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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 74
DATE 13-04-2012
Summary:
- THE HOLY FATHER AND EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY WORKERS
- RESULTS OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CHILD ABUSE IN THE U.S.A.
- FROM PARABLES TO TWITTER
- VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY TO DIGITISE A MILLION PAGES OF MANUSCRIPTS AND
INCUNABULA
___________________________________________________________
THE HOLY FATHER AND EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY WORKERS
Vatican City, 13 April 2012 (VIS) - An Italian book entitled "Il Santo Padre e
i volontari europei" was presented this morning at the headquarters of the
Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" by Cardinal Robert Sarah and Msgr. Giampietro
Dal Toso, respectively
president and secretary of the council, and by Michel Roy, secretary of
Caritas Internationalis.
A communique released by "Cor Unum" explains that the book contains, "apart
from an address by the Pope on the subject of voluntary work, the most
important contributions made during a conference on that topic held in the
Vatican last year. The
conference, which took place in the context of the European Year of
Volunteering, was attended by bishops with pastoral responsibility for
charitable work and representatives of European charity organisations". The
presentation "will also serve to focus
on future Church strategies in this field", the communique says.
Speaking during last November's conference Kristalina Georgieva, European
Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis
Response, focused on the civic importance of voluntary work, especially in
view of the current economic and
cultural crisis. She also recalled that around twenty per cent of the European
population undertakes some kind of voluntary activity. "Volunteer work", she
said, "is a great resource for Europe and part of the continent's DNA".
Addressing the participants at the end of the conference last year, Benedict
XVI noted that their meeting was taking place on the liturgical memorial of
St. Martin of Tours. "Often portrayed sharing his mantle with a poor man", he
said, "Martin became a
model of charity throughout Europe and indeed the whole world. Nowadays,
volunteer work as a service of charity has become a universally recognised
element of our modern culture. Nonetheless, its origins can still be seen in
the particularly Christian
concern for safeguarding, without discrimination, the dignity of the human
person created in the image and likeness of God. If these spiritual roots are
denied or obscured and the criteria of our collaboration become purely
utilitarian, what is most
distinctive about the service you provide risks being lost, to the detriment
of society as a whole".
___________________________________________________________
RESULTS OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CHILD ABUSE IN THE U.S.A.
Vatican City, 13 April 2012 (VIS) - The annual report for 2011 on the
implementation of the U.S. Church's "Charter for the Protection of Children
and Young People" was presented recently in the United States. The Charter,
which advocates a zero
tolerance policy, was promulgated by the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops in 2002 and is observed by all Catholic dioceses in the country. It
contains a series of rules and makes prevision for periodic checks to control
efficiency and
determine the need for any further improvements.
According to an article in the "Osservatore Romano", the results for 2011
throw light on ongoing efforts to ensure the protection of children and young
people from sexual abuse by the clergy, a commitment which constitutes a
priority for the local
Church. The report shows that almost all the the archdioceses, dioceses and
eparchies in the U.S.A. have respected the rules laid down in the Charter. The
Charter itself was updated last year by introducing the offence of child
pornography, and by
placing abuse against people with disabilities on a par with abuse against
minors.
The annual report includes 683 new complaints of abuse made by adults, most of
which refer to incidents which took place between 1960 and 1984. Assistance
programmes have been offered to the people involved and 453 of them have
accepted. The report also
includes twenty-one accusations presented by minors; some of these have been
considered reliable by the police, three have turned out to be false and the
rest are still being investigated. As for those accused, 253 have since died,
58 have been reduced
to the lay state and 281 have been relieved of their pastoral duties.
The bishops note that the results must not encourage a lowering of guard.
Presenting the 2011 report, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and
president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, highlights how
"even if most of the
complaints refer to the past, the Church must remain vigilant. She must do
everything possible to ensure the abuses are not repeated, We must all
continue to work for complete healing and reconciliation with the victims".
For the bishops, the question
of abuse "is a shared priority", he says. In earlier remarks Cardinal Dolan
had emphasised that all priests found guilty of "these intolerable crimes"
will be permanently removed from the ministry.
The report also recalls how more than two million volunteers throughout the
country have participated in training courses on protection, held in parishes
and schools. Moreover, more than 4.8 million children have been taught how to
recognise and protect
themselves from attempts at abuse. The U.S. Church's efforts in this field
include a series of initiatives culminating in the National Child Abuse
Prevention Month, held each year in April.
___________________________________________________________
FROM PARABLES TO TWITTER
Vatican City, 13 April 2012 (VIS) - A congress entitled "From Parables to
Twitter" is due to begin this afternoon at the "Istituto Massimo" in Rome. It
will focus on the challenges and opportunities for evangelisation presented by
modern communications
technology.
The conference will begin with some remarks by Fr. Francesco Tata S.J., rector
of the "Istituto Massimo". Participants will include Ettore Franzini,
professor of new communications media at Rome's LUMSA University; Fabio
Bolzetta, journalist of TV2000
and spokesperson of "WeCa", the association of Catholic webmasters, and
Lucandrea Massaro, social media editor of "Aleteia", a Christian social
network created under the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Social
Communications and the Pontifical
Council for Promoting New Evangelisation. The moderator of the event will be
Alessandro Gisotti, a Vatican Radio journalist.
___________________________________________________________
VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY TO DIGITISE A MILLION PAGES OF MANUSCRIPTS AND
INCUNABULA
Vatican City, 13 April 2012 (VIS) - Msgr. Cesare Pasini, prefect of the
Vatican Apostolic Library, announced in yesterday's "Osservatore Romano" that
over the next five years 1.5 million pages of manuscripts and incunabula held
in the Vatican and in the
Bodleian Library in Oxford will be be transferred into digital format. This is
the largest such initiative yet carried out by the Vatican Library and is
being put into effect with the assistance of the Polonsky Foundation.
Two thirds of the works to be digitised - around one million pages or 2,500
books - will be chosen from the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula in
the Vatican Apostolic Library. The institution possesses 8,900 incunabula,
making it the fourth
largest collection in the world. A catalogue of the incunabula has recently
been published on the internet and, thanks to this latest project, it is hoped
to make more than 800 complete works available online. They include the famous
"De Europa" by Pope
Pius II, printed by Albrecht Kunne in Memmingen before 1491, and the 42-Line
Latin Bible of Johann Gutenberg, the first book printed using moveable type,
between 1454 and 1455.
Certain particularly important Hebrew manuscripts are also due to be
digitised, including the "Sifra", written some time between the end of the
ninth and the middle of the tenth century and perhaps the oldest surviving
Jewish codex; a Bible written in
Italy around the year 1100; commentaries on the Bible and the Talmud; Halakhah
and Kabbalah, as well as writings on philosophy, medicine and astronomy.
Among the Greek manuscripts to be transferred into digital format are works by
Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Hypocrites, as well as New Testament codices and
works by Church Fathers, many decorated with Byzantine miniatures.
As well as its 8,900 incunabula, the Vatican Apostolic Library also possesses
more than 80,000 manuscripts. Msgr. Pasini explains that transferring them to
digital format is a way of "better conserving cultural heritage, facilitating
consultation and
ensuring a high-quality reproduction before any eventual degradation of the
original. It also means making those works immediately accessible to many more
people online".
The Vatican Apostolic Library’s digitisation project began two years
ago, since when the number of manuscripts available in digital format has been
gradually increasing thanks to the efforts of the library's own reproduction
laboratory. There are
also a number of initiatives under way in collaboration with other cultural
institutions, such as the ongoing digitisation of the Latin Palatine
manuscripts being carried out with the University of Heidelberg.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews120413
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 74DATE 13-04-2012
Summary: - THE HOLY FATHER AND EUROPEAN
VOLUNTARY WORKERS - RESULTS
OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CHILD ABUSE IN THE U.S.A. - FROM PARABLES TO
TWITTER - VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY TO DIGITISE A MILLION PAGES OF
MANUSCRIPTS AND INCUNABULA
Vatican City, 13 April 2012 (VIS) - An Italian book entitled "Il Santo
Padre e i volontari europei" was presented this morning at the headquarters of
the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" by Cardinal Robert Sarah and Msgr.
Giampietro Dal Toso,
respectively president and secretary of the council, and by Michel Roy,
secretary of Caritas Internationalis.
A communique released by "Cor Unum" explains that the book contains, "apart
from an address by the Pope on the subject of voluntary work, the most
important contributions made during a conference on that topic held in the
Vatican last year. The
conference, which took place in the context of the European Year of
Volunteering, was attended by bishops with pastoral responsibility for
charitable work and representatives of European charity organisations". The
presentation "will also serve to focus
on future Church strategies in this field", the communique says.
Speaking during last November's conference Kristalina Georgieva, European
Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis
Response, focused on the civic importance of voluntary work, especially in
view of the current economic
and cultural crisis. She also recalled that around twenty per cent of the
European population undertakes some kind of voluntary activity. "Volunteer
work", she said, "is a great resource for Europe and part of the continent's
DNA".
Addressing the participants at the end of the conference last year,
Benedict XVI noted that their meeting was taking place on the liturgical
memorial of St. Martin of Tours. "Often portrayed sharing his mantle with a
poor man", he said, "Martin
became a model of charity throughout Europe and indeed the whole world.
Nowadays, volunteer work as a service of charity has become a universally
recognised element of our modern culture. Nonetheless, its origins can still
be seen in the particularly
Christian concern for safeguarding, without discrimination, the dignity of the
human person created in the image and likeness of God. If these spiritual
roots are denied or obscured and the criteria of our collaboration become
purely utilitarian, what
is most distinctive about the service you provide risks being lost, to the
detriment of society as a whole".
RESULTS OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CHILD ABUSE IN THE U.S.A.
Vatican City, 13 April 2012 (VIS) - The annual report for 2011 on the
implementation of the U.S. Church's "Charter for the Protection of Children
and Young People" was presented recently in the United States. The Charter,
which advocates a zero
tolerance policy, was promulgated by the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops in 2002 and is observed by all Catholic dioceses in the country. It
contains a series of rules and makes prevision for periodic checks to control
efficiency and
determine the need for any further improvements.
According to an article in the "Osservatore Romano", the results for 2011
throw light on ongoing efforts to ensure the protection of children and young
people from sexual abuse by the clergy, a commitment which constitutes a
priority for the local
Church. The report shows that almost all the the archdioceses, dioceses and
eparchies in the U.S.A. have respected the rules laid down in the Charter. The
Charter itself was updated last year by introducing the offence of child
pornography, and by
placing abuse against people with disabilities on a par with abuse against
minors.
The annual report includes 683 new complaints of abuse made by adults, most
of which refer to incidents which took place between 1960 and 1984. Assistance
programmes have been offered to the people involved and 453 of them have
accepted. The report
also includes twenty-one accusations presented by minors; some of these have
been considered reliable by the police, three have turned out to be false and
the rest are still being investigated. As for those accused, 253 have since
died, 58 have been
reduced to the lay state and 281 have been relieved of their pastoral
duties.
The bishops note that the results must not encourage a lowering of guard.
Presenting the 2011 report, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and
president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, highlights how
"even if most of
the complaints refer to the past, the Church must remain vigilant. She must do
everything possible to ensure the abuses are not repeated, We must all
continue to work for complete healing and reconciliation with the victims".
For the bishops, the
question of abuse "is a shared priority", he says. In earlier remarks Cardinal
Dolan had emphasised that all priests found guilty of "these intolerable
crimes" will be permanently removed from the ministry.
The report also recalls how more than two million volunteers throughout the
country have participated in training courses on protection, held in parishes
and schools. Moreover, more than 4.8 million children have been taught how to
recognise and
protect themselves from attempts at abuse. The U.S. Church's efforts in this
field include a series of initiatives culminating in the National Child Abuse
Prevention Month, held each year in April.
Vatican City, 13 April 2012 (VIS) - A congress entitled "From Parables to
Twitter" is due to begin this afternoon at the "Istituto Massimo" in Rome. It
will focus on the challenges and opportunities for evangelisation presented by
modern
communications technology.
The conference will begin with some remarks by Fr. Francesco Tata S.J.,
rector of the "Istituto Massimo". Participants will include Ettore Franzini,
professor of new communications media at Rome's LUMSA University; Fabio
Bolzetta, journalist of
TV2000 and spokesperson of "WeCa", the association of Catholic webmasters, and
Lucandrea Massaro, social media editor of "Aleteia", a Christian social
network created under the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Social
Communications and the
Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation. The moderator of the
event will be Alessandro Gisotti, a Vatican Radio journalist.
VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY TO DIGITISE A MILLION PAGES OF MANUSCRIPTS AND
INCUNABULA
Vatican City, 13 April 2012 (VIS) - Msgr. Cesare Pasini, prefect of the
Vatican Apostolic Library, announced in yesterday's "Osservatore Romano" that
over the next five years 1.5 million pages of manuscripts and incunabula held
in the Vatican and in
the Bodleian Library in Oxford will be be transferred into digital format.
This is the largest such initiative yet carried out by the Vatican Library and
is being put into effect with the assistance of the Polonsky Foundation.
Two thirds of the works to be digitised - around one million pages or 2,500
books - will be chosen from the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula in
the Vatican Apostolic Library. The institution possesses 8,900 incunabula,
making it the fourth
largest collection in the world. A catalogue of the incunabula has recently
been published on the internet and, thanks to this latest project, it is hoped
to make more than 800 complete works available online. They include the famous
"De Europa" by Pope
Pius II, printed by Albrecht Kunne in Memmingen before 1491, and the 42-Line
Latin Bible of Johann Gutenberg, the first book printed using moveable type,
between 1454 and 1455.
Certain particularly important Hebrew manuscripts are also due to be
digitised, including the "Sifra", written some time between the end of the
ninth and the middle of the tenth century and perhaps the oldest surviving
Jewish codex; a Bible written
in Italy around the year 1100; commentaries on the Bible and the Talmud;
Halakhah and Kabbalah, as well as writings on philosophy, medicine and
astronomy.
Among the Greek manuscripts to be transferred into digital format are works
by Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Hypocrites, as well as New Testament codices
and works by Church Fathers, many decorated with Byzantine miniatures.
As well as its 8,900 incunabula, the Vatican Apostolic Library also
possesses more than 80,000 manuscripts. Msgr. Pasini explains that
transferring them to digital format is a way of "better conserving cultural
heritage, facilitating consultation and
ensuring a high-quality reproduction before any eventual degradation of the
original. It also means making those works immediately accessible to many more
people online".
The Vatican Apostolic Library’s digitisation project began two years
ago, since when the number of manuscripts available in digital format has been
gradually increasing thanks to the efforts of the library's own reproduction
laboratory. There
are also a number of initiatives under way in collaboration with other
cultural institutions, such as the ongoing digitisation of the Latin Palatine
manuscripts being carried out with the University of Heidelberg.
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
fatto richiesta. Se per qualunque motivo non si desidera continuare a
riceverlo, si prega di visitare nostra pagina dinizio: http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vi
/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
Information Service possono essere riprodotte parzialmente o totalmente
citando la fonte: V.I.S. - Vatican Information Service.
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