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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 213
DATE 24-11-2012
Summary:
- CONSISTORY FOR THE CREATION OF CARDINALS: THE POPE EMPHASISES THE
CATHOLICITY OF THE CHURCH
- TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
CONSISTORY FOR THE CREATION OF CARDINALS: THE POPE EMPHASISES THE CATHOLICITY
OF THE CHURCH
Vatican City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - In St. Peter's Basilica at 11 a.m.
today, Benedict XVI celebrated an ordinary public consistory for the creation
of six new cardinals: James Michael Harvey, Bechara Boutros Rai O.M.M.,
Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal,
John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Ruben Salazar Gomez and Luis Antonio G. Tagle.
Following the new appointments the College of Cardinals will be composed of
211 members of whom 120, being under the age of eighty, are eligible to vote
in a conclave for the
election of a new Pope.
After the opening prayer and the proclamation of the Gospel, the Holy Father
pronounced his homily, following which he solemnly pronounced the the formula
of creation of the new cardinals, their names and the diaconate or presbyteral
order to which they
have been assigned. The new cardinals then recited the Creed and swore their
faithfulness and obedience to the Pope and his successors.
Each new cardinal then knelt before the Pope to received his biretta. The Pope
said "you must be ready to conduct yourselves with fortitude, even to the
shedding of your blood, for the increase of the Christian faith, for the peace
and well-being of the
people of God". He then also consigned to them a ring, saying, "Know that with
the love of the Prince of the Apostles your love for the Church is
reinforced", and he assigned to each one a titular or diaconate church in Rome
as a sign of their
participation in the Holy Father's pastoral care of Rome. The Pope then handed
over the Bull of Creation as cardinal, assigned the title or diaconate and
exchanged an embrace of peace with the new members of the College of
Cardinals. The cardinals also
exchanged such a sign among themselves. The rite concluded with the Prayer of
the Faithful, the recitation of the Our Father and the final blessing.
Extracts from Benedict XVI's homily are given below:
"'I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church'. … These
words, which the new Cardinals are soon to proclaim in the course of their
solemn profession of faith, come from the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed, the
synthesis of the
Church’s faith that each of us receives at baptism. Only by professing
and preserving this rule of truth intact can we be authentic disciples of the
Lord. In this consistory, I would like to reflect in particular on the meaning
of the word
'catholic', a word which indicates an essential feature of the Church and her
mission. … What makes the Church catholic is the fact that Christ in
His saving mission embraces all humanity. While during His earthly life
Jesus’ mission was
limited to the Jewish people, 'to the lost sheep of the house of Israel' from
the beginning it was meant to bring the light of the Gospel to all peoples and
lead all nations into the kingdom of God".
"This universalist perspective can be seen, among other things, from the way
Jesus applied to Himself not only the title 'Son of David', but also 'Son of
Man'. … Jesus takes up this rich and complex expression and refers it
to Himself in order to
manifest the true character of His Messianism: a mission directed to the whole
man and to every man, transcending all ethnic, national and religious
particularities. And it is actually by following Jesus, by allowing oneself to
be drawn into His
humanity and hence into communion with God, that one enters this new kingdom
proclaimed and anticipated by the Church, a kingdom that conquers
fragmentation and dispersal.
"Jesus sends His Church not to a single group, then, but to the whole human
race, and thus He unites it, in faith, in one people, in order to save it.
… This universal character emerges clearly on the day of Pentecost,
when the Holy Spirit fills
the first Christian community with His presence, so that the Gospel may spread
to all nations, causing the one People of God to grow in all peoples. …
From that day, in the 'power of the Holy Spirit', according to Jesus’
promise, the Church
proclaims the dead and risen Lord 'in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria
and to the end of the earth'. The Church’s universal mission does not
arise from below, but descends from above, from the Holy Spirit: from the
beginning it seeks to
express itself in every culture so as to form the one People of God. Rather
than beginning as a local community that slowly grows and spreads outwards, it
is directed towards a universal horizon, towards the whole: universality is ins
cribed
within it.
"'Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation'; 'make
disciples of all nations'. With these words, Jesus sends the Apostles to all
creation, so that God’s saving action may reach everywhere ... and
giving them both a promise
and a task: He promises that they will be filled with the power of the Holy
Spirit, and He confers upon them the task of bearing witness to Him all over
the world, transcending the cultural and religious confines within which they
were accustomed to
think and live, so as to open themselves to the universal Kingdom of God. At
the beginning of the Church’s journey, the Apostles and disciples set
off without any human security, purely in the strength of the Holy Spirit, the
Gospel and the faith.
This is the yeast that spreads round the world, enters into different events
and into a wide range of cultural and social contexts, while remaining a
single Church. Around the Apostles, Christian communities spring up, but these
are
'the'
Church which is always the same, one and universal, whether in Jerusalem,
Antioch, or Rome".
"Situated within the context and the perspective of the Church’s unity
and universality is the College of Cardinals: it presents a variety of faces,
because it expresses the face of the universal Church. In this Consistory, I
want to highlight in
particular the fact that the Church is the Church of all peoples, and so she
speaks in the various cultures of the different continents. She is the Church
of Pentecost: amid the polyphony of the various voices, she raises a single
harmonious song to the
living God".
___________________________________________________________
TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
Vatican City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - Given below are the names of the six
new cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI in this morning's consistory, and
the titular or diaconate churches assigned to each:
- Cardinal James Michael Harvey, diaconate of San Pio V a Villa Carpegna.
- Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai O.M.M.
- Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, title of San Gregorio VII.
- Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, title of San Saturnino.
- Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez, title of San Gerardo Maiella.
- Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, title of San Felice da Cantalice a
Centocelle.
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - This evening the Holy Father is
scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Marc Ouellet P.S.S., prefect of the
Congregation for Bishops.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:
- Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation
of Peoples and Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, as members of the Pontifical Council for
Legislative Texts.
- Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico, and
Archbishop Jose Horacio Gomez of Los Angeles, U.S.A., as members of the
Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
- Fr. William Crean of the clergy of the diocese of Kerry, Ireland, pastor of
Cahersiveen and vicar forane, as bishop of Cloyne (area 3,440, population
164,500, Catholics 161,600, priests 118, religious 203), Ireland. The
bishop-elect was born in
Tralee, Ireland in 1951 and ordained a priest in 1976. He studied in Ireland
and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and has held a number of
pastoral roles.
- Msgr. Krzysztof Jakub Wetkowski of the clergy of the archdiocese of Gniezno,
Poland, vicar general, as auxiliary of Gniezno (area 8,122, population
669,431, Catholics 651,692, priests 539, religious 328). The bishop-elect was
born in Gniezno in 1963
and ordained a priest in 1988. Among other posts he has worked as professor of
canon law, master of ceremonies of the cathedral and judge of the metropolitan
tribunal.
- Fr. Michael John Zielinski O.S.B. Oliv, as bureau chief at the Congregation
for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
- Fr. Edmondo Caruana O. Carm., official of the Vatican Publishing House, as
bureau chief of the editorial office of the same organisation.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews121124
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 213DATE 24-11-2012
Summary: - CONSISTORY FOR THE CREATION OF
CARDINALS: THE POPE EMPHASISES
THE CATHOLICITY OF THE CHURCH - TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE
NEW CARDINALS - AUDIENCES - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS ___________________________________________________________
CONSISTORY FOR THE CREATION OF CARDINALS: THE POPE EMPHASISES THE
CATHOLICITY OF THE CHURCH
Vatican City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - In St. Peter's Basilica at 11 a.m.
today, Benedict XVI celebrated an ordinary public consistory for the creation
of six new cardinals: James Michael Harvey, Bechara Boutros Rai O.M.M.,
Baselios Cleemis
Thottunkal, John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Ruben Salazar Gomez and Luis Antonio G.
Tagle. Following the new appointments the College of Cardinals will be
composed of 211 members of whom 120, being under the age of eighty, are
eligible to vote in a conclave
for the election of a new Pope.
After the opening prayer and the proclamation of the Gospel, the Holy
Father pronounced his homily, following which he solemnly pronounced the the
formula of creation of the new cardinals, their names and the diaconate or
presbyteral order to which
they have been assigned. The new cardinals then recited the Creed and swore
their faithfulness and obedience to the Pope and his successors.
Each new cardinal then knelt before the Pope to received his biretta. The
Pope said "you must be ready to conduct yourselves with fortitude, even to the
shedding of your blood, for the increase of the Christian faith, for the peace
and well-being of
the people of God". He then also consigned to them a ring, saying, "Know that
with the love of the Prince of the Apostles your love for the Church is
reinforced", and he assigned to each one a titular or diaconate church in Rome
as a sign of their
participation in the Holy Father's pastoral care of Rome. The Pope then handed
over the Bull of Creation as cardinal, assigned the title or diaconate and
exchanged an embrace of peace with the new members of the College of
Cardinals. The cardinals also
exchanged such a sign among themselves. The rite concluded with the Prayer of
the Faithful, the recitation of the Our Father and the final blessing.
Extracts from Benedict XVI's homily are given below:
"'I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church'. … These
words, which the new Cardinals are soon to proclaim in the course of their
solemn profession of faith, come from the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed, the
synthesis of the
Church’s faith that each of us receives at baptism. Only by professing
and preserving this rule of truth intact can we be authentic disciples of the
Lord. In this consistory, I would like to reflect in particular on the meaning
of the word
'catholic', a word which indicates an essential feature of the Church and her
mission. … What makes the Church catholic is the fact that Christ in
His saving mission embraces all humanity. While during His earthly life
Jesus’ mission was
limited to the Jewish people, 'to the lost sheep of the house of Israel' from
the beginning it was meant to bring the light of the Gospel to all peoples and
lead all nations into the kingdom of
God".
"This universalist perspective can be seen, among other things, from the
way Jesus applied to Himself not only the title 'Son of David', but also 'Son
of Man'. … Jesus takes up this rich and complex expression and refers
it to Himself in order
to manifest the true character of His Messianism: a mission directed to the
whole man and to every man, transcending all ethnic, national and religious
particularities. And it is actually by following Jesus, by allowing oneself to
be drawn into His
humanity and hence into communion with God, that one enters this new kingdom
proclaimed and anticipated by the Church, a kingdom that conquers
fragmentation and dispersal.
"Jesus sends His Church not to a single group, then, but to the whole human
race, and thus He unites it, in faith, in one people, in order to save it.
… This universal character emerges clearly on the day of Pentecost,
when the Holy Spirit
fills the first Christian community with His presence, so that the Gospel may
spread to all nations, causing the one People of God to grow in all peoples.
… From that day, in the 'power of the Holy Spirit', according to
Jesus’ promise, the
Church proclaims the dead and risen Lord 'in Jerusalem and in all Judea and
Samaria and to the end of the earth'. The Church’s universal mission
does not arise from below, but descends from above, from the Holy Spirit: from
the beginning it seeks
to express itself in every culture so as to form the one People of God. Rather
than beginning as a local community that slowly grows and spreads outwards, it
is directed towards a universal horizon, towards
the whole: universality is inscribed within it.
"'Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation'; 'make
disciples of all nations'. With these words, Jesus sends the Apostles to all
creation, so that God’s saving action may reach everywhere ... and
giving them both a
promise and a task: He promises that they will be filled with the power of the
Holy Spirit, and He confers upon them the task of bearing witness to Him all
over the world, transcending the cultural and religious confines within which
they were
accustomed to think and live, so as to open themselves to the universal
Kingdom of God. At the beginning of the Church’s journey, the Apostles
and disciples set off without any human security, purely in the strength of
the Holy Spirit, the Gospel
and the faith. This is the yeast that spreads round the world, enters into
different events and into a wide range of cultural and social contexts, while
remaining a single Church. Around the Apostles, Christian
communities spring up, but these are 'the' Church which is always the same,
one and universal, whether in Jerusalem, Antioch, or Rome".
"Situated within the context and the perspective of the Church’s
unity and universality is the College of Cardinals: it presents a variety of
faces, because it expresses the face of the universal Church. In this
Consistory, I want to highlight
in particular the fact that the Church is the Church of all peoples, and so
she speaks in the various cultures of the different continents. She is the
Church of Pentecost: amid the polyphony of the various voices, she raises a
single harmonious song to
the living God".
TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
Vatican City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - Given below are the names of the six
new cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI in this morning's consistory, and
the titular or diaconate churches assigned to each:
- Cardinal James Michael Harvey, diaconate of San Pio V a Villa
Carpegna.
- Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai O.M.M.
- Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, title of San Gregorio VII.
- Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, title of San Saturnino.
- Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez, title of San Gerardo Maiella.
- Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, title of San Felice da Cantalice a
Centocelle.
Vatican City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - This evening the Holy Father is
scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Marc Ouellet P.S.S., prefect of the
Congregation for Bishops.
Vatican City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:
- Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples and Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as members of the Pontifical
Council for Legislative Texts.
- Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico, and
Archbishop Jose Horacio Gomez of Los Angeles, U.S.A., as members of the
Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
- Fr. William Crean of the clergy of the diocese of Kerry, Ireland, pastor
of Cahersiveen and vicar forane, as bishop of Cloyne (area 3,440, population
164,500, Catholics 161,600, priests 118, religious 203), Ireland. The
bishop-elect was born in
Tralee, Ireland in 1951 and ordained a priest in 1976. He studied in Ireland
and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and has held a number of
pastoral roles.
- Msgr. Krzysztof Jakub Wetkowski of the clergy of the archdiocese of
Gniezno, Poland, vicar general, as auxiliary of Gniezno (area 8,122,
population 669,431, Catholics 651,692, priests 539, religious 328). The
bishop-elect was born in Gniezno in
1963 and ordained a priest in 1988. Among other posts he has worked as
professor of canon law, master of ceremonies of the cathedral and judge of the
metropolitan tribunal.
- Fr. Michael John Zielinski O.S.B. Oliv, as bureau chief at the
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
- Fr. Edmondo Caruana O. Carm., official of the Vatican Publishing House,
as bureau chief of the editorial office of the same organisation.
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
riceverlo, si prega di visitare nostra pagina dinizio: http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vi
/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
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