?And now, letus turn to the Virgin Mary, so that she might help us always to   
   follow Jesus' example faithfully?.   
      
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    THE STUDY OF HISTORY, ONE OF THE PATHS TO THE TRUTH   
   Vatican City, 12 April 2014 (VIS) ? ?The study of history indeed represents   
   one of the paths for the impassioned search for the truth, which has always   
   pervaded man's soul?, said the Pope in his audience with the participants in   
   the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences,   
   which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. ?Your research, marked both   
   by a genuine passion for the Church and by sincere love for the truth, can be   
   of great help to those who have the task of discerning what the Holy Spirit   
   wants to say to today's Church. ... In your encounter and collaboration with   
   researchers from every culture and religion, you can offer a specific   
   contribution to the dialogue between the Church and the contemporary world?.   
   At the end of the meeting, Pope Francis commented on one of the initiatives   
   planned by the Committee, the internationalconference to mark the centenary of   
   the outbreak of the First World War, and recalled the prophetic words of   
   Benedict XV in his letter of August 1917 to the leaders of the warring   
   nations: ?Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war?.   
      
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    POPE FRANCIS: CARE FOR YOUR PATIENTS WITHOUT FORGETTING THEY ARE PEOPLE   
   Vatican City, 12 April 2014 (VIS) ? This morning the Holy Father met with the   
   participants in the Congress of the Italian Society for Oncological Surgery,   
   organised by the ?La Sapienza? University of Rome and by the Sant'Andrea   
   Hospital. ?Scientific research has multiplied the possibilities for prevention   
   and treatment, and has discovered therapies to treat many illnesses?, said the   
   Pope. ?But when we speak of in full health, it is necessary not to lose sign   
   of the fact that the human person, created in the image and semblance of God,   
   is a unity of body and spirit. These two elements are distinct but   
   inseparable, because the person is one entity. Therefore, even illness, the   
   experience of pain and suffering, does not relate only to the bodily   
   dimension, but to man in his entirety. This creates the need for an integral   
   treatment, that considers the person as a wholeand unites medical care with   
   human, psychological and social support, spiritual guidance, and support for   
   patients' families?.   
   Pope Francis recalled Pope John Paul II's Moto Proprio ?Dolentium hominum? of   
   1985, remarking that ?it is indispensable for healthcare workers to 'be led by   
   an integrally human view of illness? and as a result be ?able to effect a   
   fully human approach to the sick person who is suffering'. ? Fraternal   
   communion with the sick opens us up to the true beauty of human life?.   
   Finally, referring the beginning of Holy Week, which culminates in the Triduum   
   of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, he affirmed, ?Here human   
   suffering reaches its lowest point, and is redeemed by God. God as love. Only   
   Christ can give meaning to the scandal of innocent pain?.   
      
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    AUDIENCES   
   Vatican City, 14 April 2014 (VIS) ? Today, the Holy Father received in   
   audience:   
   - Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental   
   Churches.   
   - Cardinal Agostino Vallini, vicar general of His Holiness for the diocese of   
   Rome.   
   On Saturday 12 April the Holy Father received in audience:   
   - Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.   
      
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    OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
   Vatican City, 14 April 2014 (VIS) ? The Holy Father has appointed Fr. Alan   
   Williams, S.M., as bishop of Brentwood (area 3,967, population 2,789,000,   
   Catholics 225,700, priests 154, permanent deacons 11, religious 293), England.   
   The bishop-elect was born in Blackburn, England in 1951, gave his solemn vows   
   in 1976, and was ordained a priest in 1983. After teaching at St. Mary's   
   College, Blackburn, he served as director of the national shrine of Our Lady   
   of Walsingham. He was subsequently chaplain at Sheffield Hallam University and   
   priest of the parish of Sidcup in Southwark, as well as regional superior of   
   the Marist Fathers. In 2008 he returned to the role of director of the   
   national shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, in which he continues to serve. He   
   succeeds Bishop Thomas McMahon, whose resignation upon reaching the age limit   
   was accepted by the Holy Father.   
   On Saturday, 12 April, the HolyFather:   
   - appointed Fr. Columba Macbeth-Green, O.S.P.P.E., as bishop of    
   ilcannia-Forbes (area 414,378, population 117,000, Catholics 35,200, priests   
   21, religious 42), Australia. The bishop-elect was born in Forbes, Australia   
   in 1968, gave his solemn vows in 1996, and ordained a priest in 1997. He has   
   served in a number of pastoral roles, including: priest of the parish of   
   Tarcutta, Wagga Wagga; prefect of novices in Tarcutta; first counsellor of the   
   Australian Province of the Order; master of novices in Tarcutta; secretary of   
   the Australian Province of the Order; sub-prior of the Penrose Park Monastery,   
   Wollongong; and priest of the parish of Moss Vale, Wollongong. He is currently   
   prior of the Monastery and rector of the Marian Valley shrine, Canugra,   
   Brisbane, and provincial vicar of the Australian Province of the Order. He has   
   also served as chaplain of the police of New South Wales and is currently   
   chaplain of the police of Queensland.   
   -accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of   
   Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine, presented by Bishop Marian Buczek, in accordance   
   with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.   
   - appointed Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk, O.F.M., auxiliary of   
   Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine, and apostolic administrator ?ad nutum Sanctae Sedis?   
   of Lutsk, as bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia (area 196,300, population   
   19,000,000, Catholics 40,000, priests 64, religious 97), Ukraine.   
   - appointed Bishop Vitaliy Skomarovskyi, auxiliary of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine,   
   as bishop of Lutsk (area 40,300, population 2,217,730, Catholics 27,160,   
   priests 26, religious 19), Ukraine.   
   - appointed Bishop Giovanni D'Ercole, F.D.P., as bishop of Ascoli Piceno (area   
   840, population 107,503, Catholics 106,512, priests 111, permanent deacons 7,   
   religious 151), Italy. He was previously auxiliary of the archdiocese of   
   L'Aquila, Italy.   
   -appointed Fr. Maurizio of the clergy of the diocese of Faenza-Modigliana as   
   relator of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Fr. Tagliaferri is   
   ordinary professor of History of the Church at the Theological Faculty of   
   Emilia-Romagna.   
   - confirmed Msgr. Guido Marini as Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations.   
   - appointed Professor Margaret Scotford Archer, Great Britain, as president of   
   the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Scotford Archer is   
   currently director of the ?Centre d'Ontologie Sociale? at the EPFL Ecole   
   Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, pontifical academic and member of the   
   Council of the Academy.   
      
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