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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 115
DATE 12-06-2012
Summary:
- COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING DOCTRINAL ASSESSMENT OF LCWR
- PLENARY MEETING OF HOLY SEE - ISRAEL BILATERAL COMMISSION
- THE HOLY SEE HAS NOT CHANGED ITS POSITION ON EAST JERUSALEM
- COMMUNIQUE ON THE INTEGRATION OF VIS INTO THE NEWS.VA PORTAL AND THE HOLY
SEE PRESS OFFICE BULLETIN
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING DOCTRINAL ASSESSMENT OF LCWR
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - Given below is the text of an
English-language statement released by the director of the Holy See Press
Office concerning a meeting held at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith about the doctrinal Assessment
of the LCWR.
"Today the superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith met
with the president and executive director of the Leadership Conference of
Women Religious (LCWR) in the United States of America. Archbishop Peter J.
Sartain of Seattle, the Holy
See’s delegate for the doctrinal assessment of the LCWR, also
participated in the meeting.
"The meeting provided the opportunity for the Congregation and the LCWR
officers to discuss the issues and concerns raised by the doctrinal assessment
in an atmosphere of openness and cordiality.
"According to Canon Law, a conference of major superiors such as the LCWR is
constituted by and remains under the supreme direction of the Holy See in
order to promote common efforts among the individual member institutes and
cooperation with the Holy
See and the local conference of bishops (cf. Code of Canon Law, canons
708-709). The purpose of the doctrinal assessment is to assist the LCWR in
this important mission by promoting a vision of ecclesial communion founded on
faith in Jesus Christ and
the teachings of the Church as faithfully taught through the ages under the
guidance of the Magisterium.
___________________________________________________________
PLENARY MEETING OF HOLY SEE - ISRAEL BILATERAL COMMISSION
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - The Bilateral Permanent Working Commission
between the Holy See and the State of Israel held a plenary meeting today in
the Vatican Apostolic Palace, to continue negotiations pursuant to the
Fundamental Agreement
article 10 paragraph 2.
"The negotiations took place in a thoughtful and constructive atmosphere. The
Commission took notice that significant progress was made towards the
conclusion of the Agreement", reads an English-language communique made public
today.
"The Commission further acknowledged the exemplary service of Archbishop
Antonio Franco and Ambassador Mordechay Lewy on the occasion of their
retirement.
"The Parties have agreed on future steps and to hold the next plenary meeting
on 6 December 2012 at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs".
The Holy See delegation was headed by Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, under secretary
for Relations with States, and the Israeli delegation by Danny Ayalon M.K.
deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.
___________________________________________________________
THE HOLY SEE HAS NOT CHANGED ITS POSITION ON EAST JERUSALEM
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - Given below are extracts from an interview
given to Vatican Radio by Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, under secretary for
Relations with States, concerning the conclusion of the plenary meeting of the
Bilateral Permanent
Working Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel.
Question: Over recent days there have been persistent rumours in some circles
that the Agreement, which has been in preparation for thirteen years, would
finally be signed. Yet it was not signed. What has happened?
Answer: Nothing in particular. It is true that in some circles there was talk
of signing the Agreement, but that was not in fact scheduled. As I have said
before, progress has been made, but questions still remain to be resolved.
Q: There has been concern among Palestinians that, by signing this Agreement,
the Holy See would indirectly recognise Israeli sovereignty over East
Jerusalem and other territory occupied in the war of 1967.
A: The Agreement in question concerns the life, activity and tax status of the
Catholic Church in Israel. It does not enter into territorial disputes. There
will be no mention of East Jerusalem or of anywhere in the West Bank.
Q: But there has been talk of a draft agreement in which certain places in
East Jerusalem and the West Bank are mentioned.
A: Since the beginning of the negotiations we have worked on a plan for a
Comprehensive Agreement which also included the so-called 'Schedule One'; that
is, a list of individual properties belonging to the Holy See and to certain
institutions of the
Catholic Church in the Holy Land which, over the years, have been subjected to
onerous provisions by Israel. And it is true that some of those properties are
in East Jerusalem or in areas occupied in 1967. The aim was to resolve
concrete problems.
However, for some time now, it has been decided that the Agreement to be
signed will only deal with certain properties which are not in East Jerusalem
or the West Bank. Therefore it is incorrect to say that, by this Agreement,
the Holy See would be
violating the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian
persons in time of war. The confusion and concern were due to the undue use of
a working instrument, which has long since been superseded and which, in any
case, is
still
being elaborated.
Q: Has the position of the Holy See on East Jerusalem changed?
A: The Holy See's position has not changed. It was affirmed in the 'Basic
Agreement' between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organisation
(PLO), it has been reiterated on various occasions, and will be mentioned
again in the 'Global Agreement'
with the PLO, currently being prepared.
Q: A final question. It has been written that this Agreement which the Holy
See is preparing with Israel will damage agreements that France, Italy and
other countries have with Israel.
A: That is untrue, The Agreement concerns the Holy See and the State of
Israel, and has no effect on agreements Israel has made with other States. The
validity of those agreements depends first and foremost on the will of the
parities involved and not
on the existence of an agreement those parties have with a third party, in
this case the Holy See. This is, moreover, a commonly accepted principle of
international law.
___________________________________________________________
COMMUNIQUE ON THE INTEGRATION OF VIS INTO THE NEWS.VA PORTAL AND THE HOLY SEE
PRESS OFFICE BULLETIN
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - "As of 31 July 2012 the Vatican Information
Service (VIS) will cease to exist as a separate office providing information
distinct from the Bulletin of the Holy See Press Office. However, the
subscribers of VIS will
continue to receive a comprehensive information service", according to a
communique released this morning by the Holy See Press Office.
"As part of the development and coordination of the Holy See's social
communications activities, and following guidance received from the
Secretariat of State, the personnel of VIS will be transferred. Some of them
will go to reinforce the multilingual
'news.va' portal which was established a year ago in the Pontifical Council
for Social Communications, others will be employed in the multilingual
development of the Press Office Bulletin.
"As is now well known, the 'news.va' portal gathers the principal news items
concerning the Holy See and the life of the Church, as published daily by the
Press Office, the 'Osservatore Romano', Vatican Radio and Fides News Agency.
It then presents them
in an easily accessible format, accompanied by Vatican Television Centre
videos and photographs from the photographic service of the 'Osservatore
Romano'. One of the characteristics of the portal - which currently operates
daily in Italian, English,
Spanish and French - is that it is structured in such a way as to make it easy
to share the material on social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) and to
make it accessible with new applications on mobile devices.
"The Press Office Bulletin has thus far been published principally in Italian,
unless the original texts were in other languages, while VIS has worked
regularly in four languages. Integrating the English-, French- and
Spanish-language staff of VIS into
the everyday activities of the Holy See Press Office will enable the online
publication of the Bulletin to be renewed, with the inclusion of complete
translations of various texts and language summaries of texts that cannot be
fully translated. These
measures will be gradually introduced beginning in September 2012.
"The translated parts of the Bulletin, together with the summaries in
languages other than Italian, will continue to be sent to the 60,000 VIS
subscribers who thus will not lose a service they have received and
appreciated for so long. Moreover, the
extensive archive of more than 85,000 articles in various languages, produced
by VIS in more than twenty years of activity, will be conserved and
integrated, with a simple and rapid search engine, into the site of the Press
Office".
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:
- As members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: His
Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine;
Archbishop Zbignev Stankevics of Riga, Lithuania; Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai
S.D.B., secretary of the
Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples; Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller
of Regensburg, Germany, and Bishop Donald Joseph Bolen of Saskatoon, Canada.
- As consultors of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: Fr.
Aimable Musoni S.D.B., professor of ecclesiology and ecumenism at the
Pontifical Salesian University in Rome, and Fr. Robert Francis Christian O.P.,
vice dean of the Faculty of
Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
- As members of the Congregation for Catholic Education: Cardinal Oscar Andres
Rodriguez Maradiaga S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Cardinal
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice
and Peace; Cardinal
Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux, France; Cardinal Oswald Gracias,
archbishop of Bombay, India; Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches; Archbishop Luis Antonio G. Tagle of
Manila, Philippines;
Archbishop Alfredo Horacio Zecca of Tucuman, Argentina; Bishop Gerhard Ludwig
Muller of Regensburg, Germany, and Bishop Charles Morerod O.P. of Lausanne,
Geneve et Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Fr. Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku Kankanamalage of the clergy of the
diocese of Badulla, Sri Lanka, professor at the Faculty of Missiology at the
Pontifical Urban University in Rome, as under secretary of the Pontifical
Council for Inter-religious
Dialogue.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews120612
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 115DATE 12-06-2012
Summary: - COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING DOCTRINAL
ASSESSMENT OF LCWR -
PLENARY MEETING OF HOLY SEE - ISRAEL BILATERAL COMMISSION - THE HOLY SEE
HAS NOT CHANGED ITS POSITION ON EAST JERUSALEM - COMMUNIQUE ON THE
INTEGRATION OF VIS INTO THE NEWS.VA PORTAL AND THE HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE
BULLETIN - OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING DOCTRINAL ASSESSMENT OF LCWR
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - Given below is the text of an
English-language statement released by the director of the Holy See Press
Office concerning a meeting held at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith about the doctrinal
Assessment of the LCWR.
"Today the superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith met
with the president and executive director of the Leadership Conference of
Women Religious (LCWR) in the United States of America. Archbishop Peter J.
Sartain of Seattle, the
Holy See’s delegate for the doctrinal assessment of the LCWR, also
participated in the meeting.
"The meeting provided the opportunity for the Congregation and the LCWR
officers to discuss the issues and concerns raised by the doctrinal assessment
in an atmosphere of openness and cordiality.
"According to Canon Law, a conference of major superiors such as the LCWR
is constituted by and remains under the supreme direction of the Holy See in
order to promote common efforts among the individual member institutes and
cooperation with the
Holy See and the local conference of bishops (cf. Code of Canon Law, canons
708-709). The purpose of the doctrinal assessment is to assist the LCWR in
this important mission by promoting a vision of ecclesial communion founded on
faith in Jesus Christ
and the teachings of the Church as faithfully taught through the ages under
the guidance of the Magisterium.
PLENARY MEETING OF HOLY SEE - ISRAEL BILATERAL COMMISSION
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - The Bilateral Permanent Working
Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel held a plenary meeting
today in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, to continue negotiations pursuant to
the Fundamental Agreement
article 10 paragraph 2.
"The negotiations took place in a thoughtful and constructive atmosphere.
The Commission took notice that significant progress was made towards the
conclusion of the Agreement", reads an English-language communique made public
today.
"The Commission further acknowledged the exemplary service of Archbishop
Antonio Franco and Ambassador Mordechay Lewy on the occasion of their
retirement.
"The Parties have agreed on future steps and to hold the next plenary
meeting on 6 December 2012 at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs".
The Holy See delegation was headed by Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, under
secretary for Relations with States, and the Israeli delegation by Danny
Ayalon M.K. deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.
THE HOLY SEE HAS NOT CHANGED ITS POSITION ON EAST JERUSALEM
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - Given below are extracts from an
interview given to Vatican Radio by Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, under secretary
for Relations with States, concerning the conclusion of the plenary meeting of
the Bilateral Permanent
Working Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel.
Question: Over recent days there have been persistent rumours in some
circles that the Agreement, which has been in preparation for thirteen years,
would finally be signed. Yet it was not signed. What has happened?
Answer: Nothing in particular. It is true that in some circles there was
talk of signing the Agreement, but that was not in fact scheduled. As I have
said before, progress has been made, but questions still remain to be
resolved.
Q: There has been concern among Palestinians that, by signing this
Agreement, the Holy See would indirectly recognise Israeli sovereignty over
East Jerusalem and other territory occupied in the war of 1967.
A: The Agreement in question concerns the life, activity and tax status of
the Catholic Church in Israel. It does not enter into territorial disputes.
There will be no mention of East Jerusalem or of anywhere in the West Bank.
Q: But there has been talk of a draft agreement in which certain places in
East Jerusalem and the West Bank are mentioned.
A: Since the beginning of the negotiations we have worked on a plan for a
Comprehensive Agreement which also included the so-called 'Schedule One'; that
is, a list of individual properties belonging to the Holy See and to certain
institutions of the
Catholic Church in the Holy Land which, over the years, have been subjected to
onerous provisions by Israel. And it is true that some of those properties are
in East Jerusalem or in areas occupied in 1967. The aim was to resolve
concrete problems.
However, for some time now, it has been decided that the Agreement to be
signed will only deal with certain properties which are not in East Jerusalem
or the West Bank. Therefore it is incorrect to say that, by this Agreement,
the Holy See would be
violating the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian
persons in time of war. The confusion and concern were due to the undue use of
a working instrument, which has long since been superseded and which, in
any case, is still being elaborated.
Q: Has the position of the Holy See on East Jerusalem changed?
A: The Holy See's position has not changed. It was affirmed in the 'Basic
Agreement' between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organisation
(PLO), it has been reiterated on various occasions, and will be mentioned
again in the 'Global
Agreement' with the PLO, currently being prepared.
Q: A final question. It has been written that this Agreement which the Holy
See is preparing with Israel will damage agreements that France, Italy and
other countries have with Israel.
A: That is untrue, The Agreement concerns the Holy See and the State of
Israel, and has no effect on agreements Israel has made with other States. The
validity of those agreements depends first and foremost on the will of the
parities involved and
not on the existence of an agreement those parties have with a third party, in
this case the Holy See. This is, moreover, a commonly accepted principle of
international law.
COMMUNIQUE ON THE INTEGRATION OF VIS INTO THE NEWS.VA PORTAL AND THE HOLY
SEE PRESS OFFICE BULLETIN
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - "As of 31 July 2012 the Vatican
Information Service (VIS) will cease to exist as a separate office providing
information distinct from the Bulletin of the Holy See Press Office. However,
the subscribers of VIS will
continue to receive a comprehensive information service", according to a
communique released this morning by the Holy See Press Office.
"As part of the development and coordination of the Holy See's social
communications activities, and following guidance received from the
Secretariat of State, the personnel of VIS will be transferred. Some of them
will go to reinforce the
multilingual 'news.va' portal which was established a year ago in the
Pontifical Council for Social Communications, others will be employed in the
multilingual development of the Press Office Bulletin.
"As is now well known, the 'news.va' portal gathers the principal news
items concerning the Holy See and the life of the Church, as published daily
by the Press Office, the 'Osservatore Romano', Vatican Radio and Fides News
Agency. It then presents
them in an easily accessible format, accompanied by Vatican Television Centre
videos and photographs from the photographic service of the 'Osservatore
Romano'. One of the characteristics of the portal - which currently operates
daily in Italian,
English, Spanish and French - is that it is structured in such a way as to
make it easy to share the material on social networks (such as Facebook and
Twitter) and to make it accessible with new applications on mobile devices.
"The Press Office Bulletin has thus far been published principally in
Italian, unless the original texts were in other languages, while VIS has
worked regularly in four languages. Integrating the English-, French- and
Spanish-language staff of VIS
into the everyday activities of the Holy See Press Office will enable the
online publication of the Bulletin to be renewed, with the inclusion of
complete translations of various texts and language summaries of texts that
cannot be fully translated.
These measures will be gradually introduced beginning in September 2012.
"The translated parts of the Bulletin, together with the summaries in
languages other than Italian, will continue to be sent to the 60,000 VIS
subscribers who thus will not lose a service they have received and
appreciated for so long. Moreover, the
extensive archive of more than 85,000 articles in various languages, produced
by VIS in more than twenty years of activity, will be conserved and
integrated, with a simple and rapid search engine, into the site of the Press
Office".
Vatican City, 12 June 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:
- As members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: His
Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine;
Archbishop Zbignev Stankevics of Riga, Lithuania; Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai
S.D.B., secretary of the
Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples; Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller
of Regensburg, Germany, and Bishop Donald Joseph Bolen of Saskatoon,
Canada.
- As consultors of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity:
Fr. Aimable Musoni S.D.B., professor of ecclesiology and ecumenism at the
Pontifical Salesian University in Rome, and Fr. Robert Francis Christian O.P.,
vice dean of the Faculty
of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
- As members of the Congregation for Catholic Education: Cardinal Oscar
Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras;
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for
Justice and Peace; Cardinal
Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux, France; Cardinal Oswald Gracias,
archbishop of Bombay, India; Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches; Archbishop Luis Antonio G. Tagle of
Manila, Philippines;
Archbishop Alfredo Horacio Zecca of Tucuman, Argentina; Bishop Gerhard Ludwig
Muller of Regensburg, Germany, and Bishop Charles Morerod O.P. of Lausanne,
Geneve et Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Fr. Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku Kankanamalage of the clergy of the
diocese of Badulla, Sri Lanka, professor at the Faculty of Missiology at the
Pontifical Urban University in Rome, as under secretary of the Pontifical
Council for
Inter-religious Dialogue.
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