Vatican

• 1 December 2005
  VATICAN - Declaration from Holy See Press Office Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the end of the morning yesterday 30 November the Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls made the following declaration: "Over recent days, news agencies have reported two d ...
• 1 December 2005
  VATICAN - “O Mother intercede for us and for all who suffer because of religious persecution, injustice, discrimination, war”: Cardinal Sepe prays to Our Lady of Lavang Hué (Fides Service) - On December 1 Cardinal Sepe, still on his pastoral visit to Catholics in Vietnam, made a pilgrimage to the national Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Lavang where in the past persecuted Christians fled ...
• 1 December 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI explains Psalm 136: “This heartfelt call on the Lord to free his people from slavery in Babylon, expresses well the sentiments of hope and expectancy with which we have started our Advent journey” - Appeal on World AIDS day Vatican City (Fides Service) - During the weekly Wednesday audience in St Peter’s Square on November 30, Pope Benedict XVI explained the meaning of Psalm 136 which speaks of the Jewish people’s tragic experience of t ...
• 30 November 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe celebrates St Andrew’s day with the students at Hanoi major seminary and encourages them to be ever more ‘missionary in heart and mind’ Hanoi (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on a pastoral visit to Vietnam this morning 30 November, celebrated the feast of Saint Andrew with students ...
• 30 November 2005
  VATICAN - Message from Pope Benedict XVI to His Holiness Bartholomew I Archbishop of Constantinople Ecumenical Patriarch on the occasion of the Feast of St Andrei the Apostle: “the Catholic Church remains irrevocably committed to promoting all suitable and helpful initiatives to strengthen charity, solidarity and theological dialogue between us.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the Feast of Saint Andrew 30 November Pope Benedict XVI entrusted to a Delegation of the Holy See which will be present on 30 November in the patriarchal church of St Ge ...
• 30 November 2005
  VATICAN - Made public the "Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders." Vatican City (Fides Service) - Made public today was the document: "Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the ...
• 30 November 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI grants plenary indulgence to mark 40th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council December 8 feast of Immaculate Conception Vatican City (Fides Service) - December 8 will mark 40 years since the closing of the Second Vatican Council. For this important anniversary Pope Benedict XVI will grant a special plenary indulgence. “On this Solemnity ...
• 29 November 2005
  VATICAN - On a pastoral visit to the Church in Vietnam Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe ordains 57 new priests in Hanoi Cathedral and has meetings with Bishops of ecclesiastical province Hanoi and priests and religious of Hung Hoa diocese Hanoi (Fides Service) - This morning 29 November in Hanoi Cathedral Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples presided a solemn mass for the ordination of 57 new priests. Af ...
• 29 November 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope sends a message to young people in Holland for the 1st National Catholic Youth Day: “I encourage you to turn every day to the Lord who desires nothing but your true happiness” Vatican City (Fides Service) -Pope Benedict XVI sent a message to young Dutch participants in the first National Day of Catholic Youth, celebrated in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, on November 27 in which he said “With this ...
• 29 November 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI calls for resolve to help Sudan: “Today, I add my voice to the cry of the suffering and assure you that the Holy See, together with the Apostolic Nuncio in Khartoum, will continue to do everything possible to end the cycle of violence and misery" Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 28 November Pope Benedict XVI launched for Sudan when he received Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, archbishop of Khartoum, Sudan, accompanied by a group of Sudanese pilgrims. The Pope addre ...
• 28 November 2005
  VATICAN - “Advent is a time for Christians to increase their hope that it is possible with God’s help to build a new world” Pope Benedict XVI says at the Angelus Vatican City (Fides Service) - Advent, “a season of great religious beauty intrinsic with hope and spiritual expectation”, was the theme of Pope Benedict XVI’s reflection before the midday Angelus prayer on 27 Nove ...
• 28 November 2005
  VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples starts 9 day pastoral visit to Vietnam meeting priests and religious in Hanoi Cathedral: “may you live your consecration with pride and joy” Hanoi (Fides Service) - Today Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples started a nine day pastoral visit to the Church in Vietnam at the invitation of the Vietnamese bishops ...
• 25 November 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI inaugurates academic year at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore: “This is the great challenge: to give life to a true Catholic university, one that excels for the quality of its research and teaching and, at the same time, for its faithfulness to the Gospel and to the Church's Magisterium” Rome (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI was present for the ceremony to inaugurate the new academic year at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome. “I would like the entire ...
• 25 November 2005
  VATICAN - “True progress is that alone which integrally safeguards the dignity of the human being and which enables each people to share its own spiritual and material resources for the benefit of all” the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI addresses 33rd UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Conference Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has voiced “sincere appreciation” for the programmes which the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has carried out in the past sixty years “defe ...
• 25 November 2005
  VATICAN - “A very special day to be remembered in the years to come … a visible sign of continuity with a tradition so dear to the heart of our college: from Benedict XV to John Paul II”, Prof. Ornaghi welcomes Benedict XVI to the Università Cattolica for the inauguration of the academic year Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning Pope Benedict XVI went to the Medicine and Surgery Faculty of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome on the occasion of the inau ...