Vatican

• 20 January 2007
  EUROPE - Pope Benedict XVI will meet European and Asian university Students on March 10 Roma (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 10 March 2007 at 4pm in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, European and Asian university students will gather for a prayer meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on the theme “Intellectual Char ...
• 20 January 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope Benedict XVI visits Almo Collegio Capranica and stresses the importance of formation, “The quality of the clergy depends on the seriousness of its formation…Serious human, cultural and spiritual formation, open to the needs of the times and places” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the feast on 21 January of Saint Agnes the Patron Saint of Almo Collegio Capranica seminary in Rome Pope Benedict XVI received in audience on Friday 19 January the members of R ...
• 19 January 2007
  VATICAN “In pastoral activity carried out for Gypsies, humanitarian aid and the truth of the Gospel must go together hand in hand, and the elements of justice, brotherly love and equality should be part of them.”: final document following study meeting of National Directors of Pastoral care of Gypsies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 - 12 December 2006, a Study Meeting of the National Directors of the Pastoral Care of Gypsies, on the “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of Gypsies, Careful Examination of the Docume ...
• 18 January 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE- Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it would not seem out of place to reflect on what should be an acquired fact in every ecclesial sphere: the clear and unequivocal ...
• 18 January 2007
  VATICAN - “I encourage you to live these days in prayerful listening to the Spirit of God, in order to make significant steps on the path towards full and perfect communion among all Christ’s disciples”: the Pope’s general audience and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During his Wednesday audience on 17 January, the day before the start of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 18 to 25 January involving Christians all over the worldk Pope Benedi ...
• 17 January 2007
  VATICAN - The Christian Family and Education at the centre of Plenary assembly of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America 17 - 21 January Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Christian family and education in Latin America is the theme of a plenary assembly of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America taking place in the Vatican 17 to 21 January. The ma ...
• 17 January 2007
  VATICAN - “The Lord Jesus accompanies people in their daily lives, thanks also to the Church present in the community, in schools, in the airports, in train stations and on the roads and streets, by means of a pastoral care of meeting and welcome”: “On the road to sustainable mobility” Meeting on Pastoral Care of the Road promoted by Pontifical Council for pastoral care of migrants and itinerant peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Where human beings are, with their joys and sorrows, there is the Church, with its pastoral presence. Ecclesial attention for human mobility, however, does not end with a presence of a g ...
• 17 January 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA : “Mary in the Heart of every Christian” Rev Luciano Alimandi - Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of the Mother of God in our lives is closely connected with the plan for sanctification and transformation which the Father, in Christ, has for each of us. Christ’s words “ ...
• 15 January 2007
  VATICAN - The people of Asia and new challenges in the light of Catholic Social Teaching: Continental Conference in Bangkok present the Compendium of the Church’s Social Doctrine 25 to 27 January Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Amidst old and new forms of dehumanising poverty and senseless violence, as well as materialist and hedonist individualism, and in the framework of an extraordinary emerging economic growt ...
• 15 January 2007
  VATICAN - Abbey of St Paul’s outside the Walls organises Celebrations for annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, major closing event Ecumenical Vespers presided by Pope Benedict XVI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The service to further Christian unity offered by the Benedictines monks at the Abbey of St Paul’s outside the Walls in Rome is a response to the special ecumenical mandate entrusted to t ...
• 15 January 2007
  VATICAN - “The reality of migration must never be seen only as a problem, but also and above all as a great resource for humanity’s progress” Pope Benedict XVI said at the Angelus on the Day for Migrants and Refugees Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before leading the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday 14 December, Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the situation of Migrants and Refugees since it was the Day the Catholic Church dedicates ...
• 11 January 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Bhagalpur Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 11 January 2007 appointed as Bishop of Bhagalpur (India) Rev. Kurian Valiakandathil, a member of the clergy of Bhagalpur, until now parish priest at Le ...
• 11 January 2007
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE Participation (1) Basic Elements of the Roman Liturgy Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Fides Service) -Widespread among the clergy and certain “committed laity” the idea that active participation in the liturgy consists in involving as many people as possible, as often as possible, to sin ...
• 11 January 2007
  VATICAN - The life of St Stephan teaches us that “social works of charity must never be separated from courageous proclamation of the faith”: Pope Benedict XVI dedicates Wednesday Audience teaching to the first Christian martyr Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI chose St Stephen the first martyr as the subject of his teaching at the Wednesday General Audience on January 10. “Saint Stephen is the most representative of a group o ...
• 10 January 2007
  VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: Slovenian - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - There have been Christians in Slovenia since the 2nd century. A most important figure of the early Christian community was Bishop Saint Victorinus, martyred in the 3rd century in persecutio ...