Subject: VISnews 111117   
   Organization: VIS   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 199   
   ENGLISH   
   THURSDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Legal Action against Inappropriate Use of the Pope's Image   
   - Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue: Cardinal Koch Visits Minsk   
      
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   LEGAL ACTION AGAINST INAPPROPRIATE USE OF THE POPE'S IMAGE   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 17 NOV 2011 (VIS) - Made public today was the following   
   communique from the Secretariat of State concerning a commercial advertising   
   campaign which makes inappropriate use of an image of the Holy Father.   
      
     "The Secretariat of State has authorised its lawyers to initiate actions,   
   in Italy and elsewhere, to prevent the circulation, via the mass media and   
   in other ways, of a photomontage used in a Benetton advertising campaign in   
   which the Holy Father appears in a way considered to be harmful, not only to   
   the dignity of the Pope and the Catholic Church, but also to the sensibility   
   of believers".   
      
     On the same subject, Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi   
   S.J. released the following declaration yesterday afternoon.   
      
     "We cannot but express a resolute protest at the entirely unacceptable use   
   of a manipulated image of the Holy Father, used as part of a publicity   
   campaign which has commercial ends.   
      
     "It is a serious lack of respect for the Pope, an affront to the feelings   
   of the faithful and an evident demonstration of how, in the field of   
   advertising, the most elemental rules of respect for others can be broken in   
   order to attract attention by provocation.   
      
     "The Secretariat of State is examining the steps that may be taken with   
   the competent authorities in order to guarantee adequate protection for the   
   figure of the Holy Father".   
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   CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX DIALOGUE: CARDINAL KOCH VISITS MINSK   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 17 NOV 2011 (VIS) - Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the   
   Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has visited Minsk, the   
   capital of Belarus, at the invitation of Filaret, Metropolitan of Minsk and   
   Slutsk and head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church which is dependant upon   
   the Patriarchate of Moscow.   
      
     While in Minsk, Cardinal Koch participated in an international conference   
   on the theme: "Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue: the ethical values of   
   Christianity as a contribution to social life in Europe". The event was   
   organised by the Institute for Inter-religious Dialogue and   
   Inter-confessional Communication of the Synod of the Belarusian Orthodox   
   Church, and by the Sts. Cyril and Methodius Christian Education Centre, in   
   collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.   
      
     According to a communique made public today, the conference "served to   
   underline the desire to continue dialogue on matters of mutual interest, and   
   to develop concrete collaboration in promoting and defending Christian   
   values in Europe".   
      
     On Monday 14 November, Cardinal Koch and Metropolitan Filaret were   
   received by Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, who expressed his   
   satisfaction at the good relations that exist between the two confessions in   
   the country".   
      
     "The visit to Belarus by the president of the Pontifical Council for   
   Promoting Christian Unity", the communique continues, "has highlighted   
   certain specific elements of great importance: the fact that the Catholic   
   Church has been able to restructure and reorganise herself following the   
   fall of the Soviet Union, and that this has happened in harmony with, and   
   often with the support of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, and the civil   
   authorities.   
      
     "The spirit of ecumenical fraternity - in a country which among the States   
   of the former Soviet Union is second only to Lithuania in number of   
   Catholics - has consolidated itself over time, becoming a fact of everyday   
   life and a model of reference".   
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