Subject: VISnews 110526   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 99   
   ENGLISH   
   THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Papal Telegram to Tornado Victims in Joplin   
   - Audiences   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   PAPAL TELEGRAM TO TORNADO VICTIMS IN JOPLIN   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 26 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Yesterday afternoon, Benedict XVI sent a   
   telegram through Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., to   
   Bishop James Vann Johnston of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, USA after   
   receiving news last Sunday of the tornado that devastated the city of   
   Joplin, Missouri, killing more than 120 persons and wounding over 750   
   others.   
      
     The text reads that "the Holy Father has followed with deep concern the   
   aftermath of the catastrophic tornado which struck Joplin on Sunday and he   
   asks you to convey to the entire community the assurance of his closeness in   
   prayer. Conscious of the tragic loss of life and the immensity of the work   
   of rebuilding that lies ahead, he asks God, the Father of Mercies, to grant   
   eternal rest to the departed, consolation to the grieving, and strength and   
   hope to the homeless and the injured. Upon the local civil and religious   
   leaders, and upon all involved in the relief efforts, his holiness invokes   
   the divine gifts of wisdom, fortitude, and perseverance in every good".   
   TGR/                                                                    VIS   
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   AUDIENCES   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 26 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father received in separate   
   audiences:   
      
     -Archbishop Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the   
   Evangelization of Peoples.   
      
     -Cardinal Agostino Vallini, vicar general of His Holiness for the Diocese   
   of Rome.   
      
   -Seven prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India on their ad   
   limina visit:   
      
     -Archbishop Francis Kallarakal of Verapoly,   
      
     -Bishop Prasad Gallela of Cuddapah,   
      
     -Bishop Paul Maipan of Khammam,   
      
     - Bishop Anthony Poola of Kurnool,   
      
     - Bishop Joji Govindu of Nalgonda,   
      
     - Bishop Bali Gali of Guntur, and   
      
     - Bishop Moses Doraboina Prakasam of Nellore.   
   AP:AL/                                                          VIS 20110526   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 26 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father:   
      
     - appointed Msgr. Robert Dwayne Gruss as bishop of Rapid City (area   
   11,327, population 239,000, Catholics 30,700,  priests 51, permanent deacons   
   27, religious 60), USA. The bishop-elect was born in Texarkana, Texas, USA   
   in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1994. He is currently the rector of   
   Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport.   
      
     - appointed Fr. Donald J. Hying as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of   
   Milwaukee (area 12,323, population 2,315,958, Catholics 657,519, priests   
   651, permanent deacons 165, religious 1,660), USA. The bishop-elect was born   
   in 1963 in West Allis, Wisconsin, USA, and was ordained a priest in 1989. He   
   is currently rector of Saint Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee.   
      
     - granted the confirmation requested of him in accordance with canon 153   
   of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches by Bishop George Alencherry,   
   of Thuckalay of the Syro-Malabars, canonically elected as major archbishop   
   of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India by the   
   Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church meeting in Mount Saint Thomas,   
   Kakkanad-Kochi, in Kerala, India on 24 May. Bishop Alencherry was born in   
   Thuruthy, India in 1945, was ordained a priest in 1972, and consecrated a   
   bishop in 1997.   
   NER:NEA:NA/                                                     VIS 20110526   
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