Vatican

• 13 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE PRESIDES MASS FOR THE CARDINALS AND BISHOPS WHO DIED IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS: “ALL THESE VENERABLE BROTHERS ARE NOW IN THE PROVIDENT ‘HANDS’ OF GOD WHO HAS WELCOMED INTO THE ETERNAL EMBRACE OF HIS LOVE ” Vatican City (Fides) – On Thursday 13 November at 11.30am Pope John Paul II presided a Concelebration of the Holy Eucharist in St Peter’s Basilica for the cardinals and bishops who died during the last 12 months. ...
• 12 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SENDS TELEGRAMME OF CONDOLENCE TO ITALIAN PRESIDENT CIAMPI AFTER MORTAL ATTACK ON ITALIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN NASSIRIYA (IRAQ) Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a telegramme of condolence to the President of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi for the death of Italian peacekeepers in a car bomb attack on an Italian Army base at Nass ...
• 12 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE TEACHING: “IN CHRISTIAN CELEBRATIONS THE SUFFERING OF THE INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE ECHOED IN THE HEARTS OF ALL; AS TOO THE JOY OF EACH SHOULD BE LIVED BY THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY OF WORSHIPPERS ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Psalm 141 – “You are my refuge” – recited by Saint Francis of Assisi a few moments before his death, was the subject of the teaching given by Pope John Paul II during his general ...
• 12 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE FIELD OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS SHOULD NOT BE ABANDONED BUT IT DEMANDS GREAT CAUTION: CARDINAL MARTINO CONCLUDES SEMINAR ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Vatican City (Fides) - “The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace will continue to help enlighten consciences so that vegetable bio-technology may be an opportunity for all and not a threat, within a political and ...
• 11 November 2003
  VATICAN - 17 TO 22 NOVEMBER 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "STARTING OUT FROM CHRIST FOR RENEWED PASTORAL FOR MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES". Vatican City (Fides) – “The migratory phenomenon was born with man. It dates back to the time of our ancestors. Today, however, it has acquired a universal dimension encouraged by various aspects of modern globalisat ...
• 11 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: “SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH MUST STRIVE FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT OF ITS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS” Vatican City (Fides Service) - " We are united in our common desire to correct misunderstandings and even more to allow ourselves to be enlightened by the one Truth which governs the world and guides the lives of all men ...
• 11 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES A DELEGATION OF PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS: DESPITE OBSTACLES, WE CONTINUE TO SAY THAT PEACE IS POSSIBLE AND THAT IT IS REACHED ONLY WITH PATIENT DIALOGUE. TERRORISM IN EVERY FORM MUST BE CONDEMNED Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Monday 10 November in the Vatican Pope John Paul II granted a special audience to a delegation of Christian members of the Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine (OLP). He said h ...
• 11 November 2003
  VATICAN/UNITED NATIONS - “PEACE IS POSSIBLE, PEACE MUST BE WILLED, EARNED AND SHARED AS A COMMON GOOD OF HUMANITY.”: HOLY SEE OBSERVER ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE SPEAKS ON CULTURE OF PEACE TO UN ASSEMBLY Vatican City (Fides Service) – “War destroys the life of innocent people, teaches how to kill, throws into upheaval even the lives of those who do the killing and leaves behind a trail of resentment and hatred, thus ...
• 10 November 2003
  VATICAN - “DEPRESSION” TOPIC OF 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 13 to 15 November in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health Workers and the Sick will hold its 18th International Conference. The subjec ...
• 10 November 2003
  VATICAN - GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS MUST BE STUDIED IN VIEW OF RESPONSIBLE ETHIC AND PASTORAL DISCERNMENT: TODAY AND TOMORROW SEMINAR IN THE VATICAN PROMOTED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Collect as much information as possible on GMOs which will service to sustain ethic and pastoral discernment”: this was the finality indicated by the President of the Pontifical Counci ...
• 10 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE BEATIFIES FIVE SERVANTS OF GOD, “PRECIOUS STONES” OF THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, THE CHURCH RESPLENDENT IN HOLINESS THE FRUIT OF THE INCESSANT WORKING OF GOD’S SPIRIT Vatican City (Fides Service ) – “A place reserved for divine worship is always a sign of the spiritual temple, the Church, composed of living stones, the faithful, united by the same faith, participation in the sac ...
• 7 November 2003
  VATICAN - SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER THE POPE WILL BEATIFY FIVE SERVANTS OF GOD FROM SPAIN, BELGIUM, FRANCE AND ITALY Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Sunday 9 November 2003, the feast of the dedication of the Cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of St John in the Lateran, at 9.30 am, Pope John Paul II will preside a solemn Mass in St Pet ...
• 7 November 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO PONTIFICAL ACADEMIES: “THE NUMEROUS WITNESSES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH WHO LIVED IN THE LAST CENTURY WHO PERSEVERED IN THEIR ADHESION TO THE GOSPEL IN SITUATIONS OF HOSTILITY AND PERSECUTION ARE A SIGN OF HOPE FIRST OF ALL FOR THE CHURCHES OF EUROPE” Vatican City (Fides) – “Christ’s disciples are called to contemplate and imitate the numerous witnesses of the Christian faith of the last century, in the East and the West, who persevered in their adhesion to the ...
• 6 November 2003
  VATICAN - PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, UNIQUE IN THE WORLD MARKS 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDATION Vatican City (Fides Service) – Established in Rome in 1603 as the “Linceorum Academia”, today the Pontifical Academy of Science, the Institution took this name with new statutes approved by Pius XI in 1936. Since 1 ...
• 5 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S GENERAL AUDIENCE TEACHING: PRAYER WITH A PURE AND SINCERE HEART IS A SACRIFICE OFFERED TO GOD. THE WHOLE BEING OF THE PERSON WHO PRAYS BECOMES A SACRIFICIAL ACT. HANDS RAISED IN PRAYER ARE A BRIDGE OF COMMUNICATION WITH GOD Vatican City (Fides Service) – Addressing thousands of visitors gathered in St Peter’s Square for the Audience on Wednesday, November 5 Pope John Paul II gave his teaching on Psalm 140 (1-9):