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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 175
DATE 01-10-2012
Summary:
- WITNESSES IN THE TRIAL AGAINST GABRIELE AND SCIARPELLETTI
- MATERIAL WEALTH MUST BE USED FOR THE COMMON GOOD
- APPEAL FOR PEACE IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
- BENEDICT XVI TAKES HIS LEAVE OF CASTELGANDOLFO
- SOCIAL NETWORKS: PORTALS OF TRUTH AND FAITH; NEW SPACES FOR EVANGELISATION
- FIRST HEARING IN THE "VATILEAKS" TRIAL
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
WITNESSES IN THE TRIAL AGAINST GABRIELE AND SCIARPELLETTI
Vatican City, 1 October 2012 (VIS) - Made public this morning was the list of
witnesses to be called in the trials against Paolo Gabriele and Claudio
Sciarpelletti who are accused, respectively, of aggravated theft and
complicity.
The witnesses in the criminal trial against Claudio Sciarpelletti are: Msgr.
Carlo Maria Polvani, William Kloter, Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti and Domenico
Giani.
The witnesses in the criminal trial against Paolo Gabriele are: Cristina
Cernetti, Giuseppe Pesce, Msgr. Georg Gaenswein, Costanzo Alessandrini, Luca
Cinitia, Stefano De Santis, Silvano Carli and Luca Bassetti.
Also made public today was the response to a question raised during a briefing
with journalists on 27 September, to the effect that the trial will take place
without a "reporting magistrate". In a criminal trial, unlike a civil trial,
normally there is
no report into the circumstances of the case. The documents published on 13
August when the accused were sent for trial, and the earlier indictment of the
promoter of justice, already describe the case in detail.
___________________________________________________________
MATERIAL WEALTH MUST BE USED FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Vatican City, 30 September 2012 (VIS) - At midday today the Holy Father
appeared at the balcony overlooking the inner courtyard of the Apostolic
Palace at Castelgandolfo to pray the Angelus with faithful gathered there.
The Pope focused his comments on today’s reading from the Gospel of St.
Mark which narrates how a man who was not one of Jesus' disciples expelled
demons in His name, The Apostle John wanted to stop him but Christ would not
allow it, taking "the
opportunity to teach His disciples that God can bring about good and even
miraculous things, even outside of their circle, and that one can cooperate
with the Kingdom of God in various ways".
"Therefore, members of the Church must not feel jealous, but rejoice if
someone from outside the community does good in the name of Christ, provided
it is done with right intention and with respect. Even within the Church, it
can sometimes happen that
people find it difficult to appreciate and recognise, in a spirit of profound
communion, the good done by different ecclesial elements. And yet, all of us
should always be able to appreciate and respect one another, praising the Lord
for the infinite
'imagination' with which He acts in the Church and the world".
Benedict XVI then turned his attention to the Letter of St. James, which
inveighs "against the dishonest rich, who put their trust in riches
accumulated by deceit. ... The words of the Apostle James, while they warn
against the vain desire for material
wealth, are also a powerful call to use it in the perspective of solidarity
and the common good, always acting with fairness and morality, at all levels".
___________________________________________________________
APPEAL FOR PEACE IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Vatican City, 30 September 2012 (VIS) - "I follow with affection and concern
the affairs of the people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who
are currently the subject of a high-level meeting at the United Nations. I
remain especially
close to the refugees, the women and the children who suffer violence and
profound hardship because of the persistent armed clashes. I pray to God that
peaceful means may be found to open dialogue and protect the innocent, that
peace based on justice
may return as swiftly as possible; and that the fraternal coexistence of those
sorely-tried peoples may be restored, there and throughout the region".
Subsequently, speaking in French, he spoke of the reopening of universities
after the summer break, encouraging professors and educators "in their exalted
mission to serve young people". He expressed the hope that they would transmit
to their students
"the pleasure of learning in order to find a job and occupy a place in
society. Universities can be places where people experience fraternity. They
are places in which God must not be absent. I invite adults always to educate
the young in mutual
respect, concern for others and the search for God".
___________________________________________________________
BENEDICT XVI TAKES HIS LEAVE OF CASTELGANDOLFO
Vatican City, 29 September 2012 (VIS) - Yesterday afternoon Benedict XVI bid
farewell to the staff of the Apostolic Palace of Castelgandolfo where, as he
does every year, he has spent the summer months.
"Everything in this world is transitory", said the Pope. "All things that
begin, even the most positive and beautiful things, inevitably encapsulate
their own conclusion. So it is for the serene and peaceful time I have spent
with you in the beautiful
setting of Castelgandolfo where, once again, I have been able to breathe a
cordial family atmosphere. ... My affectionate greetings go to all the staff
and their families".
The Holy Father went on: "The month of September, which is now behind us, is
always a time for restarting after the summer holidays. For your children
school has opened, for all of you more intense and assiduous work has begun
again. In the Church too,
for many Christian communities throughout the world, what God the Father gives
us is the time of a new pastoral year which begins. Certain significant events
are now upon us: I am thinking of my imminent visit to Loreto by which I wish
to recall the
fiftieth anniversary of Blessed John XXIII's pilgrimage there during which he
entrusted Vatican Council II to the Virgin; I am thinking of the Synod of
Bishops which will reflect on new evangelisation in the world and finally of
the opening - on the
fiftieth anniversary of Vatican Council II - of the Year of Faith which I have
called in order to help all men and women open their hearts and lives to the
Lord Jesus and the Word of salvation.
"Thus to your prayers, dear friends, do I entrust these important ecclesial
events we are called to experience", the Pope added. "May the Virgin Mary, the
Church's Mother and ours, whom we trustingly invoke during the month of
October with the daily
recitation of the Rosary, protect you always", he concluded.
This morning the Holy Father likewise bid farewell to representatives of the
civil and religious authorities of Castelgandolfo. The time spent there, he
told them "has allowed me to enjoy a period of study, prayer and rest. ...
During the summer
Castelgandolfo is transformed into a 'second see' of the Bishop of Rome, which
competes with the 'first' in its capacity to welcome the visitors and pilgrims
who come to pray the Angelus or to attend the Wednesday general audiences".
___________________________________________________________
SOCIAL NETWORKS: PORTALS OF TRUTH AND FAITH; NEW SPACES FOR EVANGELISATION
Vatican City, 29 September 2012 (VIS) - "One of the most important challenges
facing the task of evangelisation today is that which is emerging from the
digital environment. Pope Benedict XVI calls attention to this particular
topic, in the context of
the Year of Faith, in his choice of theme for the forty-seventh World
Communications Day: 'Social Networks: portals of truth and faith; new spaces
for evangelisation'", reads a communique released today by the Pontifical
Council for Social
Communications.
"The theme suggests a series of important points for reflection. During a time
in which technology has emerged as part of the fabric of connectivity of human
experiences, such as relationships and knowledge, we need to ask: can it help
men and women
meet Christ in faith? It is not enough to find an adequate language, but
rather, it is necessary to learn how to present the Gospel as the answer to
that basic human yearning for meaning and faith, which has already found
expression online", the
English-language communique says.
"Such an approach, which will serve to create a more dynamic and humane
digital world, requires a new way of thinking. It is not simply a question of
how to use the internet as a means of evangelisation, but instead of how to
evangelise in a context
where the lives of people find expression also in the digital arena.
"In particular, we need to be attentive to the emergence and enormous
popularity of social networks, which privilege dialogical and interactive
forms of communication and relationships.
"World Communications Day, the only worldwide celebration called for by
Vatican Council II (Inter Mirifica, 1963), is celebrated in most countries, on
the recommendation of the bishops of the world, on the Sunday before Pentecost
(12 May in 2013).
"The Holy Father’s message for World Communications Day is traditionally
published in conjunction with the Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, patron of
writers (January 24)".
___________________________________________________________
FIRST HEARING IN THE "VATILEAKS" TRIAL
Vatican City, 29 September 2012 (VIS) - At 9.30 a.m. today the Tribunal of
Vatican City State began its first hearing in the trial of Paolo Gabriele and
Claudio Sciarpelletti who are accused, respectively, of aggravated theft and
complicity.
The judicial bench is composed of Giuseppe Dalla Torre, president; Paolo
Papanti-Pelletier, judge, and Venerando Marano, judge.
The promoter of justice of the Tribunal is Nicola Picardi.
The defence lawyers are Cristina Arru for Paolo Gabriele, and Gianluca
Benedetti for Claudio Sciarpelletti.
The accused Gabriele was present at the hearing, the accused Sciarpelletti was
represented by his counsel.
The trial is public and is being followed by a pool of journalists: one from
the "Osservatore Romano" and one from Vatican Radio, as well as eight others
from Italian and foreign media outlets who will take turns in attending the
court hearings.
According to Vatican Radio, at the end of today's sitting Holy See Press
Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. held a brief meeting with the press
during which he summarised the morning's events.
"One important aspect of the first phase", he said, "was the request made by
counsel for Claudio Sciarpelletti to separate the trial against his client
from that against Paolo Gabriele, on the grounds that it was not necessary for
the two cases to be
heard together. The judges accepted his request and therefore the trial
against Sciarpelletti will be dealt with after that against Gabriele.
"Counsel for Paolo Gabriele, Cristina Arru raised a series of objections
before the proceedings began, regarding the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, the
documentation and the evidence thus far presented. Having listened to her
requests, the three judges
retired for approximately one hour and twenty minutes, then emerged to
announce their decision. As I said earlier, they accepted the separation of
Sciarpelletti's trial, decreeing that it should take place after Gabriele's.
They rejected a number of
objections raised by Cristina Arru regarding the jurisdiction of the Tribunal,
the validity of the indictment and other elements, while they accepted a
series of objections relative to the acquisition of statements, for example
those relative to
conversations which that took place in the absence of the defence lawyers, and
other more specific matters".
"In concluding, the president of the Tribunal announced that the trial would
continue with the next hearing, or rather the continuation of this hearing, at
9 a.m. on 2 October. The first item on the agenda will be the deposition and
cross examination of
Paolo Gabriele, because the accused is the first to speak in the proceedings.
The other witnesses who have been called will then come up to depose. The
president made it known that other sittings may also be held next week. He
spoke of the possibility
of four sittings during the course of the week, the desire being to expedite
the proceedings. Precise forecasts as to the duration and the conclusion are
completely inappropriate because everything obviously depends on the course of
the debate".
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 1 October 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Erfurt,
Germany, presented by Bishop Joachim Wanke, in accordance with canon 401 para.
2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Passau,
Germany, presented by Bishop Wilhelm Schraml, upon having reached the age
limit.
- Appointed Msgr. Giampaolo Rizzotti, official of the Congregation for the
Causes of Saints, as bureau chief of the same congregation.
On Saturday 29 September it was made public that he:
- Appointed as members of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace: His
Beatitude Fouad Twal, patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins; Archbishop Pedro
Ricardo Barreto Jimeno S.J. of Huancayo, Peru; Bishop Yves Boivineau of
Annecy, France; Bishop
Michele Pennisi of Piazza Armerina, Italy; Bishop Stephan Ackermann of Trier,
Germany; Fr. Bonnie Mendes (Pakistan), regional coordinator of Caritas for
Asia and executive director of the Society for Human Development; Rodrigo
Guerra Lopez (Mexico),
director of the Centre for Advanced Social Research; Fayez Georges Nahal
(Egypt), accounting and budget director of the Confederation of African
Football; Juan Somavia (Chile), director general of the International Labour
Organisation; Hania M.
Fedorowicz (Austria), director of formation at the Community Based Conflict
Resolution Institute; Marie-Madeleine Kalala (Democratic Republic of Congo),
lawyer and member of the Panel of the Wise of the African Union; Roza Pati
(U.S.A.), professor
of
law and executive director of degree courses in inter-cultural human rights at
the St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, and Elizabeth Joyce Villars
(Ghana), founder of Camelot Ghana Ltd.
- Appointed as consultors of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace:
Msgr. Peter Klasvogt (Germany), director of the "Kommende" Institute for
Social Studies; Msgr. Martin Schlag (U.S.A.), professor of moral theology at
the Pontifical University of
the Holy Cross; Msgr. Giovanni Manzone (Italy), professor of Church Social
Doctrine and moral theology at the Pontifical Lateran University; Fr. Paolo
Carlotti S.D.B. (Italy), professor of moral theology at the Pontifical
Salesian University; Lawrence
Archibald Honny, president of the justice and peace commission of the
archdiocese of Cape Coast, Ghana; Paul Murray, director of the Catholic
Studies Centre and professor of systematic theology at Durham University,
England; Nicolas Michel, professor of
international law at the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the University of Geneva,
Switzerland; Manfred Spieker, professor of Christian social sciences at the
Institute of Catholic Tehology of the University of Osnabruck, Germany, and
Takaaki Pio Yasuoka, president of the International Life Commission
(International Catholics Organisation of the Media - ICOM), Japan.
- Appointed as members of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant
Peoples, Bishop Alessandro Carmelo Ruffinoni C.S. of Caxias do Sul, Brazil,
and Bishop Vjekoslav Huzjak of Varazdin, Croatia.
- Appointed as consultors of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant
Peoples, Msgr. Giancarlo Perego, director general of the "Migrantes"
foundation of the Italian Episcopal Conference, and Msgr. Giacomo Martini,
coordinator of the "Migrantes"
office of the archdiocese of Genoa, Italy.
- Appointed Bishop Franco Agostinelli of Grosseto, Italy, as bishop of Prato
(area 290, population 206,800, Catholics 191,000, priests 144, permanent
deacons 19, religious 284), Italy. He succeeds Bishop Gastone Simoni, whose
resignation from the
pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
- Appointed Msgr. Massimo Camisasca F.S.C.B., superior general of the
Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, as bishop of Reggio Emilia - Guastalla
(area 2,394, population 576,283, Catholics 508,364, priests 308, permanent
deacons 88, religious 378),
Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Milan, Italy in 1946 and ordained a priest
in 1975. Among other roles, he works as a consultor of the Congregation for
the Clergy and of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and
Societies of Apostolic
Life. He succeeds Bishop Adriano Caprioli, whose resignation from the pastoral
care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age
limit.
- Appointed Msgr. Joseph E. Strickland of the clergy of the diocese of Tyler,
U.S.A., delegate of the apostolic administrator of Tyler and chaplain of the
Bishop Gorman Middle and High School, as bishop of Tyler (area 59,472,
population 1,464,000,
Catholics 68,600, priests 97, permanent deacons 88, religious 67). The
bishop-elect was born in Fredericksburg, U.S.A. in 1958 and ordained a priest
in 1985. Among other things, he has served as pastor in various parishes and
worked as defender of the
bond and judicial vicar.
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VISnews121001
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 175DATE 01-10-2012
Summary: - WITNESSES IN THE TRIAL AGAINST
GABRIELE AND SCIARPELLETTI - MATERIAL WEALTH MUST BE USED FOR THE COMMON GOOD - APPEAL FOR PEACE
IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - BENEDICT XVI TAKES HIS LEAVE OF
CASTELGANDOLFO - SOCIAL NETWORKS: PORTALS OF TRUTH AND FAITH; NEW SPACES
FOR EVANGELISATION - FIRST HEARING IN THE "VATILEAKS" TRIAL - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS ___________________________________________________________
WITNESSES IN THE TRIAL AGAINST GABRIELE AND SCIARPELLETTI
Vatican City, 1 October 2012 (VIS) - Made public this morning was the list
of witnesses to be called in the trials against Paolo Gabriele and Claudio
Sciarpelletti who are accused, respectively, of aggravated theft and
complicity.
The witnesses in the criminal trial against Claudio Sciarpelletti are:
Msgr. Carlo Maria Polvani, William Kloter, Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti and
Domenico Giani.
The witnesses in the criminal trial against Paolo Gabriele are: Cristina
Cernetti, Giuseppe Pesce, Msgr. Georg Gaenswein, Costanzo Alessandrini, Luca
Cinitia, Stefano De Santis, Silvano Carli and Luca Bassetti.
Also made public today was the response to a question raised during a
briefing with journalists on 27 September, to the effect that the trial will
take place without a "reporting magistrate". In a criminal trial, unlike a
civil trial, normally there
is no report into the circumstances of the case. The documents published on 13
August when the accused were sent for trial, and the earlier indictment of the
promoter of justice, already describe the case in detail.
Vatican City, 30 September 2012 (VIS) - At midday today the Holy Father
appeared at the balcony overlooking the inner courtyard of the Apostolic
Palace at Castelgandolfo to pray the Angelus with faithful gathered there.
The Pope focused his comments on today’s reading from the Gospel of
St. Mark which narrates how a man who was not one of Jesus' disciples expelled
demons in His name, The Apostle John wanted to stop him but Christ would not
allow it, taking
"the opportunity to teach His disciples that God can bring about good and even
miraculous things, even outside of their circle, and that one can cooperate
with the Kingdom of God in various ways".
"Therefore, members of the Church must not feel jealous, but rejoice if
someone from outside the community does good in the name of Christ, provided
it is done with right intention and with respect. Even within the Church, it
can sometimes happen
that people find it difficult to appreciate and recognise, in a spirit of
profound communion, the good done by different ecclesial elements. And yet,
all of us should always be able to appreciate and respect one another,
praising the Lord for the
infinite 'imagination' with which He acts in the Church and the world".
Benedict XVI then turned his attention to the Letter of St. James, which
inveighs "against the dishonest rich, who put their trust in riches
accumulated by deceit. ... The words of the Apostle James, while they warn
against the vain desire for
material wealth, are also a powerful call to use it in the perspective of
solidarity and the common good, always acting with fairness and morality, at
all levels".
Vatican City, 30 September 2012 (VIS) - "I follow with affection and
concern the affairs of the people in the east of the Democratic Republic of
Congo, who are currently the subject of a high-level meeting at the United
Nations. I remain especially
close to the refugees, the women and the children who suffer violence and
profound hardship because of the persistent armed clashes. I pray to God that
peaceful means may be found to open dialogue and protect the innocent, that
peace based on justice
may return as swiftly as possible; and that the fraternal coexistence of those
sorely-tried peoples may be restored, there and throughout the region".
Subsequently, speaking in French, he spoke of the reopening of universities
after the summer break, encouraging professors and educators "in their exalted
mission to serve young people". He expressed the hope that they would transmit
to their
students "the pleasure of learning in order to find a job and occupy a place
in society. Universities can be places where people experience fraternity.
They are places in which God must not be absent. I invite adults always to
educate the young in
mutual respect, concern for others and the search for God".
