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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 187
DATE 17-10-2012
Summary:
- A NEW SERIES OF CATECHESES ON THE SUBJECT OF FAITH
- HOLY FATHER TO SEND A DELEGATION TO DAMASCUS
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
A NEW SERIES OF CATECHESES ON THE SUBJECT OF FAITH
Vatican City, 17 October 2012 (VIS) - During his general audience this
morning, Benedict XVI began a new series of catecheses which will cover the
period of the Year of Faith. The Year, he said, is intended "to renew our
enthusiasm at believing in Jesus
Christ, ... to revive the joy of walking along the path He showed us, and to
bear concrete witness to the transforming power of the faith".
With his catecheses over coming months the Holy Father hopes to help people
understand that the faith "is not something extraneous and distant from real
life, but the very heart thereof. Faith in a God Who is love and Who came
close to mankind by taking
human flesh and giving Himself on the cross to save us and open the doors of
heaven for us, is a luminous sign that only in love does man's true fullness
lie", he said. "Where there is domination, possession and exploitation, ...
man is impoverished,
degraded and disfigured. Christian faith, industrious in charity and strong in
hope, does not limit life but makes it human".
"God has revealed Himself with words and actions throughout the long history
of His friendship with man. ... He came forth of heaven to enter the world of
men as a man, that we might meet and hear Him; and from Jerusalem the
announcement of the Gospel
of salvation has spread to the ends of the earth. The Church, born of
Christ’s side, has become the herald of a new hope. ... Yet, from the
very beginning, the problem of the 'rule of faith' arose; in other words, the
faithfulness of believers to
the truth of the Gospel ... to the salvific truth about God and man to be
safeguarded and handed down".
The essential formula of the faith, the Pope explained, is to be found in the
Creed, in the Profession of the Faith, whence develops "the moral life of
Christians, which there has its foundation and its justification. ... It is
the Church’s duty
to transmit the faith, to communicate the Gospel, so that Christian truths may
become a light guiding the new cultural transformations, and Christians may be
able to give reasons for the hope that is in them.
"We are living today in a society that has changed profoundly, even with
respect to the recent past, a society in continuous flux", the Holy Father
added. "The process of secularisation and a widespread nihilist mentality, in
which everything is
relative, have left a strong imprint on the collective mentality. ... And
while individualism and relativism seem to dominate the hearts of so many of
our contemporaneous, it cannot be said that believers remain completely immune
from these dangers. ...
Surveys carried out on all the continents in preparation for the current Synod
of Bishops on new evangelisation have revealed some of these dangers: the
faith lived passively or privately, the rejection of education in the faith,
the rupture between
faith and life".
Benedict XVI went on: "Christians today often do not even know the central
core of their Catholic faith, the Creed, thus leaving the way open to certain
forms of syncretism and religious relativism, with no clarity about which
truths must be believed
and the salvific uniqueness of Christianity. ... We must go back to God, to
the God of Jesus Christ, we must rediscover the message of the Gospel and
cause it to enter more deeply into our minds and our daily lives.
"In these catecheses during the Year of Faith I would like to help people make
this journey, in order to regain and understand the central truths of faith
about God, man, the Church, and all social and cosmic reality, by reflecting
upon the affirmations
contained in the Creed. And I hope to make it clear that these contents or
truths of the faith are directly related to our life experience. They require
a conversion of existence capable of giving rise to a new way of believing in
God".
Among his greetings at the end of his catechesis the Pope addressed Polish
pilgrims. "Yesterday", he told them, "on the anniversary of the election of
John Paul II to the See of Peter, we remembered him as a great guide in the
faith, who introduced the
Church into the third millennium".
Finally, in Italian, he had words of greeting for representatives of the
"Acting all together for the Dignity of the Fourth World" Movement, who were
in St. Peter's Square to mark the United Nations International Day for the
Eradication of Poverty. "I
encourage you in your commitment to protect the dignity and rights of people
forced to suffer the scourge of poverty, against which humankind must struggle
without cease", said Benedict XVI.
___________________________________________________________
HOLY FATHER TO SEND A DELEGATION TO DAMASCUS
Vatican City, 17 October 2012 (VIS) - During yesterday afternoon's session of
the Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B.
announced that the Holy Father will shortly be sending a delegation to
Damascus, Syria, to express,
in the name of the Pope and the entire Church, "fraternal solidarity with the
entire population, with a personal offering from the Synod Fathers as well as
from the Holy See". The delegation will also express "spiritual closeness to
our Christian
brothers and sisters" and encourage "all those involved in seeking an
agreement respectful of the rights and duties of all, with particular
attention to the demands of humanitarian law".
We cannot, Cardinal Bertone said, "be mere spectators of a tragedy such as the
one that is unfolding in Syria. In the certainty that the only possible
solution to the crisis is a political solution, and bearing in mind the
immense suffering of the
population, the fate of displaced persons, and the future of that nation, it
has been suggested that our synodal assembly express its solidarity. ... It is
expected that once the necessary formalities have been carried out with the
apostolic nuncio and
the local authorities, the delegation will make its way to Damascus next week.
In the meantime time we pray that reason and compassion might prevail".
"The delegation will be made up of the following Synod Fathers: Cardinal
Laurent Mosengwo Pasinya, archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of
Congo; Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for
Inter-religious Dialogue;
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, U.S.A.; Bishop Fabio Suescun
Mutis, military ordinary of Colombia, and Bishop Joseph Nguyen Nang of Phat
Diem, Vietnam. Also on the delegation will be Archbishop Dominique Mamberti,
secretary for Relations
with States, and Msgr. Alberto Ortega, official of the Secretariat of State.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 17 October 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Elio Rama
I.M.C., regional superior of the Consalata Missionary Institute in Brazil, as
bishop of Pinheiro (area 21,360, population 467,000, Catholics 269,000,
priests 54, religious
38), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Tucunduva, Brazil in 1953 and
ordained a priest in 1984. He studied in Brazil and Rome, and has worked in
education and pastoral care. He succeeds Bishop Ricardo Pedro Paglia M.S.C.,
whose resignation from the
pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
___________________________________________________________
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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 187DATE 17-10-2012
Summary: - A NEW SERIES OF CATECHESES ON
THE SUBJECT OF FAITH -
HOLY FATHER TO SEND A DELEGATION TO DAMASCUS - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS ___________________________________________________________
A NEW SERIES OF CATECHESES ON THE SUBJECT OF FAITH
Vatican City, 17 October 2012 (VIS) - During his general audience this
morning, Benedict XVI began a new series of catecheses which will cover the
period of the Year of Faith. The Year, he said, is intended "to renew our
enthusiasm at believing in
Jesus Christ, ... to revive the joy of walking along the path He showed us,
and to bear concrete witness to the transforming power of the faith".
With his catecheses over coming months the Holy Father hopes to help people
understand that the faith "is not something extraneous and distant from real
life, but the very heart thereof. Faith in a God Who is love and Who came
close to mankind by
taking human flesh and giving Himself on the cross to save us and open the
doors of heaven for us, is a luminous sign that only in love does man's true
fullness lie", he said. "Where there is domination, possession and
exploitation, ... man is
impoverished, degraded and disfigured. Christian faith, industrious in charity
and strong in hope, does not limit life but makes it human".
"God has revealed Himself with words and actions throughout the long
history of His friendship with man. ... He came forth of heaven to enter the
world of men as a man, that we might meet and hear Him; and from Jerusalem the
announcement of the
Gospel of salvation has spread to the ends of the earth. The Church, born of
Christ’s side, has become the herald of a new hope. ... Yet, from the
very beginning, the problem of the 'rule of faith' arose; in other words, the
faithfulness of
believers to the truth of the Gospel ... to the salvific truth about God and
man to be safeguarded and handed down".
The essential formula of the faith, the Pope explained, is to be found in
the Creed, in the Profession of the Faith, whence develops "the moral life of
Christians, which there has its foundation and its justification. ... It is
the Church’s
duty to transmit the faith, to communicate the Gospel, so that Christian
truths may become a light guiding the new cultural transformations, and
Christians may be able to give reasons for the hope that is in them.
"We are living today in a society that has changed profoundly, even with
respect to the recent past, a society in continuous flux", the Holy Father
added. "The process of secularisation and a widespread nihilist mentality, in
which everything is
relative, have left a strong imprint on the collective mentality. ... And
while individualism and relativism seem to dominate the hearts of so many of
our contemporaneous, it cannot be said that believers remain completely immune
from these dangers. ...
Surveys carried out on all the continents in preparation for the current Synod
of Bishops on new evangelisation have revealed some of these dangers: the
faith lived passively or privately, the rejection of education in the faith,
the rupture between
faith and life".
Benedict XVI went on: "Christians today often do not even know the central
core of their Catholic faith, the Creed, thus leaving the way open to certain
forms of syncretism and religious relativism, with no clarity about which
truths must be believed
and the salvific uniqueness of Christianity. ... We must go back to God, to
the God of Jesus Christ, we must rediscover the message of the Gospel and
cause it to enter more deeply into our minds and our daily lives.
"In these catecheses during the Year of Faith I would like to help people
make this journey, in order to regain and understand the central truths of
faith about God, man, the Church, and all social and cosmic reality, by
reflecting upon the
affirmations contained in the Creed. And I hope to make it clear that these
contents or truths of the faith are directly related to our life experience.
They require a conversion of existence capable of giving rise to a new way of
believing in God".
Among his greetings at the end of his catechesis the Pope addressed Polish
pilgrims. "Yesterday", he told them, "on the anniversary of the election of
John Paul II to the See of Peter, we remembered him as a great guide in the
faith, who introduced
the Church into the third millennium".
Finally, in Italian, he had words of greeting for representatives of the
"Acting all together for the Dignity of the Fourth World" Movement, who were
in St. Peter's Square to mark the United Nations International Day for the
Eradication of Poverty.
"I encourage you in your commitment to protect the dignity and rights of
people forced to suffer the scourge of poverty, against which humankind must
struggle without cease", said Benedict XVI.
Vatican City, 17 October 2012 (VIS) - During yesterday afternoon's session
of the Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B.
announced that the Holy Father will shortly be sending a delegation to
Damascus, Syria, to
express, in the name of the Pope and the entire Church, "fraternal solidarity
with the entire population, with a personal offering from the Synod Fathers as
well as from the Holy See". The delegation will also express "spiritual
closeness to our
Christian brothers and sisters" and encourage "all those involved in seeking
an agreement respectful of the rights and duties of all, with particular
attention to the demands of humanitarian law".
We cannot, Cardinal Bertone said, "be mere spectators of a tragedy such as
the one that is unfolding in Syria. In the certainty that the only possible
solution to the crisis is a political solution, and bearing in mind the
immense suffering of the
population, the fate of displaced persons, and the future of that nation, it
has been suggested that our synodal assembly express its solidarity. ... It is
expected that once the necessary formalities have been carried out with the
apostolic nuncio and
the local authorities, the delegation will make its way to Damascus next week.
In the meantime time we pray that reason and compassion might prevail".
"The delegation will be made up of the following Synod Fathers: Cardinal
Laurent Mosengwo Pasinya, archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of
Congo; Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for
Inter-religious Dialogue;
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, U.S.A.; Bishop Fabio Suescun
Mutis, military ordinary of Colombia, and Bishop Joseph Nguyen Nang of Phat
Diem, Vietnam. Also on the delegation will be Archbishop Dominique Mamberti,
secretary for Relations
with States, and Msgr. Alberto Ortega, official of the Secretariat of
State.
Vatican City, 17 October 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Elio
Rama I.M.C., regional superior of the Consalata Missionary Institute in
Brazil, as bishop of Pinheiro (area 21,360, population 467,000, Catholics
269,000, priests 54, religious
38), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Tucunduva, Brazil in 1953 and
ordained a priest in 1984. He studied in Brazil and Rome, and has worked in
education and pastoral care. He succeeds Bishop Ricardo Pedro Paglia M.S.C.,
whose resignation from the
pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
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
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/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
Information Service possono essere riprodotte parzialmente o totalmente
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