Vatican

• 1 June 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI’s Wednesday audience teaching: “Christ, God-with-us, is not content to look at us kindly from his throne of glory, he immerses his very self in human history becoming flesh, that is a fragile reality conditioned by time and space” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Canticle (cfr Phil 2,6-11) “Christ Servant of God”, first vespers Sunday week 3 (reading: Phil 2,6-11) was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching during the general audience in S ...
• 31 May 2005
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Italian Bishops : “Italy can and must play a major role in offering common witness to Jesus Christ our only Saviour, so Christ may be the measure for true humanism, for individual conscience and the structures social life” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Dear brothers, our bond has a precise root, the same root which unites all the Bishops of the world with the Successor of Peter, but in this country it is even stronger because the Pope ...
• 30 May 2005
  VATICAN - "The Church will never stop saying that marriage and the family are part of God’s plan and nothing can replace them or act as a substitute for them": The Pope confirms the convocation of 5th World Meeting of Families in Spain in 2006 Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI has confirmed the convocation of the 5th World Meeting for Families promoted by the Catholic Church to be held in the first week in July 2006 in Valencia Spain with the th ...
• 28 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope receives Burundian Bishops on ad Limina visit: “announce the Gospel and heal memory and hearts, foster solidarity among all Burundians and ban all spirit of revenge and resentment, encourage forgiveness and reconciliation”. Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI received in audience a group of Bishops of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Burundi on the occasion of their five-yearly ad limina visit ...
• 27 May 2005
  VATICAN - “Each year infectious diseases are responsible for the death of 17 million persons of whom 90 percent live in developing countries: Holy See delegation addresses 58th World Health Assembly Geneva (Fides Service) - “Unfortunately, illnesses, especially infectious ones, are ever more virulent in the poorest countries that, precisely because they are poor, do not have the resources to obtain medicine that, ...
• 27 May 2005
  VATICAN - “The Corpus Christi procession responds symbolically to the command of the Risen Lord: I am going before you to Galilee. Go out to the ends of the earth, carry the Gospel to the world.” The Pope says during Mass celebrated in front of the Cathedral of Rome Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The procession on Holy Thursday accompanies Jesus in his solitude towards the "via crucis". The procession on Corpus Christi, instead responds symbolically to the command of the Risen Lo ...
• 25 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope comments on Psalm 115: “The entire people of God, thank the Lord of life, Who never abandons the just in the dark bosom of pain and death, but leads then to hope and to life." Vatican City (Fides Service) - “In the original Hebrew Psalm 115 forms one composition with the previous psalm 114. Both form a unitary act of thanksgiving to the Lord who frees us from the nightmare of death. In our ...
• 24 May 2005
  VATICAN - Papal Letter to the Church in Spain on the occasion of the national pilgrimage to Zaragoza: “May the Blessed Virgin Mary preserve every family from all forms of social justice, from all that offends its dignity and restricts its freedom” Zaragoza (Fides Service) - “At this time of discernment for many hearts you the Bishops of Spain are looking towards the One who welcomed with total availability the life of God who was entering history” Pope Benedic ...
• 23 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope’s Sunday reflection at the Angelus: “God is not solitude, but perfect communion. This is why the human person, the image of God, is realised through love, sincere gift of self ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The words which summarise all revelation are these: ‘God is love’ (1 Jn 4,8.16); and love is always a mystery, a reality which goes beyond reason although without contradicting it, ...
• 21 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses Bishops from Rwanda: “May the Spirit of Pentecost render fruitful the efforts of those who strive to build brotherhood among all Rwandans in a spirit of truth and justice!” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, Saturday 21 May Pope Benedict XVI received the Bishops of Rwanda on ad limina visit to Rome”. “Through you I greet affectionately your communities” the Pope said, encour ...
• 20 May 2005
  VATICAN - After a Seminar ‘Liturgy a great school of peace’ Justice and Peace president Cardinal Martino promises paper on the subject Vatican City (Fides Service) - The start of fruitful relations between scholars of liturgy and scholars of social doctrine was, according to Cardinal Renato Martino president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Pea ...
• 20 May 2005
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses students of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy: “cultivate "the two constitutive and complementary dimensions of the Church: communion and mission, unity and passion for evangelisation Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, the Holy Father received students of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, accompanied by their president, Archbishop Justo Mullor, calling on them to use their formative yea ...
• 19 May 2005
  VATICAN - Political commitment as a demanding way of living Christian commitment at the service of others: Cardinal Martino at a Seminar of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Lack of attention for its ethical dimension leads inevitably to the de-humanisation of life and institutions which transforms social and political life into a jungle at the mercy of viol ...
• 19 May 2005
  VATICAN - “Love, nourish and hand on the faith in your families as the most precious heritage! Bear witness to the faith!”: Benedict XVI encourages Peruvian Catholics Lima (Fides Service) - The celebration and final lap of the great City Mission “Remar Mar Adentro” which for more than two years has involved more than 10,000 city missionaries mostly lay people in a programme of new ...
• 18 May 2005
  VATICAN - “I wish to recommend CELAM to give special attention to pastoral of the family threatened in our day by serious dangers which undermine the very foundation of Christian marriage and family”: Pope Benedict XVI sends message to Latin American Bishops for 50th CELAM anniversary Vatican City (Fides) - On the occasion of the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences CELAM, Pope Benedict XVI has sent a message of good wishes dated 14 May 2005 in which ...