Vatican

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  8 March 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Proclaiming the Gospel is transmitting "what one has received", not one's own ideas Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian faith is a "treasure" that "is received" and "transmitted" to others as it has been received, without wanting to add more, nor to rely on the "strength of one's ideas, programs, struc ...
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  6 March 2023
  VATICAN - Prof. Zhang tells Urbaniana about the mission of Maillard de Tournon, the first papal legate in China Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Oh how many monsters are in this New World, coming from Europe!". So said Charles Thomas Maillard de Tournon (1668-1710), the first papal legate in China. His figure is closely linked to the well- ...
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  27 February 2023
  EVANGELII GAUDIUM, 10 years/1 - Something that comes first by Gianni Valente "The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus" (EG, 1) The Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (the Joy of the Gospel) was drawn up by Pope Francis in 2013 to "p ...
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  22 February 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the "protagonist" of the mission is the Holy Spirit. We must invoke Him Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the Church "everything must be conformed to the requirements of the proclamation of the Gospel; not to the opinions of the conservatives or the progressives, but to the fact that Jesus reaches p ...
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  17 February 2023
  Doctrinaires. The mission (and charity) of Teaching Catholic Doctrine by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tradition "is to guard the fire, not to worship the ashes". This attests the evocative aphorism coined by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. A formula ofte ...
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  15 February 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Mission is born from an encounter with Jesus, going into the world "like lambs among wolves" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus is not a "service" self-produced by Christians. Proclamation "comes from an encounter with Jesus". In every true apostolic work "we proclaim him, not ...
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  13 February 2023
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Mission Societies, with the Pope, alongside the populations affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest estimates, there are more than 41 thousand victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. A death toll that is unfortunately destined to increase, ...
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  30 January 2023
  VATICAN - "The Lord does great things through the little ones". Cardinal Tagle consecrates Father Emilio Nappa, Assistant Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, as Bishop Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us". The words of the Apostle Saint Paul in the fifth chapter of the Letter to the Romans was the theme o ...
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  25 January 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Those who proclaim the Gospel of Jesus cannot be sad Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel, that is, of the salvation promised by Jesus, has distinctive traits, almost "genetic connotations" that make it incomparable to any proclamation of political, moral ...
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  25 January 2023
  VATICAN CITY - Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Mission Day 2023 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today we publish the Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 97th World Mission Day to be celebrated on Sunday, October 22, 2023 on the theme "Hearts on fire, feet on the move" (cf. Lk ...
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  24 January 2023
  Evangelii Gaudium, 10 years later. A "road map" to be rediscovered by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - It could have been a "Papal Exhortation" like the others. A series of useful and appropriate considerations and recommendations, offered by the Pope and inspired by the work car ...
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  21 January 2023
  VATICAN - "Evangelii Gaudium 2023", a 'missionary formation journey' inspired by the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A Missionaries and all those interested are invited to a "missionary formation journey" in 10 stages, inspired by the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium and whose aim is "the proclamation of t ...
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  18 January 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: intimacy with Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is the "soul" of every apostolic work Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus, the Good Shepherd, "does not remain contemplating the sheep pen, nor does he threaten them so they won’t leave". If one of the sheep of his flock goes away and gets lost, he "does not aban ...
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  11 January 2023
  VATICAN - "We proclaim the Lord, we do not proclaim ourselves". Pope Francis inaugurates the catecheses "on the passion for evangelization, that is, apostolic zeal" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christians proclaim the Lord, they do not proclaim themselves. The Church grows "by attraction", and not "by proselytism". But when Christian life loses sight of the horizon of evangelization, hori ...
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  9 January 2023
  VATICAN - First celebration of the liturgical memory of Blessed Pauline-Marie Jaricot Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, January 9, 2023, we celebrate for the first time the feast of the foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith and inspiration of all the Pontifical Mission ...