Vatican

• 24 September 2003
  VATICAN - ON 7 OCTOBER THE POPE TRAVELS TO POMPEI MARIAN SHRINE TO LEAD RECITATION OF ROSARY FOR PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) – The programme for Pope John Paul II’s one day pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei, in Pompei, near Naples, on October 7th feast of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary, has be ...
• 24 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 5 OCTOBER:ARNOLD JANSSEN (1837-1909)“ANNOUNCING THE GOOD NEWS IS FIRST AND BEST WAY TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOUR” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Arnold Janssen was born on November 5, 1837 in Goch, a small city in lower Rhineland (Germany). The second of ten children, his parents instilled in him a deep devotion to religion. He was ...
• 23 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATION 5 OCTOBER - DANIEL COMBONI 1831-1881: PIONEER OF EVANGELISATION IN CENTRAL AFRICA: “SAVING AFRICA WITH AFRICA” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Daniel Comboni: the son of poor gardeners became the first Catholic Bishop of Central Africa, and one of the great missionaries in the Church's history. It is a fact. When God decides to t ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SAYS TO UGANDAN BISHOPS: “ASSURING YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE OF MY SPIRITUAL CLOSENESS IN THESE DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES, I JOIN YOU IN CONDEMNING EVERY ACT OF BLOODSHED AND DESTRUCTION” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Welcoming Uganda Bishops for their ad limina visit on 20 September Pope John Paul II said: “Your presence here today fills me with joy and brings back memories of my visit ten years ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - “CALLED TO HOLINESS, WITNESSES OF TRUTH AT THE SERVICE OF EVANGELISATION” SEMINAR FOR NEW BISHOPS IN ENGLISH SPEAKING MISSION TERRITORIES COMES TO A CLOSE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Be examples of brotherhood and prayer. Let us continue along this path of fraternal friendship, aware of our call to holiness. Getting to know each other personally facilitates buildin ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - PROGRAMME OF EVENTS TO MARK 25TH YEAR OF JOHN PAUL ELECTION TO THE PAPACY RELEASED: CELEBRATIONS TO CULMINATE WITH BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA ON MISSION SUNDAY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Vatican has released the programme of events to mark the 25th anniversary of John Paul II’s election to the See of Peter, 16th October 1978-2003. On Wednesday 15 October the Pope ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “IN THESE LAST WEEKS OF THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY LET US FEEL MORE THAN EVER UNITED IN PRAYING THE HOLY ROSARY, PARTICULARLY FOR FAMILIES AND FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Continuing his spiritual pilgrimage towards the Shrine of Pompei where he will go on 7 October the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, on Sunday 21 September, during the Angelus address P ...
• 19 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO BISHOPS FROM ENGLISH-SPEAKING MISSION COUNTRIES: FOR YOU ALSO, THE CALL OF JESUS RESOUNDS FORCEFULLY: “GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE CREATION!” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – On Friday 19 September Pope John Paul II received in a private audience a group of Bishops from English speaking mission countries attending a course of Aggiornamento organised by the ...
• 19 September 2003
  VATICAN - COMMUNION AMONG BISHOPS, FORMATION; GUIDELINES FOR MISSION: SEMINAR FOR NEW BISHOPS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING MISSION TERRITORIES COMES TO A CLOSE Vatican City (Fides Service) – A successful event which has already borne fruits of communion and will undoubtedly serve to boost the mission of evangelisation: these positive reactions were voiced by Bishops taking pa ...
• 18 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: MAY SLOVAKIA “TREASURE THE GOSPEL, THE GREATEST GOOD, SHARE IT AND WITNESS TO IT WITH OF HOLINESS OF LIFE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the audience on Wednesday 17 September the Pope told the thousands of visitors from various parts of the world present in St Peter’s Square about his recent apostolic journey to ...
• 15 September 2003
  VATICAN - PACEM IN TERRIS TEACHING STILL VALID TODAY: A REFLECTION BY THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE UNDER THE BANNER OF CHRISTIAN HOPE AND OPTIMISM Vatican City (Fides Service) – The indispensable elements for building a new social order in the era of globalisation, drawn from the teaching, as valid as ever today, of the Pacem in Terris encyclical by John XXIII, a ...
• 11 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEEKLY TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: GOD NEVER ACTS TO BRING RUIN, CONDEMNATION OR ANNIHILATION OF THE SINNER Vatican City (Fides Service) – Continuing his teaching on the Psalms and Canticles used in the Morning and Evening Prayer of the Church, during his Wednesday Audience on 10 September in St Peter’s Square, Pope John P ...
• 9 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES: MISSIONARY SERVICE MUST FLOW FROM INTIMATE UNION WITH THE LORD WHO SENDS YOU AND IT MUST BE LIVED ON THE PATH OF SELF-GIVING EVEN TO THE CROSS” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “In order to comprehend adequately the signs of the times and the task of evangelisation which you, Claretian missionaries, are called to promote and develop in various regions of th ...
• 8 September 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO MEETING IN AACHEN: THE WORLD HAS NEED OF PEACE, MUCH NEED…WITH THE WEAPONS OF PRAYER AND DIALOGUE WE WALK THE PATH TO THE FUTURE!” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a message to the ecumenical and interreligious Meeting organised by S. Egidio Community in Aachen Germany. Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, former president of the Pon ...
• 8 September 2003
  VATICAN – THE POPE ANNOUNCES OCTOBER PILGRIMAGE TO POMPEI IN THIS YEAR OF THE ROSARY AND BEGINS SPIRITUAL PREPARATION CONTEMPLATING WITH MARY THE FACE OF CHRIST IN HIS JOYFUL, SORROWFUL, GLORIOUS AND LUMINOUS MYSTERIES Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “A month today exactly, on Sunday October 7, God willing, I will be at the Shrine of Pompei. It will be a highly significant event in this Year of the Rosary which opened on 16 Octob ...