SUMMARY:
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THE POPE PRAISES THE WORK OF THE NOTRE-DAME UNIVERSITY
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AUDIENCES
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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THE
POPE PRAISES THE WORK OF THE NOTRE-DAME UNIVERSITY
Vatican
City, 30 January 2014 (VIS) - The American Catholic University
Notre-Dame du Lac, known as Notre Dame, located in South Bend,
Indiana, U.S.A., and funded by Fr. Edward Sorin in 1842, of the
Congregation of Santa Cruz. For this reason, this morning the Pope
received the Managing Board of the institution, which from its
founding, “has made an outstanding contribution to the Church in
your country through its commitment to the religious education of the
young and to serious scholarship inspired by confidence in the
harmony of faith and reason in the pursuit of truth and virtue.
“The
vision which guided Father Edward Sorin and the first religious of
the Congregation of Holy Cross in establishing the University of
Notre Dame du Lac remains, in the changed circumstances of the
twenty-first century, central to the University’s distinctive
identity and its service to the Church and American society. In my
recent Apostolic Exhortation on the Joy of the Gospel, I stressed the
missionary dimension of Christian discipleship, which needs to be
evident in the lives of individuals and in the workings of each of
the Church’s institutions. This commitment to 'missionary
discipleship' ought to be reflected in a special way in Catholic
universities, which by their very nature are committed to
demonstrating the harmony of faith and reason and the relevance of
the Christian message for a full and authentically human life”.
For
this reason, “essential in this regard is the uncompromising
witness of Catholic universities to the Church’s moral teaching,
and the defence of her freedom, precisely in and through her
institutions, to uphold that teaching as authoritatively proclaimed
by the magisterium of her pastors. It is my hope that the University
of Notre Dame will continue to offer unambiguous testimony to this
aspect of its foundational Catholic identity, especially in the face
of efforts, from whatever quarter, to dilute that indispensable
witness”.
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 30 January 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father received in audience
the following prelates, on their “ad limina” visit:
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Archbishop Franz Lackner of Salzburg, with Auxiliary Bishop Andreas
Laun, O.S.F.S.
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Bishop Benno Elbs of Feldkirch.
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Bishop Alois Schwarz of Gurk.
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Bishop Manfred Scheuer of Innsbruck.
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Dom Anselm van der Linde, O. Cist., abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 30 January 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father:
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accepted the resignation presented by Bishop Michele Russo, M.C.C.I.
from the pastoral government of the diocese of Doba, Chad, in
conformity with canon 401 paragraph 2 of the CIC, and has named
Bishop Miguel Angel Sebastian Martinez, M.C.C.I., as apostolic
administrator “sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis” of that
same diocese.
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accepted the request presented by Cardinal Attilio Nicora to step
down as president of the Financial Intelligence Authority of the Holy
See and Vatican City State (AIF), and has named Bishop Giorgio
Corbellini as interim president of that office. Bishop Corbellini
will maintain his positions at the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
and the Disciplinary Commission of the Roman Curia.
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