relief and social and economic development programmes”: Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, addresses 61st session of UN General Assembly, New York (Agenzia Fides)- Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, addressing the second committee of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, which is considering ...
• 13 October 2006
  VATICAN - Cardinal Ivan Dias presides Concelebration of Mass «De Spiritu Sancto» for the inauguration of the new academic year at the Pontifical Urban University: “it is not enough to study in the library or in the classroom, we must live at the school of the one and only Master, the Lord Jesus Christ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I am truly happy to celebrate with you for the first time as Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Urban University this solemn Mass to invoke the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the new ac ...