Vatican

• 22 June 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope in San Giovanni Rotondo - to priests, religious and young people: “Like Padre Pio, be faithful friends of the Lord Jesus, establishing with Him a daily relationship through prayer and listening to his Word, assiduous reception of the Sacraments and cordial membership of his family, the Church” San Giovanni Rotondo (Agenzia Fides) – The last appointment of the pastoral visit of the Holy Father Benedict XVI at San Giovanni Rotondo, in the afternoon of Sunday 21 June, was with the local clergy, men and women re ...
• 22 June 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses Council of the Alcide De Gasperi Foundation: “may the memory of his experience of government and his Christian witness be of encouragement and impulse for those who have in their hands the destiny of Italy and other peoples ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Formed at the school of the Gospel, De Gasperi expressed the faith he professed with concrete and coherent action. Spirituality and politics were two dimensions which lived side by sid ...
• 20 June 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI opens the Year of the Priesthood: “To be ministers at the service of the Gospel, study is certainly useful, but even more necessary is the ‘science of love’ which can only be learned ‘heart to heart' with Christ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the solemnity of the Most Scared Heart of Jesus, Friday 19 June, in St Peter's Basilica the Holy Father, Benedict XVI presided the Celebration of second Vespers of the Solemnity on the ...
• 20 June 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses the Catholic patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians: “I pray incessantly for peace in the Middle East, especially for the Christians living in the beloved nation of Iraq” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I follow with satisfaction the full resuming of the functioning of your Synod and encourage efforts to promote unity, understanding and forgiveness, which you should always consider pr ...
• 20 June 2009
  VATICAN - Sunday 21 June the Holy Father Benedict XVI at San Giovanni Rotondo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Sunday 21 June, the Holy Father Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to San Giovanni Rotondo. According to the programme issued by the Holy See Press Office, the Papal helicopter, comi ...
• 20 June 2009
  VATICAN - Holy See Press Office Statement on the cause for the beatification of Pius XII Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On 19 June the Holy See Press Office released the following statement of Father Federico Lombardi, S.J. : “Concerning statements reported by news agencies with regard to the cause for t ...
• 19 June 2009
  VATICAN - Holy Father Benedict XVI's Letter to Priests proclaiming the Year for Priests Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI has issued a Letter to all priests, for the opening of the Year for Priests, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 19, 2009), proclaimed by him ...
• 19 June 2009
  VATICAN - In the footsteps of Matteo Ricci, “a Jesuit in the Kingdom of the Dragon” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The reflections of Archbishop Celli, quotes from the Pope's message by Bishop Giuliodori, the dreams of Fr. Lombardi, the work of the Chinese Ambassador in the footsteps of Matteo Ricci w ...
• 18 June 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI's catechesis: “Indeed, Cyril and Methodius are a classic example of what is today referred to with the term 'inculturation': Each people should make the revealed message penetrate into their own culture, and express the salvific truth with their own language.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis at the Wednesday General Audience on June 17, held in St. Peter's Square, to Saints Cyril and Methodius, “brothers of the same pare ...
• 18 June 2009
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - The Creator 's Love is inscribed in the human person's DNA Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "God is wholly and only love, the purest, infinite and eternal love. He does not live in splendid solitude but rather is an inexhaustible source of life that is ceaselessly given and commun ...
• 17 June 2009
  VATICAN - Statement from the Holy See Press Office on the ordinations announced by the Fraternity of Saint Pius X Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office released the following statement today: "In response to the frequent questions that have been raised over recent days concerning the priestly ordinations by the ...
• 17 June 2009
  VATICAN - Ave Maria : Mgr. Luciano Alimandi - The Eucharist can never be just a liturgical action Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It would be splendid if our “I” were immersed in God and speeding towards Him, as its sole Beginning, the Source of Life, spontaneously, without resistance, in an impetus of eternal com ...
• 15 June 2009
  VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus mentions: “'Corpus Domini' is a manifestation of God, an attestation that God is love” and “the hundreds of millions of persons who suffer from hunger...is an absolutely unacceptable reality that is hard to control” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the Sunday on which several countries celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi (or 'Corpus Domini), “ the feast of the Eucharist, in which the sacrament of the Lord's Body is carried so ...
• 15 June 2009
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation: “the financial crisis shows in a clear way how the economic and financial paradigms that have been dominant in recent years must be rethought” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The financial crisis that has struck the industrialized nations, the emergent nations and those that are developing, shows in a clear way how the economic and financial paradigms that ha ...
• 12 June 2009
  VATICAN - Catechesis of Benedict XVI at the General Audience: “All of the theological thought of John Scotus turns into the clearest demonstration of the attempt to express the explainable of the inexplicableness of God, basing itself solely on the mystery of the World made flesh in Jesus of Nazareth.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The thought and work of John Scotus Erigena were the focus of the catechesis give by the Holy Father Benedict XVI during the General Audience on June 10, which took place in Saint Peter's ...