Subject: VISnews 110225
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 38
ENGLISH
FRIDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2011
SUMMARY:
- Lineamenta for 2012 Synod on New Evangelisation
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
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LINEAMENTA FOR 2012 SYNOD ON NEW EVANGELISATION
VATICAN CITY, 25 FEB 2011 (VIS) - At 11.30 a.m. on Friday 4 March a press
conference will be held in the Holy See Press Office to present the
"Lineamenta", or preparatory document, for the thirteenth Ordinary General
Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which is due to be held in the Vatican
from 7 to 28 October 2012 on the theme: "The new evangelisation for the
transmission of the Christian faith".
The conference will be presented by Archbishop Nikola Eterovic and Msgr.
Fortunato Frezza, respectively secretary general and under secretary of the
Synod of Bishops.
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AUDIENCES
VATICAN CITY, 25 FEB 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate
audiences:
- His Beatitude Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, patriarch of Antioch of
the Maronites, Lebanon.
- Four prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines on
their "ad limina" visit:
- Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles of Lipa.
- Archbishop Romulo G. Valles of Zamboanga.
- Archbishop Jesus A. Dosado C.M. of Ozamiz.
- Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma S.J. of Cagayan de Oro.
- Bishop Pierre Morissette of Saint-Jerome, president of the Canadian
Conference of Catholic Bishops, accompanied by Archbishop Richard William
Smith of Edmonton, vice president, and by Msgr. Patrick Power, secretary
general.
This evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Ivan Dias,
prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, 25 FEB 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Appointed Msgr. Giuseppe Pellegrini, vicar general of Verona, Italy, as
bishop of Concordia-Pordenone (area 2,675, population 359,334, Catholics
351,580, priests 306, permanent deacons 16, religious 305), Italy. The
bishop-elect was born in Monteforte d'Alpone, Italy in 1953 and ordained a
priest in 1979. He succeeds Bishop Ovidio Poletto, whose resignation from
the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
- Appointed Fr. William J. Waltersheid of the clergy of the diocese of
Harrisburg, U.S.A., vicar for clergy and religious life, as auxiliary of the
diocese of Pittsburgh (area 9,722, population 1,963,000, Catholics 803,000,
priests 482, permanent deacons 42, religious 1,316), U.S.A. The bishop-elect
was born in Ashland, U.S.A. in 1956 and ordained a priest in 1992.
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