VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 044   
   DATE 03-03-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - Programme of the Holy Father's visit to Pompeii and Naples   
   - The Pope approves the statutes of the new economic entities   
   - The Piazza and the Temple: new meeting of the Courtyard of the Gentiles   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    Programme of the Holy Father's visit to Pompeii and Naples   
    Vatican City, 3 March 2015 (VIS) - Pope Francis will travel to Pompeii and   
   Naples on Saturday, 21 March. He will leave the Vatican by helicopter at 7   
   a.m., and will arrive at the meeting area of the Shrine of Pompeii an hour   
   later. Following a moment of prayer at the shrine, he will transfer by   
   helicopter to the Scampia sports field in Naples. He will meet with   
   representatives of various different groups in Piazza Giovanni Paolo II, and   
   at 11 a.m. he will celebrate Holy Mass in Piazza del Plebiscito.   
    At 1 p.m., Pope Francis will visit the "Giuseppe Salvia" detention centre at   
   Poggioreale, where he will lunch with a group of detainees. Two hours later he   
   will venerate the relics of St. Januarius and, in the Cathedral of Naples,   
   will meet the clergy, men and women religious and permanent deacons of the   
   archdiocese. An hour later, in the Gesù Nuovo Basilica, he will meet with a   
   group of sick people and, at 5 p.m. in the maritime quarter of Caracciolo, he   
   will meet with a group of young Neapolitans.   
    The Pope will depart from the Naples Maritime Centre by helicopter at 6.15   
   p.m., and is due to arrive in the Vatican at 7 p.m.   
      
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    The Pope approves the statutes of the new economic entities   
    Vatican City, 3 March 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has approved the statutes   
   of the new economic entities of the Holy See: the Council for the Economy, the   
   Secretariat for the Economy and the General Auditor's Office. The three   
   statutes, signed 22 February 2015, feast of the Chair of St. Peter, were   
   approved "ad experimentum" and entered into force on 1 March 2015, prior to   
   their publication in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis.   
    The statutes may be consulted on the Vatican website: www.vatican.va   
      
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    The Piazza and the Temple: new meeting of the Courtyard of the Gentiles   
    Vatican City, 3 March 2015 (VIS) - "The Piazza and the Temple" is the title   
   of an event to take place next Friday, 6 March, in the Centre for American   
   Studies in Rome. It is an initiative of the Courtyard of the Gentiles, a forum   
   for dialogue between believers and non-believers which has for some years   
   organised meetings of this type in various cities throughout the world, under   
   the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture.   
    The event in Rome, organised with the collaboration of the Institut   
   Francais-Centre St. Louis of the French Embassy at the Holy See and the   
   Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, will be a meeting between   
   believers and non-believers on how these two sensibilities - city square and   
   temple - can coexist in the twenty-first century. According to a communique   
   released by the Courtyard of the Gentiles, "the square is increasingly   
   occupied by merchants, and by those who demand justice for the victims of   
   merchants. The faithful of the temple also ask that their voice be heard in   
   the square, because in a free society the square must be open to all". The   
   meeting will facilitate discussion regarding "the way in which these different   
   voices can coexist, what limits every right involves, and the relationship   
   that the square and the temple can have with the Palace", or seats of power. A   
   post-secular dialogue, that unfolds against the backdrop of the sure decline   
   of an idea of secularisation according to which the temples would have   
   gradually emptied".   
    The chair and moderator will be the constitutional lawyer and former prime   
   minister of Italy, Giuliano Amato, president of the Courtyard of the Gentiles   
   Foundation. The meeting will also be attended by the Canadian philosopher   
   Charles Taylor, author of the influential essay "A Secular Age", among other   
   works, and other experts on the theme of secularisation: Jose Casanova,   
   professor of the sociology of religion at Georgetown University, Washington   
   D.C., U.S.A.; Alessandro Ferrara, professor of political philosophy at the Tor   
   Vergata University of Rome; Giacomo Marramao, professor of theoretical   
   philosophy at the University of Rome III; and Francois Bousquet, historian and   
   anthropologist of religions.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 3 March 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop   
   Robert W. McElroy, auxiliary of San Francisco, U.S.A., as bishop of San Diego   
   (area 22,942, population 3,127,045, Catholics 986,499, priests 309, permanent   
   deacons 145, religious 335), U.S.A.   
      
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