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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXIII - N° 33
DATE 15-02-2013
Summary:
- ROMANIA AND HOLY SEE: COOPERATION IN SAFEGUARDING COMMON VALUES
- POPE RECEIVES "PRO PETRI SEDE" ASSOCIATION
- BENEDICT XVI: JOY OF THE COUNCIL
- GERMAN LAWYER ERNST VON FREYBERG, NEW PRESIDENT OF SUPERVISORY BOARD OF IOR
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
ROMANIA AND HOLY SEE: COOPERATION IN SAFEGUARDING COMMON VALUES
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) – This morning, the Holy Father
Benedict XVI received in audience His Excellency Mr. Traian Basescu, president
of Romania. President Basescu then met with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.,
secretary of State
of His Holiness, accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for
Relations with States.
During the talks, which were held in a cordial atmosphere, the good relations
between Romania and the Holy See were discussed. In particular, the successful
cooperation on a European level to safeguard common values was highlighted and
prospects for
cooperation between the Catholic Church and the Romanian State in the area of
education were addressed.
Issues continuously affecting Catholic communities in Romania were not
overlooked and the Catholic Church's contribution in integrating Romanian
communities abroad was given recognition.
___________________________________________________________
POPE RECEIVES "PRO PETRI SEDE" ASSOCIATION
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) – This morning, in the Hall of
Popes, Benedict XVI received members of the "Pro Petri Sede" Association from
the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, which annually
offers economic assistance
for the needs of the Holy See.
In his address, the Holy Father said that the Year of Faith "invites us to a
genuine conversion to our Lord Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world.
Accepting the revelation of God's salvific love in our lives by means of the
faith calls our entire
existence to be modelled on the radical newness that Christ's resurrection
introduces in the world. Faith is a living reality that must be constantly
discovered and deepened so that it might grow."
"Faith," the Pope concluded, "must guide Christians' gaze and action. It is a
new criterion of understanding and action that changes one's entire life. As I
said in the Apostolic Letter 'Porta fidei', the Year of Faith is an opportune
moment to
intensify the witness of charity: 'Faith without charity bears no fruit, while
charity without faith would be a sentiment constantly at the mercy of doubt.
Faith and charity each require the other, in such a way that each allows the
other to set out
along its respective path'. "
___________________________________________________________
BENEDICT XVI: JOY OF THE COUNCIL
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) – Following are ample extracts from
the Holy Father's warm and friendly chat yesterday with the clergy of Rome,
which was held in the Paul VI Hall.
"We went to the Council not just with joy, but enthusiastically. There was an
incredible expectation. We hoped that everything would be renewed, that a new
Pentecost, a new era in the Church, had truly arrived, … rediscovering
the bond between
the Church and the world’s best elements, to open humanity's future, to
begin real progress. We began to get to know one another ... and it was an
experience of the Church's universality and of the Church's concrete reality,
which wasn't limited
to receiving orders from on high but of growing and advancing together, under
the direction of the Successor of Peter naturally." The questions put to the
Council Fathers dealt with "the reform of the liturgy, ... ecclesiology, ...
the Word of God,
Revelation, … and, finally, ecumenism."
"In retrospect, I think that it was very good to begin with the liturgy,
showing God's primacy, the primacy of adoration. … The Council spoke of
God and this was its first act: speaking of God and opening everything to the
people, opening the
adoration of God to the entire holy people, in the common celebration of the
liturgy of the Body and Blood of Christ. … The principles came later:
comprehensibility, so as not to be locked in an unknown and unspoken language,
and active
participation. Unfortunately, sometimes these principles are misunderstood.
Comprehensibility does not mean triviality because the great texts of the
liturgy?even when they are, thanks be to God, in one's mother tongue?are not
easily understandable.
Ongoing formation is necessary for Christians to grow and enter more deeply
into the mystery so they might understand."
"The second theme: the Church. … We wanted to say and to understand
that the Church is not an organization, not just some structural, legal, or
institutional thing?which it also is?but an organism, a living reality that
enters into my soul and
that I myself, with my very soul, as a believer, am a constitutive element of
the Church as such. … The Church isn't a structure. We ourselves,
Christians together, we are the living Body of the Church. Of course, this is
true in the sense that
we, the true 'we' of believers, together with the 'I' of Christ, are the
Church; each one of us is not 'a we' but a group that calls itself Church."
"The first idea was to present the ecclesiology in a theological format, but
continuing structurally, that is to say, alongside the succession of Peter, in
its unique role, to better define the role of bishops and the episcopal body.
In order to do this
we found that the word 'collegiality' was very intensely debated, somewhat
exaggeratedly I would say. But it was the word … to express that the
bishops, together, are the continuation of the Twelve, of the group of
Apostles. We said: only one
bishop, the bishop of Rome, is the successor of the particular apostle, Peter
… Thus the group of Bishops, the College, is the continuation of the
Twelve and has its needs, its role, its rights, and its duties."
"Another question in the ecclesiastical sphere was the definition of the
concept of the 'people of God', which implies the continuity of the
Testaments, the continuity of the history of God with the world, with
humanity, and also implies the
'Christological element'. Only through Christology are we converted into the
People of God and thus two concepts are united. The council decided to create
a Trinitarian structure to the ecclesiology: the People of God the Father, the
Body of Christ, and
the Temple of the Holy Spirit. … The link between the People of God and
the Body of Christ is, effectively, communion with Christ in the Eucharistic
union. Thus we become the Body of Christ, that is, the relationship between
the People of God and
the Body of Christ creates a new reality: communion."
"On the question regarding Revelation, the fulcrum was the relationship
between Scripture and Tradition. … Certainly, what is important is that
the Scriptures are the Word of God and the Church is subject to the
Scriptures, obeys the Word of God,
and is not above Scripture. Nevertheless, the Scriptures are only such because
there is a living Church, its living subject. Without the living subject of
the Church, Scripture is only a book open to different interpretations and
gives no definitive
clarity." In this sense, "Pope Paul VI's intervention was decisive," with his
proposal of the formula "nos omnis certitudo de veritatibus fidei potest sumi
ex Sacra Scriptura", that is, "the Church's certainty on the faith is not only
born of an
isolated book, but needs the enlightened subject of the Church, which brings
the Holy Spirit. Only thus can Scripture speak and from this springs all its
authority."
"And, finally, ecumenism. I don't want to go into these problems now, but it
was obvious that?especially after the 'passion' of Christians during the age
of Nazism?that Christians could find unity, or could at least look for it, but
it was also clear
that only God can give unity. And we are still continuing along this path."
"The second part of the Council was much broader. The theme, arising with
great urgency, was today's world, the modern age and the Church, and with it
issues of the responsibility of the construction of this world, of society,
responsibility for the
future of this world and eschatological hope; Christian ethical responsibility
… as well as religious freedom, progress, and relations with other
religions. At that time, the entire Council, not just the United States, whose
people are very
concerned with religious freedom, really joined in the discussion …
Latin America also joined in strongly, knowing the misery of the people of a
Catholic continent and the responsibility of the faith for the situation of
these persons. And thus
Africa, Asia likewise saw the need for interreligious dialogue. … The
great document 'Gaudium et Spes' analysed the problem between Christian
eschatology and worldly progress, including the responsibility of tomorrow's
society and
Christian responsibilities in the face of eternity, and also the renewal of
Christian ethics. … The basis for dialogue is in difference, in
diversity, in the faith of the uniqueness of Christ who is one, and it is not
possible for a believer to
think that religions are variations on the same theme. No. There is a reality
of the living God who has spoken and who is one God, an incarnate God,
therefore one word of God who is truly the Word of God. But there is also a
religious experience, with a
certain human light on creation, and therefore it is necessary and possible to
enter into dialogue and so to open oneself to others and to open all to God
peace, all His children, all His family."
"I would like to add still a third point... the Council of the media. It was
almost a Council itself and the world saw the Council through it. The 'Council
of the journalists', of course was not carried out within the faith but within
the categories of
today's media. That is to say, it was outside of the faith, with a different
hermeneutic … a political hermeneutic. For the media, the Council was a
political struggle, a power struggle between the Church's different strands.
… There was a
triple problem: the Pope's power transferred to the power of the bishops and
to the power of all: popular sovereignty. The same thing happened with the
liturgy. They were not interested in the liturgy as an act of faith but as
something where things are
made understandable, a type of communal activity. … These translations,
the trivialization of the idea of the Council were virulent in the practice of
applying liturgical reform; a vision of the Council outside of its prop
er
interpretation, that of faith, was born."
"We know that this Council of the media was accessible to all. Thus it was the
dominant one, the most efficient one, and it created a lot of calamities,
problems, and misfortunes. … The true Council found it difficult to
make its thought concrete
and actual. The virtual Council was stronger than the real council. But the
Council's strength was present and, little by little, it became more and more
actual, becoming the true force that is, after true reform, the Church's true
renewal. It seems to
me that, after 50 years, we see how the virtual Council has broken down, been
lost, and the authentic Council appears in all its spiritual strength."
___________________________________________________________
GERMAN LAWYER ERNST VON FREYBERG, NEW PRESIDENT OF SUPERVISORY BOARD OF IOR
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) – According to a communique
published today, the Commission of Cardinals for the Institute for the Works
of Religion (IOR) has made an appointment, in accordance with the
Institute’s statutes, of a new
president of the Supervisory Board, Ernst von Freyberg. The other four members
of the Supervisory Board will all remain in office.
"This decision is the result of extensive evaluation and a series of
interviews that the Commission of Cardinals has conducted, with the constant
support of the Supervisory Board. This painstaking and detailed process lasted
for some months, making it
possible to assess a number of candidates of professional and moral
excellence, with assistance from an independent international Agency that is a
leader in the selection of top executives."
"The Holy Father has closely followed the entire selection process leading to
the choice of the new President of the Supervisory Board of the IOR, and he
has expressed his full consent to the choice made by the Commission of
Cardinals."
Included in the information is Mr. von Freyberg's curriculum. He was born in
Germany in 1958 and from 1978 to 1985 he studied law at the universities of
Munich and Bonn. From 1986 to 1987 he attended the Verwaltungshochschule
Speyer. In 1988 he earned
admission to the Bar at Landgericht, Ulm and passed the second law exam at
Oberlandesgericht, Stuttgart. From 1988 to 1991 he worked for TCR Europe
Limited (Bemberg Group), Three City Research Inc., and from 1991 to 2012 he
founded and served as CEO of
Daiwa Corporate Advisory GmbH. From 2012 to the present he has been with
Blohm+Voss Group in Hamburg, Germany, serving as its chairman.
Mr. von Freyberg is an active member of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller
Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta. He is co-leader of
the Association for Pilgrimages to Lourdes of the Archdiocese of Berlin. He is
founder and member of
Freyberg Stiftung since its creation in 2009. This foundation supports three
Catholic organizations in France, Germany, and Austria, the FreiligrathSchule
(primary school in Frankfurt) providing student scholarships. He is also a
member of the
supervisory board of Flossbach von Storch AG, a Cologne based asset management
firm. He is a member of the advisory board of Manpower GmbH, a temporary work
service firm in Germany.
Mr. von Freyberg brings with him a vast experience of financial matters and
the financial regulatory process.
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) - This morning, the Holy Father received
in audience seven prelates from the Liguria region of the Italian Episcopal
Conference on their "ad limina" visit:
- Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa,
- Bishop Martino Canessa of Tortona,
- Bishop Mario Oliveri of Albenga-Imperia,
- Bishop Alberto Maria Careggio of Ventimiglia-San Remo,
- Bishop Alberto Tanasini of Chiavari,
- Bishop Luigi Ernesto Palletti of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, and
- Bishop Vittorio Lupi of Savona-Noli.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed
Fr. Friedrich Bechina, F.S.O., official of the Congregation for Catholic
Education, as under-secretary of that congregation.
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VISnews130215
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXIII - N° 33DATE 15-02-2013
Summary: - ROMANIA AND HOLY SEE:
COOPERATION IN SAFEGUARDING COMMON
VALUES - POPE RECEIVES "PRO PETRI SEDE" ASSOCIATION - BENEDICT
XVI: JOY OF THE COUNCIL - GERMAN LAWYER ERNST VON FREYBERG, NEW
PRESIDENT OF SUPERVISORY BOARD OF IOR - AUDIENCES - OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS ___________________________________________________________
ROMANIA AND HOLY SEE: COOPERATION IN SAFEGUARDING COMMON VALUES
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) – This morning, the Holy Father
Benedict XVI received in audience His Excellency Mr. Traian Basescu, president
of Romania. President Basescu then met with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.,
secretary of
State of His Holiness, accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary
for Relations with States.
During the talks, which were held in a cordial atmosphere, the good
relations between Romania and the Holy See were discussed. In particular, the
successful cooperation on a European level to safeguard common values was
highlighted and prospects for
cooperation between the Catholic Church and the Romanian State in the area of
education were addressed.
Issues continuously affecting Catholic communities in Romania were not
overlooked and the Catholic Church's contribution in integrating Romanian
communities abroad was given recognition.
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) – This morning, in the Hall of
Popes, Benedict XVI received members of the "Pro Petri Sede" Association from
the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, which annually
offers economic
assistance for the needs of the Holy See.
In his address, the Holy Father said that the Year of Faith "invites us to
a genuine conversion to our Lord Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world.
Accepting the revelation of God's salvific love in our lives by means of the
faith calls our
entire existence to be modelled on the radical newness that Christ's
resurrection introduces in the world. Faith is a living reality that must be
constantly discovered and deepened so that it might grow."
"Faith," the Pope concluded, "must guide Christians' gaze and action. It is
a new criterion of understanding and action that changes one's entire life. As
I said in the Apostolic Letter 'Porta fidei', the Year of Faith is an
opportune moment to
intensify the witness of charity: 'Faith without charity bears no fruit, while
charity without faith would be a sentiment constantly at the mercy of doubt.
Faith and charity each require the other, in such a way that each allows the
other to set out
along its respective path'. "
Vatican City, 15 February 2013 (VIS) – Following are ample extracts
from the Holy Father's warm and friendly chat yesterday with the clergy of
Rome, which was held in the Paul VI Hall.
"We went to the Council not just with joy, but enthusiastically. There was
an incredible expectation. We hoped that everything would be renewed, that a
new Pentecost, a new era in the Church, had truly arrived, …
rediscovering the bond between
the Church and the world’s best elements, to open humanity's future, to
begin real progress. We began to get to know one another ... and it was an
experience of the Church's universality and of the Church's concrete reality,
which wasn't limited
to receiving orders from on high but of growing and advancing together, under
the direction of the Successor of Peter naturally." The questions put to the
Council Fathers dealt with "the reform of the liturgy, ... ecclesiology, ...
the Word of God,
Revelation, … and, finally, ecumenism."
"In retrospect, I think that it was very good to begin with the liturgy,
showing God's primacy, the primacy of adoration. … The Council spoke of
God and this was its first act: speaking of God and opening everything to the
people, opening the
adoration of God to the entire holy people, in the common celebration of the
liturgy of the Body and Blood of Christ. … The principles came later:
comprehensibility, so as not to be locked in an unknown and unspoken language,
and active
participation. Unfortunately, sometimes these principles are misunderstood.
Comprehensibility does not mean triviality because the great texts of the
liturgy?even when they are, thanks be to God, in one's mother tongue?are not
easily understandable.
Ongoing formation is necessary for Christians to grow and enter more deeply
into the mystery so they might understand."
"The second theme: the Church. … We wanted to say and to understand
that the Church is not an organization, not just some structural, legal, or
institutional thing?which it also is?but an organism, a living reality that
enters into my soul and
that I myself, with my very soul, as a believer, am a constitutive element of
the Church as such. … The Church isn't a structure. We ourselves,
Christians together, we are the living Body of the Church. Of course, this is
true in the sense that
we, the true 'we' of believers, together with the 'I' of Christ, are the
Church; each one of us is not 'a we' but a group that calls itself Church."
"The first idea was to present the ecclesiology in a theological format,
but continuing structurally, that is to say, alongside the succession of
Peter, in its unique role, to better define the role of bishops and the
episcopal body. In order to do
this we found that the word 'collegiality' was very intensely debated,
somewhat exaggeratedly I would say. But it was the word … to express
that the bishops, together, are the continuation of the Twelve, of the group
of Apostles. We said: only
one bishop, the bishop of Rome, is the successor of the particular apostle,
Peter … Thus the group of Bishops, the College, is the continuation of
the Twelve and has its needs, its role, its rights, and its duties."
"Another question in the ecclesiastical sphere was the definition of the
concept of the 'people of God', which implies the continuity of the
Testaments, the continuity of the history of God with the world, with
humanity, and also implies the
'Christological element'. Only through Christology are we converted into the
People of God and thus two concepts are united. The council decided to create
a Trinitarian structure to the ecclesiology: the People of God the Father, the
Body of Christ, and
the Temple of the Holy Spirit. … The link between the People of God and
the Body of Christ is, effectively, communion with Christ in the Eucharistic
union. Thus we become the Body of Christ, that is, the relationship between
the People of God and
the Body of Christ creates a new reality: communion."
"On the question regarding Revelation, the fulcrum was the relationship
between Scripture and Tradition. … Certainly, what is important is that
the Scriptures are the Word of God and the Church is subject to the
Scriptures, obeys the Word of
God, and is not above Scripture. Nevertheless, the Scriptures are only such
because there is a living Church, its living subject. Without the living
subject of the Church, Scripture is only a book open to different
interpretations and gives no
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