Vatican

• 15 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict addresses participants at plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family: “The family founded on marriage constitutes the "heritage of humanity ", a fundamental social institution, vital nucleus and pillar of society which concerns believers and non” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 13 May, receiving in audience participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Pope Benedict XVI said: “The family founded on marriage constitutes "herita ...
• 15 May 2006
  VATICAN - “Christian life is a mystery of communion with Jesus” the Pope says at the midday Regina Cæli prayer. He also recalled the assassination attack 25 years ago on John Paul II and his miraculous escape thanks to the intervention of a ‘maternal hand’ Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 14 May addressing thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square for the midday Marian prayer Pope Benedict XVI reflected on Union with God by means of the sacrament of the Eucharist a ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives participants at a Congress promoted by the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and the Family: “Only the rock of total and irrevocable love between a man and a woman can found the construction of a society which is a home for all men and women” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Benedict XVI on 11 May received participants in an international congress promoted by the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family of the Pontifical Lateran University. ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: Africa, the continent which will receive most help from the World Mission Sunday collection 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith distributed during the General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies PMS which today closes its annual meeting at Ciampino (Rome), the ...
• 12 May 2006
  VATICAN - PMS General Assembly: vocations flourish in young Churches, more than 80,000 seminarians and almost 10,000 novices sustained by the Pontifical Society St Peter Apostle Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Society St Peter Apostle which has the charisma to promote and support the formation of local clergy, during 2005 assigned subsidies for the upkeep of 81.200 seminarians studying at ...
• 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 ...