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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXIII - N° 122
DATE 06-06-2013
Summary:
- PONTIFICAL ECCLESIAL ACADEMY: LEAVE ASIDE PERSONAL AMBITIONS THAT DO MUCH
HARM TO THE CHURCH
- HOLY FATHER'S SUMMER SCHEDULE
- GOVERNMENTS MUST RESPECT, RECOGNIZED AND DECLARED, RIGHTS OF REFUGEES
- COR UNUM: SUMMER WILL AGGRAVATE CRISIS IN SYRIA
- SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN BILATERAL COMMISSION BETWEEN HOLY SEE AND ISRAEL
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
PONTIFICAL ECCLESIAL ACADEMY: LEAVE ASIDE PERSONAL AMBITIONS THAT DO MUCH HARM
TO THE CHURCH
Vatican City, 6 June 2013 (VIS) – “You are preparing for a
particular ministry of commitment … a task that requires … great
inner freedom,” Pope Francis said this morning to the 45 members of the
Pontifical Ecclesiastical
Academy whom he received this morning in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican
Apostolic Palace, with their president, Archbishop Beniamino Stella. It is the
institution that trains candidates for the Holy See's diplomatic service.
In his address to the group, the Holy Father urged the current students to:
“live these years of your preparation with commitment, generosity, and
greatness of soul, so that this freedom can truly take shape in you!”
The Pope explained that,
first of all, this freedom “means being free from personal projects:
from some of the concrete ways that, perhaps one day, you imagined living your
priesthood, from planning the future; from the perspective of staying a long
time in 'your' place
of pastoral action. It means making yourselves free, in some way, even from
the culture and the mentality that you came from, not to forget it and even
less to deny it, but to open yourselves, in charity, to understanding diverse
cultures and meeting
persons belonging to worlds that are even very far removed from your
own.”
“Above all, it means being vigilant in order to be free from personal
ambitions or aims, which can cause so much harm to the Church, taking care to
always put, not your own fulfilment or the recognition that you could receive
within and outside of
the ecclesial community, but the greater good of the Gospel cause and the
fulfilment of the mission that you will be entrusted with. … The
ministry that you are preparing for asks you to go out of yourselves, a
self-detachment that can only be
achieved through an intense spiritual journey and a serious unification of the
life around you to the mystery of God's love and to the inscrutable plan of
his call.”
“We can live the freedom from our plans and our will not as a reason for
frustration or emptiness, but as an openness to God's superabundant gift,
which makes our priesthood fruitful. In this way, the Holy Father asked them
to take great care of
their spiritual lives, the source of that inner freedom, by “cultivating
a life of prayer and by making your daily work the gym of your s
nctification”.
Francis reminded those present of the words of Blessed John XXIII: “The
more mature I grow in years and experience, the more I recognize that the
surest way to make myself holy and to succeed in the service of the Holy See
lies in the constant
effort to reduce everything … to the utmost simplicity and tranquillity
… and concentrate on what is truth, justice, and charity, above all
charity. Any other way of behaving is nothing but affectation and
self-assertion; it soon shows
itself in its true colours and becomes a hindrance and a mockery.”
In his own words, the Pope then mentioned the sisters who carry out their
service amongst the Academy's students. “They are good Mothers who
accompany you with prayer, with their simple and essential words, and above
all by their example of
loyalty, dedication, and love.” He also thanked the lay personnel that
work at the house “with their hidden yet important presence that allows
you to live your time at the Academy serenely and committedly.” On
concluding the audience,
the Holy Father invited them to undertake their service to the Holy See with
the same spirit as Blessed John XXIII, asked them to pray for him, and
entrusted them to the Virgin Mary and their patron, St. Anthony Abbot.
___________________________________________________________
HOLY FATHER'S SUMMER SCHEDULE
Vatican City, 6 June 2013 (VIS) – In a note released today, the
Prefecture of the Pontifical Household announced that, during the summer
period, all private and special audiences will be suspended. The Wednesday
general audiences of 3,10, 17, and
31 July are likewise suspended and will resume again from 7 August. On Sunday,
14 July, the Holy Father will pray the Angelus from the Apostolic Palace of
Castel Gandolfo. From Monday, 22 July, to Monday, 29 July, the Holy Father
will travel to Brazil
for the 28th World Youth Day.
Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., explained
this morning that the pontiff's normal residence for the summer period will
continue to be the Domus Sanctae Marthae, even if he will occasionally travel
to Castel Gandolfo,
as for the Sunday Angelus on 14 July. Further, the morning Masses in the
chapel of the Domus will be suspended from 7 July.
___________________________________________________________
GOVERNMENTS MUST RESPECT, RECOGNIZED AND DECLARED, RIGHTS OF REFUGEES
Vatican City, 31 May 2013 (VIS) – “Welcoming Christ in Refugees
and Forcibly Displaced Persons” is the title of the document prepared by
the Pontifical Councils for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant
Peoples and "Cor Unum",
which was presented this morning at a press conference in the Holy See Press
Office. Speaking at the conference were Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio and
Cardinal Robert Sarah, respectively presidents of the two dicasteries. Also
participating in the
presentation were: Mr. Johan Ketelers, secretary general of the International
Catholic Migration Commission (CICM) and Dr. Katrine Camilleri, assistant
director of Jesuit Refugee Service Malta and recipient of the 2007 Nansen
Refugee Award (United
Nations Refugee Award, ACNUR-UNHCR).
“Our document,” explained Cardinal Veglio, “is a pastoral
guide that starts from a fundamental premise, ... which is that every policy,
initiative, or intervention in this area must be guided by the principle of
the centrality and
dignity of every human person. … Indeed, this is the pivot of the
Church's social doctrine: 'individual human beings are the foundation, the
cause and the end of every social institution'. Refugees, asylum seekers, and
the forcibly displaced,
therefore, are persons whose dignity must be protected, indeed, it must be the
absolute priority. This is why the document recalls the rights granted to each
refugee, which promote the individuals' well-being. These are well described
in the 1951
Refugee Convention.”
“Governments must respect these rights while further [rights to be
extended] to the people involved in forced migration must be studied.
Protection must be guaranteed to all who live under conditions of forced
migration, taking into account their
specific needs, which can vary from a residency permit for victims of human
trafficking to the possibility of being granted citizenship for those who are
stateless,” the cardinal observed. On the contrary, he noted, it is
occurring more and more
frequently that refugees are subjected to confined detention, interment in
refugee camps, and having their freedom to travel and their right to work
restricted.
“It would be very different if their recognized and declared rights were
properly respected. After all, the States have established and ratified these
convention to ensure that individuals' rights do not remain just proclaimed
ideals or
commitments that are subscribed to but not honoured. … The Church, for
her part, is convinced that the pastoral care for all persons who, in various
ways, are involved in forced migration is a collective responsibility, as well
as [the
responsibility] of each individual believer. … In close connection to
moral values and the Christian vision, we mean to save human lives, to restore
dignity to persons, to offer hope, and to give adequate social and communal
responses. Letting
ourselves be challenged by the presence of refugees, asylum seekers, and other
persons who have been forcibly displace compels us to go out of our closed
world, which is familiar to us, toward the unknown, in mission, in the
courageous witness of
evangelization,” the prelate concluded.
Cardinal Sarah then referred to the four million displaced persons within
Syria, noting the 80,000 deaths, in less than two years, that have been
“collateral effects” of the conflict. In this regard he observed
that, up until the 1950's, in
war there was a proportion of 1 civilian victim to 9 military casualties while
today that amount has been inverted and dozens of thousands of people are in
flight, “in the attempt to, at least, save their lives”.
He also referenced the population of the Sahel region of Africa, condemned to
hunger because of drought, likening the situation to that in the American
states that have recently been hit by tornadoes. He emphasized that, “at
whatever latitude, the
fight against against natural catastrophes is absolutely unequal and gives a
sense of how humanity is at the mercy of nature instead of being its
responsible custodian.” The cardinal did not overlook those who, even in
Europe, are unemployed and
condemned to “a 'structural poverty', who pay the price of political
choices with their own lives”. Many of these persons chose the path of
emigration, unleashing the “phenomenon of a flight of [intellectuals],
which further and
permanently impoverishes their country of origin”.
In this state of things “the Church intervenes in different ways
according to her ability, mainly thanks to the worthy work of her charitable
organizations and their volunteers”. But “charity, first of all,
is wed to the individual
… charity isn't a window or a register. Whoever is in need must be able
to find a good Samaritan whose heart beats with theirs because they are made
alike and because [the good Samaritan] serves Christ [in serving their
neighbour in need].”
In the same way, charity “has a plural dimension: the refugee, the
impoverished, the suffering need a network of ecclesial support that embraces
and assimilates them … recognizing the dignity of the person and making
them again feel part of
the human family, respecting their identity and their faith” because
“the Christian community is called to live the ecclesial dimension of
charity”.
___________________________________________________________
COR UNUM: SUMMER WILL AGGRAVATE CRISIS IN SYRIA
Vatican City, 6 June 2013 (VIS) – The Pontifical Council “Cor
Unum” called a meeting, from 4-5 June, of the Catholic charitable
agencies that are working to combat the crisis in Syria. Around 25
representatives of local churches,
charitable agencies working in the region, institutional donors from the
Catholic world, the Holy See, and the Apostolic Nunciature in Syria gathered
to reaffirm the continuity of their commitment and to renew the Holy Father's
appeal that all violence
cease and that paths of dialogue and reconciliation, based on respect for all,
be opened.
The local Churches have responded concretely to the population, both in Syria
and the entire region, from the beginning of the conflict. More than 400,000
persons are regularly supported, without discrimination, by humanitarian aid
to the cost of more
than 25 million Euro. Testimonials confirm the extent of the tragedy: almost 7
million people who need humanitarian assistance, more than 4.5 million
forcibly displaced persons, and an ever-increasing number of persons seeking
security outside of the
country's borders.
A more careful analysis of the needs in this area have revealed that, with the
onset of summer, the risk of epidemics in the affected population—with
pregnant women, children, the elderly, and the disabled in particular
jeopardy—will
certainly increase along with shortages of medicines and aid.
In the face of this alarming situation, the Pontifical Council “Cor
Unum” has launched an appeal on behalf of all the agencies involved to
economically support the humanitarian efforts and the search for peace, in the
hopes of rebuilding a
country that has been torn and destroyed by the conflict.
The international community must also provide more support to the countries
that are receiving refugees and to humanitarian operations there, in order to
be able to respond to their growing needs. The international community's
mediation efforts, even if
more decisive in respect to previous months, still seem insufficient. Thus the
risks are increasing that the conflict in Syria might become another endless
war in which the first victims are defenceless civilians, who are often
treated as targets in the
“useless massacre” of this ongoing violence.
___________________________________________________________
SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN BILATERAL COMMISSION BETWEEN HOLY SEE AND ISRAEL
Vatican City, 6 June 2013 (VIS) – According to a joint communique
released today, “the Bilateral Permanent Working Commission between the
Holy See and the State of Israel met [yesterday], 5 June 2013, at the Vatican,
at the Plenary level to
continue negotiations pursuant to the Fundamental Agreement Art. 10 paragraph
2.”
“The meeting was headed by Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, under-secretary for
the Holy See's Relations with States and by Mr. Zeev Elkin, M.K., deputy
minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel. The Commission welcomed
the two new heads of the
delegations, and acknowledged the contribution of Ambassador Bahij Mansour to
the negotiations and wished him success in his new position. The negotiations
took place in a thoughtful and constructive atmosphere. The Commission took
notice that
significant progress was made and the parties committed themselves to
accelerate negotiations on the remaining issues, and look forward to an
expedited conclusion in the near term.”
“The Parties have agreed on future steps and to hold the next Plenary
meeting by December 2013 in Jerusalem.”
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 6 June 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father received:
- the credential letters of the new ambassador of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, His excellency Mr. Mohamed Taher Rabbani,
- members of the presidency of the Latin American Confederation of
Religious Orders (CLAR), and
- Archbishop Beniamino Stella, president of Pontifical Ecclesiastical
Academy.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 6 June 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father appointed Fr.
Lionginas Virbalas, S.J., as bishop of Panevezys (area 13,000, population
390,000, Catholics 320,000, priests 98, religious 76), Lithuania. The
bishop-elect, previously rector
of the Pontifical Russian College of St. Therese of the Child Jesus in Rome,
Italy, was born in Birzai, Lithuania, in 1961 and was ordained a priest in
1991. Since ordination he has served in several academic, pastoral,
institutional, and diocesan level
roles, most recently as: consultor of the Jesuit Provincial Curia in Lithuania
(2003); adjunct secretary general of Lithuania's Episcopal Conference
(2005-2009); and pastor of St. Casimir parish in Vilnius (1997-2005 and again
from 2009-2010). He
succeeds Bishop Jonas Kauneckas, whose resignation from the pastoral care of
the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews130606
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXIII - N° 122DATE 06-06-2013
Summary: - PONTIFICAL ECCLESIAL ACADEMY:
LEAVE ASIDE PERSONAL AMBITIONS
THAT DO MUCH HARM TO THE CHURCH - HOLY FATHER'S SUMMER SCHEDULE -
GOVERNMENTS MUST RESPECT, RECOGNIZED AND DECLARED, RIGHTS OF REFUGEES -
COR UNUM: SUMMER WILL AGGRAVATE CRISIS IN SYRIA - SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS
IN BILATERAL
COMMISSION BETWEEN HOLY SEE AND ISRAEL - AUDIENCES - OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
PONTIFICAL ECCLESIAL ACADEMY: LEAVE ASIDE PERSONAL AMBITIONS THAT DO MUCH
HARM TO THE CHURCH
Vatican City, 6 June 2013 (VIS) – “You are preparing for a
particular ministry of commitment … a task that requires … great
inner freedom,” Pope Francis said this morning to the 45 members of the
Pontifical
Ecclesiastical Academy whom he received this morning in the Clementine Hall of
the Vatican Apostolic Palace, with their president, Archbishop Beniamino
Stella. It is the institution that trains candidates for the Holy See's
diplomatic service.
In his address to the group, the Holy Father urged the current students to:
“live these years of your preparation with commitment, generosity, and
greatness of soul, so that this freedom can truly take shape in you!”
The Pope explained
that, first of all, this freedom “means being free from personal
projects: from some of the concrete ways that, perhaps one day, you imagined
living your priesthood, from planning the future; from the perspective of
staying a long time in 'your'
place of pastoral action. It means making yourselves free, in some way, even
from the culture and the mentality that you came from, not to forget it and
even less to deny it, but to open yourselves, in charity, to understanding
diverse cultures and
meeting persons belonging to worlds that are even very far removed from your
own.”
“Above all, it means being vigilant in order to be free from personal
ambitions or aims, which can cause so much harm to the Church, taking care to
always put, not your own fulfilment or the recognition that you could receive
within and outside
of the ecclesial community, but the greater good of the Gospel cause and the
fulfilment of the mission that you will be entrusted with. … The
ministry that you are preparing for asks you to go out of yourselves, a
self-detachment that can only be
achieved through an intense spiritual journey and a serious unification of the
life around you to the mystery of God's love and to the inscrutable plan of
his call.”
“We can live the freedom from our plans and our will not as a reason
for frustration or emptiness, but as an openness to God's superabundant gift,
which makes our priesthood fruitful. In this way, the Holy Father asked them
to take great care
of their spiritual lives, the source of that inner freedom, by &
dquo;cultivating a life of prayer and by making your daily work the gym of
your sanctification”.
Francis reminded those present of the words of Blessed John XXIII:
“The more mature I grow in years and experience, the more I recognize
that the surest way to make myself holy and to succeed in the service of the
Holy See lies in the constant
effort to reduce everything … to the utmost simplicity and tranquillity
… and concentrate on what is truth, justice, and charity, above all
charity. Any other way of behaving is nothing but affectation and
self-assertion; it soon shows
itself in its true colours and becomes a hindrance and a mockery.”
In his own words, the Pope then mentioned the sisters who carry out their
service amongst the Academy's students. “They are good Mothers who
accompany you with prayer, with their simple and essential words, and above
all by their example of
loyalty, dedication, and love.” He also thanked the lay personnel that
work at the house “with their hidden yet important presence that allows
you to live your time at the Academy serenely and committedly.” On
concluding the audience,
the Holy Father invited them to undertake their service to the Holy See with
the same spirit as Blessed John XXIII, asked them to pray for him, and
entrusted them to the Virgin Mary and their patron, St. Anthony Abbot.
Vatican City, 6 June 2013 (VIS) – In a note released today, the
Prefecture of the Pontifical Household announced that, during the summer
period, all private and special audiences will be suspended. The Wednesday
general audiences of 3,10, 17,
and 31 July are likewise suspended and will resume again from 7 August. On
Sunday, 14 July, the Holy Father will pray the Angelus from the Apostolic
Palace of Castel Gandolfo. From Monday, 22 July, to Monday, 29 July, the Holy
Father will travel to
Brazil for the 28th World Youth Day.
Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J.,
explained this morning that the pontiff's normal residence for the summer
period will continue to be the Domus Sanctae Marthae, even if he will
occasionally travel to Castel
Gandolfo, as for the Sunday Angelus on 14 July. Further, the morning Masses in
the chapel of the Domus will be suspended from 7 July.
GOVERNMENTS MUST RESPECT, RECOGNIZED AND DECLARED, RIGHTS OF REFUGEES
Vatican City, 31 May 2013 (VIS) – “Welcoming Christ in Refugees
and Forcibly Displaced Persons” is the title of the document prepared by
the Pontifical Councils for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant
Peoples and "Cor Unum",
which was presented this morning at a press conference in the Holy See Press
Office. Speaking at the conference were Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio and
Cardinal Robert Sarah, respectively presidents of the two dicasteries. Also
participating in the
presentation were: Mr. Johan Ketelers, secretary general of the International
Catholic Migration Commission (CICM) and Dr. Katrine Camilleri, assistant
director of Jesuit Refugee Service Malta and recipient of the 2007 Nansen
Refugee Award (United
Nations Refugee Award, ACNUR-UNHCR).
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