hell.” It is a peace that is “the fruit of the victory of God's
love over evil … and of forgiveness. The true peace that comes from
experiencing God's mercy.”
The Holy Father then spoke of Jesus' appearances to his disciples who were
locked in the Cenacle. Thomas wasn't present at the first appearance and he
didn't believe what the apostles told him of it. At the second, when he was
there and Jesus invited
him to touch his wounds, Jesus said to him “Have you come to believe
because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and
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have believed.”
“And who are those who believe without having seen?” the
pontiff asked. They are “other disciples, men and women of Jerusalem
who, although not having met the risen Jesus, believed in the witness of the
apostles and the women. This
is a very important word about faith; we can call it the beatitude of faith.
In every time and in every place there are the blessed who, through the Word
of God proclaimed in the Church and witnessed to by Christians, believe that
Jesus Christ is God's
love incarnate, Mercy incarnate. And that goes for all of us!”
However, along with peace, Jesus gave his disciples the Holy Spirit,
“so that they might bring the forgiveness of sins—the forgiveness
that only God can give and that cost the blood of the Son—to the world.
The Church is sent by the
risen Christ to bring the remission of sins to humanity and thus to make the
Kingdom of love grow; to sow peace in our hearts so that we might also affirm
it in our relationships, in society, and in institutions. The Spirit of the
risen Christ casts out
the fear in the hearts of the Apostles and compels them to leave the Cenacle
in order to bring forth the Gospel. Let us also have more courage to witness
to our faith in the risen Christ! Let us not be afraid to be Christians or to
live as
Christians!”
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AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 8 April 2013 (VIS) – This morning, the Holy Father
received in separate audiences:
- Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy,
- Archbishop Charles Daniel Balvo, apostolic nuncio to Kenya and titular of
Castello,
- Archbishop Hector Ruben Aguer of La Plata, Argentina, and
- Dr. Nikolaus Schneider, president of the German Evangelical Church, with
his wife and entourage.
On Saturday, 6 April, the Holy Father received in audience:
- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and
- Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, prefect of the Congregation for
Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
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ACTS CONCERNING THE ORIENTAL CHURCHES
Vatican City, 8 April 2013 (VIS) – His Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac
Sidrak, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, with the consent of the Synod of
Bishops of the Coptic Catholic Church in conformity with Canon 85, para. 2(2)
of the Code of Canons of
the Eastern Churches and giving notice to the Apostolic See, has transferred
Bishop Boutros Kamal Fahim Awad Hanna to the Eparchial See of Minya of the
Copts. Bishop Hanna was previously curial bishop of Alexandria of the Copts
and titular of
Mareotes.
The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the
eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi (of the Italo-Albanians) presented by Bishop
Sotir Ferrara, in accordance with canon 201 para. 1 of the Code of Canons of
the Eastern Churches. At
the same time, the Holy Father has appointed Cardinal Paolo Romeo, archbishop
of Palermo, Italy, as apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum
Sanctae Sedis" of the same eparchy, Piana degli Albanesi (area 420, population
30,200, Catholics
28,700, priests 29, permanent deacons 4, religious 159), Palermo, Italy.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 8 April 2013 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father:
- appointed Bishop Michael Owen Jackels as Metropolitan Archbishop of
Dubuque (area 45,074, population 979,560, Catholics 206,843, priests 216,
permanent deacons 91, religious 861), Iowa, USA. The archbishop-elect,
previously bishop of Wichita,
Kansas, USA, is a member of the Subcommittee on the Catechism in the U.S.
Conference of Bishops. He succeeds Archbishop Jerome George Hanus, O.S.B.,
whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy
Father accepted, in accordance
with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- appointed Msgr. John Thomas Folda as bishop of the Diocese of Fargo (area
92,650, population 396,000, Catholics 89,400, priests 120, permanent deacons
43, religious 126), North Dakota, USA. The bishop-elect was born in Omaha,
Nebraska, USA in 1961
and was ordained a priest in 1989. Since ordination he has served in several
academic and pastoral roles, most recently as rector of the St. Gregory the
Great Seminary in Seward, Nebraska, USA. He was named a chaplain of His
Holiness in 2007.
- appointed Bishop Reynaldo Gonda Evangelista as bishop of Imus (area
1,287, population 2,843,000, Catholics 2,433,000, priests 261, religious 701),
Philippines. Previously bishop of Boac, Bishop Evangelista is president of the
Commission for
Vocations on the Bishops' Conference of the Philippines.
- appointed Archbishop Brian Udaigwe, titular of Suelli, as apostolic
nuncio to Benin.
On Saturday, 6 April, the Holy Father appointed Fr. Jose Rodriguez
Carballo, O.F.M., as secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of
Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, at the same time elevating
him to the dignity of archbishop and
assigning him the titular see of Bellicastrum. The archbishop-elect was born
in Lodoselo, Spain in 1953 and was ordained a priest in 1977. Since ordination
he has served in several academic and administrative roles, most recently as
minister general of
the Order of Friars Minor. Archbishop-elect Rodriguez is a member of the
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Congregation for
Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
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