Subject: VISnews 110601   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 122   
   ENGLISH   
   FRIDAY, 1 JULY 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Telegram for the Death of Cardinal Sterzinsky   
   - The Pope Highlights the Importance of Family-Run Farms   
   - College of Cardinals Has Lunch with the Holy Father   
   - Audiences   
      
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   TELEGRAM FOR THE DEATH OF CARDINAL STERZINSKY   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 1 JUL 2011 (VIS) - Yesterday, Benedict XVI sent a telegram of   
   condolence to Bishop Matthias Heinrich, auxiliary and diocesan administrator   
   of Berlin, Germany, for the death of Cardinal Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky,   
   archbishop emeritus of that archdiocese. The cardinal died on 30 June at the   
   age of 75.   
      
     In his telegram the Pope expresses his closeness to the faithful of Berlin   
   as they mourn the death of their cardinal who, he writes, "had the task of   
   guiding and, as bishop to all its inhabitants, uniting a politically divided   
   archdiocese in the period of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the   
   reunification of Germany. His efforts over the years were always at the   
   service of reconciliation".   
      
     "In the same way", the Pope continues, "he felt a great need to show   
   solidarity towards people without a land of their own, refugees and   
   immigrants, and to give them a homeland within the family of the Church. May   
   Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, reward him for his commitment and give him   
   life in abundance in His Kingdom".   
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   THE POPE HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY-RUN FARMS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 1 JUL 2011 (VIS) - This morning in the Clementine Hall of the   
   Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Pope received participants in thirty-seventh   
   Conference of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United   
   Nations (FAO).   
      
     Benedict XVI greeted the newly elected head of the organisation, Jose   
   Graziano da Silva, thanking the outgoing president, Jacques Diouf, for the   
   "competence and dedication" he had shown during the years he was in charge   
   of the FAO.   
      
     "Poverty, underdevelopment and the resulting hunger are often the outcome   
   of selfish attitudes which, arising from man's heart, find expression in his   
   social activities, in economic relations and in the conditions of the   
   market, ... and are translated into the denial of the primary right of all   
   individuals to nourishment and freedom from hunger. How can we remain silent   
   before the fact that food has become the object of speculation and is tied   
   to the movements of financial markets which, lacking clear rules and moral   
   principles, seem fixated on the single objective of profit? Nourishment is a   
   factor which touches on the fundamental right to life", he said.   
      
     "The international situation and recurrent concerns caused by instability   
   and price increases demand concrete responses, which must necessarily be   
   united in order to achieve results which individual States cannot achieve   
   alone. This means that solidarity must become an essential criterion for all   
   political and strategic action", the Holy Father explained. "In this   
   perspective, international institutions are called to work in keeping with   
   their mandate, supporting values which accord with human dignity,   
   eliminating attitudes of closure, and leaving no space for individual   
   demands which are passed off as being in the general interest".   
      
     Benedict XVI also recalled how the FAO is also "called to re-examine its   
   own structure, freeing it from impediments which hinder the organisation   
   from achieving the goal set out in its Constitution to guarantee nutritional   
   development, the availability of food products and the development of rural   
   areas, so as to ensure that humankind is free from hunger".   
      
     The Pope went on to speak of "the situation of millions of children, who   
   are the first victims of this tragedy, condemned to early death or to a   
   delay in their physical and mental development. ... Concern for younger   
   generations could be a way to contrast the abandonment of rural areas and   
   agricultural work", he said. However, "despite the commitments taken on and   
   the obligations they entail, we must note that concrete aid and assistance   
   are often limited to emergency situations, forgetting that a coherent   
   concept of development must be capable of guaranteeing a future for every   
   individual, family or community, favouring long term objectives". Thus,   
   "support must be given to initiatives ... aimed at rediscovering the   
   importance of family-run farms, supporting the vital role they play in   
   ensuring stable food security".   
      
     "Food security is an authentically human requirement", Pope Benedict went   
   on. "Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means   
   safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation of natural   
   resources. Indeed, the process of consumption and waste seems to overlook   
   any concern for ... biodiversity, which is so important for agriculture".   
      
     "At this time in which agriculture is beset by so many problems, but is   
   also facing new opportunities for alleviating the problem of hunger", the   
   Holy Father told his audience, "you can ensure that, by guaranteeing a   
   nourishment responsive to people's needs, individuals can grow in their true   
   identity as creatures made in the image of God".   
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   COLLEGE OF CARDINALS HAS LUNCH WITH THE HOLY FATHER   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 1 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The College of Cardinals today offered a   
   luncheon in the Pope's honour in the Sala Ducale of the Vatican Apostolic   
   Palace, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination to the   
   priesthood.   
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   AUDIENCES   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 1 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience   
   Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello S.D.B. of Santiago de Chile, Chile.   
      
     This evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Marc Ouellet   
   P.S.S., prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.   
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