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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 36
DATE 22-02-2014
Summary:
- THE POPE TO NEW CARDINALS: THE CHURCH NEEDS US TO BUILD PEACE WITH OUR WORKS
- TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
- POPE FRANCIS MEETS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL
- CONCLUSION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY CONSISTORY ON THE FAMILY
- MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE AIF WITH AUSTRALIAN AND CYPRIOT
COUNTERPARTS
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
THE POPE TO NEW CARDINALS: THE CHURCH NEEDS US TO BUILD PEACE WITH OUR WORKS
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS) – This morning in the Vatican
Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated an Ordinary Public Consistory during which
he created nineteen new cardinals, to whom he imposed the biretta, consigned
the ring and assigned the
title or diaconate church.
The celebration was also attended by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, whom Pope
Francis embraced upon entering the basilica and who was also greeted by
secretary of State Pietro Parolin in his address. Parolin was the first among
the new cardinals and
addressed some words of thanks to the Holy Father in the name of all the new
cardinals. Bishop Loris Francesco Capovilla was not present, and the biretta
will be consigned over the next few days to his residence in Sotto il Monte,
in the Italian
province of Bergamo.
Today's ordinary public consistory was the first of Pope Francis' pontificate;
he began his allocution with the phrase from the Gospel of St. Mark, read on
this occasion: “And Jesus went before them”.
“At this moment too, Jesus is walking ahead of us”, he said.
“He is always before us. He goes ahead of us and leads the way. This is
the source of our confidence and our joy: to be his disciples, to remain with
him, to walk behind him,
to follow him. When we joined with the cardinals to concelebrate the first
Mass in the Sistine Chapel, the first word which the Lord proposed to us was
to 'walk', to journey with him: to journey, and then to build and to profess.
Today this same word is
repeated, but now as an action, an action of Jesus which is ongoing: 'Jesus
was walking…'. This is something striking about the Gospels: Jesus is
often walking and he teaches his disciples along the way. This is important.
Jesus did not come to
teach a philosophy, an ideology, but rather a 'way', a journey to be
undertaken with him, and we learn the way as we go, by walking. Yes, dear
brothers, this is our joy: to walk with Jesus. But this is not easy, or
comfortable, be
cause
the way that Jesus chooses is the way of the Cross. As they journey together,
he speaks to his disciples about what will happen in Jerusalem: he foretells
his passion, death and resurrection. And they are 'shocked' and 'full of
fear'. They were shocked,
certainly, because for them going up to Jerusalem meant sharing in the triumph
of the Messiah, in his victory – we see this in the request made by
James and John. But they were also full of fear for what was about to happen
to Jesus, and for what
they themselves might have to endure.
“Unlike the disciples in those days, we know that Jesus has won, and
that we need not fear the Cross; indeed, the Cross is our hope”,
continued the Pope. “And yet, we are all too human, sinners, tempted to
think as men do, not as God
does. And once we follow the thinking of the world, what happens? The Gospel
says that 'When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and
John'. They were indignant. Whenever a worldly mentality predominates, the
result is rivalry,
jealousy, factions. And so the word which Jesus speaks to us today is most
salutary. It purifies us inwardly, it enlightens our consciences and helps us
to unite ourselves fully with Jesus, and to do so together, at this time when
the College of
Cardinals is enlarged by the entry of new members.
“And Jesus called them to himself”, Pope Francis observed.
“Here is the other action of Jesus. Along the way, he is aware that he
needs to speak to the Twelve; he stops and calls them to himself. Brothers,
let us allow Jesus to call us
to himself! Let us be 'con-voked' by him. And let us listen to him, with the
joy that comes from receiving his word together, from letting ourselves be
taught by that word and by the Holy Spirit, and to become ever more of one
heart and soul, gathered
around him. And as we are thus 'con-voked', 'called to Him' by our one
Teacher, I too will tell you what the Church needs: she needs you, your
cooperation, and even more your communion, with me and among yourselves. The
Church needs your courage, to
proclaim the Gospel at all times, both in season and out of season, and to
bear witness to the truth. The Church needs your prayer for the progress of
Christ’s flock, the prayer which, together with the proclamation of the
Word,
let
us not forget, is the primary task of the Bishop. The Church needs your
compassion, especially at this time of pain and suffering for so many
countries throughout the world. We express our spiritual closeness to the
ecclesial communities and to all
Christians suffering from discrimination and persecution. We must fight
against every form of discrimination. The Church needs our prayer for them,
that they may be firm in faith and capable of responding to evil with good.
And this prayer of ours
extends to every man and women suffering injustice on account of their
religious convictions.
“The Church needs us also to be peacemakers”, he concluded,
“building peace by our words, our hopes and our prayers: let us
therefore invoke peace and reconciliation for those peoples presently
experiencing violence and war. Thank you,
dear Brothers. Let us walk together behind the Lord, and let us always be
called together by him, in the midst of his faithful people, God's holy
faithful people, our holy Mother the Church”.
Following his allocution, the Pope pronounced the formula for the creation of
the new cardinals, their names, and the titular or diaconate churches assigned
to them. The new cardinals recited the Creed and gave their oath of
faithfulness and obedience
to the Pope and his successors. They then received their biretta and ring from
the hands of the Holy Father, who also assigned them their title or diaconate.
___________________________________________________________
TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS).- Below is a list of the titular or
diaconate churches assigned by Pope Francis to the new Cardinals created
during this morning's Ordinary Public Consistory:
1. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, title of Santi Simone e Giuda Taddeo a Torre Angela
2. Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, diaconate of Sant’Anselmo
ll’Aventino
3. Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller, diaconate of Sant’Agnese in Agone
4. Cardinal Beniamino Stella, diaconate of Santi Cosma e Damiano
5. Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols, title of Santissimo Redentore e
Sant’Alfonso in via Merulana
6. Cardinal Leopoldo Jose Brenes Solorzano, title of San Gioacchino ai Prati
di Castello
7. Cardinal Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X., title of San Giuseppe
all’Aurelio
8. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa, title of Sant’Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza
9. Cardinal Orani Joao Tempesta, O.Cist., title of Santa Maria Madre della
Provvidenza a Monte Verde
10. Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, title of Santa Cecilia
11. Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli, title of San Roberto Bellarmino
12. Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-Jung, title of San Crisogono
13. Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B., title of Santissimo Redentore a
Valmelania
14. Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouedraogo, title of Santa Maria
Consolatrice al Tiburtino
15. Cardinal Orlando B. Quevedo, O.M.I., title of Santa Maria “Regina
Mundi” a Torre Spaccata
16. Cardinal Chibly Langlois, title of San Giacomo in Augusta
17. Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla, title of Santa Maria in Trastevere
18. Cardinal Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, C.M.F., title of Sant’Angela
Merici
19. Cardinal Kelvin Edward Felix, title of Santa Maria della Salute a
Primavalle.
___________________________________________________________
POPE FRANCIS MEETS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS) – On Thursday afternoon, in the
study of the Paul VI Hall, Pope Francis received in audience Dilma Rousseff,
president of Brazil. Ms. Rousseff had travelled to Rome in order to attend
today's Consistory, in
which Archbishop Orani Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro will be created a cardinal.
The cordial discussions began at around 7.30 p.m., according to a communique
from the director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J.,
and provided the Pope with the opportunity to express once again his affection
and good wishes for
the Brazilian people. Following the discussions, in the adjacent room, the
Pope greeted the delegation that accompanied the President and gifts were
exchanged.
President Rousseff, clearly making reference to the upcoming football World
Cup which will soon be held in Brazil, gave the Pope a shirt from the
Brazilian team, with the number 10 and signed by Pele with the dedication,
“To Pope Francis, with
respect and admiration”, and a ball signed by Cristiano Ronaldo,
“To Pope Francis, an embrace from your friend Ronaldo”. Fr.
Lombardi communicated that the Holy Father asked jokingly if with these gifts,
he was invited to pray for
Brazil to win the Cup, and the president answered that they asked only for
neutrality. The Pope gave as a gift an artistic medallion depicting “The
Angel of Peace”.
The meeting ended shortly after 8 p.m.
___________________________________________________________
CONCLUSION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY CONSISTORY ON THE FAMILY
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS) – The director of the Holy See
Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., has issued a press release to
report that the final session of the extraordinary consistory took place
yesterday, Friday 21 February,
from 4.30 to 6.45 p.m.
“Throughout the entire consistory, 69 cardinals spoke on a broad range
of themes regarding the family. The assembly took place and concluded in an
atmosphere of great serenity and satisfaction on the part of all those present
for the breadth and
depth of the presentations”.
“The Holy Father made a brief concluding address to thank all the
participants and expressing his conviction that the Lord has led the Church to
face the theme of the Gospel of the family, and will accompany her on the path
she has undertaken with
this important step in the Consistory and will continue with the Synod over
the course of almost two years. He invited all those present to pray to the
Lord for this intention and for him”.
___________________________________________________________
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE AIF WITH AUSTRALIAN AND CYPRIOT
COUNTERPARTS
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS) – The Autorità di
Informazione Finanziaria (AIF), the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Holy
See and Vatican City State, signed on Friday, February 21, a Memorandum of
Understanding with its Australian
counterpart, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC).
Early this week, on the margins of the Egmont Working Groups meeting held in
Budapest, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Financial
Intelligence Unit of
Cyprus, the Unit for Combating Money Laundering (MOKAS). The Memoranda were
signed by Rene Bruelhart, Director of AIF.
A Memorandum of Understanding is standard practice and formalizes the
cooperation and exchange of financial information to fight money laundering
and terrorist financing across borders between the competent authorities of
both countries. It is based on
the model Memorandum of Understanding prepared by the Egmont Group, the global
organization of national Financial Intelligence Units, and contains clauses on
reciprocity, permitted uses of information and confidentiality.
“These Memoranda are strengthening AIF’s international reach and
are a strong commitment of the Holy See and the Vatican City State to fight
Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism pro-actively on a global
level,” said AIF
Director Rene Bruelhart. “Today’s signing underlines our fruitful
relationship with our international counterparts and will further facilitate
our joint efforts.”
AIF became a member of the Egmont Group in July 2013. It has signed Memoranda
of Understanding and cooperates with the Financial Intelligence Units of the
United States, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Germany.
More MOUs are
expected to be signed in the course of the coming weeks.
AIF is the competent authority of the Holy See/Vatican City State to fight
money laundering and financing of terrorism.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed
Bishop Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto of San Juan Bautista de Calama, Chile, as
bishop of Iquique (area 41,799, population 252,300, Catholics 172,500, priests
35, permanent deacons
14, religious 69), Chile.
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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 36DATE 22-02-2014
Summary: - THE POPE TO NEW CARDINALS: THE
CHURCH NEEDS US TO BUILD PEACE
WITH OUR WORKS - TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS - POPE FRANCIS MEETS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL - CONCLUSION OF THE
EXTRAORDINARY CONSISTORY ON THE FAMILY - MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN THE AIF WITH
AUSTRALIAN AND CYPRIOT COUNTERPARTS - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS ___________________________________________________________
THE POPE TO NEW CARDINALS: THE CHURCH NEEDS US TO BUILD PEACE WITH OUR
WORKS
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS) – This morning in the Vatican
Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated an Ordinary Public Consistory during which
he created nineteen new cardinals, to whom he imposed the biretta, consigned
the ring and assigned
the title or diaconate church.
The celebration was also attended by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, whom Pope
Francis embraced upon entering the basilica and who was also greeted by
secretary of State Pietro Parolin in his address. Parolin was the first among
the new cardinals and
addressed some words of thanks to the Holy Father in the name of all the new
cardinals. Bishop Loris Francesco Capovilla was not present, and the biretta
will be consigned over the next few days to his residence in Sotto il Monte,
in the Italian
province of Bergamo.
Today's ordinary public consistory was the first of Pope Francis'
pontificate; he began his allocution with the phrase from the Gospel of St.
Mark, read on this occasion: “And Jesus went before them”.
“At this moment too, Jesus is walking ahead of us”, he said.
“He is always before us. He goes ahead of us and leads the way. This is
the source of our confidence and our joy: to be his disciples, to remain with
him, to walk behind
him, to follow him. When we joined with the cardinals to concelebrate the
first Mass in the Sistine Chapel, the first word which the Lord proposed to us
was to 'walk', to journey with him: to journey, and then to build and to
profess. Today this same
word is repeated, but now as an action, an action of Jesus which is ongoing:
'Jesus was walking…'. This is something striking about the Gospels:
Jesus is often walking and he teaches his disciples along the way. This is
important. Jesus did not
come to teach a philosophy, an ideology, but rather a 'way', a journey to be
undertaken with him, and we learn the way as we go, by walking. Yes, dear
brothers, this is our joy: to walk with Jesus. But
this is not easy, or comfortable, because the way that Jesus chooses is the
way of the Cross. As they journey together, he speaks to his disciples about
what will happen in Jerusalem: he foretells his passion, death and
resurrection. And they are
'shocked' and 'full of fear'. They were shocked, certainly, because for them
going up to Jerusalem meant sharing in the triumph of the Messiah, in his
victory – we see this in the request made by James and John. But they
were also full of fear for
what was about to happen to Jesus, and for what they themselves might have to
endure.
“Unlike the disciples in those days, we know that Jesus has won, and
that we need not fear the Cross; indeed, the Cross is our hope”,
continued the Pope. “And yet, we are all too human, sinners, tempted to
think as men do, not as
God does. And once we follow the thinking of the world, what happens? The
Gospel says that 'When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James
and John'. They were indignant. Whenever a worldly mentality predominates, the
result is rivalry,
jealousy, factions. And so the word which Jesus speaks to us today is most
salutary. It purifies us inwardly, it enlightens our consciences and helps us
to unite ourselves fully with Jesus, and to do so together, at this time when
the College of
Cardinals is enlarged by the entry of new members.
“And Jesus called them to himself”, Pope Francis observed.
“Here is the other action of Jesus. Along the way, he is aware that he
needs to speak to the Twelve; he stops and calls them to himself. Brothers,
let us allow Jesus to call
us to himself! Let us be 'con-voked' by him. And let us listen to him, with
the joy that comes from receiving his word together, from letting ourselves be
taught by that word and by the Holy Spirit, and to become ever more of one
heart and soul,
gathered around him. And as we are thus 'con-voked', 'called to Him' by our
one Teacher, I too will tell you what the Church needs: she needs you, your
cooperation, and even more your communion, with me and among yourselves. The
Church needs your
courage, to proclaim the Gospel at all times, both in season and out of
season, and to bear witness to the truth. The Church needs your prayer for the
progress of Christ’s flock, the prayer which, together
with the proclamation of the Word, let us not forget, is the primary task of
the Bishop. The Church needs your compassion, especially at this time of pain
and suffering for so many countries throughout the world. We express our
spiritual closeness to
the ecclesial communities and to all Christians suffering from discrimination
and persecution. We must fight against every form of discrimination. The
Church needs our prayer for them, that they may be firm in faith and capable
of responding to evil
with good. And this prayer of ours extends to every man and women suffering
injustice on account of their religious convictions.
“The Church needs us also to be peacemakers”, he concluded,
“building peace by our words, our hopes and our prayers: let us
therefore invoke peace and reconciliation for those peoples presently
experiencing violence and war. Thank
you, dear Brothers. Let us walk together behind the Lord, and let us always be
called together by him, in the midst of his faithful people, God's holy
faithful people, our holy Mother the Church”.
Following his allocution, the Pope pronounced the formula for the creation
of the new cardinals, their names, and the titular or diaconate churches
assigned to them. The new cardinals recited the Creed and gave their oath of
faithfulness and
obedience to the Pope and his successors. They then received their biretta and
ring from the hands of the Holy Father, who also assigned them their title or
diaconate.
TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS).- Below is a list of the titular or
diaconate churches assigned by Pope Francis to the new Cardinals created
during this morning's Ordinary Public Consistory:
1. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, title of Santi Simone e Giuda Taddeo a Torre
Angela
2. Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, diaconate of Sant’Anselmo
all’Aventino
3. Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller, diaconate of Sant’Agnese in
Agone
4. Cardinal Beniamino Stella, diaconate of Santi Cosma e Damiano
5. Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols, title of Santissimo Redentore e
Sant’Alfonso in via Merulana
6. Cardinal Leopoldo Jose Brenes Solorzano, title of San Gioacchino ai
Prati di Castello
7. Cardinal Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X., title of San Giuseppe
all’Aurelio
8. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa, title of Sant’Emerenziana a Tor
Fiorenza
9. Cardinal Orani Joao Tempesta, O.Cist., title of Santa Maria Madre della
Provvidenza a Monte Verde
10. Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, title of Santa Cecilia
11. Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli, title of San Roberto Bellarmino
12. Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-Jung, title of San Crisogono
13. Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B., title of Santissimo Redentore
a Valmelania
14. Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouedraogo, title of Santa Maria
Consolatrice al Tiburtino
15. Cardinal Orlando B. Quevedo, O.M.I., title of Santa Maria “Regina
Mundi” a Torre Spaccata
16. Cardinal Chibly Langlois, title of San Giacomo in Augusta
17. Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla, title of Santa Maria in
Trastevere
18. Cardinal Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, C.M.F., title of Sant’Angela
Merici
19. Cardinal Kelvin Edward Felix, title of Santa Maria della Salute a
Primavalle.
Vatican City, 22 February 2014 (VIS) – On Thursday afternoon, in the
study of the Paul VI Hall, Pope Francis received in audience Dilma Rousseff,
president of Brazil. Ms. Rousseff had travelled to Rome in order to attend
today's Consistory, in
which Archbishop Orani Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro will be created a
cardinal.
