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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
ANNO XXII - N° 38
DATA 18-02-2012
Summary:
- NEW CARDINALS MUST LOVE GOD, THE CHURCH AND THEIR FELLOW MAN
- TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
- COMPOSITION OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
- EVANGELISTATION, YEAR OF FAITH, ECUMENISM: CENTRAL THEMES OF CARDINALS' DAY
OF REFLECTION AND PRAYER
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
NEW CARDINALS MUST LOVE GOD, THE CHURCH AND THEIR FELLOW MAN
Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) - In St. Peter's Basilica at 10.30 a.m.
this morning, Benedict XVI celebrated the fourth ordinary public consistory of
his pontificate, during which he created twenty-two new cardinals.
Following the opening prayer and the proclamation of the Gospel, the Holy
Father pronounced his homily, extracts of which are given below:
"'Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam'. ... With
these words the entrance hymn has led us into the solemn and evocative ritual
of the ordinary public consistory. ... They are the efficacious words with
which Jesus constituted
Peter as the solid foundation of the Church. On such a foundation the faith
represents the qualitative factor: Simon becomes Peter - the Rock - in as much
as he professed his faith in Jesus as Messiah and Son of God".
"The words Jesus addressed to Peter highlight well the ecclesial character of
today’s event. The new cardinals, in receiving the title of a church in
this city or of a suburban diocese, are fully inserted in the Church of Rome
led by the Successor
of Peter, in order to cooperate closely with him in governing the universal
Church. ... In carrying out their particular service in support of the Petrine
ministry, the new cardinals will be called to consider and evaluate the
events, the problems and
the pastoral criteria which concern the mission of the entire Church. In this
delicate task, the life and the death of the Prince of the Apostles, Who for
love of Christ gave Himself even unto the ultimate sacrifice will be an
example".
"It is with this meaning that the placing of the red biretta is also to be
understood. The new cardinals are entrusted with the service of love: love for
God, love for His Church, an absolute and unconditional love for his brothers
and sisters, even
unto shedding their blood, if necessary, as expressed in the words of placing
the biretta and as indicated by the colour of their robes. Furthermore, they
are asked to serve the Church with love and vigour, with the transparency and
wisdom of teachers,
with the energy and strength of shepherds, with the fidelity and courage of
martyrs. They are to be eminent servants of the Church that finds in Peter the
visible foundation of unity.
"In the Gospel we have just heard proclaimed there is offered a model to
imitate and to follow. ... Serving God and others, self-giving: this is the
logic which authentic faith imparts and develops in our daily lives and which
is not the type of power
and glory which belongs to this world".
Today's Gospel reading in which James and John asked Christ to be allowed to
sit with Him in His glory, one on His right and one on His left, "gives Jesus
a way to address each of the disciples and 'to call them to Himself', almost
to pull them in, to
form them into one indivisible body with Him, and to indicate which is the
path to real glory, that of God: 'You know that those who are supposed to rule
over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority
over them. But it shall
not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your
servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all'.
"Dominion and service, egoism and altruism, possession and gift, self-interest
and gratuitousness: these profoundly contrasting approaches confront each
other in every age and place. There is no doubt about the path chosen by
Jesus: He does not merely
indicate it with words to the disciples of then and of today, but He lives it
in His own flesh. He explains, in fact, 'For the Son of man also came not to
be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many'. These
words shed light upon
today’s public Consistory with a particular intensity. They resound in
the depths of the soul and represent an invitation and a reminder, a
commission and an encouragement especially for you, dear and venerable
brothers who are about to be
enrolled in the College of Cardinals.
"According to biblical tradition, the Son of man is the One Who receives power
and dominion from God. Jesus interprets His mission on earth by combining the
figure of the Son of man with that of the suffering servant, described in
Isaiah. ... His
service is realised in total faithfulness and complete responsibility towards
mankind. In this way the free acceptance of His violent death becomes the
price of freedom for many, it becomes the beginning and the foundation of the
redemption of each
person and of the entire human race.
"Dear Brothers who are to be enrolled in the College of Cardinals, may
Christ’s total gift of self on the Cross be for you the foundation,
stimulus and strength of a faith operative in charity. May your mission in the
Church and the world always
be 'in Christ' alone, responding to His logic and not that of the world, and
may it be illumined by faith and animated by charity which comes to us from
the glorious Cross of the Lord. On the ring which I will soon place on your
finger, are represented
Sts. Peter and Paul, and in the middle a star which evokes the Mother of God.
Wearing this ring, you are reminded each day to remember the witness which
these two Apostles gave to Christ even unto martyrdom here in Rome, their
blood making the Church
fruitful. The example of the Virgin Mother will always be for you an
invitation to follow her who was strong in faith and a humble servant of the
Lord".
"Dear brothers and sisters, pray that [the new cardinals'] lives will always
reflect the Lord Jesus, our sole Shepherd and Teacher, Source of every hope,
Who points out the path to everyone. And pray also for me, that I may
continually offer to the
People of God the witness of sound doctrine and guide holy Church with a firm
and humble hand".
Following his homily the Pope pronounced the the formula of creation of the
new cardinals, their names and the diaconate or presbyteral order to which
they have been assigned. The new cardinals then recited the Creed and swore
their faithfulness and
obedience to the Pope and his successors. They then received their biretta and
ring from the hands of the Pope who also assigned them their title or
diaconate.
Following the ceremony Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the
Congregation for the Causes of Saints, introduced the ordinary public
consistory for the canonisation of the following blesseds: Jacques Berthieu,
French martyr and priest of the
Society of Jesus (Jesuits); Pedro Calungsod, Filipino lay catechist and
martyr; Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Italian priest and founder of the
Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth and of the Congregation of the
Humble Sister Servants of the Lord;
Maria del Carmen (nee Maria Salles y Barangueras), Spanish foundress of the
Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching; Maria Anna Cope (nee Barbara),
German religious of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse
U.S.A.; Kateri
Tekakwitha, American laywoman, and Anna Schaffer, German laywoman. The Holy
Father has decreed that the canonisation ceremony will take place on Sunday 21
October. The consistory concluded with the apostolic blessing.
___________________________________________________________
TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) - Following are the names of the
twenty-two new cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI in this morning's
consistory, and the titular or diaconate churches he assigned to them:
Electors
- Cardinal Fernando Filoni, diaconate of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San
Giovanni di Dio.
- Cardinal Manuel Monteiro de Castro, diaconate of San Domenico di Guzman.
- Cardinal Santos Abril y Castello, diaconate of San Ponziano.
- Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, diaconate of San Cesareo in Palatio.
- Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, diaconate of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia.
- Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, diaconate of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami.
- Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, diaconate of Sant’Elena fuori Porta
Prenestina.
- Cardinal Edwin Frederick O'Brien, diaconate of San Sebastiano al Palatino.
- Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, diaconate of Annunciazione della Beata Vergine
Maria a Via Ardeatina.
- Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, diaconate of Sacro Cuore di Gesu a Castro
Pretorio.
- Cardinal George Alencherry, title of San Bernardo alle Terme.
- Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins, title of San Patrizio.
- Cardinal Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P., title of Santi Marcellino e Pietro.
- Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, title of San Callisto.
- Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, title of San Marcello.
- Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, title of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte
Mario.
- Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, title of San Giovanni Maria Vianney.
- Cardinal John Tong Hon, title of Regina Apostolorum.
Non electors:
- Cardinal Lucian Muresan, title of Sant’Atanasio.
- Cardinal Julien Ries, diaconate of Sant’Antonio di Padova a
Circonvallazione Appia.
- Cardinal Prosper Grech, O.S.A., diaconate of Santa Maria Goretti.
- Cardinal Karl Josef Becker, S.J., diaconate of San Giuliano Martire.
___________________________________________________________
COMPOSITION OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) - With the creation of twenty-two new
cardinals in this morning's consistory, the College of Cardinals now has 213
members of whom 125, being under the age of eighty, are eligible to vote in an
eventual conclave for
the election of a new Pope. The non electors, that is cardinals over the age
of eighty and ineligible to vote in a conclave, now number 88.
Benedict XVI has created eighty-four cardinals in the four consistories of his
pontificate.
The current members of the College of Cardinals come from seventy-one States,
distributed as follows: Europe 119, North America (U.S.A. and Canada) 21,
Latin America 32, Africa 17, Asia 20 and Oceania 4.
___________________________________________________________
EVANGELISTATION, YEAR OF FAITH, ECUMENISM: CENTRAL THEMES OF CARDINALS' DAY OF
REFLECTION AND PRAYER
Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) - Given below is the text of a communique
released yesterday evening by the Holy See Press Office at the end of the day
of reflection and prayer which brought together the members of the College of
Cardinals in
preparation for today's consistory.
"This afternoon, following the celebration of Vespers, the cardinals present
continued to make their contributions. Counting both the morning and afternoon
sessions, a total of twenty-seven talks were given, touching upon a wide range
of subjects
associated with new evangelisation and the Year of Faith.
"Attention was given to the problems of evangelisation in various parts of the
world and in different cultures: The increasing numbers of Christians in China
despite difficulties; inter-religious dialogue and the struggle against
poverty in India; the
trials faced by Christians in the countries of the Middle East; the importance
of popular religiosity for evangelisation in Latin America; the challenge of
secularism which tends to marginalise religion from social life in the West;
challenges and
difficulties as well as encouraging prospects and events that are signs of
hope, such as new and vivacious ecclesiastical experiences like World Youth
Days and International Eucharistic Congresses.
"Discussion also focused on the educational emergency, the renewal of
catechesis, the transmission of faith to young people, the formation of
evangelisers (lay people, religious and priests), and the importance of a
mature faith capable of witness and
discernment before the realities of today's world.
"Suggestions were made for the forthcoming Year of Faith. These included
in-depth analyses to accompany the various periods of the liturgical year,
encouraging pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to Rome, and favouring new forms
of popular mission.
"Emphasis was given to the ecumenical commitment of Christians in announcing
their shared faith in Christ, the validity of Vatican Council II as a compass
to guide the Church's journey today, the importance of bearing witness to
Christian joy and
sanctity, and the enduring fascination of the saints.
"Before praying the Angelus at around 7 p.m., the Holy Father concluded the
session with some words of his own. He thanked the relators", ca
dinal-designate Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Archbishop Fisichella, "and all
the participants. Their words had
represented a 'broad mosaic of ideas and proposals', he said. The Pope also
highlighted the importance Vatican Council II has for "rediscovering of the
contemporary importance of Jesus and the faith". He underlined the need for an
authentic renewal of
catechesis in order to highlight its precious content of truth, and to react
against what has been defined as 'religious illiteracy'. He reaffirmed the
need for profound conviction of the truth of God's revelation in His Son Jesus
Christ, because 'if
there is no truth, we have no compass and do not know where to go', and 'only
if there is truth can life be rich and beautiful". Without this conviction,
'we cannot re-evangelise humankind today'.
"Since God is love, truth is expressed in charity, and charity in turn
"reveals the truth". The Pope concluded by saying that the motto of the Year
of Faith could be summarised in the words: 'Living truth in charity'".
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr.
Christopher Glancy C.S.V., pastor of the parish of St. Francis Xavier in
Corozal, Belize, as auxiliary of the diocese of Belize City - Belmopan (area
22,965, population 307,899,
Catholics 152,718, priests 32, permanent deacons 4, religious 93), Belize. The
bishop-elect was born in Moline, U.S.A. in 1960 and ordained a priest in 1993.
He worked in pastoral care and vocational ministry in the U.S.A., before
moving to Belize in
1998.
___________________________________________________________
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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE ANNO XXII - N° 38DATA 18-02-2012
Summary: - NEW CARDINALS MUST LOVE GOD, THE
CHURCH AND THEIR FELLOW
MAN - TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS -
COMPOSITION OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS - EVANGELISTATION, YEAR OF
FAITH, ECUMENISM: CENTRAL THEMES OF CARDINALS' DAY OF REFLECTION AND PRAYER - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS ___________________________________________________________
NEW CARDINALS MUST LOVE GOD, THE CHURCH AND THEIR FELLOW MAN
Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) - In St. Peter's Basilica at 10.30
a.m. this morning, Benedict XVI celebrated the fourth ordinary public
consistory of his pontificate, during which he created twenty-two new
cardinals.
Following the opening prayer and the proclamation of the Gospel, the Holy
Father pronounced his homily, extracts of which are given below:
"'Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam'. ... With
these words the entrance hymn has led us into the solemn and evocative ritual
of the ordinary public consistory. ... They are the efficacious words with
which Jesus constituted
Peter as the solid foundation of the Church. On such a foundation the faith
represents the qualitative factor: Simon becomes Peter - the Rock - in as much
as he professed his faith in Jesus as Messiah and Son of God".
"The words Jesus addressed to Peter highlight well the ecclesial character
of today’s event. The new cardinals, in receiving the title of a church
in this city or of a suburban diocese, are fully inserted in the Church of
Rome led by the
Successor of Peter, in order to cooperate closely with him in governing the
universal Church. ... In carrying out their particular service in support of
the Petrine ministry, the new cardinals will be called to consider and
evaluate the events, the
problems and the pastoral criteria which concern the mission of the entire
Church. In this delicate task, the life and the death of the Prince of the
Apostles, Who for love of Christ gave Himself even unto the ultimate sacrifice
will be an example".
"It is with this meaning that the placing of the red biretta is also to be
understood. The new cardinals are entrusted with the service of love: love for
God, love for His Church, an absolute and unconditional love for his brothers
and sisters, even
unto shedding their blood, if necessary, as expressed in the words of placing
the biretta and as indicated by the colour of their robes. Furthermore, they
are asked to serve the Church with love and vigour, with the transparency and
wisdom of teachers,
with the energy and strength of shepherds, with the fidelity and courage of
martyrs. They are to be eminent servants of the Church that finds in Peter the
visible foundation of unity.
"In the Gospel we have just heard proclaimed there is offered a model to
imitate and to follow. ... Serving God and others, self-giving: this is the
logic which authentic faith imparts and develops in our daily lives and which
is not the type of
power and glory which belongs to this world".
Today's Gospel reading in which James and John asked Christ to be allowed
to sit with Him in His glory, one on His right and one on His left, "gives
Jesus a way to address each of the disciples and 'to call them to Himself',
almost to pull them in,
to form them into one indivisible body with Him, and to indicate which is the
path to real glory, that of God: 'You know that those who are supposed to rule
over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority
over them. But it
shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your
servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all'.
"Dominion and service, egoism and altruism, possession and gift,
self-interest and gratuitousness: these profoundly contrasting approaches
confront each other in every age and place. There is no doubt about the path
chosen by Jesus: He does not
merely indicate it with words to the disciples of then and of today, but He
lives it in His own flesh. He explains, in fact, 'For the Son of man also came
not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many'.
These words shed light
upon today’s public Consistory with a particular intensity. They resound
in the depths of the soul and represent an invitation and a reminder, a
commission and an encouragement especially for you, dear and venerable
brothers who are about to be
enrolled in the College of Cardinals.
"According to biblical tradition, the Son of man is the One Who receives
power and dominion from God. Jesus interprets His mission on earth by
combining the figure of the Son of man with that of the suffering servant,
described in Isaiah. ... His
service is realised in total faithfulness and complete responsibility towards
mankind. In this way the free acceptance of His violent death becomes the
price of freedom for many, it becomes the beginning and the foundation of the
redemption of each
person and of the entire human race.
"Dear Brothers who are to be enrolled in the College of Cardinals, may
Christ’s total gift of self on the Cross be for you the foundation,
stimulus and strength of a faith operative in charity. May your mission in the
Church and the world
always be 'in Christ' alone, responding to His logic and not that of the
world, and may it be illumined by faith and animated by charity which comes to
us from the glorious Cross of the Lord. On the ring which I will soon place on
your finger, are
represented Sts. Peter and Paul, and in the middle a star which evokes the
Mother of God. Wearing this ring, you are reminded each day to remember the
witness which these two Apostles gave to Christ even unto martyrdom here in
Rome, their blood making
the Church fruitful. The example of the Virgin Mother will always be for you
an invitation to follow her who was strong in faith and a humble servant of
the Lord".
"Dear brothers and sisters, pray that [the new cardinals'] lives will
always reflect the Lord Jesus, our sole Shepherd and Teacher, Source of every
hope, Who points out the path to everyone. And pray also for me, that I may
continually offer to the
People of God the witness of sound doctrine and guide holy Church with a firm
and humble hand".
Following his homily the Pope pronounced the the formula of creation of the
new cardinals, their names and the diaconate or presbyteral order to which
they have been assigned. The new cardinals then recited the Creed and swore
their faithfulness and
obedience to the Pope and his successors. They then received their biretta and
ring from the hands of the Pope who also assigned them their title or
diaconate.
Following the ceremony Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the
Congregation for the Causes of Saints, introduced the ordinary public
consistory for the canonisation of the following blesseds: Jacques Berthieu,
French martyr and priest of the
Society of Jesus (Jesuits); Pedro Calungsod, Filipino lay catechist and
martyr; Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Italian priest and founder of the
Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth and of the Congregation of the
Humble Sister Servants of the Lord;
Maria del Carmen (nee Maria Salles y Barangueras), Spanish foundress of the
Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching; Maria Anna Cope (nee Barbara),
German religious of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse
U.S.A.; Kateri
Tekakwitha, American laywoman, and Anna Schaffer, German laywoman. The Holy
Father has decreed that the canonisation ceremony will take place on Sunday 21
October. The consistory concluded with the apostolic blessing.
TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) - Following are the names of the
twenty-two new cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI in this morning's
consistory, and the titular or diaconate churches he assigned to them:
Electors
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