Vatican

• 22 July 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Pope appoints auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Gulu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 July 2006 appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Gulu (Uganda) Reverend Sabino Odoki, until now rector of the National Major Seminary in ...
• 21 July 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD by Massimo Camisasca - “Education to gratuitousness” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Gratuitousness is a fundamental dimension of the life of the priest. To educate to it is even more necessary today, in an epoch in which, according to the current mentality, an untruthful ...
• 21 July 2006
  VATICAN - Kumasi, in Ghana hosts 1st Regional Congress for the Promotion of the Liturgy in Africa Madagascar, organised by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments in collaboration with the Ghanaian Bishops’ Conference. Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith, Secretary of the Congregation, told Fides New Agency: “The Congress was a blessing from the Lord because it gave new impulse to the efforts of those responsible for liturgy on that Continent to nourish the liturgical spirit of the African Church with ever greater commitment.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of a “Congress for the Promotion of the Liturgy in Africa and Madagascar”, held in Ghana at the beginning of this month (5-9 July), Fides spoke with Archbishop Albert Malcol ...
• 20 July 2006
  VATICAN - Sunday 23 July: Pope Benedict XVI calls day of prayer and penance to implore God to grant the gift of peace in the Middle East Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the grave situation in the Middle East the Holy See Press Office has been asked to communicate the following: 1). The Holy Father is following with great concern the destini ...
• 20 July 2006
  VATICAN - “Common points must be found to converge commitment to protect the habitat the Creator has prepared for the human person, on whom He has impressed his image.”: Message from Benedict XVI to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Amazon River, Source of Life" is the title of the 6th Symposium held 13 to 20 July in Brazil as part of the programme "Religion, Science and the Environment" promoted by Ecumenical Pa ...
• 20 July 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - “The truth of the family” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The understanding of the human person, man and woman, and the union of the same which receives a juridical form is no longer univocal. This is deducible once again from the interventions of ...
• 19 July 2006
  VATICAN The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI sends telegramme of condolence for the tsunami victims in Java Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI through Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano sent the following telegram of condolence, to the ecclesial and civil authorities of Indonesia for the ts ...
• 19 July 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA rev Luciano Alimandi - Mother of our surrender and capitulation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Speaking of surrender, capitulation, one immediately thinks of a battle between two sides one of which at a certain point surrenders seeing that the other is too strong and it would be usel ...
• 18 July 2006
  VATICAN - “GOD’S HOUSE, STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS” Bishop Mauro Piacenza - “Sacred Music one of the cultural treasures of the Church” (part 2) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since music is the expression of a reality which creates culture, as is the Church, it is truly a “cultural treasure of the Church”, to be understood as a living reality. This was affir ...
• 17 July 2006
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI leads the Angelus prayer at his mountain holiday retreat in Val d’Aosta: “I entrust to the Queen of Mount Carmel communities of contemplative life all over the world”. New appeal for the Holy Land: “I ask local Churches to offer special prayers for peace in the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East” Les Combes (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 16 July Pope Benedict XVI led the recitation of the midday Angelus prayer from a field next to the little house put a his disposal by the local Salesian community in Les Combes, Val ...
• 17 July 2006
  VATICAN - Seminar on Ecumenism 17 - 21 July in Korea on the theme "The Search for Christian Unity: Where We Stand Today” Statement by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity issued the following statement through the Holy See Press Office: “Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for P ...
• 14 July 2006
  VATICAN - TOWARDS THE PRIESTHOOD, Mgr. Massimo Camisasca - “Education to silence” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is impossible to be in His Presence, in the presence of Christ in person, now, unless we are educated to silence. Laurentius the Hermit used to say: «It was then that I understood I w ...
• 13 July 2006
  VATICAN - "The Human Person, the Heart of Peace " theme chosen by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for 40th World Peace Day 1 January 2007 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - ‘The Human Person, the Heart of Peace’ is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for the 40th World Peace Day on 1 January 2007. The theme for reflection chosen by the Holy Father expres ...
• 12 July 2006
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Rev. Luciano Alimandi - “Mother of Mercy”; ““Jesus came into the world through Mary, through Mary He must reign in the world.”” (St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We might ask what is the greatest urgency of our day, the most pressing necessity for the individual and for the whole world. Of course we could make a list of priorities but in the end we ...
• 12 July 2006
  VATICAN - Following yesterday’s bomb explosions in Bombay Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples sends telegramme of solidarity to diocesan Administrator of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples sent the following telegramme to the Diocesan Administrator of Bombay Bishop Bosco Penha. “Your Excelle ...