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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXIII - N° 18
DATE 25-01-2013
Summary:
- POPE RECEIVES MEMBERS OF JOINT INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THEOLOGICAL
DIALOGUE
- RESPONSIBILITY FOR SEMINARIES MOVED TO CONGREGATION FOR THE CLERGY
- PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING NEW EVANGELISATION MADE RESPONSIBLE FOR
CATECHESIS
- WORLD DAY FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST LEPROSY: INTENSIFYING THE SERVICE OF CHARITY
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
POPE RECEIVES MEMBERS OF JOINT INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THEOLOGICAL
DIALOGUE
Vatican City, 25 January 2013 (VIS) – Today in the Vatican, the Holy
Father received the members of the Joint International Commission for
Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox
Churches. The commission was
instituted ten years ago as a initiative of the ecclesial authorities of the
family of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Pontifical Council for
Promoting Christian Unity.
The commission has dedicated this week to exploring "more fully the communion
and communication which existed between the Churches in the first five
centuries of Christian history", Benedict XVI said, expressing his hope that
"relations between the
Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches will continue to develop in
a fraternal spirit of cooperation, particularly through the growth of a
theological dialogue capable of helping all the Lord’s followers to grow
in communion and to
bear witness before the world to the saving truth of the Gospel."
"Many of you," he concluded, "come from areas where Christians, as individuals
and communities, face painful trials and difficulties which are a source of
deep concern to us all. Through you, I would like to assure all the faithful
of the Middle East of
my spiritual closeness and my prayer that this land, so important in
God’s plan of salvation, may be led, through constructive dialogue and
cooperation, to a future of justice and lasting peace. All Christians need to
work together in mutual
acceptance and trust in serving the cause of peace and justice in fidelity to
the Lord’s will. May the example and intercession of the countless
martyrs and saints, who throughout the ages have borne courageous witness to
Christ in all our
Churches, sustain and strengthen all of us in meeting the challenges of the
present with confidence and hope in the future which the Lord is opening
before us."
___________________________________________________________
RESPONSIBILITY FOR SEMINARIES MOVED TO CONGREGATION FOR THE CLERGY
Vatican City, 25 January 2013 (VIS) – 'Ministrorum institutio' is the
title of the Motu Proprio by which the Holy Father modifies the Apostolic
Constitution 'Pastor bonus', (John Paul II, 1988) and transfers the competency
for seminaries from the
Congregation for Catholic Education to the Congregation for the Clergy.
Following are ample extracts from the document.
"The formation of sacred ministers was one of the main concerns of the Fathers
of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, who wrote that, 'fully aware that
the desired renewal of the whole Church depends to a great extent on the
ministry of its priests,
[the Council] proclaims the extreme importance of priestly training'. In this
context, canon 232 of the Code of Canon Law claims 'the duty and the proper
and exclusive right' of the formation of those who are designated for the
sacred ministries?that by
regulation takes place in seminaries?as belonging to the Church."
"The first body of a universal character entrusted with the foundation,
government, and administration of seminaries … was the Congregatio
Seminariorum instituted by Benedict XIII in the constitution 'Creditae Nobis'
(1725). Over time that
organisation became defunct and the seminaries continued to receive the Holy
See's particular consideration through the Sacred Congregation of the Council
(which today is the Congregation for the Clergy) or also through the Sacred
Congregation of
Bishops and Regulars and, from 1906, only by means of the latter."
"With the Apostolic Constitution 'Sapienti consilio' (1908), St. Pius X
reserved jurisdiction over seminaries to the Sacred Consistorial Congregation.
… With the Motu Proprio 'Seminaria clericorum' (1915), Benedict XV
… created a new
dicastery that took the name 'Sacra Congregatio de Seminariis et Studiorum
Universitatibus'. The Holy Father explained his decision as due to concern for
the increasing amount of issues and the importance of the office. … The
new dicastery ...
was adopted by the Code of Canon Law of 1917."
"It is significant to note that, during the drafting of the new Code, there
was discussion regarding the possibility of maintaining the same provision
but, in the end, it seemed more appropriate to premise the entire norm as an
introduction to the part
that dealt with the clergy. Thus the rules and directives regarding seminaries
were included … under the apt title of 'The Formation of Clerics'.
… The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council again recalled that 'major
seminaries are necessary
for priestly formation' … Therefore, according to the Second Vatican
Council and the Code of Canon Law of 1983, seminaries fall under the sphere of
the 'formation of clerics' that, to be true and effective, must seal permanent
formation with
seminary formation …"
"As my venerated predecessor, Blessed John Paul II, affirmed in the Apostolic
Exhortation 'Pastores dabo vobis' (1992) … 'It is particularly
important to be aware of and to respect the intrinsic link between formation
before ordination to the
priesthood and formation after ordination. Should there be a break in
continuity, or worse a complete difference between these two phases of
formation, there would be serious and immediate repercussions on pastoral work
and fraternal communion among
priests, especially those in different age groups'."
"I find it opportune, therefore, to assign the promotion and governance of
everything regarding the formation, the life, and the ministry of priests and
deacons to the Congregation for the Clergy: from the pastoral care for
vocations and the selection
of candidates for Holy Orders?including their personal, spiritual, doctrinal,
and pastoral formation in seminaries and special centres for permanent
deacons?to their permanent formation?including living conditions and
procedures for exercising their
ministry and their welfare and social assistance."
___________________________________________________________
PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING NEW EVANGELISATION MADE RESPONSIBLE FOR
CATECHESIS
Vatican City, 25 January 2013 (VIS) – With the Motu Proprio “Fides
per doctrinam” that was signed 16 January and published today, the Holy
Father modifies the apostolic constitution "Pastor bonus", transferring
responsibility for
catechesis from the Congregation for the Clergy to the Pontifical Council for
Promoting New Evangelisation. Following are ample extracts from the document.
"Faith," the Pope writes, "needs to be supported by doctrine that is capable
of illuminating the minds and hearts of believers. This particular historical
moment in which we are living, marked among other things by a dramatic crisis
of faith, requires
an awareness that is able to respond to the high expectations that arise in
the hearts of believers when facing the new questions that challenge the world
and the Church. Understanding faith, therefore, always requires that its
content be expressed in a
new language, one capable of presenting the living hope of believers to those
inquiring into its purpose."
"On the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Vatican Council II, while the
Church continues to reflect on the richness of the teaching contained its
documents and to find new ways of putting it into practice, it is possible to
see the long path
travelled over these decades in the area of catechesis. It has been a path,
however, that in the years following the Council has not been without
mistakes, even serious ones, both in method and in content. All of this has
brought about profound
reflection and led to the development of post-conciliar documents that
represent a new wealth in catechesis."
"The Council's teachings and the subsequent Magisterium, as interpreters of
the Church's great tradition in this field, have connected the Catechism ever
more closely to the process of evangelisation. The Catechism, therefore,
represents a significant
step in the daily life of the Church, announcing and communicating the Word of
God in a living and effective manner, so that it might reach all and that
believers might be trained and educated in Christ to build His body, which is
the Church."
"In the Apostolic Letter, formulated as a Motu Proprio, 'Ubicumque et sempter'
of 21 September, 2010, I instituted the Pontifical Council for Promoting New
Evangelisation to pursue 'its own ends both by encouraging reflection on
topics of the new
evangelisation, and by identifying and promoting suitable ways and means to
accomplish it'. In particular, I wanted to assign the task of promoting 'the
use of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as an essential and complete
formulation of the content
of the faith for the people of our time' to the new dicastery."
"Given all this, I believe it opportune that that dicastery assume as part of
its institutional tasks the one of caring for, on behalf of the Roman Pontiff,
the relevant instrument of evangelisation that the Catechism, along with
catechetical teaching
in all its diverse forms, represents for the Church in order to bring about a
more organic and effective pastoral outreach. This new pontifical council will
be able to provide the local churches and the diocesan bishops an appropriate
service in this
area."
"Accepting the agreement proposed by the heads of the dicasteries concerned,
therefore, I have decided to transfer the competency for catechesis that the
Apostolic Constitution 'Pastor bonus' had entrusted to the Congregation for
the Clergy on 28 June
1988, to the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation, with the
same jurisdiction in the matter as previously exercised by the Congregation as
required by canon law."
___________________________________________________________
WORLD DAY FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST LEPROSY: INTENSIFYING THE SERVICE OF CHARITY
Vatican City, 25 January 2013 (VIS) – This Sunday, 27 January, will mark
the 60th World Day for the Fight Against Leprosy. For the occasion, Archbishop
Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance
to Health Care
Workers, has published a message entitled: "A Fitting Occasion for
Intensifying the Service of Charity". In the text of the document the
archbishop notes that Hansen's disease is "a malady that is as old as it is
grave when we consider the suffering,
the social exclusion and the poverty that [it] involves".
"According to the most recent data of the WHO," the message states, "about
220,000 people?men, women and children?contracted leprosy in 2011 and many of
these new cases were diagnosed when the disease was at an advanced stage.
These data demonstrate the
continuation?notwithstanding the praiseworthy action of international and
national, governmental and non-governmental, institutions, such as the WHO and
the Raoul Follereau Foundation and the Sasakawa Foundation?of a still
insufficient level of access
to centres that offer diagnoses and of a lack of education as regards
prevention in communities that run the risk of contagion, as well as the need
for specifically designed medico-hygienic initiatives. All of this is
fundamental in the case of leprosy,
which by now does not lead to death if it is suitably treated, as it is the
case, to a greater extent, of the other ‘neglected diseases’ ...
These are pathologies that constitute authentic scourges in some parts of the
world
but which do not receive sufficient attention from the international
community; amongst these pathologies we find dengue fever, sleeping sickness,
bilharziosis, onchocerciasis, leishmaniasis, and trachoma."
"In the face of such a health-care emergency, in the light of the Year of
Faith as well, and with the wish to commit ourselves increasingly intensely,
as Catholics, to carrying out what Jesus requested by his commandment
‘Euntes docete et curate
infirmos’ and by our baptism, I wish to renew my invitation to work to
ensure that this Sixtieth World Leprosy Day constitutes a new ‘fitting
occasion for intensifying the service of charity in our ecclesial communities,
so that each one of
us can be a good Samaritan for others, for those close to us’."
"An equally important role should also be played by all those people who are
victims of leprosy, who are called to cooperate in the establishment of a more
inclusive and just society that will allow the integration of those people who
have been cured of
leprosy; in spreading and promoting its forms of diagnosis and treatment; in
stressing the need to receive therapies so as to be cured, thereby
contributing to a weakening of the disease; and in distributing those
medico-hygienic criteria that are
indispensable to hindering its further propagation in the contexts to which
they belong."
"As a Christian, a person who has been afflicted by leprosy also has the
possibility of living his or her condition in a perspective of faith,
‘finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite
love’, praying and offering
up his or her suffering for the good of the Church and humanity. In awareness
that what has been emphasised is certainly not easy, and requires charity
towards themselves and their neighbours, hope, courage, patience and
determination, I would like to
observe, employing the words of St. Paul, that none of us ‘received a
spirit of slavery to fall back into fear’: we have ‘received a
spirit of adoption, through which we cry, "Abba, Father!"’. And,
‘if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that
we may also be glorified with him’. Even in the most adverse situations,
a Christian is certain that ‘nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor
any
other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ
Jesus our Lord’," concludes the text.
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 25 January 2013 (VIS) – This morning, the Holy Father
received in separate audiences:
- Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation
of Peoples, and
- Mr. Nikolay Sadchikov, ambassador of the Russian Federation, on his farewell
visit.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 25 January 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kalookan,
Philippines presented by Bishop Deogracias S. Iniguez in accordance with canon
401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- appointed Bishop Buenaventura Malayo Famadico as bishop of San Pablo (area
1,203, population 2,821,000, Catholics 2,466,000, priests 172, religious 508),
Philippines. Bishop Famadico was born in 1956 in Banton, Romblon, Philippines,
was ordained to
the priesthood in 1983, and received episcopal ordination in 2002. He was
previously bishop of Gumaca, Philippines from 2003. He succeeds Bishop Leo M.
Drona, S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of San
Pablo the Holy Father
accepted, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews130125
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXIII - N° 18DATE 25-01-2013
Summary: - POPE RECEIVES MEMBERS OF JOINT
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR
THEOLOGICAL DIALOGUE - RESPONSIBILITY FOR SEMINARIES MOVED TO
CONGREGATION FOR THE CLERGY - PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING NEW
EVANGELISATION MADE RESPONSIBLE FOR CATECHESIS - WORLD DAY FOR THE FIGHT
AGAINST LEPROSY: INTENSIFYING THE
SERVICE OF CHARITY - AUDIENCES - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS ___________________________________________________________
POPE RECEIVES MEMBERS OF JOINT INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THEOLOGICAL
DIALOGUE
Vatican City, 25 January 2013 (VIS) – Today in the Vatican, the Holy
Father received the members of the Joint International Commission for
Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox
Churches. The commission was
instituted ten years ago as a initiative of the ecclesial authorities of the
family of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Pontifical Council for
Promoting Christian Unity.
The commission has dedicated this week to exploring "more fully the
communion and communication which existed between the Churches in the first
five centuries of Christian history", Benedict XVI said, expressing his hope
that "relations between the
Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches will continue to develop in
a fraternal spirit of cooperation, particularly through the growth of a
theological dialogue capable of helping all the Lord’s followers to grow
in communion and to
bear witness before the world to the saving truth of the Gospel."
"Many of you," he concluded, "come from areas where Christians, as
individuals and communities, face painful trials and difficulties which are a
source of deep concern to us all. Through you, I would like to assure all the
faithful of the Middle East
of my spiritual closeness and my prayer that this land, so important in
God’s plan of salvation, may be led, through constructive dialogue and
cooperation, to a future of justice and lasting peace. All Christians need to
work together in mutual
acceptance and trust in serving the cause of peace and justice in fidelity to
the Lord’s will. May the example and intercession of the countless
martyrs and saints, who throughout the ages have borne courageous witness to
Christ in all our
Churches, sustain and strengthen all of us in meeting the challenges of the
present with confidence and hope in the future which the Lord is opening
before us."
RESPONSIBILITY FOR SEMINARIES MOVED TO CONGREGATION FOR THE CLERGY
Vatican City, 25 January 2013 (VIS) – 'Ministrorum institutio' is the
title of the Motu Proprio by which the Holy Father modifies the Apostolic
Constitution 'Pastor bonus', (John Paul II, 1988) and transfers the competency
for seminaries from
the Congregation for Catholic Education to the Congregation for the Clergy.
Following are ample extracts from the document.
"The formation of sacred ministers was one of the main concerns of the
Fathers of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, who wrote that, 'fully aware
that the desired renewal of the whole Church depends to a great extent on the
ministry of its
priests, [the Council] proclaims the extreme importance of priestly training'.
In this context, canon 232 of the Code of Canon Law claims 'the duty and the
proper and exclusive right' of the formation of those who are designated for
the sacred
ministries?that by regulation takes place in seminaries?as belonging to the
Church."
"The first body of a universal character entrusted with the foundation,
government, and administration of seminaries … was the Congregatio
Seminariorum instituted by Benedict XIII in the constitution 'Creditae Nobis'
(1725). Over time that
organisation became defunct and the seminaries continued to receive the Holy
See's particular consideration through the Sacred Congregation of the Council
(which today is the Congregation for the Clergy) or also through the Sacred
Congregation of
Bishops and Regulars and, from 1906, only by means of the latter."
"With the Apostolic Constitution 'Sapienti consilio' (1908), St. Pius X
reserved jurisdiction over seminaries to the Sacred Consistorial Congregation.
… With the Motu Proprio 'Seminaria clericorum' (1915), Benedict XV
… created a new
dicastery that took the name 'Sacra Congregatio de Seminariis et Studiorum
Universitatibus'. The Holy Father explained his decision as due to concern for
the increasing amount of issues and the importance of the office. … The
new dicastery ...
was adopted by the Code of Canon Law of 1917."
"It is significant to note that, during the drafting of the new Code, there
was discussion regarding the possibility of maintaining the same provision
but, in the end, it seemed more appropriate to premise the entire norm as an
introduction to the
part that dealt with the clergy. Thus the rules and directives regarding
seminaries were included … under the apt title of 'The Formation of
Clerics'. … The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council again recalled that
'major seminaries are
necessary for priestly formation' … Therefore, according to the Second
Vatican Council and the Code of Canon Law of 1983, seminaries fall under the
sphere of the 'formation of clerics' that, to be true and effective, must seal
permanent formation
with seminary formation …"
"As my venerated predecessor, Blessed John Paul II, affirmed in the
Apostolic Exhortation 'Pastores dabo vobis' (1992) … 'It is
particularly important to be aware of and to respect the intrinsic link
between formation before ordination to the
priesthood and formation after ordination. Should there be a break in
continuity, or worse a complete difference between these two phases of
formation, there would be serious and immediate repercussions on pastoral work
and fraternal communion among
priests, especially those in different age groups'."
"I find it opportune, therefore, to assign the promotion and governance of
everything regarding the formation, the life, and the ministry of priests and
deacons to the Congregation for the Clergy: from the pastoral care for
vocations and the
selection of candidates for Holy Orders?including their personal, spiritual,
doctrinal, and pastoral formation in seminaries and special centres for
permanent deacons?to their permanent formation?including living conditions and
procedures for exercising
their ministry and their welfare and social assistance."
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