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   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 10   
   ENGLISH   
   MONDAY, 17 JANUARY 2011   
      
   SUMMARY: 15 - 17 JANUARY   
      
   - Holy Father Receives Ecumenical Delegation from Finland   
   - Bearing Witness to Faith with Coherent Actions   
   - Erection of a Personal Ordinariate for England and Wales   
   - Cardinals Take Possession of Diaconate, Titular Churches   
   - Audiences   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
   - Angelus: Even the Messiah Was a Refugee   
   - Centenary of Pontifical Polish Ecclesiastical Institute   
   - Pope Sends 200 Neo-Catechumenal Families out on Mission   
   - Director General of UNESCO Received by the Holy Father   
      
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   HOLY FATHER RECEIVES ECUMENICAL DELEGATION FROM FINLAND   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 JAN 2011 (VIS) - This morning in the Vatican, Benedict XVI   
   received an ecumenical delegation from Finland for the occasion of the Feast   
   of St. Henry, the country's patron saint.   
      
     "Every year", said the Pope, addressing the group in German, "this meeting   
   bears witness to the friendship and co-operation that exist between   
   Lutherans and Catholics and, in general, among all Christians in your   
   country".   
      
     "Although the goal of the ecumenical movement - complete unity in the   
   faith - has not yet been reached", dialogue has produced many points of   
   agreement, Benedict XVI noted. Among these he highlighted the declaration   
   "on the doctrine of justification in the life of the Church", and gave   
   assurances that further study of this theme will contribute, among other   
   things, "to a shared viewpoint on the nature of the episcopal office".   
      
     "At the same time", he went on, "we are all aware that the ecumenical   
   journey has, in some ways, become more difficult and challenging. In this   
   light, your annual pilgrimage to Rome for the Feast of St. Henry is an   
   important event and a stimulus to our efforts. It helps us to look back with   
   joy at the goals we have achieved and forward to the future with the desire   
   for responsible compromise".   
      
     "In view of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity", the Pope concluded,   
   "let us ask the Spirit of Truth to impel us to ever greater love and   
   fraternity".   
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   BEARING WITNESS TO FAITH WITH COHERENT ACTIONS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 JAN 2011 (VIS) - Benedict XVI today received members of the   
   General Inspectorate for Public Security in the Vatican in a traditional   
   meeting that takes place every year in January for the exchange of New Year   
   greetings.   
      
     The Pope expressed his appreciation for "the commitment and   
   professionalism with which the officers of the Italian State Police, almost   
   like 'guardian angels', watch over the Vatican day and night, guaranteeing   
   the necessary security and placing themselves at the service of pilgrims".   
      
     "May your presence at the heart of Christianity, where throngs of faithful   
   constantly arrive to meet Peter's Successor and to visit the tombs of the   
   Apostles, bring each of you to stimulate the spiritual dimension of your own   
   life and the commitment to deepen your own Christian faith, bearing joyful   
   witness to that faith with a coherent conduct".   
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   ERECTION OF A PERSONAL ORDINARIATE FOR ENGLAND AND WALES   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 JAN 2011 (VIS) - "In accordance with the provisions of the   
   Apostolic Constitution 'Anglicanorum coetibus' of Pope Benedict XVI (4   
   November 2009) and after careful consultation with the Catholic Bishops   
   Conference of England and Wales, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the   
   Faith has today erected a Personal Ordinariate within the territory of   
   England and Wales for those groups of Anglican clergy and faithful who have   
   expressed their desire to enter into full visible communion with the   
   Catholic Church", reads an English-language communique released today. "The   
   Decree of Erection specifies that the Ordinariate will be known as the   
   Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and will be placed under the   
   patronage of Blessed John Henry Newman.   
      
     "A Personal Ord   
   inariate is a canonical structure that provides for   
   corporate reunion in such a way that allows former Anglicans to enter full   
   communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of their   
   distinctive Anglican patrimony. With this structure, the Apostolic   
   Constitution 'Anglicanorum coetibus' seeks to balance on the one hand the   
   concern to preserve the worthy Anglican liturgical, spiritual and pastoral   
   traditions and, on the other hand, the concern that these groups and their   
   clergy will be fully integrated into the Catholic Church.   
      
     "For doctrinal reasons the Church does not, in any circumstances, allow   
   the ordination of married men as bishops. However, the Apostolic   
   Constitution does provide, under certain conditions, for the ordination as   
   Catholic priests of former Anglican married clergy. Today at Westminster   
   Cathedral in London, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster, ordained to   
   the Catholic priesthood three former Anglican bishops: Reverend Andrew   
   Burnham, Reverend Keith Newton, and Reverend John Broadhurst.   
      
     "Also today Pope Benedict XVI has nominated Reverend Keith Newton as the   
   first Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.   
   Together with Reverend Burnham and Reverend Broadhurst, Reverend Newton will   
   oversee the catechetical preparation of the first groups of Anglicans in   
   England and Wales who will be received into the Catholic Church together   
   with their pastors at Easter, and will accompany the clergy preparing for   
   ordination to the Catholic priesthood around Pentecost.   
      
     "The provision of this new structure is consistent with the commitment to   
   ecumenical dialogue, which continues to be a priority for the Catholic   
   Church. The initiative leading to the publication of the Apostolic   
   Constitution and the erection of this Personal Ordinariate came from a   
   number of different groups of Anglicans who have declared that they share   
   the common Catholic faith as it is expressed in the Catechism of the   
   Catholic Church and accept the Petrine ministry as something Christ willed   
   for the Church. For them, the time has now come to express this implicit   
   unity in the visible form of full communion".   
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   CARDINALS TAKE POSSESSION OF DIACONATE, TITULAR CHURCHES   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 JAN 2011 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of   
   the Supreme Pontiff today announced that:   
      
    - At 6.30 p.m. on Saturday 22 January Cardinal Paolo Romeo, archbishop of   
   Palermo, Italy, will take possession of the title of St. Mary Hodegetria of   
   the Sicilians, Via del Tritone 82, Rome.   
      
    - At 6 p.m. on Saturday 22 January Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya,   
   archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, will take possession   
   of the title of St. Mary "Regina Pacis" at Ostia Mare, Piazza Regina Pacis   
   13, Rome.   
      
    - At 11 a.m. on Sunday 23 January Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of   
   the Pontifical Council for Culture, will take possession of the diaconate of   
   St. George in Velabro, Via del Velabro 19, Rome.   
      
    - At 11.30 a.m. on Sunday 23 January Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of   
   the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", will take possession of the diaconate of   
   St. John Bosco in Via Tuscolana, Viale dei Salesiani 9, Rome.   
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   AUDIENCES   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 JAN 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate   
   audiences:   
      
    - Cardinal Marc Ouellet P.S.S., prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.   
      
    - Cardinal Agustin Garcia-Gasco Vicente, archbishop emeritus of Valencia,   
   Spain.   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 JAN 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
    - Erected the new diocese of Bo (area 16,208, population 1.092.657,   
   Catholics 50,000, priests 34, religious 49) Sierra Leone, by dividing the   
   current archdiocese of Freetown and Bo, making it a suffragan of the   
   metropolitan church of Freetown. He appointed Fr. Charles Allieu Matthew   
   Campbell of the clergy   
    of the archdiocese of Freetown and Bo, spiritual   
   director of St. Paul's Major Seminary in Freetown, as first bishop of the   
   new diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Njala, Sierra Leone in 1961 and   
   ordained a priest in 1986.   
      
    - Appointed Bishop Angelo Spinillo of Teggiano-Policastro, Italy, as bishop   
   of Aversa (area 361, population 566,680, Catholics 549,070, priests 210,   
   permanent deacons 24, religious 458), Italy. He succeeds Archbishop-Bishop   
   Mario Milano, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese   
   the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code   
   of Canon Law.   
      
    - Appointed Fr. Benjamin Phiri of the clergy of the diocese of Chipata,   
   Zambia, currently rector of the national major theological seminary of St.   
   Dominic in Lusaka, as auxiliary of Chipata (area 69,106, population   
   1,487,000, Catholics 379,834, priests 60, religious 175). The bishop-elect   
   was born in Chongololo, Zambia in 1959 and ordained a priest in 1986.   
      
    - Appointed Werner Arber, professor emeritus of microbiology at the   
   University of Basel, Switzerland, as president of the Pontifical Academy of   
   Sciences.   
      
    - Appointed Rev. Keith Newton as first ordinary of the new Personal   
   Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the territory of the Catholic   
   Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. Rev. Newton was born in Liverpool,   
   England in 1952 and ordained a priest in 1976 for the Anglican diocese of   
   Chelmsford. In March 2002 he was ordained as suffragan bishop of   
   Richborough.   
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   ANGELUS: EVEN THE MESSIAH WAS A REFUGEE   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 16 JAN 2011 (VIS) - At midday today, the World Day of Migrants   
   and Refugees which "invites us to reflect on the experience of many men,   
   women and families who leave their own country in search of better living   
   conditions", Benedict XVI appeared at the window of his study to pray the   
   Angelus with faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square.   
      
     The Pope recalled how, although migration is "at times voluntary, at   
   others it is, unfortunately, imposed by war or persecution and, as we know,   
   it often comes about in dramatic circumstances. It was for this reason that,   
   sixty years ago, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees was   
   founded. On the Feast of the Holy Family, immediately after Christmas, we   
   recalled how even Jesus' parents had to flee their land and take refuge in   
   Egypt to save the life of their child. The Messiah, the Son of God, was also   
   a refugee", he said.   
      
     The Holy Father noted how "the experience of migration has always existed   
   within the Church. Sometimes, unfortunately, Christians feel obliged to take   
   the anguished decision to leave their land, thus impoverishing the countries   
   in which their ancestors lived. However, the voluntary movement of   
   Christians for various reasons, from one city to another, from one country   
   to another, from one continent to another, is an opportunity to increase the   
   missionary dynamism of the Word of God, and to ensure that the witness of   
   faith circulates more freely in the mystical Body of Christ, traversing   
   peoples and cultures, and reaching new frontiers, new environments".   
      
     Benedict XVI then went on to refer to the theme of this year's World Day -   
   "one human family" - which, he said, "indicates the aim, the goal of the   
   great journey of humankind down the centuries: that of forming a single   
   family. A family marked, of course, by the differences that enrich it, but   
   without barriers and in which we recognise one another as brothers. ... For   
   this reason it is vital that Christians, though scattered throughout the   
   world and, consequently, possessing different cultures and traditions,   
   should form a single entity, as the Lord wishes.   
      
     "This", he added, "is the aim of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity   
   which will take place from 18 to 25 January. This year it draws inspiration   
   from a passage in the Acts of the Apostles: 'They devoted themselves to the   
   Apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the   
   prayers'. The Octave for Christian Unity is prec   
   eded, tomorrow, by the Day   
   of Jewish-Christian Dialogue, a highly significant pairing which recalls the   
   importance of the shared roots which unite Jews and Christians".   
      
     After praying the Angelus the Pope said: "On 1 May I will have the joy of   
   proclaiming the Venerable Pope John Paul II, my predecessor, as a blessed.   
   The date chosen is very significant because it will, in fact, be the second   
   Sunday of Easter which he himself dedicated to Divine Mercy and on the eve   
   of which his earthly life came to an end. Those who knew him, those who   
   respected and loved him cannot but share in the Church's joy at this event".   
      
     Finally Benedict XVI gave assurances of his prayers for people in   
   "Australia, Brazil, Philippines and Sri Lanka, who have all recently   
   suffered from devastating floods. May the Lord welcome the souls of the   
   deceased, give strength to the displaced and support the efforts of everyone   
   striving to alleviate the suffering and difficulties".   
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   CENTENARY OF PONTIFICAL POLISH ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTE   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 17 JAN 2011 (VIS) - This morning in the Vatican Benedict XVI   
   received members of the Pontifical Polish Ecclesiastical Institute in a   
   meeting marking its first centenary. The group was accompanied by Cardinal   
   Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education,.   
      
     The Polish Institute was the result of an initiative by St. Joseph   
   Sebastian Pelczar, then bishop of Przemysl, and its history began during the   
   pontificate of St. Pius X. It was inaugurated on 13 November 1910 by Msgr.   
   Sapieha, who later became cardinal archbishop of Krakow. Throughout its   
   existence the institute has enjoyed the benevolence and support of various   
   Pontiffs, including Servant of God Paul VI and the Venerable John Paul II.   
      
     "The celebration of the first centenary of this important institution",   
   the Pope said, "invites us to a dutiful and respectful recollection of the   
   people who founded it with faith, courage and vigour. At the same time, it   
   is a call to show responsibility to continue its original aims, even today,   
   adapting them as appropriate to new circumstances. Above all, it is   
   necessary to remain committed to keeping the soul of the institute alive:   
   its religious and ecclesial soul, which responds to the providential divine   
   plan of offering Polish priests an appropriate atmosphere for study and   
   fraternity during their period of formation in Rome".   
      
     The Holy Father then went on to encourage the students "to consider   
   yourselves as 'living stones', an important part of a history which today   
   requires a personal and incisive response from you, making your own generous   
   contribution just as the unforgettable primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan   
   Wyszynski, did during the course of Vatican Council II. It was here in the   
   Polish Institute that he was able to prepare the celebration of the   
   Millennium of the Baptism of Poland with that historic message of   
   reconciliation which Polish bishops addressed to the German prelates, and   
   which contained the famous words: 'We forgive and we ask forgiveness'".   
      
     Pope Benedict went on: "The Church needs well-trained priests, rich in the   
   wisdom acquired through friendship with the Lord Jesus, priests who   
   constantly draw from the Eucharistic table and from the endless font of His   
   Gospel. From these two irreplaceable sources, draw continual support and the   
   inspiration necessary for your life and ministry, for a sincere love of   
   Truth; a Truth into which today you are called to delve through study and   
   academic research, and which tomorrow you will share with many.   
      
     "The search for Truth", he added, "for you priests who are enjoying this   
   unique Roman experience, is stimulated and enriched by your proximity to the   
   Apostolic See which has the task of offering specific and universal service   
   to Catholic communion in truth and charity. Remaining close to Peter, in the   
   heart of the Church, means gratefully recognising that we are part of a   
   centuries-old and fruitful history of salvation which, by mult   
   iform grace,   
   has touched you and in which you are called to play an active role so that,   
   like a flourishing tree, it may always brings forth its precious fruit".   
      
     The Holy Father concluded his remarks: "May your love and devotion for the   
   figure of Peter encourage you generously to serve the communion of the   
   entire Catholic Church, and of your particular Churches, so that, like one   
   great family, everyone may learn to recognise in Jesus, Way, Truth and Life,   
   the face of the merciful Father, Who does not want any of His children to be   
   lost".   
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   POPE SENDS 200 NEO-CATECHUMENAL FAMILIES OUT ON MISSION   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 17 JAN 2011 (VIS) - At midday today in the Vatican's Paul VI   
   Hall the Pope received Kiko Arguello and Carmen Hernandez, initiators of the   
   Neo-Catechumenal Way, and Fr. Mario Pezzi. They were accompanied by the   
   itinerant teams responsible for the Way in more than 120 countries, and by a   
   large group of priests, seminarians and families.   
      
     "For more than forty years the Neo-Catechumenal Way has been contributing   
   to the revitalisation and consolidation of Christian initiation in dioceses   
   and parishes, favouring a gradual but radical rediscovery of the riches of   
   Baptism, helping people to savour divine life, the heavenly life which the   
   Lord inaugurated with His incarnation, when He came among us and was born   
   like one of us".   
      
     "Over the last few years the process of drawing up the Statues of the   
   Neo-Catechumenal Way has reached a fruitful conclusion and, following an   
   appropriate experimental period, they received definitive approval in June   
   2008. Another important step was made in recent days with the approval, by   
   the competent dicasteries of the Holy See, of the 'Catechetical Directory of   
   the Neo-Catechumenal Way'.   
      
     "With these seals of ecclesial approval", the Pope added, "the Lord today   
   confirms this precious tool which is the Way and again entrusts it to you so   
   that, in filial obedience to the Holy See and the pastors of the Church, you   
   may contribute with renewed energy and ardour to the radical and joyful   
   rediscovery of the gift of Baptism, and offer your own original contribution   
   to the cause of new evangelisation. The Church has recognised in the   
   Neo-Catechumenal Way a particular gift created by the Holy Spirit. As such   
   it naturally tends to insert itself into the harmony of the ecclesial Body.   
   In this light I exhort you always to seek profound communion with pastors,   
   and with all members of the particular Churches, and of the very different   
   ecclesial contexts in which you are called to work. Fraternal communion   
   between the disciples of Jesus is, in fact, the first and greatest witness   
   to the name of Jesus Christ".   
      
     The Pope expressed his joy at the fact that today he is sending more than   
   200 Neo-Catechumenal families out to various parts of the world. These   
   families "have with great generosity made themselves available and are   
   leaving on mission, thus joining their efforts to the nearly 600 already   
   operating on the five continents. Dear families", he said, "may the faith   
   you have received as a gift be as a light on the candlestick, capable of   
   showing mankind the way to heaven. With the same sentiments I am sending out   
   thirteen new 'missiones ad gentes'. They will be called to create a new   
   ecclesial presence in highly secularised areas of various countries, or in   
   places where Christ's message has not yet reached".   
      
     Turning then to address priests from various "Redemptoris Mater" diocesan   
   seminaries in Europe, and the more than 2,000 seminarians present, the Holy   
   Father told them "to remain enamoured of Christ and His Church, transmitting   
   to the world the joy of having met the Lord and of being able to serve Him".   
      
     "In any suffering or emptiness you may experience", Benedict told the   
   itinerant catechists, the Neo-Catechumenal communities of Rome and Lazio,   
   and the "communitates in missionem", "feel yourselves united to the   
   suffering of Christ on the cross, and to His desire to reach our many   
   brothers and sisters    
   still distant from faith and truth, to bring them back   
   to the house of the Father".   
      
     The Holy Father concluded his remarks by inviting his audience to reflect   
   on part three of his Apostolic Constitution "Verbum Domini" which concerns   
   "the Church's mission to proclaim the Word of God to the world", and to   
   "feel themselves as participants in the Lord Jesus' concern for salvation,   
   in the mission He entrusts to the whole Church".   
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   DIRECTOR GENERAL OF UNESCO RECEIVED BY THE HOLY FATHER   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 17 JAN 2011 (VIS) - The Holy See Press Office released the   
   following communique at midday today:   
      
     "This morning the Holy Father Benedict XVI received in audience Irina   
   Bokova, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and   
   Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The director general subsequently went on to   
   meet with Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. who was   
   accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with   
   States.   
      
     "The cordial discussions provided an opportunity for a fruitful exchange   
   of opinions on UNESCO's efforts in the field of education, sciences and   
   culture, which are also of particular interest to the Holy See as it   
   participates actively in the work of the organisation. On this topic,   
   emphasis was given to the need to ensure integral human development, and to   
   the importance of guaranteeing quality education for everyone.   
      
     "Attention also turned to certain aspects of protecting world cultural   
   heritage, and of defending the environment, as well as to the importance of   
   dialogue between cultures".   
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