SUMMARY:
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Audience with the president of Peru: promote full development and the
protection of the environment
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Francis to accountants: the dignity of the person must prevail over
bureaucracy
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Programme for the Pope's apostolic trip to Sri Lanka and the
Philippines
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Third World Congress of Movements Guided by Evangelii gaudium
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Audiences
Audience
with the president of Peru: promote full development and the
protection of the environment
Vatican
City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father Francis today
received in audience, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the president
of the Republic of Peru, Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso, who
subsequently met with Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for
Relations with States, in the absence of Cardinal Secretary of State
Pietro Parolin.
During
the cordial discussions, mention was made of the good relations
between the Holy See and the Republic of Peru, with particular
emphasis on the special role of Christianity in the formation of the
identity of the country, as well as the contribution the Catholic
Church has given and continues to guarantee in favour of the human,
social and cultural progress of the population.
Finally,
there was an exchange of views on the political and social situation
in the Region, with attention to the efforts made to promote full
development and the protection of the environment.
Francis
to accountants: the dignity of the person must prevail over
bureaucracy
Vatican
City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) – “From your professional
observatory, you are well aware of the dramatic situation faced by
many people who are precariously employed or have lost their jobs; of
the many families who pay the consequences; of the many young people
in search of a first occupation and dignified work. They are many,
especially immigrants, who are compelled to work illegally, and lack
the most basic legal and economic guarantees”, said the Pope this
morning in his address to the seven thousand participants at the
World Congress of Accountants, held in Rome from 10 to 13 November.
In
this economic context, there is a “strong temptation to defend
one's own interests without worrying about the common good, without
paying too much attention to justice and legality. However, we are
all, especially those who exercise a profession associated with the
good functioning of the economic life of a country, required to play
a positive and constructive role in carrying out our work on a daily
basis, aware that behind every piece of paper there is a story, and
there are faces. In this task … the Christian professional draws
strength every day from prayer and the Word of God to carry out his
or her own duties well, with skill and wisdom; and then, to go
further than this, which means reaching towards those in difficulty;
exercising that creativity that allows solutions to be found in
situations of impasse; to make the reason of human dignity prevail
over the rigidity of bureaucracy”.
Francis
affirmed that the economy and finance are “dimensions of human
activity and may be opportunities for encounters, dialogue,
cooperation, the recognition of rights and the rendering of services,
of dignity affirmed in work. But it is therefore necessary always to
place man and his dignity at the centre, opposing those dynamics that
tend to homogenise everything and place money at the summit. When
money becomes the aim and reason for every activity and initiative,
this leads to the prevalence of a utilitarian perspective and the
untrammelled logic of profit that does not respect people, with the
consequent widespread decline in the values of solidarity and respect
for the human person. Those who work in various roles in economics
and finance are required to make decisions that favour the social and
economic well-being of humanity as a whole, offering everyone the
opportunity to realise their own development”.
“You,
in your profession”, he said, addressing the accountants, “work
alongside companies, but also families and individuals, to offer
economic and financial advice. I encourage you always to work
responsibly, favouring relationships of loyalty, justice and, if
possible, fraternity, courageously facing, above all, the problems
faced by the weakest and poorest. It is not enough to give concrete
answers to economic and material questions; it is necessary to
promote and cultivate the ethics of the economy, finance and work; it
is necessary to keep alive the value of solidarity as a moral
attitude, an expression of attention to others and all their
legitimate needs. If we wish to hand our environmental, economic,
cultural and social patrimony to future generations in a better
condition than that in which we have inherited it, we must assume the
responsibility of working for a globalisation of solidarity. … And
the social doctrine of the Church teaches us that the principle of
solidarity works in harmony with that of subsidiarity. Thanks to the
effect of these two principles, processes are placed at the services
of humanity and enable the growth of justice, without which there
cannot be true and lasting peace”.
Programme
for the Pope's apostolic trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines
Vatican
City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) – Today the Holy See Press Office
published the programme for Pope Francis' upcoming trip to Sri Lanka
and the Philippines, scheduled for 12 to 19 January 2015.
The
Holy Father will depart from Rome's Fiumicino airport on Monday, 12
January at 7 p.m. and will arrive in Colombo, the capital of Sri
Lanka, on Tuesday 13 at 9 a.m. Following the welcome ceremony he will
meet with the country's bishops at the archbishop's residence, after
which he will pay a courtesy visit to the president of the Republic.
The day will conclude with an interreligious meeting at the
Bandaranaike Memorial.
On
Wednesday, 14 January, during a Mass to be celebrated at 8.30 a.m. at
the Galle Face Green, he will canonise Blessed Joseph Vaz and will
then transfer by helicopter to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary
at Madhu. From there he will proceed by helicopter to Colombo.
Thursday
will begin with a visit to the chapel of Our Lady of Lanka in
Bolawalana, after which the Pope will leave Sri Lanka and depart by
air, at 9 a.m., for Manila, the capital of the Philippines, where he
will be officially received at 5.45 p.m.
On
Friday, 16 January, Francis will pay a courtesy visit to the
president of the Philippines in the presidential palace, followed by
an address to the authorities and the diplomatic corps. At 11.15 a.m.
in the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception he will celebrate Mass
with bishops, priests and consecrated persons. His final activity on
Thursday will be an encounter with families in the Arena Mall of
Asia.
On
Saturday, 17 January, the Pontiff will transfer by air to Tacloban
International Airport where he will celebrate Mass, followed by and
lunch with survivors of Typhoon Yolanda. In the afternoon he will
bless the Pope Francis Centre for the Poor and will meet priests,
consecrated persons, seminarians and families of the typhoon
survivors in the cathedral of Palo. He will then return to Manila.
On
Sunday, 18 January, he will meet with the religious leaders of the
Philippines at the St. Thomas University of Manila and later with
young people at the university sports field. The day will conclude
with a Mass celebrated in Rizal Park.
On
Monday, 19 January, the Pope will conclude his trip, leaving from
Manila at 10 a.m. The aircraft carrying the Holy Father is expected
to land in Rome's Ciampino airport at 5.40 p.m.
Third
World Congress of Movements Guided by Evangelii gaudium
Vatican
City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) – This morning, in the Holy See Press
Office, a conference was held to present the Third World Congress of
Ecclesial Movements and new communities. Promoted and organised by
the Pontifical Council for the Laity on the theme “The Joy of the
Gospel: a missionary joy”, the Congress will be held from 20 to 22
November in the Maria Mater Ecclesiae Pontifical College, Rome.
The
speakers in the conference were Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president
of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; Bishop Josef Clemens,
secretary of the same dicastery; Maria Voce, president of the
Focolare Movement; and Jean-Luc Moens, president of Fidesco, young
volunteers in evangelisation and development projects, and member of
the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”.
Cardinal
Rylko remarked that the Pontifical Magisterium has perceived in the
phenomenon of movements “a current of grace, a gift and a timely
response from the Holy Spirit to the serious challenges that today's
world poses to the mission of the Church”. He recalled that, for
St. John Paul II, movements constituted a “reason for hope for the
Church and for mankind”, and were seen by Pope Benedict XVI as “new
incursions of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church, powerful
ways of living faith, a healthy provocation, of which the Church is
always in need, and 'creative minorities', decisive for the future of
humanity”. He added that Pope Francis, in this respect, is in
perfect harmony with his predecessors.
The
Congress will be attended by approximately three hundred laypersons –
founders, moderators and general delegates – representing around a
hundred movements and new communities, with a broad international
dimension. They will be joined by a large number of pastors, bishops
and priests. The prelate explained that the novelty of this Congress
derives from the fact that it originated from the great meeting with
the Pope that took place at Pentecost in 2013 in the context of the
Year of Faith, and added that the theme of the congress clearly
expresses that “our work is guided by the Apostolic Exhortation
'Evangelii gaudium'. This is the great challenge that Pope Francis
presents to us. … He wants an 'outbound' Church, that reaches out
to the geographical and existential peripheries of our world, a
Church that is particularly attentive and close to all the poor,
suffering and excluded, the bitter product of the 'throwaway culture'
that dominates nowadays. … And it is precisely this that is the
great and fundamental challenge that the movements wish to accept
during this third world Congress'”.
Audiences
Vatican
City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father received in
audience:
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Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy;
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Franco Anelli, rector of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
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