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   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTIETH YEAR - N. 207   
   ENGLISH   
   MONDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2010   
      
   SUMMARY: 20 - 22 NOVEMBER   
      
   - Cardinals Continue Meeting, Reflect on Various Themes   
   - Imitate Christ in His Service and Commitment to the Church   
   - Titular and Diaconate Churches of the New Cardinals   
   - Petrine Ministry: Logic of Humility and Service   
   - Angelus: Jesus Is King at the Moment of His Crucifixion   
   - Holy Father's Closeness to Persecuted Christians   
   - Note by Fr. Lombardi Concerning a New Book on the Pope   
   - Listen Attentively to Various Voices within the Church   
   - Message from the Pope for Symposium on Cardinal Newman   
   - Telegram for the Death of Cardinal Navarrete   
   - Audiences   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   CARDINALS CONTINUE MEETING, REFLECT ON VARIOUS THEMES   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 20 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The afternoon session of the day of prayer   
   and reflection - a gathering of the College of Cardinals presided by the   
   Pope for the occasion of the ordinary public consistory - began at 5 p.m.   
   yesterday with the celebration of Vespers. The meeting then continued with   
   the presentation of three reports.   
      
     Archbishop Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes   
   of Saints, spoke on "The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's   
   Instruction 'Dominus Iesus' ten years after its publication". He noted that   
   the document had served to clarify certain fundamental Christological and   
   ecclesiological truths, and to relaunch ecumenical and inter-religious   
   dialogue on the basis of a precisely defined Catholic identity. At the same   
   time it did not close the lines for research into the great question of the   
   salvation of non-Christians, as indicated by Vatican Council II. "Dominus   
   Iesus", by warning against a poorly-understood pluralism, remains a valid   
   call to doctrinal and pastoral clarity, as a foundation for catechesis, new   
   evangelisation and the "mission ad gentes".   
      
     Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the   
   Doctrine of the Faith, then delivered two contributions, dealing with "The   
   Church's Response to Cases of Sexual Abuse: towards shared guidelines", and   
   "The Apostolic Constitution 'Anglicanorum coetibus'". In the first of these,   
   the cardinal outlined recent aggiornamenti to canonical legislation   
   regarding the crime of sexual abuse of minors, and made certain observations   
   about the broader responsibility of bishops to protect the faithful under   
   their care. In this, he drew inspiration from the Holy Father's words and   
   from his example of listening to and welcoming victims, also dwelling on   
   collaboration with civil authorities, the need for effective commitment to   
   protect children and young people, and the careful selection and formation   
   of future priests and religious. Finally, he reported on preparatory work on   
   a circular letter from his congregation to episcopal conferences concerning   
   guidelines for co-ordinated and effective efforts in this field".   
      
     In his second report Cardinal Levada explained the nature and origins of   
   the Apostolic Constitution on the institution of an Ordinariate for Anglican   
   faithful who wish to enter "corporately" into full communion with the   
   Catholic Church. He explained the ecumenical context and the current   
   situation concerning the constitution of Ordinariates, the first of which   
   will be established in Great Britain as announced today in a statement from   
   the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales.   
      
     A period of discussion then followed in which twelve cardinals arose to   
   express their views. Some of them referred to questions considered during   
   the morning session (religious freedom and the liturgy), exploring them more   
   deeply, while others focused particularly on the question of the Church's   
   response to cases of sexual abuse. The suggestion was made, among others, to   
   encourage episcopal conferences to develop effective and incisive plans for   
   the defence of minors, taking account of the multiple aspects of the problem   
   and the necessary methods of intervention, in order to re-establish justice   
   and assist victims, and to help in prevention and formation even in   
   countries where the problem has not arisen as dramatically as in others.   
      
     During the course of the debate, the decision was also taken to express   
   the solidarity of the College of Cardinals - united with the Holy Father -   
   to the people of Iraq and Haiti, and to begin a concrete initiative of   
   gathering charitable donations to be sent via "Cor Unum".   
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   IMITATE CHRIST IN HIS SERVICE AND COMMITMENT TO THE CHURCH   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 20 NOV 2010 (VIS) - In St. Peter's Basilica this morning,   
   Benedict XVI celebrated the third ordinary public consistory of his   
   pontificate, during which he created twenty-four new cardinals.   
      
     Following the liturgical greeting, the Holy Father read the formula of   
   creation and solemnly proclaimed the names of the new cardinals. The first   
   of them, Archbishop Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the   
   Causes of Saints, then thanked the Pope in the name of all the others.   
      
     After a Gospel reading, the Holy Father pronounced his homily.   
      
     From now on the new members of the College of Cardinals will, he said, "be   
   part of that 'coetus peculiaris' which offers Peter's Successor more   
   immediate and assiduous collaboration, supporting him in the exercise of his   
   universal ministry".   
      
     Commenting on today's Gospel reading, the Holy Father explained that "it   
   places before our eyes the image of Jesus as Messiah - foretold by Isaiah -   
   Who comes not to be served, but to serve. The manner of His life becomes the   
   foundation for new relations within the entire Christian community, and for   
   a new way of exercising authority".   
      
     "What path", the Pope asked, "must then be followed by those who wish to   
   be disciples? The path of the Master is the path of complete obedience to   
   God", he said.   
      
     Pope Benedict highlighted how "in the Church no-one is proprietor; rather,   
   all are called, all are invited, all are touched and guided by divine grace.   
   This is also our security! Only be listening again to the word of Jesus   
   which tells us 'come and follow me', only by returning to the original   
   vocation, is it possible to understand our presence and mission in the   
   Church as true disciples".   
      
     "The fundamental criterion of greatness and primacy according to God is   
   not dominion, but service. The diaconate is the fundamental law of the   
   disciple and of the Christian community. ... The Son of man came to serve.   
   He defined His mission under the category of service, understood not in   
   generic terms but in the concrete sense of the cross, of the total giving of   
   life as 'ransom' and redemption for many, and He indicates this as a   
   condition for following Him. This message applies to the Apostles, it   
   applies to the entire Church, above all it applies to those who have the   
   task of guiding the People of God. It is not the logic of domination, of   
   power according to human criteria which lies at the basis of the exercise of   
   authority, but the logic of bending to wash the feet, the logic of service,   
   the logic of the cross. At all times the Church is committed to conforming   
   herself to this logic, to bearing witness to it in order to reveal the true   
   'Lordship of God', that of love".   
      
     The Holy Father told the new cardinals that the mission to which God has   
   called them today "requires an ever stronger will to imitate the style of   
   the Son of God. ... This means following Him in his donation of humble and   
   total love to the Church, His Bride, on the cross. ... This requires ever   
   more profound and solid roots in Christ. An intimate relationship with Him   
   ... is the primary requirement to ensure that our service remains serene and   
   joyful, and can give produce the fruits the Lord expects from us".   
      
     At the end of the homily the new cardinals made the profession of faith   
   before the people of God, swearing their faithfulness and obedience to the   
   Pope and his successors.   
      
     One by one, in the order in which they were created, the new cardinals   
   then came and knelt before the Holy Father who imposed the red "biretta" or   
   hat and assigned them a titular or diaconate church in Rome as a sign of   
   their participation in the Pope's pastoral concern for the city.   
      
     The Pope gave each new cardinal his Bull of Creation and exchanged an   
   embrace of peace with them. The cardinals then exchanged the same embrace   
   with each other   
      
     The celebration concluded with the prayer of the faithful, the recitation   
   of the Our Father and the final blessing.   
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   TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 20 NOV 2010 (VIS) - Following are the names of the twenty-four   
   new cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI in this morning's consistory, and   
   the titular or diaconate churches he assigned to them:   
      
    - Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., diaconate of St. Mary in Aquiro.   
      
    - His Beatitude Cardinal Antonios Naguib, patriarch of Alexandria of the   
   Copts, Egypt.   
      
    - Cardinal Robert Sarah, diaconate of St. John Bosco in Via Tuscolana.   
      
    - Cardinal Francesco Monterisi, diaconate of St. Paul alla Regola.   
      
    - Cardinal Fortunato Baldelli, diaconate of St. Anselm on the Aventine.   
      
    - Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, St. Agatha of the Goths.   
      
    - Cardinal Kurt Koch, diaconate of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.   
      
    - Cardinal Paolo Sardi, diaconate of Our Lady of Help in Via Tuscolana.   
      
    - Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, diaconate of St. Paul at the Three Fountains.   
      
    - Cardinal Velasio De Paolis C.S., diaconate of Jesus the Good Shepherd   
   alla Montagnola.   
      
    - Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, diaconate of St. George in Velabro.   
      
    - Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, title of St. Emerentiana at Tor   
   Fiorenza.   
      
    - Cardinal Raul Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, title of St. Mary in Via.   
      
    - Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, title of St. Mary "Regina Pacis" at   
   Ostia Mare.   
      
    - Cardinal Paolo Romeo, title of St. Mary Hodegetria of the Sicilians   
      
    - Cardinal Donald William Wuerl, title of St. Peter in Chains.   
      
    - Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, title of Our Lady Immaculate al   
   Tiburtino.   
      
    - Cardinal Kazimierz Nyc, title of Sts. Sylvester and Mariano ai Monti.   
      
    - Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, title of St. Lawrence in   
   Lucina.   
      
    - Cardinal Reinhard Marx, title of St. Corbinian.   
      
    - Cardinal Jose Manuel Estepa Llaurens, title of St. Gabriel the Archangel   
   all'Acqua Traversa.   
      
    - Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, diaconate of St. Angelo in Pescheria.   
      
    - Cardinal Walter Brandmuller, diaconate of St. Julian of the Flemish.   
      
    - Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, diaconate of the Most Holy Names of Jesus   
   and Mary in Via Latia.   
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   PETRINE MINISTRY: LOGIC OF HUMILITY AND SERVICE   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 21 NOV 2010 (VIS) - In the Vatican Basilica at 9.30 a.m.   
   today, Solemnity of Christ the King, the Pope presided at a Eucharistic   
   concelebration with the twenty-four new cardinals created in yesterday's   
   consistory. During the course of the ceremony he presented them with their   
   ring of office.   
      
     In his homily, the Holy Father affirmed that "the primary service of   
   Peter's Successor is the service of faith. ... The drama that takes place   
   under the cross of Christ is a universal drama", he said. "It involves all   
   mankind before God, Who reveals himself for what He is: Love. In the   
   crucified Christ divinity is disfigured and stripped of all its visible   
   glory, yet it is present and real. Only the faith can recognise it; the   
   faith of Mary who, ... though she could not yet see everything, still   
   continued to confide in God, repeating once again with the same abandonment:   
   'here am I, the servant of the Lord'".   
      
     Benedict XVI highlighted how "Peter's ministry consists entirely in his   
   faith; ... a faith which must traverse the scandal of the cross in order to   
   become authentic, truly 'Christian', in order to become the 'rock' upon   
   which Jesus can build His Church".   
      
     "This ministry is difficult because it is not aligned with the way mankind   
   thinks, with that natural logic which, nevertheless, also remains active in   
   us. ... And we must bear witness to and announce this paradoxical regality   
   just as He, the King, did; in other words, by following His path and   
   struggling to adopt His logic, the logic of humility and service, the logic   
   of the seed of grain which dies to bring forth fruit".   
      
     The Holy Father then went on to explain how "the effectiveness of our   
   service to the Church, the Bride of Christ, essentially depends on this, on   
   our faithfulness to the divine regality of crucified Love. For this reason,   
   on the ring I give you today, the seal of your nuptial pact with the Church,   
   is a depiction of the crucifixion. And for the same reason the colour of   
   your robes alludes to blood, symbol of life and love, the Blood of Christ   
   which according to ancient iconography was gathered by Mary from the pierced   
   side of her Son, dead on the cross, and which the Apostle John saw as it   
   flowed out mixed with water, in accordance with prophetic Scripture".   
      
     "The primacy of Peter and his Successors", Benedict XVI concluded,   
   "remains entirely at the service of this primacy of Jesus Christ, the one   
   Lord; at the service of His Kingdom, His Lordship of love, in order that it   
   may come and spread, renewing mankind and creation, transforming the earth   
   and bringing peace and justice".   
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   ANGELUS: JESUS IS KING AT THE MOMENT OF HIS CRUCIFIXION   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 21 NOV 2010 (VIS) - At the end of today's Eucharistic   
   concelebration with the new cardinals created in yesterday's consistory, the   
   Holy Father appeared at the window of his study to pray the Angelus with   
   faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square.   
      
     In his remarks the Pope spoke of today's Solemnity of Christ the King,   
   noting how it was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 and later, following   
   Vatican Council II, placed in its current position at the end of the   
   liturgical year.   
      
     "The Gospel of St. Luke", said Pope Benedict, "presents the regality of   
   Jesus at the moment of the crucifixion. The leaders of the people and the   
   soldiers deride 'the firstborn of all creation' and put Him to the test to   
   see if He has the power to save Himself from death. Yet it is precisely on   
   the cross that Jesus is 'at the height' of God, Who is Love. There He can be   
   recognised".   
      
     "In fact, while the Lord seems indistinguishable between two criminals,   
   one of them, aware of his sins, ... turns to the 'king of the Jews' saying   
   'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom'. ... The so-called   
   'good thief' immediately receives forgiveness and the joy of entering the   
   Kingdom of heaven. ... Jesus, from His throne of the cross, welcomes all men   
   with infinite mercy".   
      
     "The path of love, which the Lord reveals to us and invites us to follow,   
   may also be seen in Christian art. Indeed from earliest times, 'in the   
   arrangement of Christian sacred buildings, ... it became customary to depict   
   the Lord returning as a king - the symbol of hope - ... while the west wall   
   normally portrayed the Last Judgement as a symbol of our responsibility for   
   our lives'': hope in the infinite love of God and commitment to ordering our   
   lives in accordance with the love of God", the Pope explained.   
      
     "When we contemplate the depictions of Jesus inspired by the New   
   Testament", he concluded, "we are, as the Council of Trent taught, led 'to   
   understand ... the sublime nature of the humiliation of the Word of God, and   
   ... to remember His life in the flesh, His salvific passion and death, and   
   the redemption of the world which arises therefrom".   
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   HOLY FATHER'S CLOSENESS TO PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 21 NOV 2010 (VIS) - After praying the Angelus, the Pope   
   recalled how today in Italy, at the invitation of their bishops, "ecclesial   
   communities are praying for Christians who suffer persecution and   
   discrimination, especially in Iraq. I wish to join this choral appeal to the   
   God of life and peace", he said, "that religious freedom may be guaranteed   
   to everyone all over the world. I remain close to these brothers and sisters   
   for the exalted witness of faith they render unto God.   
      
     "On today's liturgical memory of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin   
   Mary in the Temple", the Holy Father added, "the Church is particularly   
   close to cloistered monks and nuns. This is 'Pro Orantibus Day' which also   
   renews the invitation to give our concrete support to these communities.   
   Upon them I impart a heartfelt blessing.   
      
     "Today is also the 'Day of Road Traffic Victims'. While giving assurances   
   of recollection in my prayers, I encourage people to continue their   
   commitment towards prevention, which is yielding positive results, recalling   
   always that prudence and respect for norms represent the fundamental way to   
   protect oneself and others".   
      
     Benedict XVI also expressed his closeness "to people affected by   
   torrential rains which over recent days have devastated a large part of   
   Colombia. In the hope that calls for solidarity will not go unheard, I join   
   those who raise prayers to the Lord for the victims and for people   
   experiencing a period of anguish and suffering".   
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   NOTE BY FR. LOMBARDI CONCERNING A NEW BOOK ON THE POPE   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 21 NOV 2010 (VIS) - Given below is the text of a note issued   
   by Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. concerning   
   certain remarks by the Pope on the use of condoms, which appear the new book   
   "Light of the World".   
      
     "At the end of chapter eleven of the book 'Light of the World' the Pope   
   responds to two questions about the battle against AIDS and the use of   
   condoms, questions that reconnect with the discussions that arose in the   
   wake of certain statements the Pope made on this subject during the course   
   of his 2009 trip to Africa.   
      
     "The Pope again makes it clear that his intention was not to take up a   
   position on the problem of condoms in general; his aim, rather was to   
   reaffirm with force that the problem of AIDS cannot be solved simply by   
   distributing condoms, because much more needs to be done: prevention,   
   education, help, advice, accompaniment, both to prevent people from falling   
   ill and to help them if they do.   
      
     "The Pope observes that even in the non-ecclesial context an analogous   
   awareness has developed, as is apparent in the so-called ABC theory   
   (Abstinence - Be Faithful - Condom), in which the first two elements   
   (abstinence and fidelity) are more decisive and fundamental in the battle   
   against AIDS, while condoms take last place, as a way out when the other two   
   are absent. It should thus be clear that condoms are not the solution to the   
   problem.   
      
     "The Pope then broadens his perspective and insists that focusing only on   
   condoms is equivalent to trivialising sexuality, which thus loses its   
   meaning as an expression of love between persons and becomes a 'drug'. This   
   struggle against the trivialisation of sexuality is 'part of the great   
   effort to ensure that sexuality is positively valued and is able to exercise   
   a positive effect on man in his entirety'.   
      
     "In the light of this broad and profound vision of human sexuality and the   
   problems it currently faces, the Pope reaffirms that 'the Church does not of   
   course consider condoms to be the authentic and moral solution' to the   
   problem of AIDS.   
      
     "In this the Pope does not reform or change Church teaching, but reaffirms   
   it, placing it in the perspective of the value and dignity of human   
   sexuality as an expression of love and responsibility.   
      
     "At the same time the Pope considers an exceptional circumstance in which   
   the exercise of sexuality represents a real threat to another person's life.   
   In such a case, the Pope does not morally justify the disordered practice of   
   sexuality but maintains that the use of a condom to reduce the danger of   
   infection can be 'a first act of responsibility', 'a first step on the road   
   toward a more human sexuality', rather than not using it and exposing the   
   other person to a mortal risk.   
      
     "In this, the reasoning of the Pope certainly cannot be defined as a   
   revolutionary change.   
      
     "Many moral theologians and authoritative ecclesiastical figures have   
   supported and support similar positions; it is nevertheless true that we   
   have not heard this with such clarity from the mouth of the Pope, even in an   
   informal and non-magisterial form.   
      
     "Thus Benedict XVI courageously makes an important contribution to help us   
   clarify and more deeply understand a long-debated question. His is an   
   original contribution, because, on the one hand, it remains faithful to   
   moral principles and transparently refutes illusory paths such as that of   
   'faith in condoms'; on the other hand, however, it manifests a comprehensive   
   and farsighted vision, attentive to recognising the small steps (though only   
   initial and still confused) of an often spiritually- and   
   culturally-impoverished humanity, toward a more human and responsible   
   exercise of sexuality".   
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   LISTEN ATTENTIVELY TO VARIOUS VOICES WITHIN THE CHURCH   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 22 NOV 2010 (VIS) - In the Paul VI Hall this morning, the Holy   
   Father received the twenty-four new cardinals created in the consistory of   
   Saturday 20 November. With the prelates were members of their families and   
   other faithful who have accompanied them to Rome.   
      
     The Pope greeted the cardinals in Italian, English, French, German,   
   Spanish, Portuguese and Polish, and expressed the hope that their followers   
   may "support you with their prayers, that you many continue to persevere   
   faithfully in your various tasks, for the good of the Gospel and of all   
   Christian people".   
      
     "Your ministry", he told the cardinals, "is now enriched by the further   
   duty of supporting Peter's Successor in his universal service to the Church.   
   I place a lot of trust in you, in your prayer and in your vital assistance.   
   With fraternal esteem I encourage you to continue your spiritual and   
   apostolic mission which has just gone through a very important stage.   
   Maintain your gaze fixed on Christ, drawing all grace and spiritual comfort   
   from Him and following the shining example of cardinal saints, intrepid   
   servants of the Church who, over the course of the centuries, have rendered   
   glory to God with their heroic exercise of the virtues and their tenacious   
   faithfulness to the Gospel".   
      
     Invoking on the cardinals "the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary   
   Mother of the Church, and of the martyr St. Cecilia whose liturgical memory   
   falls today", the Pope said "may she, the patroness of music and 'bel   
   canto', accompany and support your efforts to listen attentively to various   
   voices within the Church, in order to make the unity of hearts more   
   profound".   
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   MESSAGE FROM THE POPE FOR SYMPOSIUM ON CARDINAL NEWMAN   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 22 NOV 2010 (VIS) - Benedict XVI has written a Message to Fr.   
   Hermann Geissler F.S.O., director of the International Centre of Newman   
   Friends, for a symposium the group has organised in Rome on the theme: "The   
   Primacy of God in the Life and Writings of Blessed John Henry Newman".   
      
     In the text the Pope recalls how Newman, having experienced a youthful   
   period of difficulty and doubt (which eventually concluded with the grace of   
   conversion) and while still an Anglican, allowed himself to be guided by two   
   fundamental criteria which "fully express the primacy of God in his life".   
   The first of these was that of "holiness before peace", evidence, the Pope   
   said, "of his unshakeable will to adhere to the inner Master with his   
   conscience, to abandon himself trustingly to the Father, and to live in   
   accordance with recognised truth". The second criterion, that "growth is the   
   only evidence of life", expresses "his predisposition to continuous   
   conversion, transformation and interior growth, while always resting   
   trustingly on God".   
      
     "Thus", the Holy Father adds, "did he discover his vocation at the service   
   [continues in next message]   
      
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