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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 201
DATE 08-11-2012
Summary:
- URGENT NEED FOR DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH
- POPE'S SADNESS AT THE EARTHQUAKE IN GUATEMALA
- NEW EVANGELISATION AND THE PROTECTION OF SEAFARERS
- MESSAGE TO HINDUS FOR THE FEAST OF DIWALI
- AGREEMENT BETWEEN HOLY SEE AND REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI
- AUDIENCES
___________________________________________________________
URGENT NEED FOR DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - This morning in the Vatican, the Holy
Father received participants in the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy
of Sciences, which is meeting to examine the topic of: "Complexity and Analogy
in Science:
Theoretical, Methodological and Epistemological Aspects".
"In your discussions", said the Pope speaking English, "you have sought to
examine, on the one hand, the ongoing dialectic of the constant expansion of
scientific research, methods and specialisations and, on the other, the quest
for a comprehensive
vision of this universe in which human beings, endowed with intelligence and
freedom, are called to understand, love, live and work".
"Such an interdisciplinary approach to complexity also shows too that the
sciences are not intellectual worlds disconnected from one another and from
reality but rather that they are interconnected and directed to the study of
nature as a unified,
intelligible and harmonious reality in its undoubted complexity. Such a vision
has fruitful points of contact with the view of the universe taken by
Christian philosophy and theology, with its notion of participated being, in
which each individual
creature, possessed of its proper perfection, also shares in a specific nature
and this within an ordered cosmos originating in God’s creative Word. It
is precisely this inbuilt “logical” and “analogical”
organisation of
nature that encourages scientific research and draws the human mind to
discover the horizontal co-participation between beings and the transcendental
participation by the First Being.
"The universe", the Holy Father added, "is not chaos or the result of chaos,
rather, it appears ever more clearly as an ordered complexity which allows us
to rise, through comparative analysis and analogy, from specialisation towards
a more
universalising viewpoint and vice versa. While the very first moments of the
cosmos and life still elude scientific observation, science nonetheless finds
itself pondering a vast set of processes which reveals an order of evident
constants and
correspondences and serves as essential components of permanent creation".
"In the great human enterprise of striving to unlock the mysteries of man and
the universe, I am convinced of the urgent need for continued dialogue and
cooperation between the worlds of science and of faith in the building of a
culture of respect for
man, for human dignity and freedom, for the future of our human family and for
the long-term sustainable development of our planet. Without this necessary
interplay, the great questions of humanity leave the domain of reason and
truth, and are abandoned
to the irrational, to myth, or to indifference, with great damage to humanity
itself, to world peace and to our ultimate destiny", Pope Benedict concluded.
___________________________________________________________
POPE'S SADNESS AT THE EARTHQUAKE IN GUATEMALA
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - Given below is the text of a telegram
sent by the Holy Father to Bishop Rodolfo Valenzuela Nunez of Vera Paz,
president of the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala, for the recent earthquake
there which has caused
dozens of deaths and left hundreds injured throughout the country:
"Deeply saddened to hear the painful news of the earthquake which has left
many dead and injured, as well as immeasurable material damage in your beloved
country, I wish to express my spiritual closeness to all citizens. I offer
fervent prayers for the
eternal repose of the victims and pray to the Almighty that He may grant
consolation to those affected by this terrible disaster, and inspire in
everyone sentiments of fraternal solidarity to face this adversity.
"I also earnestly encourage the Christian communities, civil institutions and
men and women of goodwill to lend their assistance to the victims, with
generosity of spirit and willing charity".
___________________________________________________________
NEW EVANGELISATION AND THE PROTECTION OF SEAFARERS
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press
Office Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council for
the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, and Fr. Gabriele
Ferdinando Bentoglio C.S., under
secretary of the same dicastery, presented the twenty-third Congress of the
Apostleship of the Sea, which will take place in the Vatican's New Synod Hall
from 19 to 23 November. It will be attended by 410 participants, from 71
countries across all five
continents, and the theme will be "New Evangelisation in the Maritime World".
"The Synod of Bishops and the Year of Faith present a challenge to the
chaplains and volunteers of the Apostleship of the Sea who will meet at this
congress in order to seek adequate pastoral responses to the problems faced by
seafarers", said Cardinal
Veglio. Among these problems, he identified the use of modern time-saving
technological innovations which, while improving the speed and ease of work at
sea, do not always bring corresponding improvements to the lives of seafarers,
especially "those who
accept employment contracts requiring them to spend many months living away
from their families". In recent years this problem has been compounded by "the
abandonment of ships and their crews in foreign ports without food or
resources, and under
increasingly restrictive measures that forbid seafarers from coming to land
and expose them to abuse and exploitation. … Another issue is that of
piracy, which causes long-term psychological trauma not only to seafarers but
also t
o
their families".
The international community has addressed this state of affairs by adopting
the Maritime Labour Convention (2006), which "establishes minimum requirements
regarding all aspects of working conditions on merchant ships, … and is
considered a
charter of rights for seafarers".
"The Apostleship of the Sea, through the work of its chaplains and volunteers,
has always been concerned also with the welfare of fishermen and their
families", continued the cardinal. "There are no precise statistics regarding
the accidents affecting
workers in this sector, but many international organisations consider fishing
to be one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Moreover, aside from
regulated work, we must not ignore the phenomenon of illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing
which is not infrequently connected to human trafficking and forced labour",
he said.
Fr. Gabriele Bentoglio then introduced the themes that will be covered during
the congress. On the first day there will be a discussion on new
evangelisation wherein participants will reflect in particular on the "the
proclamation of the Gospel to a
growing number of seafarers who belong to the Oriental rites of the Catholic
Church or to the Orthodox Church, as well as those of other denominations,
without forgetting assistance to seafarers who dock at ports in Muslim
countries".
Effective engagement with the maritime industry will be the theme of the
second day, which will begin with a presentation by the general secretary of
the International Transport Workers Foundation (ITF), which brings together
708 unions representing
over 5 million workers in all transport sectors, including over half of all
seafarers throughout the world. This organisation shares three aims with the
Apostleship of the Sea: "improving the life of seafarers, guaranteeing primary
assistance, and
responding to their spiritual and material needs".
Fishermen and women will be the theme of the third day. The Apostleship of the
Sea will take the opportunity, to encourage the ratification of the Convention
on Work in the Fishing Sector, which employs around 36 million people.
The fourth day will be dedicated to the theme of piracy at sea, a phenomenon
which particularly affects the Indian Ocean and the waters adjacent to the
Horn of Africa, as well as the coasts of Western Africa, South America and the
Caribbean. Fr.
Bentoglio explained that this "criminal activity is difficult to combat and
there is great concern regarding the increase in the violent treatment of
hostages and their prolonged detention". On the same day there will also be a
discussion on cruises, a
growth area in the maritime sector.
Finally, the congress will consider the theme of mission work, focusing on
"ecumenical collaboration with other Christian denominations in many ports
throughout the world, where possible without neglecting inter-religious
cooperation". Finally, two
important initiatives for the protection of seafarers will be presented:
Seafarers' Rights International (SRI) which links the competence of the
shipping industry to the legal world in order to promote the rights and legal
protection of seafarers, and
Maritime Humanitarian Piracy Response (MHPR), which assists sailors and their
families in the event of traumatic incidents caused by pirate attacks.
___________________________________________________________
MESSAGE TO HINDUS FOR THE FEAST OF DIWALI
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of
the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, has written a message to
Hindus for the celebration of Diwali, the festival of lights, which this year
falls on 13
November. The message is entitled, "Christians and Hindus: Forming the Young
Generation into Peacemakers". The message also bears the signature of Fr.
Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot M.C.C.J., secretary of the council.
"At this point in time in human history, when various negative forces threaten
the legitimate aspirations in many regions of the world for peaceful
co-existence, we would like to use this cherished tradition of sharing with
you a reflection to explore
the responsibility that Hindus, Christians and others have in doing everything
possible to form all people, especially the young generation, into
peacemakers", reads the English-language text.
"To form young men and women into people of peace and builders of peace is an
urgent summons to collective engagement and common action. If peace is to be
authentic and enduring, it must be built on the pillars of truth, justice,
love and freedom. ...
Furthermore, in all education for peace, cultural differences ought surely to
be treated as a richness rather than a threat or danger.
"The family is the first school of peace and the parents the primary educators
for peace. ... In schools, colleges and universities, as young people mature
by relating, studying and working with others from different religions and
cultures, their
teachers and others responsible for their training have the noble task of
ensuring an education that respects and celebrates the innate dignity of all
human beings and promotes friendship, justice, peace and cooperation for
integral human development.
With spiritual and moral values as the bedrock of education, it becomes their
ethical imperative also to caution the students against ideologies that cause
discord and division.
"While States and individual leaders in the social, political and cultural
fields, generally have their own important roles to play in strengthening the
education of the young, religious leaders in particular, by reason of their
vocation to be spiritual
and moral leaders, must continue to inspire the young generation to walk the
path of peace and to become messengers of peace. Since all means of
communication greatly shape the way people think, feel and act, those involved
in these fields must, to the
utmost possible extent, contribute to promoting thoughts, words, and works of
peace. Indeed, young people themselves ought to live up to the ideals they set
for others, by employing their freedom responsibly and by promoting cordial
relationships for a
culture of peace".
___________________________________________________________
AGREEMENT BETWEEN HOLY SEE AND REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - On 6 November, in the offices of the
presidency of the Republic of Burundi in Bujumbura, in the presence of the
Head of State Pierre Nkurunziza, the Holy See and the Republic of Burundi
signed a framework agreement
on "matters of common interest".
Signing for the Holy See as plenipotentiary was Archbishop Franco Coppola,
apostolic nuncio to that country, and signing on behalf of the Republic of
Burundi was Laurent Kavakure, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation.
The framework agreement, acknowledging the good relations that have developed
between the Holy See and Burundi over the last fifty years, defines and
guarantees the legal status of the Catholic Church and regulates a number of
areas, including canonical
marriage, places of worship, Catholic institutions of instruction and
education, the teaching of religion in schools, the Church's charitable
activities, pastoral care of the armed forces and in prisons and hospitals,
and the property and tax regime.
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in
audience:
- Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, apostolic nuncio to Israel and Cyprus, and
apostolic delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine.
- Archbishop Antonio Franco, apostolic nuncio.
- Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, apostolic nuncio.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews121108
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 201DATE 08-11-2012
Summary: - URGENT NEED FOR DIALOGUE AND
COOPERATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND
FAITH - POPE'S SADNESS AT THE EARTHQUAKE IN GUATEMALA - NEW
EVANGELISATION AND THE PROTECTION OF SEAFARERS - MESSAGE TO HINDUS FOR
THE FEAST OF DIWALI - AGREEMENT BETWEEN HOLY SEE AND REPUBLIC OF
BURUNDI - AUDIENCES ___________________________________________________________
URGENT NEED FOR DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - This morning in the Vatican, the Holy
Father received participants in the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy
of Sciences, which is meeting to examine the topic of: "Complexity and Analogy
in Science:
Theoretical, Methodological and Epistemological Aspects".
"In your discussions", said the Pope speaking English, "you have sought to
examine, on the one hand, the ongoing dialectic of the constant expansion of
scientific research, methods and specialisations and, on the other, the quest
for a comprehensive
vision of this universe in which human beings, endowed with intelligence and
freedom, are called to understand, love, live and work".
"Such an interdisciplinary approach to complexity also shows too that the
sciences are not intellectual worlds disconnected from one another and from
reality but rather that they are interconnected and directed to the study of
nature as a unified,
intelligible and harmonious reality in its undoubted complexity. Such a vision
has fruitful points of contact with the view of the universe taken by
Christian philosophy and theology, with its notion of participated being, in
which each individual
creature, possessed of its proper perfection, also shares in a specific nature
and this within an ordered cosmos originating in God’s creative Word. It
is precisely this inbuilt “logical” and “analogical”
organisation of
nature that encourages scientific research and draws the human mind to
discover the horizontal co-participation between beings and the transcendental
participation by the First Being.
"The universe", the Holy Father added, "is not chaos or the result of
chaos, rather, it appears ever more clearly as an ordered complexity which
allows us to rise, through comparative analysis and analogy, from
specialisation towards a more
universalising viewpoint and vice versa. While the very first moments of the
cosmos and life still elude scientific observation, science nonetheless finds
itself pondering a vast set of processes which reveals an order of evident
constants and
correspondences and serves as essential components of permanent creation".
"In the great human enterprise of striving to unlock the mysteries of man
and the universe, I am convinced of the urgent need for continued dialogue and
cooperation between the worlds of science and of faith in the building of a
culture of respect
for man, for human dignity and freedom, for the future of our human family and
for the long-term sustainable development of our planet. Without this
necessary interplay, the great questions of humanity leave the domain of
reason and truth, and are
abandoned to the irrational, to myth, or to indifference, with great damage to
humanity itself, to world peace and to our ultimate destiny", Pope Benedict
concluded.
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - Given below is the text of a telegram
sent by the Holy Father to Bishop Rodolfo Valenzuela Nunez of Vera Paz,
president of the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala, for the recent earthquake
there which has caused
dozens of deaths and left hundreds injured throughout the country:
"Deeply saddened to hear the painful news of the earthquake which has left
many dead and injured, as well as immeasurable material damage in your beloved
country, I wish to express my spiritual closeness to all citizens. I offer
fervent prayers for
the eternal repose of the victims and pray to the Almighty that He may grant
consolation to those affected by this terrible disaster, and inspire in
everyone sentiments of fraternal solidarity to face this adversity.
"I also earnestly encourage the Christian communities, civil institutions
and men and women of goodwill to lend their assistance to the victims, with
generosity of spirit and willing charity".
NEW EVANGELISATION AND THE PROTECTION OF SEAFARERS
Vatican City, 8 November 2012 (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press
Office Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council for
the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, and Fr. Gabriele
Ferdinando Bentoglio C.S.,
under secretary of the same dicastery, presented the twenty-third Congress of
the Apostleship of the Sea, which will take place in the Vatican's New Synod
Hall from 19 to 23 November. It will be attended by 410 participants, from 71
countries across all
five continents, and the theme will be "New Evangelisation in the Maritime
World".
"The Synod of Bishops and the Year of Faith present a challenge to the
chaplains and volunteers of the Apostleship of the Sea who will meet at this
congress in order to seek adequate pastoral responses to the problems faced by
seafarers", said
Cardinal Veglio. Among these problems, he identified the use of modern
time-saving technological innovations which, while improving the speed and
ease of work at sea, do not always bring corresponding improvements to the
lives of seafarers, especially
"those who accept employment contracts requiring them to spend many months
living away from their families". In recent years this problem has been
compounded by "the abandonment of ships and their crews in foreign ports
without food or resources, and
under increasingly restrictive measures that forbid seafarers from coming to
land and expose them to abuse and exploitation. … Another issue is that
of piracy, which causes long-term psychological trauma not
only to seafarers but also to their families".
The international community has addressed this state of affairs by adopting
the Maritime Labour Convention (2006), which "establishes minimum requirements
regarding all aspects of working conditions on merchant ships, … and is
considered a
charter of rights for seafarers".
"The Apostleship of the Sea, through the work of its chaplains and
volunteers, has always been concerned also with the welfare of fishermen and
their families", continued the cardinal. "There are no precise statistics
regarding the accidents
affecting workers in this sector, but many international organisations
consider fishing to be one of the most dangerous professions in the world.
Moreover, aside from regulated work, we must not ignore the phenomenon of
illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing which is not infrequently connected to human trafficking
and forced labour", he said.
Fr. Gabriele Bentoglio then introduced the themes that will be covered
during the congress. On the first day there will be a discussion on new
evangelisation wherein participants will reflect in particular on the "the
proclamation of the Gospel to a
growing number of seafarers who belong to the Oriental rites of the Catholic
Church or to the Orthodox Church, as well as those of other denominations,
without forgetting assistance to seafarers who dock at ports in Muslim
countries".
Effective engagement with the maritime industry will be the theme of the
second day, which will begin with a presentation by the general secretary of
the International Transport Workers Foundation (ITF), which brings together
708 unions representing
over 5 million workers in all transport sectors, including over half of all
seafarers throughout the world. This organisation shares three aims with the
Apostleship of the Sea: "improving the life of seafarers, guaranteeing primary
assistance, and
responding to their spiritual and material needs".
Fishermen and women will be the theme of the third day. The Apostleship of
the Sea will take the opportunity, to encourage the ratification of the
Convention on Work in the Fishing Sector, which employs around 36 million
people.
The fourth day will be dedicated to the theme of piracy at sea, a
phenomenon which particularly affects the Indian Ocean and the waters adjacent
to the Horn of Africa, as well as the coasts of Western Africa, South America
and the Caribbean. Fr.
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