After leaving the cathedral, the Pope proceeded to the bishop's residence   
   followed by the seminary, where he lunched with the poor assisted by the   
   diocesan branch of Caritas and the young people assisted at the Saman Mauro   
   Rostagno rehabilitation centre. After lunch, he transferred by car to the Casa   
   Serena where he met with elderly residents, and finally continued on his trip   
   to Sibari.   
      
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    MASS IN SIBARI: THOSE WHO TAKE THE PATH OF EVIL ARE EXCOMMUNICATED   
    Vatican City, 21 June 2014 (VIS) - During his journey from Cassano all'Jonio   
   to Sibari, a distance of slightly less than twenty kilometres, the Pope   
   stopped in the parish of San Giuseppe where, on 3 May last year, the priest   
   Lazzaro Longobardi was murdered. Bishop Nunzio Galantino, secretary of the   
   Italian Episcopal Conference, described him as "a martyr to charity".   
    The Holy Father arrived at Marina de Sibari at 4 p.m. and, after greeting the   
   numerous faithful awaiting him, he celebrated the Holy Mass of Corpus Domini,   
   commenting that while on Holy Thursday we celebrate the institution of the   
   Eucharist in the Last Supper, Corpus Domini is a feast primarily of   
   thanksgiving and adoration.   
    "Indeed, the procession with the Most Holy Sacrament is traditional on this   
   day", he explained. "Adoring Jesus Christ and walking with Him. These are the   
   two inseparable aspects of this feast day, which characterise all the life of   
   the Christian people: a people who adore God and a people who walk, who do not   
   stay in one place, who walk!"   
    First of all we are people who adore God. We adore God Who is love, Who in   
   Jesus Christ gave Himself for us, Who offered Himself on the Cross to expiate   
   our sins, and through the power of this love, rose from the dead and lives in   
   His Church. We have no God other than Him! When, instead, we substitute   
   adoration of the Lord with adoration of money, the way opens to sin, to   
   personal interest and abuse; when one no longer adores God, the Lord, one   
   becomes an adorer of evil, like those who live through dishonesty and   
   violence. Your land, so beautiful, knows the signs and the consequences of   
   this sin. The 'ndrangheta is this: adoration of evil and disdain for the   
   common good. We must fight this evil and expel it. We must say no!", he   
   exclaimed. "The Church, who is so committed to educating consciences, must   
   make increasing efforts to ensure that good may prevail. We ask this of our   
   boys and girls, our young people in need of hope. To be able to respond to   
   these needs, faith can help us. Those who follow this path of evil in life, as   
   the mafiosi do, are not in communion with God: they are excommunicated!"   
    "Today we confess with our gaze turned to the Corpus Domini, to the Sacrament   
   on the altar. And for this faith we renounce Satan and all his seductions; we   
   renounce the idols of money, vanity, pride, power, violence. We Christians do   
   not wish to worship anything or anyone else in this world other than Jesus   
   Christ, Who is present in the holy Eucharist".   
    "Perhaps we do not always fully realise the meaning of this: of what   
   consequences our profession of faith has or should have", remarked the   
   Pontiff. "This, our faith in the real presence of Jesus Christ ... in the   
   consecrated bread and wine is authentic if we make an effort to walk behind   
   Him and with Him. To worship is to walk; a people who worships is a people who   
   walks, seeking to put into practice the commandment He gave to His disciples   
   at the Last Supper: 'as I have loved you, so you must love one another'. A   
   people that loves God in the Eucharist is a people who walks in charity.   
   Worship God in the Eucharist, walk with God in fraternal charity".   
    "Today, as bishop of Rome, I am here to confirm you not only in faith but   
   also in charity, to accompany you and encourage you on your path with Jesus   
   Charity. ... I extend my support to all the pastors and faithful of the Church   
   in Calabria, courageously committed to evangelisation and promoting styles of   
   life and initiatives centred on the needs of the poor and the least among us.   
   And I extend this also to the civil authorities who endeavour to live their   
   political and administrative commitment for what it is, a service to the   
   common good. I encourage all of you to bear witness to concrete solidarity   
   with your brothers and sisters, especially with those most in need of justice,   
   hope and tenderness".   
    Francis went on to thank God for all the signs of hope that can be seen in   
   families, parishes, associations, and ecclesial movements in Calabria, and   
   urged the young not to be robbed of their hope as, "adoring Jesus in your   
   hearts and staying united with Him you will be able to oppose evil, injustice   
   and violence with the strength of goodness, truth, and beauty".   
    "The Body of the Lord makes us one entity, one family, the People of God   
   reunited around Jesus, the Bread of life. What I have said to the young I say   
   to all of you: if you worship Christ and walk behind Him and with Him, your   
   diocesan Church and your parishes will grow in faith and charity, in the joy   
   of evangelisation. You will be a Church in which fathers, mothers, priests,   
   religious, catechists, children, the elderly, and the young all walk one next   
   to the other, they support each other, they help each other, and they love   
   each other like brothers, especially in moments of difficulty. May Mary, our   
   mother, the Eucharistic woman you venerate in many shrines, especially in that   
   of Castrovillari, precede you in this pilgrimage of faith", he concluded.   
    At 5.30 p.m., after the Eucharist, the Pope transferred to the heliport next   
   to the sports field, departing at 6 p.m. and landing an hour and a half later.   
      
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    THE ROACO HOLDS ITS 87TH PLENARY ASSEMBLY   
    Vatican City, 23 June 2014 (VIS) - The Congregation for the Oriental Churches   
   will hold the 87th Plenary Assembly of the ROACO ("Riunione Opere Aiuto Chiese   
   Orientali", "Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches") from 23 to 26   
   June. On Tuesday 24 at 8.30 a.m. Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the same   
   dicastery, will celebrate the Eucharist at the altar of St. John Paul II in   
   the Vatican Basilica to commend the works of the Assembly to the intercession   
   of the saint. In the afternoon, the participants will visit one of the   
   Formative Institutions of the Pontifical Oriental Institute; the former, along   
   with the nine Oriental Colleges, is supported with the contribution of the   
   ROACO agencies.   
    A representative of the Secretariat of the Economy was also invited to assist   
   the new entity in getting to know the methods according to which the   
   Congregation for the Oriental Churches carries out its work in the   
   coordination of disbursements, the ownership of which remains with each   
   individual agency.   
    Among the themes the Congregation will consider are the situation of the   
   Greek Catholic Churches in Romania and Ukraine, the grave situation in Syria,   
   and the ecclesial situation of the Holy Land, including confirmation of the   
   work carried out thanks to donations received in the Good Friday collection.   
    The Assembly will conclude on Thursday 26 June with an audience with the Holy   
   Father in the morning, and in the afternoon, a Eucharistic celebration with   
   the members of the Boards of Regents of Bethlehem University, which celebrates   
   its fiftieth anniversary this year.   
      
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    CARDINAL TOMKO, POPE'S SPECIAL ENVOY IN UKRAINE   
    Vatican City, 21 June 2014 (VIS) - This morning a letter was published,   
   written in Latin and dated 9 June, by which Pope Francis appoints Cardinal   
   Jozef Tomko, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of   
   Peoples, as his special envoy to the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the   
   Greek Catholic eparchy of Mukachevo, scheduled to take place at the major   
   seminary of Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on 28 June 2014.   
    The pontifical mission to accompany the cardinal is composed of Fr. Pavlov   
   Sabov, former priest of the parishes of Strypa and Jarok in Uzhhorod and   
   currently collaborating priest at the Cathedral of Uzhhorod, Fr. Vasyl   
   Chvasta, priest of the Church of Divine Mercy at Uzhhorod and syncellus for   
   the laity.   
      
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    THE ORIENTAL CHURCHES   
    Vatican City, 21 June 2014 (VIS) - His Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of   
   Antioch of the Greek Melkites, with the assent of the Synod of Bishops of the   
   Greek-Melkite Church, has transferred:   
    - Archbishop Georges Bacouni, previously of the archieparchy of Tiro of the   
   Greek Melkites in Lebanon to the archieparchy of Akka (Catholics 80,000,   
   priests 36, religious 36, permanent deacons 4) in Israel.   
    - Bishop Michael Abrass B.A., previously of the patriarchal curia of Antioch   
   of the Greek Melkites in Lebanon to the archieparchy of Tiro of the Greek   
   Melkites (Catholics 3,050 priests 8, religious 6) in Lebanon,elevating him to   
   the dignity of archbishop.   
      
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    AUDIENCES   
    Vatican City, 23 June 2014 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in   
   audience:   
    - Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, apostolic nuncio in Nicaragua.   
    - Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid, president of the Spanish   
   Episcopal Conference, accompanied by the vice-president, Archbishop Carlos   
   Osoro Sierra of Valencia and the secretary general, Fr. Jose Maria Gil Tamayo.   
    - Fratel Enzo Bianchi, prior of the monastery of Bose.   
    - Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the   
   Family.   
    On Saturday, 21 June, the Holy Father received in audience:   
    - Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy.   
    - Archbishop Guido Anselmo Pecorari, apostolic nuncio in Bulgaria.   
      
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    OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
    Vatican City, 21 June 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr.   
   Real Tremblay C.SS.R, president of the Pontifical Academy Theology. Fr.   
   Trembaly is professor emeritus of Fundamental Moral Theology in the   
   Alfonsianium Academy of Rome and ordinary member and adviser to the Pontifical   
   Academy of Theology.   
      
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