Vatican

• 28 October 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI sends message for 40th anniversary of Vatican II Declaration Nostra aetate: “May Christians and Jews offer an ever more compelling shared witness to the One God and his commandments” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, promulgated by Pope Paul VI forty years ago, “opened a new era of relations with the Jewish People and offered the foundations for sincere theolog ...
• 27 October 2005
  VATICAN - “Diwali and Ramadan feasts, anniversary of Nostra Aetate, solidarity on the occasion of natural disasters: opportunities for the Catholic Church to strengthen dialogue with believers of other religions” Mgr Felix Machado, under-secretary of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today’s world, despite situations of conflict, violence and fear, there are many opportunities to promote dialogue and brotherhood among peoples of different cultures and religions. This ...
• 26 October 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching at the Wednesday general audience: “The plan of salvation is totally fulfilled in the Son, and the faithful are invited - especially in the liturgy - to proclaim it and to reap its fruits." Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the general audience this morning held in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI welcomed a crowd of about 50,000 visitors. In his teaching the Pope speak on the subject ...
• 26 October 2005
  VATICAN - "Hindus and Christians in solidarity" Pontifical Council for inter-religious dialogue sends annual Message to Hindus for Diwali Feast 2005 Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the annual Hindu feast Diwali 2005, which celebrates light, goodness, reconciliation, peace, harmony and happiness, and which many Hindus will start on 1 November, the Po ...
• 24 October 2005
  VATICAN - On World Mission Sunday Pope Benedict XVI closes the Year of the Eucharist and the Synod of Bishops with the canonisation of five new saints: “the Eucharist is the source of holiness and spiritual nourishment for our mission in the world”. Brotherly greetings to the Bishops of the Church in China Vatican City (Fides Service) - “On this 30th Sunday in ordinary time... the Year of the Eucharist and the Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, dedicated precisely to the mystery of the Eucharist in the Church’s ...
• 24 October 2005
  VATICAN - The Synod Fathers at the 11th Ordinary Synod address a letter to the four Chinese prelates absent from the synodal assembly Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Synod Fathers at the 11th Ordinary Synod addressed a letter to the four Chinese prelates absent from the synodal assembly Bishops Anthony Li Duan, Xi'an; Luke Li Jingfeng, Fengxiang; Al ...
• 24 October 2005
  VATICAN - During his Angelus reflection the Pope recalls the bond between the Church’s mission and the Eucharist: “missionary activity and evangelisation is the apostolic spreading of the love which is, as it were, concentrated in the Blessed Sacrament” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 23 October during his midday Angelus reflection Pope Benedict XVI expressed sentiments of “warm gratitude” to the Synod Fathers after “three weeks of hard work in a spirit o ...
• 22 October 2005
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• 22 October 2005
  VATICAN - Interview with Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on the occasion of WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2005 Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of World Mission Sunday, which falls this year on 23 October, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe kindly agreed to giv ...
• 19 October 2005
  VATICAN - At his General weekly Audience the Pope teaches on Psalm 129: “God is not an inexorable sovereign who condemns the guilty, instead he is a loving father whom we should love not for fear of punishment, but because of his goodness and readiness to forgive”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This is one of the most famous and loved psalms for Christian tradition: the ‘De profundis’, called after its opening words in Latin with the ‘Miserere’ has become a favourite p ...
• 19 October 2005
  VATICAN - “Traditio ecclesiae in intercultural dialogue: reflections on the art of the catacombs”. Exhibition organised by the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology: a photograph of religious reality of Roman society from the 2nd to the 5th centuries Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 25 September a small exhibition was opened in the west part of St. Callisto catacomb on the Appian Way. The exhibition is part of initiatives organised on the occasion of European Herita ...
• 19 October 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI to preside Mission Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square for dolmen closing of Synod of Bishops and canonisation of five new Saints Vatican City (Fides Service) - At 9.30 a.m. on Sunday October 23, World Mission Day, the Holy Father will preside at a Eucharistic concelebration in St. Peter's Square with the Synod Fathers for the conclusion of the Ele ...
• 18 October 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI receives Bishops of Ethiopia and Eritrea on ad limina visit: “Your people have experienced famine, oppression and warfare. Help them to discover in the Eucharist the central act of transformation that alone can truly renew the world” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Monday 17 October Pope Benedict XVI received the Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia and of Eritrea on their ad limina visit to the See of Peter not in his library as usual but at the Pontifica ...
• 17 October 2005
  VATICAN - ‘The Eucharist is our Celebration’ Pope Benedict XVI First Communion Children Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the early evening of Saturday October 15, over 100,000 children who made their First Holy Communion this year, mainly from Italy but also from other countries, accompanied by their paren ...
• 17 October 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at Angelus reflection recalls Pope John Paul II, “contemplative and missionary”: “In him we admired the power of the faith and prayer and total trust in Most Holy Mary who accompanied and protected him always” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On 16 October 1978, 27 years ago the Archbishop of Krakow Cardinal Karol Wojtyła was elected successor of Saint Peter. The recurrence was highlighted by Benedict XVI during his reflec ...