Subject: VISnews 110512
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 89
ENGLISH
THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
SUMMARY:
- Catholics and Jews: Witness to Inviolable Dignity of Human Being
- Cardinal Sarah to Visit Earthquake-Damaged Areas In Japan
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
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CATHOLICS AND JEWS: WITNESS TO DIGNITY OF HUMAN BEING
VATICAN CITY, 12 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI
received a delegation from B'nai B'rith International, ("Sons of the
Covenant" in Hebrew), the oldest Jewish service organization in the world.
It was initially founded in New York City in 1843.
The Pope expressed his appreciation for B'nai B'rith's "active
participation" in the meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee, held in Paris at the end of February on this 40th anniversary of
dialogue between the two religions. " What has happened in these forty years
must be seen as a great gift from the Lord and a reason for heartfelt
gratitude towards the One who guides our steps with his infinite and eternal
wisdom".
"The Paris meeting affirmed the desire of Catholics and Jews to stand
together in meeting the immense challenges facing our communities in a
rapidly changing world and, significantly, our shared religious duty to
combat poverty, injustice, discrimination and the denial of universal human
rights".
The Holy Father emphasized that "one of the most important things that we
can do together is bear common witness to our deeply-held belief that every
man and woman is created in the divine image and thus possessed of
inviolable dignity. This conviction remains the most secure basis for every
effort to defend and promote the inalienable rights of each human being".
Recalling a recent conversation between delegations of the Chief Rabbinate
of Israel and the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the
Jews, Benedict XVI stated that, on that occasion, "stress was laid on the
need to promote a sound understanding of the role of religion in the life of
our present-day societies as a corrective to a purely horizontal, and
consequently truncated, vision of the human person and social coexistence".
"The life and work of all believers", he concluded, "should bear constant
witness to the transcendent, point to the invisible realities which lie
beyond us, and embody the conviction that a loving, compassionate Providence
guides the final outcome of history, no matter how difficult and threatening
the journey along the way may sometimes appear".
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CARDINAL SARAH TO VISIT EARTHQUAKE-DAMAGED AREAS IN JAPAN
VATICAN CITY, 12 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum"
published a communique that announces that its president, Cardinal Robert
Sarah, will visit - in the Pope's name - the areas affected by the
earthquake that devastated Japan two months ago.
The president of "Cor Unum" - who will travel there from 13 to 16 May -
"will carry Benedict XVI's embrace extended to all the family members of the
victims, to all the displaced persons, and to all the volunteers who are
working tirelessly on reconstruction. Caritas Japan, which went into action
immediately following the disaster, continues to be the point of reference
for all the assistance that the Catholic Church continues offering in
rebuilding Japan's community life after this state of emergency".
"The president of 'Cor Unum'", the communique continues, "will travel to
Saitama on 14 May to visit the Catholic Church's assistance centers for
those who have lost their homes. Later he will go to Tokyo where, together
with the Japanese bishops, he will celebrate a thanksgiving Mass for the
beatification of John Paul II. On 15 May he will go to Sendai, the epicenter
of the earthquake, where he will preside over Holy Mass in the cathedral.
On Monday, 16 May, he will visit two other assistance centers for
displaced persons and will meet with the directors of the main charitable
organizations present.
Accompanying Cardinal Sarah on this trip will be the undersecretary of
'Cor Unum', Msgr. Segundo Tejado Munoz".
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AUDIENCES
VATICAN CITY, 12 MAY 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate
audiences:
-Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams, apostolic nuncio to Greece.
- Six prelates from the Bishops' Conference of India on their ad limina
visit:
- Bishop Lumen Monteiro, C.S.C., of Agartala.
- Bishop Stephen Rotluanga, C.S.C., of Aizawl,
- Bishop Vincent Kympat of Jowai,
- Bishop Victor Lyngdoh of Nongstoin,
- Bishop Andrew Marak of Tura, and
- Bishop Thomas Pulloppillil of Bongaigaon.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, 12 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father appointed Fr. Simon
Ok Hyun-jin of the clergy of Kwangju as auxiliary bishop of that same
archdiocese. Kwangju (area 12,596, population 3,373,315, Catholics 329,951,
priests 270, religious 722), Korea. The bishop-elect was born in Kwangju,
was ordained a priest in 1994, and is currently a professor at the Catholic
University of Kwangju.
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