The prize winners this year are the French historian Remi Brague, and the
American scholar of patrology and theology Fr. Brian Edward Daley S.J.
Following some introductory remarks from Msgr. Giuseppe Antonio Scotti,
president of the foundation, and the presentation of the two winners by
Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the foundation's academic committee, the
Holy Father addressed some
words to those present.
The winners, he said, "are experts deeply involved in two questions which
are vital for the Church in our time: ecumenism and relations with other
religions. Fr. Daley, by studying
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the Fathers of the Church, has entered into the best school for
understating and loving the Church, one and undivided though in the richness
of her different traditions". Remi Brague "is a great scholar of the
philosophy of religions, in particular that of Judaism and Islam in the Middle
Ages. Now, fifty years after
the opening of Vatican Council II, I would like to join them in re-examining
two conciliar documents: the Declaration 'Nostra aetate' on non-Christian
religions, and the Decree 'Unitatis redintegratio' on ecumenism. To these,
however, I would add
another document which has proved to be immensely important: the Declaration
'Dignitatis humanae' on religious freedom".
Benedict XVI went on to recall that both prize winners "are university
professors, deeply committed to teaching". This, he said, "highlights an
important aspect of coherence" in the activity of the "Vatican Foundation:
Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict
XVI" which, apart from the prize, also grants bursaries to doctorate students
of theology and organises academic conferences.
"People such as Fr. Daley and Professor Brague are exemplary figures for
the transmission of a knowledge with brings together science and wisdom,
academic rigour and a passion for man, that he may discover the 'art of
living'. We need people who,
through an illuminated and coherent faith, make God close and credible to
mankind today. ... We need people whose intellect has been illuminated by the
light of God, so that they can speak to the minds and hearts of others".
The Holy Father concluded: "Working in the Lord's vineyard, where He calls
us, so that the men and women of our time may discover or rediscover the true
'art of living': this was also one of the great passions of Vatican Council
II, and is more
urgent than ever in the context of current efforts towards new e
angelisation".
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THE SOLIDARITY OF THE POPE WITH THE PAIN AND SADNESS OF LEBANESE
Vatican City, 20 October 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father, through Cardinal
Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., has sent a telegram to His
Beatitude Bechara Boutros Rai, patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon,
for yesterday’s bomb
blast in Beirut which left eight dead and many injured.
"Having learned of the terrible attack in Beirut, which caused so many
victims", the telegram reads, "His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI unites himself
in prayer with the pain of the mourning families, and with the sadness of all
Lebanese. Commending the
victims to the all merciful God, and imploring Him to welcome them into His
light, the Holy Father expresses his profound closeness to the injured and
their families, asking the Lord to help and console them in their time of
trial. As he did during his
apostolic trip to Lebanon, the Holy Father again condemns the violence which
causes so much suffering, and asks God to give the gift of peace and
reconciliation to Lebanon and the entire region. With all his heart, His
Holiness invokes abundance of
divine blessings upon the mourning families and all Lebanese".
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AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 22 October 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in
audience:
- Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples.
- Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Pontifical Commission for
Vatican City State and of the Governorate of Vatican City State.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 22 October 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father accepted the
resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Machala, Ecuador,
presented by Bishop Luis Antonio Sanchez Armijos S.D.B., in accordance with
canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of
Canon Law.
On Saturday 20 October it was made public that the Holy Father:
- Appointed Bishop Domenico Caliandro of Nardo-Gallipoli, Italy, as
archbishop of Brindisi-Ostuni (area 1,253, population 285,396, Catholics
282,396, priests 165, permanent deacons 12, religious 233), Italy.
- Appointed Msgr. Guido Gallese of the clergy of the archdiocese of Genoa,
Italy, director of the diocesan office for universities and head of youth
pastoral care, as bishop of Alessandria (area 740, population 163,100,
Catholics 151,200, priests 96,
permanent deacons 9, religious 207), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Genoa
in 1962 and ordained a priest in 1990. Among other things he has worked as
vice rector of the local archdiocesan seminary, and has been involved in
pastoral care in a number
of parishes.
- Appointed Bishop Luigi Ernesto Palletti, auxiliary of Genoa, Italy, as
bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato (area 881, population 223,535, Catholics
220,921, priests 141, permanent deacons 22, religious 152), Italy.
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