Vatican

• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Tradition or Treason” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Tradition or Treason”. To avoid also in our day what Pope Paul VI termed “the Church’s self-demolition”, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI chose the Church as the subject for his ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Migration and Moving to and from Muslim countries” Complex and topical subject of relations with Muslim world: 17th plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) - A sign of the times, the phenomenon of human mobility poses no few problems religious and spiritual, and also social, economic and political. What is more the complexity, topicality and im ...
• 11 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s general audience teaching: Apostolic Succession, “succession in the function of bishops presents itself as continuity in the apostolic ministry, guarantee of perseverance in apostolic Tradition, word and life the Lord has entrusted to us” Vatican City (Fides Service) - After meditating at the past few audiences on the significance of Tradition in the Church- “which is the permanent presence of the word and the life of Jesus among his people”, on Wedn ...
• 10 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: “The Pontifical Missionary Union must be the driving belt of missionary spirituality ” says Fr Vito del Prete, PMU general secretary Rome (Fides Service) - In his report on the activity of the Pontifical Missionary Union in the past year PMU secretary general Fr Vito del Prete, PIME, told the Superior Council of the Pontifical Mission Societies meetin ...
• 10 May 2006
  VATICAN - Beatification of two women Religious 13 and 14 May, Sr Maria Teresa of Saint Joseph and Sr Maria della Passione City (Fides Service) - Two religious will be beatified on May 13 and 14, in separate celebrations due to be held in Holland and Italy respectively. Servant of God Maria Teresa of St Joseph, nee Anna Maria Tauscher van de ...
• 9 May 2006
  VATICAN - General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “Let us make this meeting an apostolic Upper Room” says president Archbishop Henryk Hoser Rome (Fides Service) - Today May 9 the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies Archbishop Henryk Hoser opened the second part of the Annual General Assembly during which 114 national directors will listen to report ...
• 9 May 2006
  VATICAN - The Pope sends telegramme of sympathy for the death of two Italian soldiers killed in Kabul in an attack Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, through Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano, addressed the following message of sympathy to Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, military ordinary for Italy, ...
• 8 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI ordains 15 new priests: “the priest is totally inserted in Christ so that starting from him and acting in view of Him and in communion with him he may carry out the service of the one Shepherd Jesus, in whom God made man, wishes to be our Shepherd” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday 7 May, the 4th Sunday of Easter and annual Day of Prayer for Vocations Pope Benedict XVI presided Mass and ordained 13 deacons of the diocese of Rome and ...
• 8 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives in audience participants at the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “I encourage you to work to help Christians grow in awareness that the spiritual dynamic of baptism involves them in missionary activity gathering them in communion around Christ to participate in his mission” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning in the Sala Clementina in the Vatican the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI granted an audience to the participants at the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
• 8 May 2006
  VATICAN - At the Regina Caeli the Pope prays “for a growing number of people who respond to Christ’s call to follow Him on the path to priesthood or consecrated life... and that that the seeds of vocation which God sows in the heart of the faithful may mature and bear fruits of holiness in the Church and in the world” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 7 May Pope Benedict XVI addressed thousands of people gathered in St Peter’s Square to pray the midday Regina Caeli prayer. “On this 4th Sunday of Easter, Good Shepherd Sunda ...
• 6 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: “Being credible witnesses to the Risen Christ, with respect for others, seeking dialogue but above all loving as we are loved by Christ” Rome (Fides Service) - Concluding the first two days 4 and 5 May of the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies during which national PMS directors from all over the world reflected on missionary acti ...
• 6 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI presides special Mass for the 5th Centenary of the Foundation of the Pontifical Swiss Guard: “To be a Swiss Guard means to be loyal without reserve to Christ and the Church and ready to give one’s life for this” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, May 6th 2006, in St Peter’s Basilica Pope Benedict XVI presided a special concelebration of Mass to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Pontifical Swis ...
• 5 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies reflect on the proclamation of the Gospel in a multicultural society Rome (Fides Agency) - The proclamation of the Gospel in a multicultural society was the theme faced by the 114 National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), representing as many countries in the world, on ...
• 5 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Buddhists and Christians at the service of humanity”: the Message of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious dialogue for the Day of Vesakh 2006 Vatican City (Fides Agency) - The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent a message to the Buddhists for the Day of Vesakh, the most important Buddhist celebration. This year the countries of Theravada tradit ...
• 4 May 2006
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE don Nicola Bux and don Salvatore Vitiello - “Obedience of Faith” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Obedience of Faith”. Unity as a gift from heaven to recognise and make visible through full adhesion with personal freedom and Belonging, as a fundamental category of understanding ou ...