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23 February 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe in Wau: “Let us thank God together for founding his Church on the rock of Peter. As the opening prayer suggests let us pray intensely that amid the upheavals of the world, she may not be shaken but advance with courage and trust.”
Rumbek (Fides) - Before departing for the diocese of Wau on Wednesday 22 February Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe celebrated mass in the Catholic cathedral in Rumbek. In the feast of the Chair of Peter the prefect of the Missio ...
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22 February 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI announces his first Consistory for the creation of 15 new Cardinals
Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the end of the Audience this morning, on the Feast of the Chair of Peter, Pope Benedict XVI announced that on March 24 he will hold a Consistory for the creation of 15 new Cardinals. “ ...
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22 February 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching on the Feast of the Chair of Peter: “To celebrate the "Cathedra" of Peter means to give it special spiritual significance and recognise it as a special sign of the love of God, the eternal good Shepherd who desires to gather his whole Church together and guide her on the way to salvation”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The feast of the Chair of Peter which the Church celebrates today 22 February was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching during his weekly General Wednesday Audience. Again this week ...
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22 February 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe tells seminarians in Juba, Sudan: “The clerical state is not one of privilege, but one of humble and disinterested self-giving to others in the example of Jesus at the Last Supper”
Juba (Fides Service) - On 21 February the fourth day of his pastoral visit to Sudan Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples visited the minor seminary of St. Lawrence in Ju ...
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21 February 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe in Juba, Sudan: “The Lord once again, invites all of you, priests, religious men and women, and the lay faithful to unite yourselves closely with him, and he sends you to every town and village in Sudan to announce his Kingdom of love, reconciliation, justice and peace”
Juba (Fides Service) - After his pastoral visit to Khartoum, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples is now in the archdiocese of Juba. “Juba is a city with a long hist ...
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21 February 2006
VATICAN - The Holy Father Benedict XVI sends telegramme of sympathy to church and civil authorities in Nigeria after violent clashes
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On behalf of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano sent a telegramme to the ecclesiastical and civil authorities of Nigeria, following recent violent c ...
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20 February 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe continues his Pastoral in Sudan: “The whole Church is with you and sustains you with faith and charity”
Vatican City (Fides Service) -Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe continues his pastoral visit to the Church in Sudan. On Saturday 18 February he visited a refugee camp ...
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20 February 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI grants special audience to permanent deacons of Rome diocese: “Be servants of the Truth and heralds of the joy which God wishes to give to every man and woman”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reinstating of permanent deaconate in the diocese of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI granted a special audience to the diocese’s permanent deacons o ...
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20 February 2006
VATICAN - “Only God’s love can renew the human heart, and only if it is healed in its heart can paralysed humanity stand up and walk. The love of God is the true force which renews the world”: words of Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI at Angelus
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his Sunday Angelus on 19 February reflection Pope Benedict XVI focused on Jesus’ work of healing lepers and paralytics. He pointed out that Jesus “shows that he wishes to heal the sp ...
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18 February 2006
VATICAN - Presented to the Holy Father Benedict XVI Pontifical Year Book 2006, the first in his Pontificate
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Annuario Pontificio 2006 (Pontifical Year Book) was presented to Pope Benedict XVI this morning Saturday 18 February by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope’s Secretary of State and Archb ...
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18 February 2006
VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe meets seminarians in Khartoum at the start of his pastoral to Sudan: “the Church has much confidence in you, and if you respond with generosity to the vocation of the Lord, you will be the principal authors of the growth of the Church, notwithstanding the great challenges you will have to face”
Khartoum (Service Service) - This morning the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe started his pastoral visit to Sudan at Khartoum’s St. Paul’s major seminary where h ...
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17 February 2006
VATICAN - Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe starts pastoral visit to Sudan
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe has departed for a pastoral visit to Sudan. After a pastoral visit last November to Vietnam, when ...
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16 February 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI sends Message to Archbishop of San Cristobal de La Habana for 20th anniversary of the Cuban National Ecclesial Encounter: Only through the gaze of God, a loving gaze, will it be possible to arrive at the truth of each individual, of each group and of those who live together in one land”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI sent a Message to Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino, archbishop of San Cristobal de La Habana and president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba, for the occasion o ...
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15 February 2006
VATICAN - “May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary”.…”. the Pope concludes long series of catechesis on the psalms with a reflection on the Magnificat
Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning because of the large crowds who had come from all over the world to see Pope Benedict XVI the general audience was held in two parts, first in St Peter’s Basilica and then in ...
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15 February 2006
VATICAN - Conclusions of Apostleship of the Sea Regional Coordinators Meeting: “although international bodies and some religious, governmental and non-governmental organisations are very active in this sector and that many positive developments have happened in some regions, overall the situation in the maritime world has not really improved”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The goal of the Apostleship of the Sea goal is not to run profit making centres but to up hold the dignity of seafarers by caring for their spiritual, moral and physical well-being. This st ...
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