VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 136   
   DATE 20-07-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - Francis recalls his recent trip to Latin America   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    Francis recalls his recent trip to Latin America   
    Vatican City, 19 July 2015 (VIS) - Pope Francis, in today's Sunday Angelus,   
   commended the fruits of his recent apostolic trip in Latin America to the   
   Virgin   
   Mary, venerated in those lands as Our Lady of Guadalupe, and thanked the people   
   of Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay for their warm and affectionate welcome, and   
   for their enthusiasm.   
    He also offered thanks to the authorities of the three countries for their   
   collaboration, and for all the clergy, from the bishops to men and women   
   religious, who accompanied him during his stay. "With these brothers and   
   sisters, I praised the Lord for the wonders that He has worked in the People of   
   God on their path in those lands, and for the faith that has inspired and   
   continues to inspire their life and culture. And we have also praised Him for   
   the natural beauty with which He enriched these lands. The Latin American   
   continent has great human and spiritual potential, and safeguards deeply rooted   
   Christian values, but also experiences serious social and economic problems. To   
   contribute to their solution, the Church is committed to mobilising the   
   spiritual and moral forces of her communities, collaborating with all members   
   of   
   society. Faced with the great challenges that announcing the Gospel entails, I   
   invited them to draw from Christ the Lord the grace that saves and gives   
   strength to the effort of Christian witness, and to further spread of the Word   
   of God, so that the strong religiosity of the people may always bear faithful   
   witness to the Gospel".   
    The Pope had previously commented on the day's Gospel reading in which Jesus   
   takes the apostles to a secluded place to rest, but seeing that the multitudes   
   follow them, feels compassion for them and begins to impart His teachings.   
   Francis focused on the verbs that the evangelist uses: to see, to have   
   compassion, and to teach.   
    "We can call them the verbs of the Pastor", he observed. "To see, to have   
   compassion, to teach. The first and the second, to see and to have compassion,   
   are always linked to Jesus' attitude: indeed, His outlook is not that of a   
   sociologist or a photojournalist, since He always sees with 'the eyes of the   
   heart'. These two verbs, to see and to have compassion, configure Jesus as the   
   Good Shepherd. But His compassion is not merely a human sentiment: it is the   
   emotion of the Messiah in whom God's tenderness is made flesh. And from this   
   compassion there emerges Jesus' desire to nourish the crowd with the bread of   
   His Word, that is, to teach the Word of God to the people. Jesus sees, Jesus   
   has   
   compassion, and Jesus teaches".   
    "And I asked the Lord that the Spirit of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, this   
   Spirit,   
   might guide me during the apostolic trip I made in Latin America over the last   
   few days", added the Pope.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 20 July 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Dr. Salvatore   
   Vecchio, formerly director of Human Resources at the Bambino Gesu Paedatric   
   Hospital, Rome, as director of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See.   
    On Saturday 18 July, the Holy Father:   
    - appointed Msgr. Claudio Cipolla as bishop of Padua (area 3,297, population   
   1,068,498, Catholics 1,004,088, priests 990, permanent deacons 49, religious   
   1976), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Goito, Italy in 1955 and was   
   ordained   
   a priest in 1980. He has served in a number of roles in the diocese of Mantua,   
   including parish vicar and director of diocesan Caritas. He is currently parish   
   priest, episcopal vicar for the pastoral sector, and member of the college of   
   consultors, the diocesan pastoral council and the commission for the continuing   
   formation of the clergy. He is a "ratione officii" member of the episcopal   
   council and the presbyteral council, and was named Chaplain of His Holiness in   
   2011. He succeeds bishop Antonio Mattiazzo, whose resignation from the pastoral   
   care of the same diocese upon reaching the age limit was accepted by the Holy   
   Father.   
    - appointed Fr. Basil Bhuriya, S.V.D., as bishop of Jhabua (area 21,366,   
   population 5,812,071, Catholics 38,726, priests 68, religious 236), India. The   
   bishop-elect was born in Panchjui, India in 1956, gave his solemn vows in 1985,   
   and was ordained a priest in 1986. He holds a bachelor's degree from the   
   University of Indore, India, and has served in an number of roles, including   
   parish vicar in a number of parishes in the dioceses of Baroda, Indore and   
   Jhabua and rector of the St. Thomas Seminary in Indore. He is currently parish   
   priest and member of the Provincial Council of the Verbite Fathers in the   
   Central Indian Province.   
    - appointed Fr. Corrado Melis as bishop of Ozieri (area 2,288, population   
   54,600, Catholics 54,200, priests 48, religious 54), Italy. The bishop elect   
   was   
   born in Sardara, Italy in 1963 and was ordained a priest in 1988. He holds a   
   licentiate in theology from the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sardinia in   
   Cagliari, and has served in a number of pastoral roles in the diocese of   
   Ales-Terralba, including parish vicar, vice rector of the diocesan seminary in   
   Villacidro, director of the diocesan catechistic office, chaplain, parish   
   administrator, and parish priest. He is currently parish priest of Santa   
   Barbara   
   in Villacidro, episcopal vicar for evangelisation and education, director of   
   the   
   diocesan office for family pastoral ministry, and director of the pastoral   
   ministry of ecumenism. He is also a member of the college of consultors and the   
   diocesan council for economic affairs.   
    - elevated Fr. Natale Paganelli, S.X., apostolic administrator of Makeni,   
   Sierra Leone, to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Grignano   
   di   
   Brembate, Italy in 1956, gave his religious vows in 1979, and was ordained a   
   priest in 1980.   
    - appointed Bishop Henry Akuna of Makeni, Sierra Leone, as auxiliary of the   
   diocese of Kenema, (area 15,710, population 1,481,000, Catholics 87,000,   
   priests   
   19, religious 32), Sierra Leone.   
      
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