Vatican

• 1 October 2004
  VATICAN - Feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux opens Missionary month of October with its culminating event on 24 October World Mission Day: “Eucharist and Mission” open the Year the Eucharist Vatican City (Fides Service) - Today the feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), proclaimed patron of the missions with St Francis Xavier in 1927, is the first day of the Missionary month of October which will ...
• 30 September 2004
  VATICAN - Pope’s message World Day for the Sick: “On the next World Day of the Sick we want to proclaim hope for the full health of Africa and for the whole of humanity and our commitment to work with ever greater determination to serve this great cause” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The main celebration for the next World Day for the Sick, 11 February 2005, will take place at the Mary Queen of the Apostles church in Yaounde, Cameroon and it will reflect on the theme: � ...
• 29 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “Beauty must be combined with goodness and holiness of life so that the face of God wonderful and just, will shine resplendently in the world.” Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning Pope John Paul II returned to Rome from his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo and the first event on his schedule was the general audience for visitors gathered in St Peter� ...
• 29 September 2004
  VATICAN - “The Communications Media at the service of Understanding between Peoples”: Pope John Paul II has chosen the theme of the Church’s 2005 World Communications Day Vatican City (Fides Service) - Presenting the theme chosen by Pope John Paul II for World Communications Day 2005 “The Communications Media at the service of Understanding between Peoples” Archbishop John P. Foley, P ...
• 27 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope grant audience to Papal Nuncios in Africa: “continue to be witnesses of communion, helping to overcome tensions and misunderstandings and the temptation of particularism, and to strengthen a sense of belonging to the one and undivided People of God” Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Saturday 25 September at the end of the morning in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II gave a special audience to Papal Nuncios from Africa taking part in a meeting ...
• 27 September 2004
  VATICAN - At his midday Angelus reflection the Pope says “personal resources must be used not selfishly but with solidarity”: to guarantee justice and development with solidarity is the “way to guarantee the world a future peace” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors gathered in the courtyard of his summer residence, Pope John Paul II reflected on the Sunday Gospel on the parable of the rich man and the p ...
• 24 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope grants an audience to the General Chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate: “Your presence, animated by religious and missionary fervour, must be a sign and a seed of hope for all you meet” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - This morning at his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II granted a private audience to the members of the General Chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, ...
• 22 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the Wednesday Audience: “Christ is the Saviour, united with us in his human «body», so he can be with us, share our pain, carry our evil. But he is always the Son of God and his union with us is radically transforming, liberating, expiating, saving” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Canticle with the title “The freely undertaken passion of Christ Servant of God”, second vespers of Sunday, week 2 (reading: cfr 1Pt 2,21-24), was the subject of Pope John Paul II� ...
• 21 September 2004
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sodano in New York recalls “vast humanitarian activity of Catholic institutions all over the world especially in the missions and in the poorest countries” to fight hunger and poverty New York (Fides Service) - “The Holy See has always supported the many individual and community initiatives to solve the dramatic problem of hunger and poverty: it suffices to recall the vast humanitarian activity of ...
• 20 September 2004
  VATICAN - A unique experience which has enriched us enormously and strengthened our communion with the Pope and with all Bishops”: student Bishops share their impressions at the end of the study seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We Bishops also need formation. We studied for the priesthood in the seminary and we had teachers who accompanied our journey of formation. When we are appointed Bishops our task becomes ...
• 20 September 2004
  VATICAN - “Holiness helps the Church to grow, it instils hope in human hearts and adheres effectively to the missionary command of the Lord”: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe closes Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops Vatican City (Fides Service) - A solemn Concelebration of Mass in St Peter’s Basilica on Saturday 18 September was the closing event of a study seminar for newly appointed Bishops of mission territories organised by th ...
• 20 September 2004
  Vatican - The Pope’s reflection at the Angelus prayer: “The death of Jesus is the encounter between the apparent triumph of evil and the definitive victory of good; the darkest moment of history and the revelation of God’s glory… For believers the Cross of Christ is an icon of hope ” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “At this dawn of the third millennium, blessed by the Great Jubilee and so rich in potential, humanity is suffering from the terrible spread of terrorism. The succession of atrocious atta ...
• 17 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - The Bishop must be a moderator, promoter and guarantor of liturgical life in his diocese: address by Card. Francis Arinze prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his address to Bishops attending a Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and th ...
• 16 September 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope receives Bishops attending Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: “Your first duty is to be zealous promoters of the integrity of the faith and the unity of the Church” Vatican City (Fides Service) - At a private audience this morning in his Summer Residence in Castel Gandolfo, Pope John Paul II urged a group of Bishops from mission territories to guarantee the integrity of the faith an ...
• 15 September 2004
  VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - Cardinal Scola speaks on formation in Seminaries and institutes of theology: “The formation of candidates to the priesthood is not among the many tasks assigned to the Bishop” Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his address to the newly appointed Bishops from mission territories taking part in the Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Angelo Scola, Pat ...