Vatican

• 14 January 2008
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI administers the sacrament of Baptism: “at Baptism this tiny human person receives a new life, the life of grace, which enables the child to enter into a personal relationship with the Creator, which will last for ever, for all eternity” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 13 January, on the Feast of the Lord's Baptism, Pope Benedict XVI Mass in the Sistine Chapel during which he administered the Sacrament of Baptism to 13 children. In his homily ...
• 11 January 2008
  VATICAN - In the wake of recent attacks the Holy Father sends message of solidarity to Christian communities in Iraq Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI has sent a telegramme expressing solidarity in the wake of recent attacks against Christian communities in Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk on 6 and 9 January. The te ...
• 11 January 2008
  VATICAN - Education emergency, support for the family based on matrimony, spreading poverty, penalisation of Catholic hospitals: Pope Benedict XVI addresses administrators of the Lazio Region and Rome Municipality and Province Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The times and situations change, but the Pope's love and concern for those who live in this land, distinguished by a great living heritage of Christianity, never weakens”. With these s ...
• 10 January 2008
  VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: “Jesus was not Spartacus” (Spe salvi 4), Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The second Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI Spe salvi, contains various concise and effective judgements passages which facilitate the reader's comprehension. Even those who are less familia ...
• 10 January 2008
  VATICAN - “The greatest Father of the Latin Church, Saint Augustine: a man of passion and of faith, keen intelligence and tireless pastoral concern” subject of Pope Benedict XVI teaching at the Wednesday general audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Christmas festivities, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI resumed his reflections on the Church Fathers during his Wednesday general audience on January 9: “The greatest Father ...
• 9 January 2008
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA - We cannot see God, because God is immense! Mgr. Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A couple of days before the solemnity of Christmas, I had the joy of celebrating Mass with primary school children and their parents and teachers in preparation for the coming of Jesus. The ...
• 8 January 2008
  VATICAN - The Church's Missionary nature: relationship dialogue-mission - by Fr. Adriano Garuti and Lara De Angelis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -Vatican II and the documents of papal teaching since the Council inaugurated a new missionary attitude which always commences with a sentiment of deep esteem for what is in every human perso ...
• 8 January 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI addresses the Diplomatic Corps: “God can never be excluded from the horizon of man or of history. God’s name is a name of justice, it represents an urgent appeal for peace” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The traditional audience with members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See for the presentation of new year wishes, held in the Apostolic Palace on 7 January, offered the Hol ...
• 7 January 2008
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI sends a Letter to the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Kenya: “Violence is futile as a means of resolving problems… the country needs peace that is based on justice and brotherhood ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Following tragic events in Kenya, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, asked Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. to address a letter to Cardinal John Njue, archbishop of Nair ...
• 7 January 2008
  VATICAN - The spiritual light of the star which guided the Three Wise Men “can guide every person to Jesus "the Pope says at the Angelus on the feast of the Epiphany and he thanks the children of Missionary Childhood who “ care for the needs of other children spurred on by the love brought on earth by the Son of God who became a child ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “After stopping ‘above the place where the child lay’, the star which guided the Three Wise Men ceased its function, but its spiritual light is always present in the word of the Gospe ...
• 7 January 2008
  VATICAN - On the solemnity of the Epiphany Pope Benedict XVI says “the Church is faithful to her mission only if she reflects the light of Christ the Lord, and thus helps all the peoples of the world on the path towards peace and true progress”. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The arrival of the Three Wise Men in Bethlehem to adore the new born Messiah, is the sign of the manifestation of the universal King to all peoples and to all men and women in search of ...
• 21 December 2007
  VATICAN - “You heard it said but I say to you…” - intervention by Prof. Michele Loconsole on: the “descendance” of Abraham and the children of the promise Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue between Jews and Christians, in the light of Vatican II, and above all after John Paul II's visits to the Synagogue of Rome and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, had taken some signif ...
• 20 December 2007
  VATICAN - The Pope's teaching: “We Christians must be the first to reaffirm with profound and genuine conviction the truth of the Nativity of Christ, to witness to all our awareness of an unheard of gift... the source of the duty to evangelise which is proper to the communication of this ‘good news" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his teaching at the general audience on Wednesday 19 December to the mystery of Christmas. “If on the one hand Christmas brings us to commemor ...
• 20 December 2007
  VATICAN Benedict XVI addresses young members of Catholic Action Italy: “ God became man to show us the way, indeed becoming a child, he became himself the 'way' also for you children” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Jesus is the way which leads to true life, life without end. It is a path which is often narrow and uphill but, if we let ourselves be drawn by Him, it is always wonderful like a mountai ...
• 19 December 2007
  VATICAN - AVE MARIA: At Christmas you too can be born again! by Mgr Luciano Alimandi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas is almost here and the Gospel urges us to prepare the way for the Lord who comes! What does this mean? Great Saint Augustine tells us that “preparing the way” is about being ...