Subject: VISnews 111013   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 176   
   ENGLISH   
   THURSDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Holy Father Receives the President of Honduras   
   - Papal Mass for the People of Latin America   
   - The Relationship between Religion, Nature and Art   
   - Audiences   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   HOLY FATHER RECEIVES THE PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 OCT 2011 (VIS) - "This morning the Holy Father Benedict XVI   
   received in audience Porfirio Lobo Sosa, president of the Republic of   
   Honduras. The president 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", according to a communique   
   released at midday today by the Holy See Press Office.   
      
     "During the cordial discussions appreciation was expressed for the great   
   contribution the Church makes to development in Honduras, especially in the   
   fields of education and healthcare. Emphasis was also given to the   
   importance of continuing to foment reconciliation, mutual understanding,   
   solidarity and peace in the country, in a persistent search for the common   
   good.   
      
     "The parties went on to take note of the improved situation of Honduras'   
   international relations, as well as giving attention to other questions   
   regarding the international scene".   
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   PAPAL MASS FOR THE PEOPLE OF LATIN AMERICA   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 OCT 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father is due to celebrate Mass   
   for the people of Latin America for the bicentenary of their independence,   
   according to a communique released by the Pontifical Commission for Latin   
   America. The celebration will take place in St. Peter's Basilica at 5.30   
   p.m. on 12 December, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron of Latin   
   America.   
      
     The communique explains that "this initiative is a gesture of the concern,   
   affection and solidarity felt by the Holy Father towards the peoples and   
   nations of the 'Continent of Hope', as it has been called by Roman Pontiffs   
   from Paul VI to Benedict XVI. It is a clear expression of the pastoral   
   solicitude with which Benedict XVI embraces those peoples, among whom the   
   Gospel of Jesus Christ was sown and brought forth precious fruit. They   
   represent 40 percent of the baptised of the Catholic Church, united in   
   filial devotion to Most Holy Mary, while their local Churches remain in   
   faithful communion with the See of Peter".   
      
     "The initiative is indicative of the original contribution the Catholic   
   Church wishes to make to the commemoration of this bicentenary, in the light   
   of historical truth, so as to throw light on the current situation in Latin   
   America and nourish hope in a future of peace and justice".   
      
     The 12 December Mass will be attended by the Roman Curia, the diplomatic   
   corps accredited to the Holy See and to the Italian government, Latin   
   American priests religious and citizens who study or reside in Rome, and   
   public figures from the Latin American continent.   
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   THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION, NATURE AND ART   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 OCT 2011 (VIS) - The relationship between religion, nature   
   and art is being examined in a conference which began today at the Vatican   
   Museums, organised by the Museums and by the International Society for the   
   Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. The conference, which comes to an end   
   tomorrow, will focus on the concern for nature felt in the Catholic world,   
   also highlighting the presence of ecological awareness, as expressed in art,   
   in other religions and cultures.   
      
     The initiative is entitled "Religion, Nature and Art" and is being held   
   under the patronage of Archbishop Giuseppe Bertello, president of the   
   Governorate of Vatican City State. It is being attended by experts from all   
   over the world, from Finland to Japan, and has been organised by Laura   
   Hobgood-Oster, a professor at Southwestern University, U.S.A., for the   
   International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and by   
   Fr. Nicola Malpelli and Katherine Aigner for the Vatican Missionary   
   Ethnological Museum.   
      
     The papers being delivered over the two days of the conference will focus   
   on such subjects as "The Entanglement of Religion and Art: Joseph Beuys,   
   Shamanism and Ritual"; "Representation and Conceptions of Nature"; "Global   
   Indigenous Perceptions and the Sacred World"; "Reading Religion and   
   Resistance in Earth Art and the Book of Nature", and "Spirituality-based   
   Environmental Activism, Nature, Art".   
      
     The programme of events also includes a visit to the exhibition "Rituals   
   of Life: the Culture and Spirituality of Aboriginal Australians", which was   
   inaugurated last year at the Missionary Ethnological Museum of the Vatican   
   Museums.   
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   AUDIENCES   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 OCT 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate   
   audiences:   
      
    - Porfirio Lobo Sosa, president of the Republic of Honduras, accompanied by   
   an entourage.   
      
    - His Beatitude Fouad Twal, patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins.   
      
    - Five prelates from the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, on their   
   "ad limina" visit:   
      
       - Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, accompanied by Auxiliary   
   Bishops Julian Charles Porteous, Terence John Gerard Brady and Peter Andrew   
   Comensoli.   
      
       - Archbishop Philip Edward Wilson of Adelaide.   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 OCT 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Luis   
   Antonio Tagle of Imus, Philippines, as metropolitan archbishop of Manila   
   (area 117, population 3,296,000, Catholics 2,884,000, priests 642, permanent   
   deacons 3, religious 1,481), Philippines. He succeeds Cardinal Gaudencio B.   
   Rosales, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese   
   the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.   
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