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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
ANNO XXII - N° 57
DATA 15-03-2012
Summary:
- TELEGRAM FOR THE VICTIMS OF COACH ACCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND
- STATIONS OF THE CROSS DEDICATED TO THE FAMILY
- HOLY SEE AND MOZAMBIQUE RATIFY THEIR 2011 AGREEMENT
- PRESENTATION OF THE HOLY FATHER'S BOOK ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH IN ST.
AUGUSTINE
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
TELEGRAM FOR THE VICTIMS OF COACH ACCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father has sent a telegram of
condolence, through Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., to
Archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, for the victims
of a coach accident in
Sierre. Switzerland, in which twenty-eight people lost their lives, twenty-two
of them Belgian children on a school outing.
"Having learned of the tragic coach accident in Switzerland, which caused
numerous victims many of them children, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
associates himself in prayer with the suffering of the mourning families,
entrusting the victims to the
mercy of God and asking Him to welcome them into His light. He expresses his
profound sympathy to the injured and their families, and his closeness to
rescue workers, praying the Lord to give them help and consolation in their
moment of trial. As a
token of comfort, the Holy Father confers a special apostolic blessing upon
everyone affected by this drama".
___________________________________________________________
STATIONS OF THE CROSS DEDICATED TO THE FAMILY
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The texts for meditation during this
year's Way of the Cross, to be held at the Colosseum on Good Friday, have, by
order of the Holy Father, been written by Danilo and Anna Maria Zanzucchi, a
married couple and
founders of the New Families Movement, which is part of the "Focolari"
Movement. The theme of the meditations will be the family, and the Way of the
Cross will follow its traditional fourteen stations.
___________________________________________________________
HOLY SEE AND MOZAMBIQUE RATIFY THEIR 2011 AGREEMENT
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The Holy See Press Office today released a
communique announcing that the Holy See and the Republic of Mozambique have -
with Notes Verbales dated 12 March - given notification of their ratification
of the "Agreement
on the Principles and Juridical Dispositions Governing Relations between the
Holy See and Mozambique", signed in Maputo on 7 December 2011.
"The Agreement", the communique reads, "is made up of a preamble and
twenty-three articles which cover various areas such as the juridical status
of the Catholic Church in Mozambique, the recognition of academic titles and
of canonical marriage, and the
fiscal regime. The entry into force of the Agreement consolidates the existing
ties of friendship and collaboration between the two parties".
___________________________________________________________
PRESENTATION OF THE HOLY FATHER'S BOOK ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH IN ST.
AUGUSTINE
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - Yesterday eventing in the German embassy
to the Holy See, the presentation took place of a work by Joseph Ratzinger:
"The People and the House of God in Doctrine of the Church". The book, the
Pope's doctoral thesis
from 1953, is part of a series of sixteen volumes which aims to bring together
all Joseph Ratzinger's theological works up to the time of his election to the
papal throne in 2005.
During the presentation, Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller of Regensburg, Germany,
who has published the book in collaboration with the Pope Benedict XVI
Institute, also based in Regensburg, recalled that "St. Augustine is a
thinker, bishop and saint who
still spiritually accompanies our Holy Father. The Pope continues to maintain
a familiar but in-depth dialogue with the saint, to which his Wednesday
catecheses bear ample witness".
Among others, the presentation was attended by Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes,
president emeritus of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum"; Cardinal Walter
Brandmuller, and Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg im Breisgau,
president of the German Episcopal
Conference.
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience:
- His Beatitude Gregorios III Laham, Patriarch of Antioch of the
Greek-Melkites, Syria.
- Nine prelates of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, on their
"ad limina" visit:
- Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, accompanied
Auxiliary Bishop-elect George A. Sheltz.
- Bishop Joe Steve Vasquez of Austin.
- Bishop Curtis John Guillory S.V.D. of Beaumont.
- Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, accompanied by Bishop emeritus
Raymundo Joseph Pena.
- Bishop William Michael Mulvey of Corpus Christi.
- Bishop Alvaro Corrada del Rio S.J. of Tyler.
- Bishop David Eugene Fellhauer of Victoria in Texas.
- Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Cardinal Edwin
Frederick O'Brien, pro-grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of
the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, as grand master of that Order.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews120315
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE ANNO XXII - N° 57DATA 15-03-2012
Summary: - TELEGRAM FOR THE VICTIMS OF
COACH ACCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND - STATIONS OF THE CROSS DEDICATED TO THE FAMILY - HOLY SEE AND
MOZAMBIQUE RATIFY THEIR 2011 AGREEMENT - PRESENTATION OF THE HOLY
FATHER'S BOOK ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH IN ST. AUGUSTINE -
AUDIENCES - OTHER PONTIFICAL
ACTS
TELEGRAM FOR THE VICTIMS OF COACH ACCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father has sent a telegram of
condolence, through Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., to
Archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, for the victims
of a coach accident
in Sierre. Switzerland, in which twenty-eight people lost their lives,
twenty-two of them Belgian children on a school outing.
"Having learned of the tragic coach accident in Switzerland, which caused
numerous victims many of them children, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
associates himself in prayer with the suffering of the mourning families,
entrusting the victims to the
mercy of God and asking Him to welcome them into His light. He expresses his
profound sympathy to the injured and their families, and his closeness to
rescue workers, praying the Lord to give them help and consolation in their
moment of trial. As a
token of comfort, the Holy Father confers a special apostolic blessing upon
everyone affected by this drama".
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The texts for meditation during this
year's Way of the Cross, to be held at the Colosseum on Good Friday, have, by
order of the Holy Father, been written by Danilo and Anna Maria Zanzucchi, a
married couple and
founders of the New Families Movement, which is part of the "Focolari"
Movement. The theme of the meditations will be the family, and the Way of the
Cross will follow its traditional fourteen stations.
HOLY SEE AND MOZAMBIQUE RATIFY THEIR 2011 AGREEMENT
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The Holy See Press Office today
released a communique announcing that the Holy See and the Republic of
Mozambique have - with Notes Verbales dated 12 March - given notification of
their ratification of the
"Agreement on the Principles and Juridical Dispositions Governing Relations
between the Holy See and Mozambique", signed in Maputo on 7 December 2011.
"The Agreement", the communique reads, "is made up of a preamble and
twenty-three articles which cover various areas such as the juridical status
of the Catholic Church in Mozambique, the recognition of academic titles and
of canonical marriage, and
the fiscal regime. The entry into force of the Agreement consolidates the
existing ties of friendship and collaboration between the two parties".
PRESENTATION OF THE HOLY FATHER'S BOOK ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH IN ST.
AUGUSTINE
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - Yesterday eventing in the German
embassy to the Holy See, the presentation took place of a work by Joseph
Ratzinger: "The People and the House of God in Doctrine of the Church". The
book, the Pope's doctoral
thesis from 1953, is part of a series of sixteen volumes which aims to bring
together all Joseph Ratzinger's theological works up to the time of his
election to the papal throne in 2005.
During the presentation, Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller of Regensburg,
Germany, who has published the book in collaboration with the Pope Benedict
XVI Institute, also based in Regensburg, recalled that "St. Augustine is a
thinker, bishop and saint who
still spiritually accompanies our Holy Father. The Pope continues to maintain
a familiar but in-depth dialogue with the saint, to which his Wednesday
catecheses bear ample witness".
Among others, the presentation was attended by Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes,
president emeritus of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum"; Cardinal Walter
Brandmuller, and Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg im Breisgau,
president of the German
Episcopal Conference.
Vatican City, 15 March 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Cardinal
Edwin Frederick O'Brien, pro-grand master of the Equestrian Order of the
Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, as grand master of that Order.
Per ulteriori informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il
sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va Il servizio del
VIS viene inviato soltanto agli indirizzi di posta elettronica che ne
hanno
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/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
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