VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 032   
   DATE 14-02-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - The Pope to the new cardinals: "May the people of God always see in us a   
   firm condemnation of injustice and joyful service to the truth"   
   - Titular and diaconate churches of the new cardinals   
   - Cardinal De Magistris takes possession of his diaconate   
      
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    The Pope to the new cardinals: "May the people of God always see in us a firm   
   condemnation of injustice and joyful service to the truth"   
    Vatican City, 14 February 2015 (VIS) - At 11 a.m. today in the Vatican   
   Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated an Ordinary Public Consistory during which   
   he created twenty 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. He was also greeted by Cardinal   
   Dominique Mamberti, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura   
   who, as first among the new cardinals, addressed some words of thanks to the   
   Holy Father on behalf of all. "Becoming part of the College of Cardinals   
   places us in a particular way in the history and life of the Church of Rome   
   that - according to St. Ignatius of Antioch's beautiful phrase - presides in   
   charity. We are invited to come out of ourselves, of our habits and comforts,   
   in order to serve the mission of this Church, aware that this implies having a   
   broader horizon". Cardinal Jose de Jesus Pimiento was unable to attend on   
   account of his advanced age, and so he will receive the biretta in Colombia.   
    In the homily he pronounced before the new cardinals, the Pope chose as a   
   guide the hymn to charity from St. Paul's first Letter to the Corinthians, and   
   emphasised that charity must always preside over their ministry.   
    "The cardinalate is certainly an honour, but it is not honorific", he began.   
   "This we already know from its name - 'cardinal' - from the word 'cardo', a   
   hinge. As such it is not a kind of accessory, a decoration, like an honorary   
   title. Rather, it is a pivot, a point of support and movement essential for   
   the life of the community. You are 'hinges' and are 'incardinated' in the   
   Church of Rome, which 'presides over the entire assembly of charity'".   
    In the Church, "all 'presiding' flows from charity, must be exercised in   
   charity, and is ordered towards charity. Here too the Church of Rome exercises   
   an exemplary role. Just as she presides in charity, so too each particular   
   Church is called, within its own sphere, to preside in charity. For this   
   reason, I believe that the 'hymn to charity' in St. Paul's first letter to the   
   Corinthians can be taken as a guiding theme for this celebration and for your   
   ministry, especially for those of you who today enter the College of   
   Cardinals. All of us, myself first and each of you with me, would do well to   
   let ourselves be guided by the inspired words of the apostle Paul, especially   
   in the passage where he lists the marks of charity. May our Mother Mary help   
   us to listen. She gave the world Jesus, charity incarnate, who is 'the more   
   excellent Way'; may she help us to receive this Word and always to advance on   
   this Way. May she assist us by her humility and maternal tenderness, because   
   charity, as God's gift, grows wherever humility and tenderness are found.   
    "St. Paul tells us that charity is, above all, 'patient' and 'kind'",   
   remarked the Holy Father. "The greater our responsibility in serving the   
   Church, the more our hearts must expand according to the measure of the heart   
   of Christ. 'Patience' - 'forbearance' - is in some sense synonymous with   
   catholicity. It means being able to love without limits, but also to be   
   faithful in particular situations and with practical gestures. It means loving   
   what is great without neglecting what is small; loving the little things   
   within the horizon of the great things, since 'non coerceri a maximo,   
   contineri tamen a minimo divinum est'. To know how to love through acts of   
   kindness. 'Kindness' - benevolence - means the firm and persevering intention   
   to always will the good of others, even those unfriendly to us.   
    "The Apostle goes on to say that charity 'is not jealous or boastful, it is   
   not puffed up with pride'. This is surely a miracle of love, since we humans -   
   all of us, at every stage of our lives - are inclined to jealousy and pride,   
   since our nature is wounded by sin. Nor are Church dignitaries immune from   
   this temptation. But for this very reason, dear brothers, the divine power of   
   love, which transforms hearts, can be all the more evident in us, so that it   
   is no longer you who live, but rather Christ who lives in you. And Jesus is   
   love to the fullest.   
    "St. Paul then tells us that charity 'is not arrogant or rude, it does not   
   insist on its own way'", continued Pope Francis. "These two characteristics   
   show that those who abide in charity are not self-centred. The self-centred   
   inevitably become disrespectful; very often they do not even notice this,   
   since 'respect' is precisely the ability to acknowledge others, to acknowledge   
   their dignity, their condition, their needs. The self-centred person   
   inevitably seeks his own interests; he thinks this is normal, even necessary.   
   Those 'interests' can even be cloaked in noble appearances, but underlying   
   them all is always 'self-interest'. Charity, however, makes us draw back from   
   the centre in order to set ourselves in the real centre, which is Christ   
   alone. Then, and only then, can we be persons who are respectful and attentive   
   to the good of others.   
    "Charity, Saint Paul says, 'is not irritable, it is not resentful'. Pastors   
   close to their people have plenty of opportunities to be irritable, to feel   
   anger. Perhaps we risk being all the more irritable in relationships with our   
   confreres, since in effect we have less excuses. Even here, charity, and   
   charity alone, frees us. It frees us from the risk of reacting impulsively, of   
   saying or doing the wrong thing; above all it frees us from the mortal danger   
   of pent-up anger, of that smouldering anger which makes us brood over wrongs   
   we have received. No. This is unacceptable in a man of the Church. Even if a   
   momentary outburst is forgiveable, this is not the case with rancour. God save   
   us from that!   
    "Charity - St. Paul adds - 'does not rejoice at the wrong, but rejoices in   
   the right'. Those called to the service of governance in the Church need to   
   have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes   
   unacceptable, even those which might bring gain to himself or to the Church.   
   At the same time, he must 'rejoice in the right'. What a beautiful phrase! The   
   man of God is someone captivated by truth, one who encounters it fully in the   
   word and flesh of Jesus Christ, the inexhaustible source of our joy. May the   
   people of God always see in us a firm condemnation of injustice and joyful   
   service to the truth".   
    Finally, the Pope concluded, "'love bears all things, believes all things,   
   hopes all things, endures all things'. Here, in four words, is a spiritual and   
   pastoral programme of life. The love of Christ, poured into our hearts by the   
   Holy Spirit, enables us to live like this, to be like this: as persons always   
   ready to forgive; always ready to trust, because we are full of faith in God;   
   always ready to inspire hope, because we ourselves are full of hope in God;   
   persons ready to bear patiently every situation and each of our brothers and   
   sisters, in union with Christ, who bore with love the burden of our sins.   
    "Dear brothers, this comes to us not from ourselves, but from God. God is   
   love and he accomplishes all this in us if only we prove docile to the working   
   of his Holy Spirit. This, then, is how we are to be: 'incardinated' and   
   docile. The more we are 'incardinated' in the Church of Rome, the more we   
   should become docile to the Spirit, so that charity can give form and meaning   
   to all that we are and all that we do. Incardinated in the Church which   
   presides in charity, docile to the Holy Spirit who pours into our hearts the   
   love of God. Amen".   
    Following his allocution, the Pope pronounced the formula for the creation of   
   the new cardinals, their name and the titular diaconate or church assigned to   
   them. The new cardinals recited the Creed and their oath of fidelity and   
   obedience to the Holy Father and his successors. They subsequently received   
   the biretta and the ring from the Pope, who also assigned them their title or   
   diaconate.   
    At the end of the rite, Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the   
   Congregation for the Causes of Saints, addressed the Holy Father to request   
   that three Blesseds be inscribed in the Book of Saints. The first,   
   Jeanne-Emilie de Villeneuve, was born in France in 1811, and founded the   
   Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Castres for the   
   education of poor girls and young women, for the sick, and for missions in   
   distant lands. She died in 1854 and was beatified by Benedict XVI in 2009. The   
   second, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas (nee Maryam Sultanah) was born in   
   Jerusalem in 1843 and carried out an intense apostolate in favour of Christian   
   mothers and the young. Co-foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the   
   Holy Rosary of Jerusalem of the Latins, she died in 1927 and was beatified by   
   Benedict XVI in 2009. Finally, Mary of Jesus Crucified (nee Maryam Baouardy),   
   born in Abellin near Nazareth in 1946, was a professed nun of the Order of   
   Discalced Carmelites, and was sent to found the new Carmelites first in India   
   and later in Bethlehem, where she died in 1878. She was beatified by St. John   
   Paul II in 1983.   
      
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    Titular and diaconate churches of the new cardinals   
    Vatican City, 14 February 2015 (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:   
    Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, diaconate of Santo Spirito in Sassia   
    Cardinal Manuel Jose Macario Do Nascimento Clemente, title of Sant'Antonio in   
   Campo Marzio   
    Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Sourphiel, C.M., title of San Romano Martire   
    Cardinal John Atcherley Dew, title of Sant'Ippolito   
    Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli, title of Sacri Cuori di Gesu e Maria a Tor   
   Fiorenza   
    Cardinal Pierre Nguyen Van Nhon, title of San Tommaso Apostolo   
    Cardinal Alberto Suarez Inda, title of San Policarpo   
    Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B., title of Sant'Ireneo a Centocelle   
    Cardinal Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij, title of Santa Maria   
   Addolorata   
    Cardinal Francesco Montenegro, title of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio   
    Cardinal Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B., title of Santa Galla   
    Cardinal Ricardo Blasquez Perez, title of Santa Maria in Vallicella   
    Cardinal Jose Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan, O.A.R., title of San Giuseppe da   
   Copertino   
    Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado, title of San Timoteo   
    Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi, title of Santa Paola Romana   
    Cardinal Jose de Jesus Pimiento Rodriguez, title of San Giovanni Crisostomo a   
   Monte Sacro Alto   
    Cardinal Luigi De Magistris, diaconate of Santissimi Nomi di Gesu e Maria in   
   Via Lata   
    Cardinal Karl-Josef Rauber, diaconate of Sant'Antonio di Padova a   
   Circonvallazione Appia   
    Cardinal Luis Hector Villalba, title of San Girolamo a Corviale   
    Cardinal Julio Duarte Langa, title of San Gabriele dell'Addolorata.   
      
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    Cardinal De Magistris takes possession of his diaconate   
    Vatican City, 14 February 2015 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations   
   of the Supreme Pontiff today announced that Cardinal Luigi De Magistris,   
   pro-major penitentiary emeritus, will take possession of the diaconate of the   
   Santissimi Nomi di Gesu e Maria in Via Lata (Via del Corso, 45) on Tuesday, 17   
   February at 5 p.m.   
      
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