SUMMARY:
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MESSAGE FOR 29TH WORLD YOUTH DAY
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THE POPE TO THE YOUNG: REJECT LOW-COST HAPPINESS
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POPE FRANCIS DEEPLY SADDENED BY THE FIRE IN BARRACAS, BUENOS AIRES
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ARCHBISHOP TOMASI: THE HOLY SEE WILL RESPOND TO THE CONCLUDING
OBSERVATIONS OF THE U.N. COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
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AUDIENCES
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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MESSAGE
FOR 29TH WORLD YOUTH DAY
Vatican
City, 6 February 2014 (VIS) – We publish below the full text of the
message the Holy Father has sent to the young people preparing for
the 29th World Youth Day 2014, which will take as its theme: “Blessed
are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”.
“Dear
Young Friends,
How
vividly I recall the remarkable meeting we had in Rio de Janeiro for
the Twenty-eighth World Youth Day. It was a great celebration of
faith and fellowship! The wonderful people of Brazil welcomed us with
open arms, like the statue of Christ the Redeemer which looks down
from the hill of Corcovado over the magnificent expanse of Copacabana
beach. There, on the seashore, Jesus renewed his call to each one of
us to become his missionary disciples. May we perceive this call as
the most important thing in our lives and share this gift with
others, those near and far, even to the distant geographical and
existential peripheries of our world.
The
next stop on our intercontinental youth pilgrimage will be in Krakow
in 2016. As a way of accompanying our journey together, for the next
three years I would like to reflect with you on the Beatitudes found
in the Gospel of Saint Matthew. This year we will begin by reflecting
on the first Beatitude: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven'. For 2015 I suggest: 'Blessed are the pure
in heart, for they shall see God'. Then, in 2016, our theme will be:
'Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy'.
1.
The revolutionary power of the Beatitudes
It
is always a joyful experience for us to read and reflect on the
Beatitudes! Jesus proclaimed them in his first great sermon, preached
on the shore of the sea of Galilee. There was a very large crowd, so
Jesus went up on the mountain to teach his disciples. That is why it
is known as 'the Sermon on the Mount'. In the Bible, the mountain is
regarded as a place where God reveals himself. Jesus, by preaching on
the mount, reveals himself to be a divine teacher, a new Moses. What
does he tell us? He shows us the way to life, the way that he himself
has taken. Jesus himself is the way, and he proposes this way as the
path to true happiness. Throughout his life, from his birth in the
stable in Bethlehem until his death on the cross and his
resurrection, Jesus embodied the Beatitudes. All the promises of
God’s Kingdom were fulfilled in him.
In
proclaiming the Beatitudes, Jesus asks us to follow him and to travel
with him along the path of love, the path that alone leads to eternal
life. It is not an easy journey, yet the Lord promises us his grace
and he never abandons us. We face so many challenges in life:
poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice,
persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to
remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we
open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we
share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the
peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.
The
Beatitudes of Jesus are new and revolutionary. They present a model
of happiness contrary to what is usually communicated by the media
and by the prevailing wisdom. A worldly way of thinking finds it
scandalous that God became one of us and died on a cross! According
to the logic of this world, those whom Jesus proclaimed blessed are
regarded as useless, 'losers'. What is glorified is success at any
cost, affluence, the arrogance of power and self-affirmation at the
expense of others.
Jesus
challenges us, young friends, to take seriously his approach to life
and to decide which path is right for us and leads to true joy. This
is the great challenge of faith. Jesus was not afraid to ask his
disciples if they truly wanted to follow him or if they preferred to
take another path. Simon Peter had the courage to reply: 'Lord, to
whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life'. If you too are
able to say 'yes' to Jesus, your lives will become both meaningful
and fruitful.
2.
The courage to be happy
What
does it mean to be 'blessed' (makarioi in Greek)? To be blessed means
to be happy. Tell me: Do you really want to be happy? In an age when
we are constantly being enticed by vain and empty illusions of
happiness, we risk settling for less and 'thinking small' when it
come to the meaning of life. Think big instead! Open your hearts! As
Blessed Piergiorgio Frassati once said, 'To live without faith, to
have no heritage to uphold, to fail to struggle constantly to defend
the truth: this is not living. It is scraping by. We should never
just scrape by, but really live' (Letter to I. Bonini, 27 February
1925). In his homily on the day of Piergiorgio Frassati’s
beatification (20 May 1990), John Paul II called him 'a man of the
Beatitudes' (AAS 82 [1990], 1518).
If
you are really open to the deepest aspirations of your hearts, you
will realize that you possess an unquenchable thirst for happiness,
and this will allow you to expose and reject the 'low cost' offers
and approaches all around you. When we look only for success,
pleasure and possessions, and we turn these into idols, we may well
have moments of exhilaration, an illusory sense of satisfaction, but
ultimately we become enslaved, never satisfied, always looking for
more. It is a tragic thing to see a young person who 'has
everything', but is weary and weak.
Saint
John, writing to young people, told them: 'You are strong, and the
word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one'. oung
people who choose Christ are strong: they are fed by his word and
they do not need to ‘stuff themselves’ with other things! Have
the courage to swim against the tide. Have the courage to be truly
happy! Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a
culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on
responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!
3.
Blessed are the poor in spirit...
The
first Beatitude, our theme for the next World Youth Day, says that
the poor in spirit are blessed for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
At a time when so many people are suffering as a result of the
financial crisis, it might seem strange to link poverty and
happiness. How can we consider poverty a blessing?
First
of all, let us try to understand what it means to be 'poor in
spirit'. When the Son of God became man, he chose the path of poverty
and self-emptying. As Saint Paul said in his letter to the
Philippians: 'Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with
God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a
servant, being born in human likeness'. Jesus is God who strips
himself of his glory. Here we see God’s choice to be poor: he was
rich and yet he became poor in order to enrich us through his
poverty. His is the mystery we contemplate in the crib when we see
the Son of God lying in a manger, and later on the cross, where his
self-emptying reaches its culmination.
The
Greek adjective ptochos (poor) does not have a purely material
meaning. It means 'a beggar', and it should be seen as linked to the
Jewish notion of the anawim, 'God’s poor'. It suggests lowliness, a
sense of one’s limitations and existential poverty. The anawim
trust in the Lord, and they know that they can count on him.
As
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus clearly saw, by his incarnation
Jesus came among us as a poor beggar, asking for our love. The
Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that 'man is a beggar
before God' and that prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst and
our own thirst.
Saint
Francis of Assisi understood perfectly the secret of the Beatitude of
the poor in spirit. Indeed, when Jesus spoke to him through the leper
and from the crucifix, Francis recognized both God’s grandeur and
his own lowliness. In his prayer, the Poor Man of Assisi would spend
hours asking the Lord: 'Who are you?' 'Who am I?' He renounced an
affluent and carefree life in order to marry 'Lady Poverty', to
imitate Jesus and to follow the Gospel to the letter. Francis lived
in imitation of Christ in his poverty and in love for the poor –
for him the two were inextricably linked – like two sides of one
coin.
You
might ask me, then: What can we do, specifically, to make poverty in
spirit a way of life, a real part of our own lives? I will reply by
saying three things.
First
of all, try to be free with regard to material things. The Lord calls
us to a Gospel lifestyle marked by sobriety, by a refusal to yield to
the culture of consumerism. This means being concerned with the
essentials and learning to do without all those unneeded extras which
hem us in. Let us learn to be detached from possessiveness and from
the idolatry of money and lavish spending. Let us put Jesus first. He
can free us from the kinds of idol-worship which enslave us. Put your
trust in God, dear young friends! He knows and loves us, and he never
forgets us. Just as he provides for the lilies of the field, so he
will make sure that we lack nothing. If we are to come through the
financial crisis, we must be also ready to change our lifestyle and
avoid so much wastefulness. Just as we need the courage to be happy,
we also need the courage to live simply.
Second,
if we are to live by this Beatitude, all of us need to experience a
conversion in the way we see the poor. We have to care for them and
be sensitive to their spiritual and material needs. To you young
people I especially entrust the task of restoring solidarity to the
heart of human culture. Faced with old and new forms of poverty –
unemployment, migration and addictions of various kinds – we have
the duty to be alert and thoughtful, avoiding the temptation to
remain indifferent. We have to remember all those who feel unloved,
who have no hope for the future and who have given up on life out of
discouragement, disappointment or fear. We have to learn to be on the
side of the poor, and not just indulge in rhetoric about the poor!
Let us go out to meet them, look into their eyes and listen to them.
The poor provide us with a concrete opportunity to encounter Christ
himself, and to touch his suffering flesh.
However
– and this is my third point – the poor are not just people to
whom we can give something. They have much to offer us and to teach
us. How much we have to learn from the wisdom of the poor! Think
about it: several hundred years ago a saint, Benedict Joseph Labre,
who lived on the streets of Rome from the alms he received, became a
spiritual guide to all sorts of people, including nobles and
prelates. In a very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show us
that people’s value is not measured by their possessions or how
much money they have in the bank. A poor person, a person lacking
material possessions, always maintains his or her dignity. The poor
can teach us much about humility and trust in God. In the parable of
the pharisee and the tax-collector, Jesus holds the tax-collector up
as a model because of his humility and his acknowledgement that he is
a sinner. The widow who gave her last two coins to the temple
treasury is an example of the generosity of all those who have next
to nothing and yet give away everything they have.
4.
… for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
The
central theme of the Gospel is the kingdom of God. Jesus is the
kingdom of God in person; he is Immanuel, God-with-us. And it is in
the human heart that the kingdom, God’s sovereignty, takes root and
grows. The kingdom is at once both gift and promise. It has already
been given to us in Jesus, but it has yet to be realised in its
fullness. That is why we pray to the Father each day: 'Thy kingdom
come'.
There
is a close connection between poverty and evangelisation, between the
theme of the last World Youth Day – 'Go therefore, and make
disciples of all nations!' – and the theme for this year: 'Blessed
are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven'. The
Lord wants a poor Church which evangelises the poor. When Jesus sent
the Twelve out on mission, he said to them: 'Take no gold, nor
silver, nor copper in your belts, no bag for your journey, nor two
tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the labourers deserve their
food'. Evangelical poverty is a basic condition for spreading the
kingdom of God. The most beautiful and spontaneous expressions of joy
which I have seen during my life were by poor people who had little
to hold onto. Evangelisation in our time will only take place as the
result of contagious joy.
We
have seen, then, that the Beatitude of the poor in spirit shapes our
relationship with God, with material goods and with the poor. With
the example and words of Jesus before us, we realize how much we need
to be converted, so that the logic of being more will prevail over
that of having more! The saints can best help us to understand the
profound meaning of the Beatitudes. So the canonization of John Paul
II, to be celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter, will be an event
marked by immense joy. He will be the great patron of the World Youth
Days which he inaugurated and always supported. In the communion of
saints he will continue to be a father and friend to all of you.
This
month of April marks the thirtieth anniversary of the entrustment of
the Jubilee Cross of the Redemption to the young. That symbolic act
by John Paul II was the beginning of the great youth pilgrimage which
has since crossed the five continents. The Pope’s words on that
Easter Sunday in 1984 remain memorable: 'My dear young people, at the
conclusion of the Holy Year, I entrust to you the sign of this
Jubilee Year: the cross of Christ! Carry it throughout the world as a
symbol of the love of the Lord Jesus for humanity, and proclaim to
everyone that it is only in Christ, who died and rose from the dead,
that salvation and redemption are to be found'.
Dear
friends, the Magnificat, the Canticle of Mary, poor in spirit, is
also the song of everyone who lives by the Beatitudes. The joy of the
Gospel arises from a heart which, in its poverty, rejoices and
marvels at the works of God, like the heart of Our Lady, whom all
generations call 'blessed'. May Mary, Mother of the poor and Star of
the new evangelisation help us to live the Gospel, to embody the
Beatitudes in our lives, and to have the courage always to be happy.”
THE
POPE TO THE YOUNG: REJECT LOW-COST HAPPINESS
Vatican
City, 6 February 2014 (VIS) – The Pontifical Council for the Laity
has issued a press release to explain the content and objectives of
the Holy Father's message for the 29th World Youth Day.
“This
is the first annual Message from Pope Francis to the youth of the
world. It follows the tradition begun by Blessed John Paul II and
continued by Benedict XVI on the occasion of each World Youth Day
(WYD). Pope Francis is resuming the conversation he began with young
people at the very successful WYD that took place in Rio de Janeiro
in July 2013. He presents the themes for the next three WYDs in order
to set in motion the three-year path of spiritual preparation leading
to the international celebration in Krakow in July 2016.
The
themes for the next three WYDs are taken from the Beatitudes. The
Holy Father considers this passage from Matthew’s Gospel to be a
central point of reference in a Christian’s life. It should be part
of everyone’s life plan.
In
this Message, the Holy Father reminds young people that Jesus himself
showed the way by embodying the Beatitudes in his life. It is a real
challenge for young people today to live according to the Beatitudes
by following Jesus. It means going against the tide and being
witnesses of revolutionary innovation. As you cannot be a real
Christian and “think small” about life, the Pope urges young
people to resist 'low cost' offers of happiness and to have the
courage to be truly happy, a gift that only God can give.
Pope
Francis explains to young people what it means to be 'poor in
spirit', thus entering into the heart of the theme for the next World
Youth Day. Jesus himself chose the way of dispossession and poverty.
The Pope addressed a pressing invitation to young people to imitate
Jesus, and he pointed to the example of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Young Christians are therefore called to conversion, to embrace an
evangelical lifestyle, one of moderation in which we seek the
essential and act in solidarity with the poor. The Pope explains that
the poor are both the 'suffering flesh' of Christ that we are all
called to personally touch, and they are also true masters of life,
often with much to offer on the human and spiritual plane.
The
Pope emphasises the close connection between the theme for the Rio
WYD – 'Go and make disciples of all nations!' – and the Beatitude
about the poor in spirit. Pope Francis explains, 'evangelical poverty
is a basic condition for spreading the kingdom of God'. It is often
the most simple of hearts that express true joy, and evangelisation
depends on this joy.
The
Holy Father reminds young people that thirty years have passed since
the Cross of the Jubilee of the Redemption was entrusted to young
people. The anniversary is on 22 April. 'That symbolic act by John
Paul II was the beginning of the great youth pilgrimage which has
since crossed the five continents'. Pope Francis tells young people
that after John Paul II’s canonisation, 'an event marked by immense
joy', he will be 'the great patron of the World Youth Days which he
inaugurated and always supported'”.
POPE
FRANCIS DEEPLY SADDENED BY THE FIRE IN BARRACAS, BUENOS AIRES
Vatican
City, 6 February 2014 (VIS) – In the wake of yesterday's fire in
the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Barracas, in which nine
firefighters were killed and several people injured, the Holy Father
sent a telegram to the metropolitan archbishop of Buenos Aires, Mario
Aurelio Poli. The Pope writes that he is “deeply saddened” by the
tragic accident, communicates his closeness to all those affected,
and is “united with all those who have suffered or been killed in
this unfortunate event”.
“In
these sad circumstances, in praying for the eternal repose of those
public servants who died in the course of duty, I ask God to grant
His comfort and strength to all those affected by the tragedy, and to
inspire feelings of brotherly solidarity to help them face this
hardship as best they can. I also wish to offer a word of hope to
those families who mourn their loved ones, and also to those who
await the full recovery of the injured”.
Pope
Francis concludes by invoking the protection of Our Lady of Lujan,
and imparts “the comfort of my apostolic blessing to the dear
people of Buenos Aires, ever present in my heart”.
ARCHBISHOP
TOMASI: THE HOLY SEE WILL RESPOND TO THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OF
THE U.N. COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Vatican
City, 6 February 2014 (VIS) – Yesterday afternoon Archbishop
Silvano Tomasi, permanent observer for the Holy See at the United
Nations in Geneva commented on the concluding observations of the
United Nations Committee for the Rights of the Child, which were very
critical regarding the issue of the abuse of minors by members of the
clergy and the actions taken by the Vatican and the Holy See on the
matter, and urges revision of the Church's teaching on certain themes
such as contraception and abortion.
“My
first impression: we need to wait, read attentively and analyse in
detail what the members of this Commission have written”, commented
the nuncio. “But my first reaction is of surprise, because of the
negative aspects of the document they have produced and that it looks
almost as if it were already prepared before the meeting of the
Committee with the delegation of the Holy See, which had given in
detail precise responses on various points, which have not been
reported in this conclusive document or at least have not seemed to
be taken into serious consideration. In fact, the document does not
seem to be updated, taking into account what, over the last few
years, has been done by the Holy See, with the measures taken
directly from the authority of Vatican City State and then in various
countries by the individual Episcopal Conferences. It therefore lacks
a correct and updated perspective, which in reality has seen a series
of changes for the protection of children that, it seems to me, are
difficult to find, at the same level of commitment, in other
institutions or even in other States. This is simply a question of
facts, of evidence, which cannot be distorted!”.
With
regard to the Holy See's reaction to the document, the archbishop
affirmed that “the Holy See will respond, because it is a member, a
State that is part of the Convention: it has ratified it and intends
to observe it in the spirit and letter of this Convention, without
added ideologies or impositions that lie outside of the Convention
itself. For instance: in its Preamble, the Convention on the
Protection of Children talks about the defence of life and the
protection of children before and after birth; whereas the
recommendation made to the Holy See is that of changing its position
on the question of abortion! Of course, when a child is killed it no
longer has rights! Hence this seems to me to be a real contradiction
of the fundamental objective of the Convention, which is the
protection of children. This Committee has not done a good service to
the United Nations, seeking to introduce and request the Holy See to
change its non-negotiable teaching! So, it is somewhat sad to see
that the Committee has not grasped in depth the nature and functions
of the Holy See that, however, has expressed clearly to the Committee
its decision to carry forward the Convention's requests on the rights
of the child, but defining precisely and protecting first of all
those fundamental values that give real and effective protection to
the child”.
The
observer for the Holy See also commented on the fact that the United
Nations had said at one time that the Vatican had responded better
than other countries to the protection of minors, and with regard to
the change of opinion expressed in the document published yesterday,
he said, “the introduction to the final report recognised the
clarity of the answers that were given; there was no attempt to avoid
any request made by the Committee, on the basis of the evidence
available, and where there was no immediate information, we had
promised to provide it in the future, according to the directives of
the Holy See, as all countries do. So it seemed to be a constructive
dialogue and I think it should remain as such. Therefore, given the
impression received through direct dialogue by the delegation of the
Holy See with the Committee and the text of the conclusions and
recommendations, it is tempting to say that probably that text had
already been written, and does not reflect the input and clarity,
other than by some hasty addition, to that which had already been
offered. So we must, with serenity and on the basis of the evidence -
because we have nothing to hide! - bring forth the explanation of the
position of the Holy See, respond to the questions that remain, so
that the fundamental objective that is to be pursued - the protection
of children - can be achieved. We are talking about 40 million cases
of child abuse in the world: unfortunately some of these cases - even
though in small proportions in comparison to all those that are
happening in the world - affect people in the Church. And the Church
has responded and reacted and continues to do so! We must insist on
this policy of transparency, of no tolerance of abuse, because even
one single case of child abuse is one case too many!”
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 6 February 2014 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in
audience:
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Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Siedlce, Poland.
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Wafaa Ashraf Moharram Bassim, the new ambassador of the Arab Republic
of Egypt to the Holy See, presenting her credential letters.
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Archbishop Franco Coppola, apostolic nuncio to Burundi.
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Nineteen prelates from the Polish Episcopal Conference on their “ad
limina” visit:
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Archbishop Jozef Michalik of Przemysl of the Latins, with his
auxiliaries, Bishop Adam Szal and Stanislaw Jamrozek;
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Bishop Jan Franciszek Watroba of Rzeszow;
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Bishop Marian Rojek of Zamosc-Lubaczow;
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Archbishop Stanislaw Budzik of Lublin, with his auxiliaries, Bishop
Mieczislaw Cislo, Bishop Artur Grzegorz Mizinski, and Bishop Jozef
Wrobel;
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Bishop Krzysztof Nitkiewicz of Sandomierz, with his former auxiliary,
Bishop Edward Marian Frankowski;
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Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Siedlce with his auxiliary, Bishop
Piotr Sawczuk;
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Archbishop Edward Ozorowski of Bialystok, with his auxiliary, Bishop
Henryk Ciereszco;
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Bishop Antoni Pacyfik Dydycz of Drohiczyn;
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Bishop Janusz Boguslaw Stepnowski of Lomza, with his auxiliary,
Bishop Tadeusz Bronakowski and Bishop emeritus Stanislaw Stefanek.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 6 February 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has:
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appointed Rev. Ham Lim Moon as auxiliary of the diocese of San Martin
(area 102, population 761,000, Catholics 525,000, priests 79,
permanent deacons 29, religious 179), Argentina. The bishop-elect was
born in Suwon, South Korea in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1984.
He holds a licentiate in theology and a licentiate in spiritual
theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He has
served in the following pastoral roles in the archdiocese of Buenos
Aires: vicar in the parish “Reina de los Apostoles” and chaplain
of the “Dr. Teodoro Alvarez” hospital; priest of the parish
“Maria Madre de la Iglesia”, member of the presbyteral commission
and dean of the “Flores” deanery. He is responsible for courses
in ongoing formation for the clergy of Buenos Aires and has
accompanied the Korean community in Argentina. Since 2003 he has
served as priest in the parish of “SS. Cosme y Damian” in Buenos
Aires.
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confirmed Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko as president of the Pontifical
Council for the Laity, and Bishop Josef Clemens as secretary of the
Pontifical Council for the Laity.
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appointed the following members of the Pontifical Council for the
Laity: Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, archbishop of Vienna, Austria;
Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan, Italy; Cardinal John
Njue, archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya; Cardinal Reinhardt Marx,
archbishop of Munich and Friesling, Federal Republic of Germany;
Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands;
Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop of Manila, Philippines;
Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for the
Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life;
Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput of Philadelphia, U.S.A.; Archbishop
Orani Joao Tempesta of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Dr.
Yago De La Cierva, Spain, lecturer in Crisis Management and
Communication at the Faculty of Social Institutional Communication of
the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome; Dr. Irene Egle
Laumenskaite, lecturer at the Centre for Religious Studies and
Research at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania; Dr. Fabrice
Hadjadj, director of the Institut Europeen d'Etudes Anthropologiques
Philanthropos in Fribourg, Switzerland; Dr. Jocelyn Khoueiry,
foundress of the Associations “La Libanaise-Femme du 31 mai” and
“Oui a la vie”, Lebanon; Dr. Franco Miano, national president of
Italian Catholic Action; Dr. Genevieve Amelie Mathilde Sanze, Central
African Republic, representative for Africa of the International
Secretariat of Economy of Communion.
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appointed the following consultors of the Pontifical Council for the
Laity: Archbishop Alberto Taveira Correa of Belem do Para, Brazil;
Archbishop Filippo Santoro of Taranto, Italy; Bishop Anders
Arborelius of Stockholm, Sweden; Bishop Dominique Rey of Frejus
Toulon, France; Bishop Christoph Hegge, auxiliary of Munster,
Germany; Fr. Arturo Cattaneo, professor in the faculty of canon law
of St. Pius X of Venice, Italy; Fr. Fra Hans Stapel, O.F.M., founder
and president of the International Association of the Faithful Family
of Hope, Brazil; Alejandra Keen von Wuthenau, superior general of the
Marian Fraternity of Reconciliation, Peru; Dr. Laurent Landete,
moderator of the Community of the Emmanuel, France; Mimmo Muolo,
journalist from the daily newspaper “Avvenire”, Italy; Marguerite
A. Peeters, Belgium/U.S.A., director of the Institute for the
Intercultural Dialogue Dynamics; Silvia Recchi, Italian professor of
canon law at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaounde,
Cameroon; Maite Uribe Bilbao, El Salvador, director general of the
Theresian Institute.
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