Vatican

• 8 September 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses first group of Brazilian Bishops on Ad Limina visit: “When our contemporaries come to us, they want to see something that they do not see elsewhere, namely, joy and the hope that springs from the fact that we are with the Risen Lord.” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - “As Successor of Peter and universal Pastor, I can assure you that my heart feels day by day your apostolic concerns and efforts, not ceasing to recall before God the challenges you fa ...
• 7 September 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Viterbo (1) - “The seasons succeed each other, social contexts change, but the vocation of Christians to live the Gospel in solidarity with the human family does not change or go out of fashion with the passing of time.” Viterbo (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, September 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI traveled in helicopter from the Pontifical Villa in Castel Gandolfo to make a pastoral visit to Viterbo and Bagnoregio. In Viterbo, after b ...
• 7 September 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Viterbo (2): “Viterbo has been justly named 'City of Popes,' and for you this constitutes a further stimulus to live and witness to the Christian faith;” greeting to participants in the International Congress “Men and Religions” Viterbo (Agenzia Fides) – At the close of the Mass celebrated on the esplanade of Valle Faul in Viterbo, on Sunday, September 6, the Holy Father gave a brief address prior to the recitation of the Angelus, recalling th ...
• 7 September 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Viterbo (3) - “You, as contemplative nuns, have a mission to be torches in the Church who, in the silence of your monasteries, burn in prayer and love for God.” Viterbo (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of Sunday, September 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI met with cloistered nuns from the diocese's 12 monasteries, who gathered in the Shrine of the “Madonna della Quercia,” ...
• 7 September 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Bagnoregio (4) - “In this Year for Priests, I would like to invite priests especially to listen to this great doctor of the Church and to reflect more profoundly on his teaching of wisdom rooted in Christ.” Bagnoregio (Agenzia Fides) – Departing from the Shrine to the Madonna della Quercia, the Holy Father traveled in helicopter to Bagnoregio, where, in the Cathedral of San Nicola, he venerated the relics of the “Sacred ...
• 4 September 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father Benedict XVI's Message to the 11th Inter-Christian Symposium: “Build together the City of God, where his children can live in peace and in fraternal charity, based on the truth of the common faith.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Hence, to know with historical objectivity and fraternal cordiality the doctrinal and spiritual riches that make up the patrimony of the Christian East and West, is indispensable not onl ...
• 3 September 2009
  VATICAN - At the General Audience, the Holy Father speaks on the Abbot of Cluny, Saint Odo: “nourished with incisive action in the monks, as well as in the faithful of his time, the intention to advance with diligent step on the way of Christian perfection” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Once again speaking on the great Writers of the Church from the East and West, who lived in Medieval era, “because, as though in a mirror, in their lives and writings we see what it mea ...
• 3 September 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE - Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Peace and Creation cannot prescind from the Creator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, dedicated his Angelus reflection on the last Sunday of August to the necessity to protect creation, a theme, - he said - which, like the theme of peace, bring ...
• 3 September 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father's comments after viewing the film “Saint Augustine”: “We cannot find truth on our own, but Truth, which is a Person, finds us." Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 2, in the "Sala degli Svizzeri" of the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo, the Holy Father Benedict XVI attended the screening of an abbreviat ...
• 2 September 2009
  VATICAN - Ave Maria: Mgr Luciano Alimandi - Jesus takes nothing and gives all Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "‘'Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into someone from outside can make that person unclean; it is the things that come out of someone that make that person unc ...
• 31 August 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI at the Angelus, mentions that “when the husband and wife generously dedicate themselves to the education of their children, guiding and orienting them in the discovery of God's design of life, they are preparing that fertile spiritual soil from which vocations” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – The importance of the educational task of parents in the birth and growth of Christian families, of vocations, and the charisms of the Holy Spirit was addressed by the Holy Father Bene ...
• 31 July 2009
  VATICAN - Sunday, September 6, Benedict XVI will make pastoral visit to Viterbo and Bagnoregio Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, September 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to Viterbo and Bagnoregio. The program released by the Holy See Press Office says that at 9am, the Pope's h ...
• 30 July 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Conscience, the foundation of religion which conforms to reason (regarding a new book by Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI “Elogio della coscienza”) [In Italian] Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Conscience leads the human person to seek a covenant with God by means of worship which is “logical”, that is, religion which conforms to reason. What does this mean? The entire person ...
• 30 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Holy Father at the summer residence of Castel Gandolfo Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of July 29, the Holy Father Benedict XVI left the summer residence in Les Combes (Introd) in Valle d'Aosta, where he had been since July 13, and traveled by helicopter ...
• 29 July 2009
  VATICAN - Ave Maria by Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - The power of God is mercy! Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “A Roman oration, connected with the text of the Book of Wisdom, says: ‘In forgiveness and mercy you show your almighty power, o Lord'. The apex of God's power is mercy, forgiveness. I ...