by user | Jul 31, 2014 | News
Vatican City, 27 July 2014 (VIS) – After today’s Angelus prayer, the Holy Father, remarking that tomorrow marks the centenary of the beginning of the First World War, launched a new appeal for peace in the Middle East, Iraq and Ukraine, and called for a...
by user | Jul 2, 2014 | News
Vatican City, 26 June 2014 (VIS) – A press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office this morning to present the Instrumentum Laboris of the 3rd Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (5-19 October 2014) which will focus on “pastoral challenges...
by user | Jul 2, 2014 | News
Vatican City, 14 June 2014 (VIS) – The following is the full text of the Holy Father’s message for the 188th World Mission Day, to be held on Sunday, 19 October 2014: “Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today vast numbers of people still do not know Jesus Christ. For...
by user | Jun 30, 2014 | News
“Our Christian conscience tells us … that we do not have the right to let our hands down. We should continue in praying and fasting. In this complicated time for our country, we beseech the Almighty for victory over the machinations of an outside aggressor and for...
by user | Jun 20, 2014 | News
On the Occasion of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Decree Cum data fuerit The year 2014 marks the eighty-fifth anniversary of the promulgation of the decree Cum data fuerit. In 1929, the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental [Eastern Catholic]...