VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 196   
   DATE 07-11-2014   
      
   Summary:   
   - The Pope to Bishops, friends of the Focolare Movement: the globalisation of   
   solidarity against the globalisation of indifference   
   - Francis receives the major superiors: charisms are not to be conserved like   
   bottles of distilled water, but to be put to the service of history   
   - The Holy See at the United Nations: for globalisation in search of mutual   
   benefits   
   - Audiences   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    The Pope to Bishops, friends of the Focolare Movement: the globalisation of   
   solidarity against the globalisation of indifference   
    Vatican City, 7 November 2014 (VIS) - "The Eucharist, mystery of communion"   
   is the theme of the ecumenical convention of bishops, friends of the Focolare   
   Movement. This is an annual event uniting bishops not only from different   
   countries but also from different churches and ecclesial communities, defined   
   by Pope Francis as the result of "what is produced by the love of the Word of   
   God and the will to conform existence to the Gospel; these attitudes, created   
   and accompanied by the grace of the Holy Spirit, help nurture many   
   initiatives, allowing solid friendships to thrive and producing significant   
   moments of brotherhood and sharing".   
    The Holy Father reiterated the value, in a troubled world, of a "clear   
   testimony of unity between Christians and an explicit declaration of esteem,   
   respect and, more precisely, fraternity between us. This fraternity is a   
   shining sign of our faith in the risen Christ. Indeed, if we intend to   
   endeavour, as Christians, to respond incisively to the many problems and   
   crises of our time, it is necessary to speak and act as brothers, so that   
   everyone can easily recognise us as such. This too is a way - perhaps for us   
   the first - of responding to the globalisation of indifference with a   
   globalisation of solidarity and fraternity".   
    Among the issues that currently call to the conscience of Christians and   
   their pastors, the Pope mentioned the "lack of freedom to publicly express   
   one's religion and to live openly in accordance with Christian ethics; the   
   persecution of Christians and other minorities; the sad phenomenon of   
   terrorism; the refugee crisis caused by wars and other reasons; the challenge   
   of fundamentalism and, at the other extreme, exasperated secularism".   
    These challenges are a call to "seek with renewed effort, with constancy and   
   patience, the ways that lead to unity, so that the world might believe, and so   
   that we first may be filled with confidence and courage. Among these paths   
   there is a special route, and it is the Eucharist as the mystery of communion.   
   ... The Lord's Supper, a central moment in the life of the community, a   
   'moment of truth', is the encounter between Christ's grace and our   
   responsibility; there, in the Eucharist, we are clearly aware that unity is a   
   gift, and at the same time it is a very serious responsibility", concluded the   
   Pontiff.   
      
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    Francis receives the major superiors: charisms are not to be conserved like   
   bottles of distilled water, but to be put to the service of history   
    Vatican City, 7 November 2014 (VIS) - The participants in the national   
   assembly of the Italian Confederation of Major Superiors (CISM) - around a   
   hundred people - were received in audience by the Pope this morning in the   
   Clementine Hall. The Pontiff wished to share with them a few points of   
   reference for their path, emphasising that religious life helps the Church to   
   achieve the "attraction" that enables her to grow. Faced with the witness of a   
   brother or a sister who truly lives a religious life, people ask themselves,   
   "what is there here?", "what is it that leads this person beyond a worldly   
   horizon?". This is the first issue: helping the Church to grow by attraction.   
   Without proselytising: attraction".   
    The second point was that radicality, in different forms, is required of   
   every Christian, but in the case of religious persons it assumes the form of   
   prophetic witness. "The testimony of an evangelical life is what distinguishes   
   the missionary disciple and in particular those who follow the Lord in   
   consecrated life. And prophetic witness coincides with sanctity. True prophecy   
   is never ideological, it does not oppose the institution: it is institution.   
   Prophecy is institutional, it does not follow fashion, but is always a sign of   
   contradiction according to the Gospel, like Jesus was. Jesus, for example, was   
   a sign of contradiction to the religious authorities of His time: to the heads   
   of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the doctors of the Law, but also to the   
   others, such as the Essenes, Zealots, etc".   
    To explain the third point, the Pope quoted the president of the Major   
   Superiors: "We do not want to fight rearguard battles in defence, but rather   
   to spend ourselves among the people", certain of the faith that God has always   
   made germinate and grow in His Kingdom. This is not easy, it is not to be   
   taken for granted; it requires conversion; it requires, first and foremost,   
   prayer and worship; and it means sharing with the holy people of God who live   
   in the peripheries of history. Removing oneself from the centre. Every   
   charism, to live and to be fruitful, is required to decentralise, because at   
   the centre there is only Jesus Christ. The charism is not to be conserved like   
   a bottle of distilled water, but must instead be made to bear fruit, with   
   courage, placed at the service of current reality, of cultures, of history, as   
   the great missionaries of our institutes teach us".   
    Fraternity is another of the signs that religious life must offer in our   
   time, the Pope affirmed; a time in which the dominant culture is   
   individualistic and focused on subjective rights. "Consecrated life can help   
   the Church and society as a whole, offering witness of fraternity, that it is   
   possible to live together as brothers in diversity, because in the community   
   one does not put oneself first, but rather one finds oneself with people who   
   are different in terms of character, age, formation, sensibility ... and yet   
   we seek to live as brothers. Of course we do not always succeed, but one   
   recognises one's mistakes, asks for forgiveness and forgives others. This is   
   good for the Church: it causes the lymph of fraternity to circulate. And this   
   is also good for all of society.   
    But this fraternity "presupposes God's paternity and the maternity of the   
   Church and of the Mother, the Virgin Mary": a relationship cultivated day by   
   day "with prayer, with the Eucharist, with worship, with the Rosary. In this   
   way we renew each day our 'being' with Christ and in Christ, and in this way   
   we place ourselves in an authentic relationship with the Father in heaven and   
   the Mother Church, our hierarchical Holy Mother Church, and the Mother Mary.   
   If our life is always located in terms of this fundamental relations, always   
   renewed, then we are able also to achieve an authentic fraternity, a   
   brotherhood of witness, that attracts".   
      
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    The Holy See at the United Nations: for globalisation in search of mutual   
   benefits   
    Vatican City, 7 November 2014 (VIS) - "The central challenge in the post-2015   
   development agenda is to ensure that globalisation benefits everyone. ... We   
   need to strengthen multilateralism to help achieve this goal and manage the   
   different risks and interlinked challenges associated with globalisation",   
   said Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See Permanent Observer at the United   
   Nations in New York, speaking at the 69th Session of the United Nations   
   General Assembly on 27 October, on the theme "Globalisation and    
   nterdependence".   
    The prelate spoke about the great benefits globalisation can bring, as well   
   as the widening inequalities. "When globalisation brings people together as   
   equal partners, it creates mutually beneficial results, a win-win partnership   
   for all. If not, globalisation breeds greater inequalities and m   
   rginalization, exploitation and injustice. Indeed, as with most human   
   endeavours, globalisation works for good or ill, depending on the underlying   
   ethic and policies driving the process".   
    The nuncio went on to mention two related issues, culture and the phenomenon   
   of migration. "Culture is a prime vehicle to express and share our common   
   humanity", he said. "It is critically important if authentic human flourishing   
   is the ultimate goal of economic activity and development and ... given all   
   these benefits and values of culture, we should not reduce it to the logic of   
   market exchange. ... A community's culture is their gift to the global common   
   good, for it is an expression of their humanity, and through culture we can   
   enter into a real dialogue because it speaks to our common humanity".   
    On migration, the archbishop emphasised that "it affects everyone, not only   
   because of the extent of the phenomenon, but also because of the social,   
   economic, political, cultural and religious problems it raises", adding that   
   "the Holy See would like to highlight the particularly troubling cases of   
   human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery spawned by migration. ...   
   These modern forms of slavery are the opposite of a globalisation driven by   
   the culture of encounter and the values of solidarity and justice".   
    "It is necessary always to see the human face of migration, to see the   
   migrant as a fellow human being, endowed with the same human dignity and   
   rights as ourselves. It is only then that we can respond to the globalisation   
   of migration with the globalisation of solidarity and cooperation. Moreover,   
   solidarity with migrants is not enough, if it is not accompanied by efforts   
   towards bringing peace in conflict-ridden regions and a more equitable   
   economic world order. If globalisation has shrunk the world into a village, we   
   may as well become good neighbours", he concluded.   
      
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    Audiences   
    Vatican City, 7 November 2014 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father received in   
   audience:   
    - Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the   
   Doctrine of the Faith;   
    - Cardinal Agostino Vallini, vicar general of His Holiness for the diocese of   
   Rome;   
    - Cardinal Claudio Hummes, prefect emeritus for the Clergy; delegate for   
   Amazonia at the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil.   
    Yesterday, 6 November, the Holy Father received in audience Cardinal Joao   
   Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated   
   Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, with Archbishop Jose Rodriguez   
   Carballo, secretary of the same dicastery.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 7 November 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - Msgr. Jean-Philippe Nault as bishop of Digne (area 6,986, population   
   163,500, Catholics 112,800, priests 41, permanent deacons 10, religious 136),   
   France. The bishop-elect was born in Paris, France in 1965 and ordained a   
   priest in 1998. After his studies in agricultural engineering and artificial   
   intelligence, he obtained a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical   
   Gregorian University, Rome, and has served in a number of pastoral roles,   
   including director of the Shrine of Ars, parish priest of Notre-Dame de Bourg   
   and dean of Bourg-en-Bresse, in the diocese of Belley-Ars. He succeeds Bishop   
   Francois-Xavier Loizeau, whose resignation upon reaching the age limit was   
   accepted by the Holy Father.   
    - Msgr. Terence Robert Curtin and Rev. Fr. Mark Stuart Edwards, O.M.I., as   
   auxiliaries of the archbiocese of Melbourne (area 27,194, population   
   4,095,921, Catholics 1,111,981, priests 537, permanent deacons 8, religious   
   2,218), Australia.   
    Msgr. Curtin was born in Cremorne, Australia in 1945 and ordained a priest in   
   1971. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian   
   University, Rome and a bachelor's degree in education from the University of   
   Melbourne. He has served in a number of pastoral and academic roles, including   
   chaplain and director of the School of Religion and Philosophy of the   
   Australian Catholic University in Oakleigh; director of the department of   
   religion and philosophy of the Australian Catholic University, Victoria;   
   director of the department of theology of the Australian Catholic University,   
   Victoria; and vice-president and subsequently president of the Melbourne   
   College of Divinity. He is currently director of the Catholic Theological   
   College, Melbourne, parish priest of Greythorn, and episcopal vicar of   
   Melbourne for the East Region. In 2012 he was named Chaplain of His Holiness.   
    Rev. Fr. Edwards was born in Balikpapan, Indonesia in 1959 and ordained a   
   priest in 1986. He holds a doctorate in philosophy and a bachelor's degree in   
   letters and education from the Monash University of Melbourne. He has held a   
   number of roles in the Congregation of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate,   
   including vice-rector of the Iona College of Brisbane; master of novices art   
   the St. Mary's Seminary, Mulgrave; professor at the Catholic Theological   
   College of Melbourne; and head of scholastics at the St. Mary's Seminary,   
   Mulgrave. He is currently rector of the Iona College, Brisbane.   
      
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