Subject: VISnews 110715
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 132
ENGLISH
FRIDAY, 15 JULY 2011
SUMMARY:
- Concern over Illegitimate Episcopal Ordination in China
- Populorum Progressio: Focus on Indigenous Communities
- Other Pontifical Acts
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CONCERN OVER ILLEGITIMATE EPISCOPAL ORDINATION IN CHINA
VATICAN CITY, 15 JUL 2011 (VIS) - Holy See Press Office Director Fr.
Federico Lombardi S.J. spoke yesterday of the Pope's sadness and concern at
the latest illegitimate episcopal ordination in China which, he said,
damages "the unity of the universal Church".
Yesterday at Shantou in the region of Guandong Fr. Joseph Huang Bingzhang
was ordained a bishop without pontifical mandate. A similar episode took
place on 29 June when Fr. Paul Lei Shiyin was ordained as bishop of Leshan.
A number of bishops who are in communion with the Pope were obliged to
attend yesterday's ceremony.
Following the Leshan ordination, the Holy See released a declaration
highlighting how a bishop ordained "without the papal mandate, and hence
illegitimately, has no authority to govern the diocesan Catholic community,
and the Holy See does not recognise him as the bishop of that diocese".
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POPULORUM PROGRESSIO: FOCUS ON INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
VATICAN CITY, 15 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The administrative council of the
Populorum Progressio Foundation is due to meet from 19 to 22 July at the
monastery of the Transfiguration at Castanhal, near the Brazilian city of
Belem do Para, to deliberate on the financing of projects in support of poor
indigenous, mixed race and African-American communities of Latin America and
the Caribbean. Populorum Progressio was founded in 1992 and is part of the
Pontifical Council "Cor Unum".
The administrative council is composed of the following members: Cardinal
Robert Sarah, president of the foundation and of the Pontifical Council "Cor
Unum"; Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico and
president of the administrative council; Archbishop Edmundo Luis Abastoflor
Montero of La Paz, Bolivia; Archbishop Alberto Taveira Correa of Belem do
Para, Brazil; Archbishop Antonio Arregui Yarza of Guayaquil, Ecuador; Bishop
Jose Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde C.P., apostolic vicar of Yurimaguas, Peru;
and Msgr. Segundo Tejado Munoz, representative of the Pontifical Council
"Cor Unum". The Foundation receives it principal financial support from the
Italian Episcopal Conference's committee for charitable initiatives in
favour of the Third World.
A communique made public today notes that, since this year's meeting is
being held in Brazil, "interest will focus particularly on indigenous
peoples, ... and on the poorest strata of the population. Special attention
will also be given to the pastoral guidelines that emerged from the Fifth
General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean,
guidelines which the Foundation has already sought to put into effect".
On 19 July the meeting will examine the socio-political and ecclesial
situation in the various countries of Latin America in order to seek a
better understandings of the needs which the projects financed by the
Foundation are called to meet. On the same day, at the invitation of Bishop
Carlo Verzeletti, a solemn celebration will be held in the new cathedral of
Castanhal. On 20 and 21 July the projects presented by bishops in the
various countries will be examined in detail.
The communique notes that 216 projects have been presented this year,
involving 19 countries and a total value of USD 2,980,470. The number of
projects presented by country are: Colombia (50), Brazil (43), Peru (23),
Ecuador (18), El Salvador (13), Haiti (12), Guatemala (10), Argentina (8),
Bolivia (8), Paraguay (6), Chile (5), Cuba (5), Costa Rica (3), Venezuela
(3), Mexico (3), Nicaragua (2), Dominican Republic (2), Honduras (1) and
Uruguay (1). "It is to be hoped", the communique says, "that projects will
also be forthcoming from countries with indigenous communities living in
difficult situations of marginalisation, on the outskirts of large cities or
in particularly isolated and inaccessible areas".
The projects aim to tend to needs in various areas: production
(agriculture, livestock, handcrafts, small businesses); communal
infrastructure (potable water, latrines, community centres); education
(training, school resources, publications); health (preventative campaigns,
clinic resources); and construction (educational and health centres).
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, 15 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Appointed Archbishop Ivo Scapolo, apostolic nuncio to Rwanda, as
apostolic nuncio to Chile.
- Appointed Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, apostolic nuncio to Gerogia,
Armenia and Azerbaijan, as apostolic nuncio to Belarus.
- Appointed Bishop Rigoberto Corredor Bermudez of Garzon, Colombia, as
bishop of Pereira (area 6,126, population 1,332,000, Catholics 1,005,000,
priests 195, permanent deacons 34, religious 209), Colombia. He succeeds
Bishop Tulio Duque Gutierrez S.D.S., whose resignation from the pastoral
care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the
age limit.
- Appointed Bishop Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto of Florencia, Colombia, as
bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos (area 24,612, population 609,000, Catholics
585,000, priests 174, religious 157), Colombia.
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