for useful and dignified employment, combined with a reduction in social   
   security, are causing a disturbing rise in inequality and poverty in different   
   countries. Clearly there is a need to create new models of doing business   
   which,   
   while promoting the development of advanced technologies, are also capable of   
   using them to create dignified work for all, to uphold and consolidate social   
   rights, and to protect the environment. Man must guide technological   
   development, without letting himself be dominated by it".   
    "To all of you I appeal once more: 'Do not forget the poor!' This is the   
   primary challenge before you as leaders in the business world. Those who have   
   the means to enjoy a decent life, rather than being concerned with privileges,   
   must seek to help those poorer than themselves to attain dignified living   
   conditions, particularly through the development of their human, cultural,   
   economic and social potential. We must never allow the culture of prosperity to   
   deaden us, to make us incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the   
   poor,   
   weeping for other people's pain, and sensing the need to help them, as though   
   all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own. Weeping for other   
   people's pain does not only mean sharing in their sufferings, but also and   
   above   
   all realising that our own actions are a cause of injustice and inequality. Let   
   us open our eyes, then, and see the misery of the world, the wounds of our   
   brothers and sisters who are denied their dignity, and let us recognise that we   
   are compelled to heed their cry for help. May we reach out to them and support   
   them so they can feel the warmth of our presence, our friendship, and our   
   fraternity. May their cry become our own, and together may we break down the   
   barriers of indifference that too often reign supreme and mask our hypocrisy   
   and   
   egoism".   
    Once we realise this, he continues, "we become more fully human, since   
   responsibility for our brothers and sisters is an essential part of our common   
   humanity. Do not be afraid to open your minds and hearts to the poor. In this   
   way, you will give free rein to your economic and technical talents, and   
   discover the happiness of a full life, which consumerism of itself cannot   
   provide. In the face of profound and epochal changes, world leaders are   
   challenged to ensure that the coming 'fourth industrial revolution', the result   
   of robotics and scientific and technological innovations, does not lead to the   
   destruction of the human person - to be replaced by a soulless machine - or to   
   the transformation of our planet into an empty garden for the enjoyment of a   
   chosen few. On the contrary, the present moment offers a precious opportunity   
   to   
   guide and govern the processes now under way, and to build inclusive societies   
   based on respect for human dignity, tolerance, compassion and mercy. I urge   
   you,   
   then, to take up anew your conversation on how to build the future of the   
   planet, 'our common home', and I ask you to make a united effort to pursue a   
   sustainable and integral development".   
    "As I have often said, and now willingly reiterate, business is a noble   
   vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving our world, especially if   
   it   
   sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common   
   good. As such, it has a responsibility to help overcome the complex crisis of   
   society and the environment, and to fight poverty. This will make it possible   
   to   
   improve the precarious living conditions of millions of people and bridge the   
   social gap which gives rise to numerous injustices and erodes fundamental   
   values   
   of society, including equality, justice and solidarity".   
    "In this way, through the preferred means of dialogue, the World Economic   
   Forum   
   can become a platform for the defence and protection of creation and for the   
   achievement of a progress which is healthier, more human, more social, more   
   integral with due regard also for environmental goals and the need to maximise   
   efforts to eradicate poverty as set forth in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable   
   Development and in the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework   
   Convention on Climate Change".   
      
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    The Year of Consecrated Life comes to an end   
    Vatican City, 21 January 2016 (VIS) - The Congregation for the Institutes of   
   Consecrated Lfie and the Societies of Apostolic Life (CIVCSVA) has announced   
   the   
   events relating to the conclusion of the Year of Consecrated Life, to be held   
   from 28 January to 2 February in Rome, which are expected to be attended by   
   more   
   than four thousand consecrated persons from all over the world.   
    On the theme "Consecrated life in communion. The common foundation in the   
   variety of forms", on these days there will be meetings, prayer vigils, times   
   for regrouping and examining in greater depth the specifics of each form,   
   looking prophetically towards the future".   
    The aims of the meeting are to get to know better the great mosaic of   
   consecrated life, to live communion rediscovering the single call uniting the   
   variety of forms (Ordo Virginum, monastic life, apostolic institutes, secular   
   institutes, new institutes and new forms of consecrated life), starting out   
   together on the path of the great Jubilee of Mercy that once more gives all   
   consecrated persons the specific mandate of their vocation: to be guided by the   
   Father's mercy, witnesses and builders of an authentically lived fraternity.   
    The first event will take place on 28 January: a vigil in St. Peter's   
   Basilica,   
   presided by Archbishop Jose Rodriguez Carballo, secretary of the CIVCSVA, and   
   in   
   which Cardinal Joao Braz De Aviz, prefect of the Congregation, will   
   participate.   
   On 29 January, all consecrated persons will gather in the Paul VI Hall, while   
   on   
   30 and 31 January, in five locations in Rome, representatives of each form of   
   consecrated life will meet to explore in greater depth various specific aspects   
   of their vocation. They will subsequently meet in the Paul VI Hall again on 1   
   February, for an audience with the Holy Father and the Oratory "On the trail of   
   beauty", directed by Msgr. Marco Frisina.   
    The events will end on 2 February with the morning Jubilee pilgrimage and the   
   Eucharistic celebration for the twentieth World Day of Consecreted Life,   
   celebrated by Pope Francis.   
      
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    Cardinal Maung Bo, papal legate at the International Eucharistic Conference of   
   the Philippines   
    Vatican City, 21 January 2016 (VIS) - In a letter published today, written in   
   Latin and dated 18 November, the Holy Father appoints Cardinal Charles Maung   
   Bo,   
   S.D.B., archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, as papal legate at the 51st National   
   Eucharistic Congress of the Philippines, to be held in Cebu from 24 to 31   
   January 2016.   
    The mission accompanying the cardinal will be composed of Fr. Dominic Bar Bu,   
   special secretary for the papal delegation, and Fr. Marvin Mejia, general   
   secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines.   
      
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    Audiences   
    Vatican City, 21 January 2016 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in   
   audience:   
    - Archbishop Eliseo Antonio Ariotti, apostolic nuncio in Paraguay;   
    - Robert Compaore, ambassador of Burkina Faso, presenting his credential   
   letters;   
    - Bishop Ruben Oscar Frassia of Avellaneda-Lanus, Argentina;   
    - Friars from the Abbey of the Tre Fontane in Rome, with the lambs that will   
   be   
   blessed on the feast of St. Agnes, and whose wool will be used to weave the   
   pallium the Holy Father will impose upon the metropolitan archbishops on 29   
   June, solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 21 January 2016 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - Rev. Can. Marco Brunetti as bishop of Alba (area 1,050, population 157,526,   
   Catholics 142,526, priests 137, permanent deacons 10, religious 293), Italy.   
   The   
   bishop-elect was born in Turin, Italy in 1962 and ordained a priest in 1987. He   
   holds a licentiate in theology and health pastoral ministry, and has served as   
   parish priest, member of the Presbyterium and of the national council for   
   health   
   pastoral ministry.   
    - Msgr. Giuseppe Russo, Italy, as under-secretary of the Administration of the   
   Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA).   
      
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