Vatican

• 23 July 2003
  VATICAN - INTERNATIONAL LAW, A PATH TO PEACE: INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL JUSTICE AND PEACE, ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTINO ON POPE JOHN PAUL II’S THEME FOR WORLD PEACE DAY 2004 Vatican City (Fides Service) – "Humanity is facing a crucial challenge: if it does not succeed in providing really efficacious institutions to avert the scourge of war, the risk is that the law of force will prevail ov ...
• 21 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PARTICIPANTS AT EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE: JUST AS NEW EUROPE CANNOT BE PLANNED WITHOUT DRAWING FROM ITS ROOTS, THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF THE UNIVERSITY Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “Just as the new Europe cannot be planned without drawing from its own roots, the same can be said of the university. It is in fact the place par excellence for research for the trut ...
• 21 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: THE NEW EUROPE MUST BE HELPED TO BUILD ITSELF BY REVITALISING THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS FROM WHICH IT ORIGINATED Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “In recent months intense work has been undertaken to draft a European Constitution, the final version of which will be examined for approval by the intergovernmental Conference from ...
• 17 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING: IN THE PSALMS THE MATERNAL TENDERNESS OF JERUSALEM IS AN IMAGE OF GOD’S LOVE FOR MANKIND Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II held his first Summer audience for a small group of lucky people on Wednesday 16 July in the courtyard of his residence at Castel Gandolfo in the cool of the Roman hi ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - DIGNITY OF HUMAN PROCREATION AND REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS. THEME OF 10TH ANNUAL MEETING OF PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR LIFE Vatican City (Fides Service) – The next general meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which will take place early next year 19-22 February in the Vatican, will be especially important since it will mark the 10th ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - ROLE OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE IN PROMOTING BROTHERLY RELATIONS AT THE SERVICE OF PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 7-9 July the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, led by its president Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, held a meeting for its members, consultors and guests in Syria at th ...
• 15 July 2003
  VATICAN - 102nd APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF POPE JOHN PAUL ANNOUNCED: REPUBLIC OF SLOVAKIA WILL WELCOME THE POPE IN SEPTEMBER 11-14 Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 11-14 September 2003 Pope John Paul II will make his 102nd apostolic journey which will take him to Slovakia, to visit four cities Trnava, Banska Bystrica, Roznava and Bratislava. ...
• 14 July 2003
  VATICAN - PUTTING THE LAST FIRST; COMBINING GLOBAL AND LOCAL ACTION; ENSURING THAT WORK IS INSPIRED BY THE SOCIAL TEACHING OF THE CHURCH: CARITAS APPROVES FOUR YEAR PLAN 2003-2007 Vatican City (Fides Service) – Four years of hard work lie before Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 154 national Catholic aid agencies operating in 198 countries all over the world. During its recent General ...
• 14 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE AT ANGELUS: TO EUROPE THIRSTING FOR HOPE, THE CHURCH OFFERS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT WHICH NO ONE ELSE CAN GIVE: FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, SOURCE OF HOPE WHICH IS NEVER DISAPPOINTED Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “At this time in history when an important process of re-unification of Europe is underway with the extending of the European Union to more countries, the Church looks with love on t ...
• 11 July 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE FOR 60TH COMMEMORATION OF TRAGEDY IN WOŁHYNIEN: THE NEW MILLENNIUM DEMANDS THAT UKRAINIANS AND POLES LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER WITH EYES OF RECONCILIATION Vatican City (Fides Service) – On the occasion of the official commemoration on July 11th of Ukraine-Poland reconciliation, 60 years after the tragic events in Wołhynien, Ukraine, Pope John Paul II sent a message ...
• 10 July 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING: OUR GREATEST GOOD IS THE UNION OF OUR WILL WITH THE WILL OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the audience on Wednesday 9 July, Pope John Paul II continued his teaching on the psalms, reflecting this week on psalm 142, a “prayer in time of tribulation.” “Our mornin ...
• 9 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE TELLS MISSIONARY PRIESTS OF THE REGALITY OF CHRIST: “MAY YOUR DESIRE TO EVANGELISE LEAD YOU TO AN APOSTOLATE WHICH KNOWS NO FRONTIERS” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I am happy to welcome you to this special audience on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of your Secular Institute…My greeting goes to those present and to all yo ...
• 8 July 2003
  VATICAN - CONGREGATION FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS PROMULGATES 10 DECREES: HONOUR OF THE ALTARS FOR BLESSED DON ORIONE APOSTLE OF CHARITY AND LAURA OF ST CATHERINE OF SIENA MISSIONARY TO THE INDIOS Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Monday 7 July in the Sala Clementina of the Papal Palace in the Vatican, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (CCS) promulgated decrees regar ...
• 8 July 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SENDS MESSAGE TO 17TH ASSEMBLY OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS: “HELP OFFERED TO NEIGHBOUR MUST NOT BE ALMSGIVING FROM RICH TO POOR, BUT RATHER SHARING IN BROTHERHOOD, RECOGNITION OF EQUALITY AMONG ALL PEOPLE Vatican City (Fides Service) – Globalisation solidarity is the theme of the 17th general assembly (held every four years) of Caritas Internationalis being held presently in Rome 7-12 July. For the occasion Pope John Pa ...
• 7 July 2003
  VATICAN - “THE TRAGIC EVENTS WHICH AFFLICT THE MODERN WORLD AND THE DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS OF UNDER-DEVELOPMENT REVEAL THE PERMANENT VALIDITY OF THE CHURCH’S SOCIAL TEACHING” PAPAL MESSAGE TO CENTESIMUS ANNUS PRO PONTEFICE FOUNDATION: Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a message to mark the tenth anniversary of foundation of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontefice Foundation set up to promote and diffuse knowledge and implementatio ...