2013-04-18 Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) Pastoral ministry should always be missionary and its ministers must be courageous evangelizers not afraid to go out ‘into the deep’, the outskirts of existence, to bring the ‘sweet and comforting joy’ of faith to people today.
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From the Letter to the Hebrews10:19-39Perseverance in faith. Awaiting God’s judgment Brothers and sisters, since the blood of Jesus assures our entrance into the sanctuary by the new and living path he has opened up for us through the veil (the “veil” meaning his flesh), and since we have a great priest who is over the house of God, let us draw near in utter sincerity and absolute confidence, our hearts sprinkled clean from the evil which lay on our conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
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Quebec’s bishops question court’s ruling Province’s shepherds concerned about religious freedomThe Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Quebec are raising concerns about religious freedom after a recent ruling from the Quebec Court of Appeal.
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2012-12-28 Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) The Church in Asia should not be led into lethargy or pessimism by Asian social mega-trends which threaten the fabric of society, the stability of the family and the faith-vision of the Christian community itself. This is the conclusion of the final message of the 10th General Assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) which took place earlier this month in Xuan Loc, southern Vietnam.
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4 December 2012, 09:28 | Scandals, crime | | | | | Code for Blog | | In the early morning of 1 December, unknown persons attacked a guard at the site of construction of the Assembly Mosque at 22 Yaltynska Street in Simferopol.
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Vatican City, (VIS) – Given below is the Holy See’s declaration on the majority approval by the General Assembly of the United Nations to the Resolution by which Palestine has become a Non-member Observer State of the UN Organisation.”The Holy See has followed actively the steps which have led to this important decision, while striving to remain neutral between the Parties, and to act in accordance with its particular religious nature and universal mission, and in consideration also of its specific attention to the ethical dimension of international problems.”The Holy See considers, moreover, that today’s vote should be placed within the context of the efforts of giving a definitive solution, with the support of the international community, to the question already dealt with by Resolution 181 of the General Assembly of the United Nations of 29 November 1947. That document is the juridical basis for the existence of two States, one of which has not been constituted in the successive sixty-five years, while the other has already seen the light.”On 15 May 2009, while departing from ‘Ben Gurion’ International Airport, Tel Aviv, at the conclusion of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI expressed the following: No more bloodshed
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2012-11-30 Vatican Radio The General Assembly has given majority approval to the Resolution by which Palestine has become a Non-member Observer State of the United Nations. Listen to our report: Communiqué of the Holy See:The Holy See has followed actively the steps which have led to this important decision, while striving to remain neutral between the Parties, and to act in accordance with its particular religious nature and universal mission, and in consideration also of its specific attention to the ethical dimension of international problems.The Holy See considers, moreover, that today’s vote should be placed within the context of the efforts of giving a definitive solution, with the support of the international community, to the question already dealt with by Resolution 181 of the General Assembly of the United Nations of 29 November 1947
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2012-11-30 L’Osservatore RomanoToday the General Assembly has given majority approval to the Resolution by which Palestine has become a Non-member Observer State of the United Nations. 1
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The Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations issued a statement on the eradication of poverty at the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly on November 12, 2012. The Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations is the Most Reverend Francis Chullikatt
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The Holy See issues statement at the United Nations on the eradication of poverty
2012-11-15 L’Osservatore RomanoThe “very close link that exists between the task of evangelization and overcoming the existing divisions between Christians” was highlighted by Benedict XVI in his address to the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity on Thursday, 15 November, in the Clementine Hall.To the members, consultors and collaborators of the dicastery working in these days at the Assembly dedicated to the theme of the new evangelization, the Pope recalled that “an authentic ecumenical path cannot be followed without considering the faith crisis that vast regions of the planet are going through”.
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2012-10-20 Vatican Radio Although it is, by definition, a gathering of the Episcopate, several lay people are actively involved in the XIII General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization. Most of these are participating as Experts and Auditors
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2012-10-20 L’Osservatore RomanoWith the reading of the reports by 12 small groups, the 17th Congregation of the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization continued this morning, Friday 19 October. The congregation was held in the presence of Benedict XVI and was moderated by Cardinal John Tong Hon, President-Delegate on duty
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SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/news.va.enIn 2013, in the Holy Land the feast of Easter will be celebrated by Catholics and Orthodox together on the same day.
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Easter 2013 in Holy Land: RC and Eastern Rite Catholics on Julian Calendar
Share this Twitter Myspace Digg Del.icio.us Yahoo Googlize this Facebook Export PDFPrintE-mail On Saturday, October 13, 2012, the Most Reverend Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, Archbishop of Quebec City, was invited by the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to give a meditation for Midday Prayer. His reflection was on Psalm 33, verse 5: “I sought the Lord, and he answered me” (which is Psalm 35, verse 4, according to the Hebrew numbering of the Psalms used in many contemporary English and French translations).
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After four official sessions in the first two days of the Synod on the New Evangelization, the discussions are well underway. Some forty Bishops and a few delegates have presented their interventions in the General Assembly and certain themes are beginning to develop across continental borders.
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2012-10-06 L’Osservatore RomanoRecord attendance at the Synod: 262 is the highest number of participants in the history of all the Assemblies, nine more than the last Ordinary Assembly which took place in 2008.
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Record numbers at the Synod to launch the new evangelization
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – ‘Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature’ (Mark 16:15). With these words of the Risen Lord Jesus, given in the final part of the Gospel of St
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The missionary mandate of the Lord will mark the next General Assembly of the Synod
This week, I am in Toronto attending the Fall Plenary of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO) and I have had little free time for blogging. However, the photographer from St
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2012-09-29 L’Osservatore Romano“I firmly believe: this document and the message it contains will be of very great help to the Church in Iraq. It will help her understand what she urgently needs to do to give empower Christians and thereby help them regain the courage to bear witness”
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2012-09-28 Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) The Holy See announced today that Pope Benedict XVI will preside at the Solemn Mass for the opening of the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
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