VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 201   
   DATE 14-11-2014   
      
   Summary:   
   - Audience with the president of Peru: promote full development and the   
   protection of the environment   
   - Francis to accountants: the dignity of the person must prevail over   
   bureaucracy   
   - Programme for the Pope's apostolic trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines   
   - Third World Congress of Movements Guided by Evangelii gaudium   
   - Audiences   
      
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    Audience with the president of Peru: promote full development and the   
   protection of the environment   
    Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father Francis today received   
   in audience, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the president of the Republic of   
   Peru, Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso, who subsequently met with Archbishop   
   Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States, in the absence of   
   Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.   
    During the cordial discussions, mention was made of the good relations   
   between the Holy See and the Republic of Peru, with particular emphasis on the   
   special role of Christianity in the formation of the identity of the country,   
   as well as the contribution the Catholic Church has given and continues to   
   guarantee in favour of the human, social and cultural progress of the   
   population.   
    Finally, there was an exchange of views on the political and social situation   
   in the Region, with attention to the efforts made to promote full development   
   and the protection of the environment.   
      
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    Francis to accountants: the dignity of the person must prevail over   
   bureaucracy   
    Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - "From your professional observatory,   
   you are well aware of the dramatic situation faced by many people who are   
   precariously employed or have lost their jobs; of the many families who pay   
   the consequences; of the many young people in search of a first occupation and   
   dignified work. They are many, especially immigrants, who are compelled to   
   work illegally, and lack the most basic legal and economic guarantees", said   
   the Pope this morning in his address to the seven thousand participants at the   
   World Congress of Accountants, held in Rome from 10 to 13 November.   
    In this economic context, there is a "strong temptation to defend one's own   
   interests without worrying about the common good, without paying too much   
   attention to justice and legality. However, we are all, especially those who   
   exercise a profession associated with the good functioning of the economic   
   life of a country, required to play a positive and constructive role in   
   carrying out our work on a daily basis, aware that behind every piece of paper   
   there is a story, and there are faces. In this task ... the Christian   
   professional draws strength every day from prayer and the Word of God to carry   
   out his or her own duties well, with skill and wisdom; and then, to go further   
   than this, which means reaching towards those in difficulty; exercising that   
   creativity that allows solutions to be found in situations of impasse; to make   
   the reason of human dignity prevail over the rigidity of bureaucracy".   
    Francis affirmed that the economy and finance are "dimensions of human   
   activity and may be opportunities for encounters, dialogue, cooperation, the   
   recognition of rights and the rendering of services, of dignity affirmed in   
   work. But it is therefore necessary always to place man and his dignity at the   
   centre, opposing those dynamics that tend to homogenise everything and place   
   money at the summit. When money becomes the aim and reason for every activity   
   and initiative, this leads to the prevalence of a utilitarian perspective and   
   the untrammelled logic of profit that does not respect people, with the   
   consequent widespread decline in the values of solidarity and respect for the   
   human person. Those who work in various roles in economics and finance are   
   required to make decisions that favour the social and economic well-being of   
   humanity as a whole, offering everyone the opportunity to realise their own   
   development".   
    "You, in your profession", he said, addressing the accountants, "work   
   alongside companies, but also families and individuals, to offer economic and   
   financial advice. I encourage you always to work responsibly, favouring   
   relationships of loyalty, justice and, if possible, fraternity, courageously   
   facing, above all, the problems faced by the weakest and poorest. It is not   
   enough to give concrete answers to economic and material questions; it is   
   necessary to promote and cultivate the ethics of the economy, finance and   
   work; it is necessary to keep alive the value of solidarity as a moral   
   attitude, an expression of attention to others and all their legitimate needs.   
   If we wish to hand our environmental, economic, cultural and social patrimony   
   to future generations in a better condition than that in which we have   
   inherited it, we must assume the responsibility of working for a globalisation   
   of solidarity. ... And the social doctrine of the Church teaches us that the   
   principle of solidarity works in harmony with that of subsidiarity. Thanks to   
   the effect of these two principles, processes are placed at the services of   
   humanity and enable the growth of justice, without which there cannot be true   
   and lasting peace".   
      
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    Programme for the Pope's apostolic trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines   
    Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - Today the Holy See Press Office   
   published the programme for Pope Francis' upcoming trip to Sri Lanka and the   
   Philippines, scheduled for 12 to 19 January 2015.   
    The Holy Father will depart from Rome's Fiumicino airport on Monday, 12   
   January at 7 p.m. and will arrive in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, on   
   Tuesday 13 at 9 a.m. Following the welcome ceremony he will meet with the   
   country's bishops at the archbishop's residence, after which he will pay a   
   courtesy visit to the president of the Republic. The day will conclude with an   
   interreligious meeting at the Bandaranaike Memorial.   
    On Wednesday, 14 January, during a Mass to be celebrated at 8.30 a.m. at the   
   Galle Face Green, he will canonise Blessed Joseph Vaz and will then transfer   
   by helicopter to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary at Madhu. From there he   
   will proceed by helicopter to Colombo.   
    Thursday will begin with a visit to the chapel of Our Lady of Lanka in   
   Bolawalana, after which the Pope will leave Sri Lanka and depart by air, at 9   
   a.m., for Manila, the capital of the Philippines, where he will be officially   
   received at 5.45 p.m.   
    On Friday, 16 January, Francis will pay a courtesy visit to the president of   
   the Philippines in the presidential palace, followed by an address to the   
   authorities and the diplomatic corps. At 11.15 a.m. in the cathedral of the   
   Immaculate Conception he will celebrate Mass with bishops, priests and   
   consecrated persons. His final activity on Thursday will be an encounter with   
   families in the Arena Mall of Asia.   
    On Saturday, 17 January, the Pontiff will transfer by air to Tacloban   
   International Airport where he will celebrate Mass, followed by and lunch with   
   survivors of Typhoon Yolanda. In the afternoon he will bless the Pope Francis   
   Centre for the Poor and will meet priests, consecrated persons, seminarians   
   and families of the typhoon survivors in the cathedral of Palo. He will then   
   return to Manila.   
    On Sunday, 18 January, he will meet with the religious leaders of the   
   Philippines at the St. Thomas University of Manila and later with young people   
   at the university sports field. The day will conclude with a Mass celebrated   
   in Rizal Park.   
    On Monday, 19 January, the Pope will conclude his trip, leaving from Manila   
   at 10 a.m. The aircraft carrying the Holy Father is expected to land in Rome's   
   Ciampino airport at 5.40 p.m.   
      
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    Third World Congress of Movements Guided by Evangelii gaudium   
    Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - This morning, in the Holy See Press   
   Office, a conference was held to present the Third World Congress of Ecclesial   
   Movements and new communities. Promoted and organised by the Pontifical   
   Council for the Laity on the theme "The Joy of the Gospel: a missionary joy",   
   the Congress will be held from 20 to 22 November in the Maria Mater Ecclesiae   
   Pontifical College, Rome.   
    The speakers in the conference were Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of   
   the Pontifical Council for the Laity; Bishop Josef Clemens, secretary of the   
   same dicastery; Maria Voce, president of the Focolare Movement; and Jean-Luc   
   Moens, president of Fidesco, young volunteers in evangelisation and   
   development projects, and member of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum".   
    Cardinal Rylko remarked that the Pontifical Magisterium has perceived in the   
   phenomenon of movements "a current of grace, a gift and a timely response from   
   the Holy Spirit to the serious challenges that today's world poses to the   
   mission of the Church". He recalled that, for St. John Paul II, movements   
   constituted a "reason for hope for the Church and for mankind", and were seen   
   by Pope Benedict XVI as "new incursions of the Holy Spirit in the life of the   
   Church, powerful ways of living faith, a healthy provocation, of which the   
   Church is always in need, and 'creative minorities', decisive for the future   
   of humanity". He added that Pope Francis, in this respect, is in perfect   
   harmony with his predecessors.   
    The Congress will be attended by approximately three hundred laypersons -   
   founders, moderators and general delegates - representing around a hundred   
   movements and new communities, with a broad international dimension. They will   
   be joined by a large number of pastors, bishops and priests. The prelate   
   explained that the novelty of this Congress derives from the fact that it   
   originated from the great meeting with the Pope that took place at Pentecost   
   in 2013 in the context of the Year of Faith, and added that the theme of the   
   congress clearly expresses that "our work is guided by the Apostolic   
   Exhortation 'Evangelii gaudium'. This is the great challenge that Pope Francis   
   presents to us. ... He wants an 'outbound' Church, that reaches out to the   
   geographical and existential peripheries of our world, a Church that is   
   particularly attentive and close to all the poor, suffering and excluded, the   
   bitter product of the 'throwaway culture' that dominates nowadays. ... And it   
   is precisely this that is the great and fundamental challenge that the   
   movements wish to accept during this third world Congress'".   
      
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    Audiences   
    Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father received in audience:   
    - Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy;   
    - Franco Anelli, rector of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.   
      
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