Jim Fair, Author at ZENIT - English

Jim Fair is a husband, father, grandfather, writer, and communications consultant. He also likes playing the piano and fishing. He writes from the Chicago area.

Articles By Jim Fair

Popes

Children Bring Messages of Hope, Love, Peace

Pope Receives Patients, Families, and Staff of Santa Marta Pediatric Dispensary

Dec 22, 2019 15:26

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Popes

Pope Offers Christmas Greetings to Vatican Employees and Families

‘My wish this time can be summed up in one word: SMILE’

Dec 21, 2019 18:58

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Art and Culture

Pope Tells Curia: ‘We need to initiate processes and not just occupy spaces’

‘What we are experiencing is not simply an epoch of changes, but an epochal change’

Dec 21, 2019 18:46

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Art and Culture

Dean of College of Cardinals to Have Five-Year Term

Cardinal Sodano Resigns Post, Named ‘Dean Emeritus’ by Pope Francis

Dec 21, 2019 17:48

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Spirituality

Society for African Missions Remembers Father Luigi Maccalli, Continues Prayers

Priest Kidnapped in Niger, in September 2018

Dec 17, 2019 17:06

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Popes

Pope Says Elderly Not a Burden But a Resource and a Wealth

‘They are the memory of a people!’

Dec 16, 2019 17:02

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Young People

Pope Gives Christmas Assignment to Catholic Action Kids

‘Gather in prayer and, with the same wonder as the shepherds, look at the Child Jesus…’

Dec 16, 2019 16:29

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Angelus

Pope Blesses Childrens’ Figures of Jesus on ‘Bambinelli Sunday’

Also Notes Upcoming Eucharistic Congress

Dec 15, 2019 18:56

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Angelus

Holy Father Reminds World of the Call to Joy

‘The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom’

Dec 15, 2019 15:44

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Justice and Peace

Pope Francis Offers Three-Point Plan for NGOs

Formation, Means, Coordination

Dec 09, 2019 17:26

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Popes

Pope Cites Aspects and Attitudes of a Seminary

Address to Community of the Pontifical Benedict XV Flaminian Regional Seminary of Bologna

Dec 09, 2019 17:05

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Art and Culture

Pope Assigns Three Tasks to Catholic Cinema Owners

Receives Catholic Association of Cinema Operators on Seventieth Anniversary of Founding.

Dec 09, 2019 10:13

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Traits of a diplomacy of hope: the Pope’s address to ambassadors with whom the Vatican has diplomatic relations

Address of the Pope to the members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See for the presentation of New Year greetings.

of the 194 countries, the Holy See does not have diplomatic relations with ten

Vatican Reveals Number of Countries with Which It Has Diplomatic Relations

At present, 184 States have full diplomatic relations with the Holy See. To these must be added the European Union and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. There are 90 Diplomatic Missions accredited to the Holy See with headquarters in Rome, among them those of the European Union and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.