Vatican

• 1 April 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI tells the Salesian General Chapter: “The predilection for and commitment to young people, so characteristic of Don Bosco’s charism, must be translated into a similar commitment to the involvement and formation of families.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The appeals addressed to us by young people, especially their questions on fundamental problems, indicate their intense desires for full life, authentic love and constructive freedom. Th ...
• 31 March 2008
  TODAY ON THE INTERNET/ITALY - “Peace is an arduous act that requires self-criticism.” Fr. Samir Khalil ...
• 31 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Holy Father at the Regina Caeli: “All that the Church says and does shows the mercy that God feels for man. From divine mercy, which puts hearts at peace, also arises the authentic peace of the world, peace among peoples, cultures and religions.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Mercy is truly the central nucleus of the Gospel message. It is the equivalent of God’s very name, the way He has manifested Himself in the Old Testament, and fully in Jesus Christ, wh ...
• 28 March 2008
  VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Catholic impact on the life of the world depends on being Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From America to Europe, passing by way of China - as we were reminded by this year's meditations for the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday composed by the Archbishop of Hong Kong - in th ...
• 28 March 2008
  VATICAN - Mass for the third anniversary of the death of John Paul II Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday 2 April, Benedict XVI will preside at Mass in the Vatican Basilica to mark the third anniversary of the death of Servant of God John Paul II. (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...
• 28 March 2008
  VATICAN - “The document Dominus Iesus and the other religions” of Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (seventh part) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “L’Osservatore Romano” has made it possible for Agenzia Fides to publish the entire text of the speech given by Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine ...
• 27 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope at the General Audience explains the meaning of Easter: “the weakening of faith in the Resurrection of Jesus leads to the weakening of the testimony of believers” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Every Sunday, with the Creed, we renew our profession of faith in the resurrection of Christ, the amazing event that lies at the heart of Christianity. In the Church, everything is under ...
• 26 March 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Mgr Luciano Alimandi - One day He will appear to us! Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - When will it be our turn to see the Risen Lord, to be in ecstasy in His presence? We can say with certainty: at the end of our days when our heart comes to its final beats of life, then, we ...
• 26 March 2008
  VATICAN - “You heard it said, but I say to you…” - intervention by Michele Loconsole on Rabbi Jacob Neusner's defence of the Good Friday prayer “Oremus et pro Iudaeis” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is since last July, following the publication of Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, that polemic among Jews and Catholics has resumed with regard to a new formula of t ...
• 25 March 2008
  VATICAN - At the midday Marian prayer of the Regina Caeli on Easter Monday the Pope recalls the “new Annunciation” which calls Mary to rejoice, “because the Lord is risen” Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - On Easter Monday, 24 March the Pope led the recitation of the ‘Regina Caeli’ from his Summer Residence at Castel Gandolfo: “once again after the days of Lent the song of the Allelu ...
• 23 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Holy Father's Easter Message: “humanity needs Christ: in Him, our hope, ‘we are saved’” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “At the rising of the Easter sun, the Church recognizes the voice of Jesus himself who, on rising from death, turns to the Father filled with gladness and love, and exclaims: My Father, h ...
• 22 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope says during the Easter Vigil: Jesus' death is an act of love which becomes immortal because “his going away is transformed into a new coming, into a form of presence which reaches deeper and does not come to an end. ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During the solemn Easter Vigil Mass, the Holy Father Benedict XVI administered the Sacraments of Christian initiation to a group of catechumens from various different countries. To them he ...
• 21 March 2008
  VATICAN - At the end of the Way of the Cross on Good Friday at the Colosseum the Pope says “do not be afraid”, because “by dying the Lord has saved sinners, all of us, on the cross the Redeemer restored the dignity which belongs to us ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Good Friday, 21 March, at the Colosseum at nine in the evening Pope Benedict presided the Way of the Cross, “on the day on which our eyes have seen once again the suffering and anguish ...
• 20 March 2008
  VATICAN - The Pope presides the Mass ‘: “We need confession as it has taken form in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. In the Sacrament again and again the Lord washes our soiled feet that we may sit at table with Him ”. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the early evening of Holy Thursday, 20 March, at Rome's Cathedral, the Basilica of St John in the Lateran, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI presided the concelebration of the 'Mass of the L ...
• 20 March 2008
  VATICAN - During the Chrism Mass Benedict XVI underlines that “to serve means closeness, but it means above all obedience” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Every year the Chrism Mass urges us to repeat that 'yes' to God's call which we said on the day of our priestly Ordination”. With these words the Holy Father began his homily during th ...