Vatican

• 17 June 2005
  VATICAN - “The commitment of the Catholic Church to the search for Christian unity is irreversible” the Pope told the Secretary General of the World Council of Churches from Geneva Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s firm commitment to reach unity among Christians when on June 16 he received in a private audience in the Vatican Reverend Samuel Kobia, ...
• 15 June 2005
  VATICAN - First International Meeting for Pastoral Care to Liberate Women on the Streets: every year one million women and girls are victims of prostitution rackets, human trafficking, sex tourism Vatican City (Fides Service) - To reflect on the situation of street women in various countries, share experiences of helping them and plan specific pastoral care in this field, about fifty representatives of Bishops’ ...
• 15 June 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI comments Psalm 122: The just have entrusted their cause to the Lord and he is not indifferent to their imploring eyes, he does not ignore their invocation, or disappoint their hope Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Jesus in the Gospel says that the eye is an expression of the profound I, it is the mirror of the soul (cfr Mt 6,22-23). Well, Psalm 122, just proclaimed, consists of an exchange of loo ...
• 13 June 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope reminds parents that they are “called to help their children discover the value and importance of responding to Christ who convokes the entire Christian family to Sunday Mass” and announces a special October 15 Meeting of Catechesis for children who made their First Holy Communion during this year Vatican City (Fides Service) - In this eighth month of the special Year of the Eucharist once again Pope Benedict XVI underlined the importance of Sunday, the Lord’s Day and duty of parents to educate their children in ...
• 11 June 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Bishops of South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia and Lesotho: “Catholics in your region constitute a minority. This presents many challenges which require dedication on the part of the Church to tend the flock effectively and, at the same time, remain faithful to her missionary commitment” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Catholics in your region constitute a minority. This presents many challenges which require dedication on the part of the Church to tend the flock effectively and, at the same time, rema ...
• 10 June 2005
  VATICAN - Cause for beatification and canonisation of Pope John Paul II to open on June 28 in Rome’s Cathedral St John in the Lateran Vatican City (Fides Service) - The cause for the beatification and canonisation of Pope John Paul II will officially open in the cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of St John in the Lateran on Tuesday 28 June. The news was ...
• 10 June 2005
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI receives delegation of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations: “The spiritual patrimony treasured by Christian and Jews is itself the source of the wisdom and inspiration capable of guiding us toward a future of hope Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the years following the Council, my predecessors Pope Paul VI and, in a particular way, Pope John Paul II, took significant steps towards improving relations with the Jewish people. I ...
• 9 June 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI delivers important address on the Family to open Rome’s diocesan Ecclesial Congress (part III) “We must not only strive to overcome relativism in our work of forming people, we are also called to counter its destructive predominance in society and culture.” Rome (Fides Service) - We give the third and last part of Pope Benedict XVI’s important address on the Family delivered in St John’s Basilica Cathedral on 6 June to open Rome’s diocesan Ecclesial Congress on the su ...
• 8 June 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI delivers important address on the Family to open Rome’s diocesan Ecclesial Congress “the story of the love and union of a man and a woman in the covenant of matrimony is assumed by God as the symbol of the history of salvation” Rome (Fides Service) - We give the second long excerpt of Pope Benedict XVI’s important address on the Family given at St John’s Basilica Cathedral on 6 June to open Rome’s diocesan Ecclesial Congress on the subje ...
• 8 June 2005
  VATICAN - At his general audience the Pope teaches on Psalm 110: “Prayer is contemplation of the mystery of God and the marvels he works in the history of salvation” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In Psalm 110, a hymn of praise and thanksgiving we find many words that “describe God and his attributes and his work of salvation … prayer is therefore contemplation of the mystery of ...
• 7 June 2005
  VATICAN - “The universal Church and its mission consists in proclaiming the Gospel to all peoples therefore the Internet can serve as a useful tool for this purpose” the President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications told Catholic web masters Vatican City (Fides Service) - “God can be found even on the Internet. And many of the millions of people who use the Internet every day, may come across words of hope, encounter different cultural and spiritual experi ...
• 7 June 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI opens Rome’s diocesan Ecclesial Congress with an important address on the Family “The various present day forms of dissolution of matrimony, free unions and "trial marriages" and even pseudo-matrimony between people of the same sex, are instead expressions of an anarchical freedom which wrongly claims to be authentic liberation of the human person”. Rome (Fides Service) - In the evening of Monday 6 June the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI went to the Cathedral of Rome St John’s to open a Diocesan Ecclesial Congress on “The Family and the Christian Community: forma ...
• 6 June 2005
  VATICAN - At the midday Angelus prayer Pope Benedict XVI recalls the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the centenary of Blessed Bishop Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, patron of migrants. He also calls for prayers for the “concerning situation in Bolivia” and the release of Italian humanitarian volunteer kidnapped in Afghanistan Vatican City (Fides Service) - “On Friday we celebrated the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion deeply rooted among the people” Pope Benedict XVI said from his study window on Sunday 5 June before leading ...
• 3 June 2005
  VATICAN - Mission Study Courses offered by the Pontifical Missionary Union at the beginning of the third millennium: “The Catholic School on Mission” and “Medicine and Mission” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Missionary Union PMU in its activity of missionary formation and animation of clergy, religious and laity and the entire people of God, offered at the beginning of the new mi ...
• 1 June 2005
  VATICAN - “To welcome Jesus and carry him to others is the true joy of the Christian! Let us follow and imitate Mary, a profoundly eucharistic soul, and our whole life will be a Magnificat”: the Pope said at the end of the month of May, the month of Mary Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In this special Year of the Eucharist we are living Mary helps us appreciate more and more the great sacrament of the Eucharist. Our beloved Pope John Paul II in his last Encyclical - Ec ...