Vatican

• 31 August 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Faith and Reason: doubt which paralyses” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The election of Cardinal Ratzinger to the Pontificate produced many effects, one specifically from the cultural point of view, above all with regard to dialogue between believers and non be ...
• 30 August 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI reflects on Saint Matthew the Apostle: “in the Gospel we continue to hear, in a way, the persuasive voice of the publican Matthew who, having become an Apostle, continues to announce to us God’s redeeming mercy” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, flew by helicopter from his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo to Rome to give the general Wednesday Audience in the Paul VI Hall in the Va ...
• 29 August 2006
  VATICAN - “Tourism reveals a universal richness, which does not reject the human person, but rather preserves his footprints, his trace.”: Message issued by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples for World Tourism Day 2006 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Tourism enriches precisely insofar as it helps in rendering the so-called “rich” systems “relative” and opens them up to the perception of other forms of “being rich”. Natur ...
• 29 August 2006
  VATICAN - Christian prayers in the languages of the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To continue the urgent task of new evangelisation launched by Pope John Paul II, Fides News Service is planning a section on Christian Prayers in as many languages as possible. The French d ...
• 28 August 2006
  VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope recalls Saint Augustine and his mother Saint Monica: to Mary “we entrust Christian parents that like Monica they may accompany the growth of their children with their example and their prayers. To the Virgin Mother of God we also entrust young people that, like Augustine, they may seek Christ, the fullness of Truth and Love” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - At midday on Sunday 27 August Pope Benedict XVI led the recitation of the Angelus prayer with several hundred people gathered in the inner courtyard of his Summer Residence in Castel Gan ...
• 28 August 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe his Special Envoy to Asian Mission Congress in Thailand in October Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Metropolitan Archbishop of di Naples (Italy), his Special Envoy to the Asian Mission Congress, in Chang Mai (Thail ...
• 28 July 2006
  VATICAN - In September 97 newly appointed bishops from mission territories will be in Rome for Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In September 97 newly appointed Bishops will travel to Rome from 44 different mission areas in Africa, Asia, America and Oceania to take part in a Study Seminar organised by the Congregatio ...
• 27 July 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Nicola Bux and Salvatore Vitiello - “The truth of the family” (part 2) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In a situation today in which no few Catholics have adopted a “liberal” individualistic, idea of conscience rejecting the communional idea which sees the individual Christian and the Ch ...
• 27 July 2006
  VATICAN - Interview with Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo on the subject of the International Conference for Lebanon held in Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See Press Office made public an interview given by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, Holy See secretary for Relations with States, to Vatican Radio on the subject of the International Co ...
• 26 July 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - don Luciano Alimandi - “Ad Jesum per Mariam” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Seek o man to understand better the plan of God and see it is a plan of wisdom and mercy. Wishing to irrigate the air with heavenly dew He poured it all over the whole fleece: wishing t ...
• 26 July 2006
  VATICAN - Statement by Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, on the situation of migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons in Lebanon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During these difficult days, especially for Lebanon, I would like to add my voice to all those who have been asking for an immediate cessation of hostilities. Moreover, humanitarian organis ...
• 25 July 2006
  VATICAN - “GOD’S HOUSE, STONES, SOUNDS AND COLOURS” Bishop Mauro Piacenza - “Sacred Music one of the cultural treasures of the Church ” (part 3) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the vast, agitated and travailed sea of ‘sacred’ Music what is to be done? Certainly formation is the first task, and in the first place formation of the clergy, called to be promote ...
• 25 July 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI visits parish church of Rhemes Saint-Georges in Val d’Aosta: “God does not oppose violence with stronger violence. To violence he opposes the very opposite: love, to the very end, to His Cross. This is God’s humble way of winning: with His love - and this is the only possible way - He limits violence.” Les Combes (Agenzia Fides) - In the late afternoon of Sunday 23 July, the day he had called the Church everywhere to pray for peace in the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI made an unexpected visit to pray for peace at the ...
• 24 July 2006
  VATICAN - Middle East conflict: on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI the Pontifical Council Cor Unum sends aid to suffering people Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" today published the following communique: "Given the persistence of the conflict in the Middle East and of the terrible plight of the peoples involved, th ...
• 24 July 2006
  VATICAN - “I forcibly renew my appeal to the conflicting parties to begin an immediate cease-fire, to allow the passage of humanitarian aid and, with the support of the international community, to seek ways to begin negotiations.”: the Pope’s Angelus reflection on the Day of Prayer and Penance for Peace in the Middle East Les Combes (Agenzia Fides) - At midday today, before praying the Angelus with thousands of pilgrims and local residents at Les Combes in the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta where he is spending a brief vacation, the Pope ...