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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXIII - N° 133
DATE 21-06-2013
Summary:
- FRANCIS: LOOK FOR PASTORS NOT PRINCES FOR EPISCOPACY
- RICHARD BURRIDGE AND CHRISTIAN SCHALLER, RECIPIENTS OF RATZINGER PRIZE 2013
- AUDIENCE
___________________________________________________________
FRANCIS: LOOK FOR PASTORS NOT PRINCES FOR EPISCOPACY
Vatican City, 21 June 2013 (VIS) – This morning in the Clementine Hall
of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, as part of the Year of Faith, the Holy Father
received the pontifical representatives. After an introduction by Cardinal
Secretary of State
Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., the Holy Father addressed the nuncios with
“simple thoughts” and informal words “close to his
heart” regarding what he called some “existential” aspects
of the labour they carry out.
“Your lives,” the Pope said, “are nomadic. Every three or
four years … you change your place, move from one continent to another,
one country to another, one reality of Church to another, often very different
one. You always
have your suitcase in hand. … This entails … mortification, the
sacrifice of stripping yourselves of things, friends, ties, and always
beginning anew. This isn't easy.”
Francis recalled the words that, then-substitute of the Secretariat of State,
Msgr. Montini, used on 25 April 1951 to describe the figure of the pontifical
representative: “one who is truly aware of bearing Christ with
him”. With this, the
Pope clarified that “the goods and perspectives of this world end up
disappointing, they push and are never satisfied. The Lord is the good that
does not disappoint.”
The Pope didn't forget to mention that this “nomadic” life holds
the danger, even for men of the Church, to give in to what he ca
led—using an expression from the theologian Henri de Lubac
mdash;“spiritual worldliness”.
“Giving in to the spirit of the world, which leads one to act for
personal realization and not for the glory of God in that kind of 'bourgeoisie
of spirit and life' that urges one to get comfortable, to seek a calm and easy
life.”
“We are shepherds and we must never forget this! Dear pontifical
representatives, you are Christ's presence, you are a priestly presence, as
pastors. … Always do everything with profound love! Even in dealing
with the civil authorities and
colleagues: always seek the good, the good in everyone, the good of the
Church, and of every person.”
The Holy Father wanted to conclude his address by highlighting one of the
principal and most delicate tasks of the representatives, to look for
episcopal appointments: “be attentive,” he told them, “that
the candidates are Pastors who
are close to the people, fathers and brothers; that they are gentle, patient,
and merciful; that they love poverty, interior poverty as freedom for the Lord
and exterior poverty as simplicity and austerity of life; that they don't have
a 'principles'
psychology. Be attentive that they aren't ambitious, that they don't seek the
episcopate—'volentes nolumus'—and that they are spouses of a
Church without constantly seeking another. That they are capable of 'keeping
an eye on' the flock that
will be entrusted to them, that is, of caring for everything that keeps it
united; of being 'vigilant' over it; of being attentive to dangers that
threaten it; but above all that they are capable of 'keeping an eye over' the
flock;
of
keeping watch; of tending hope, that there is sun and light in their hearts;
of sustaining with love and patience the plans that God has for his
people.”
___________________________________________________________
RICHARD BURRIDGE AND CHRISTIAN SCHALLER, RECIPIENTS OF RATZINGER PRIZE 2013
Vatican City, 21 June 2013 (VIS) – At 11:30 this morning in the John
Paul II Hall of the Holy See Press Office, a press conference was held to
present the activities of the "Vatican Foundation: Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict
XVI", in particular, its
symposium “The Gospels: History and Christology. The Research of Joseph
Ratzinger”, which will be held at the Pontifical Lateran University from
24 to 26 October of this year. The names of the candidates selected by its
academic committee
for the Foundation's annual prize, which will be conferred on 26 October, were
also announced.
Benedict XVI instituted the Foundation on 1 March, 2010, in response to the
desire expressed by many scholars over the years. One of the areas of
competency of the academic committee is precisely to establish the criteria of
excellence for the creation
and assignment of prizes to scholars who have distinguished themselves in the
areas of publication and/or academic research. The Foundation's aim is to
place the question of God at the heart of academic reflection. With the
Ratzinger Prize, one of the
Foundation's three main activities, it hopes to call attention to this
subject. Its two principal activities are awarding scholarships to those
pursuing doctorates in Theology and organizing conferences of high academic
standard.
Speakers at the conference included: Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the
Foundation's academic committee; Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, O.P.,
president of the symposium's organizing committee; Msgr. Luis Romera, vice
president of the symposium's
organizing committee; and Msgr. Giuseppe Scotti, the Foundation's president.
The recipients of this year's Ratzinger Prize are the English Biblical scholar
Richard A. Burridge, dean of King's College London and minister in the
Anglican Communion—the first non-Catholic to receive the award—and
the German lay
theologian Christian Schaller, professor of Dogmatic Theology and deputy
director of the Pope Benedict XVI Institute of Regensburg, Germany, which is
publishing the complete works of Joseph Ratzinger.
“Richard Burridge today,” said Cardinal Ruini, “is
definitely an eminent figure in the field of Biblical studies and not only of
the English language. In particular, he has made a great contribution in that
decisive area of the
historical and theological recognition of the Gospels' inseparable connection
to Jesus of Nazareth.” Christian Schaller will also be awarded the
Ratzinger Prize, “not only for his contribution to theological studies
but also in recognition
of the role he is carrying out in the publication of Joseph Ratzinger's
complete works. This publication is of primary importance for the future of
studies inspired by the thought of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI, which is the
main purpose of our
Foundation.”
Msgr. Giuseppe Scotti, the Foundation's president, outlined some details
regarding the upcoming symposium to be held at Rome's Pontifical Lateran
University. It will be the Foundation's third conference. The fi
st—“Pilgrims of Truth,
Pilgrims of Peace”—was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2011. The
second—“What Makes Man Man”—was held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, last year.
This year's symposium, “The Gospels: History and Christology”,
starting from Joseph Ratzinger's research, will focus on the major themes of
his trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth and will last three days. The first day will
address the issue of
the Jesus of the Gospels, considering them as texts. After a summary of the
historical research on the Jesus of the New Testament over the last centuries,
the contribution of papyrology to the study of those texts will be analysed
along with the
definition of the literary genre of the Gospels in comparison to Greco-Roman
biographies and their historical significance. Professors participating in the
first day include: Dr. Bernardo Estrada (Pontifical University of the Holy
Cross, Rome); Dr. Juan
Chapa (University of Navarra, Spain); Dr. Richard Burridge (King's College,
London); and Dr. Yves Simoens (Pontifical Biblical Institute and Gregorian
University, Rome).
The second day will be dedicated to the figure of Jesus presented in the
Gospels and the theology they contain, also in relation to other New Testament
writings. First the reliability of the Gospel text will be analysed, with the
purpose of discovering
who Jesus really was. Then the historical figure that emerges from the Gospels
and Pauline witness will be outlined. Finally, the impact of the Gospels in
Early Christianity and the theology of the Fathers will be examined. Speakers
on the second day
will include: Dr. Klaus Berger (University of Heidelberg, Germany); Dr. John
P. Meier (University of Notre Dame, USA); Dr. Antonio Pitta (Pontifical
Lateran University, Rome); and Cardinal Prosper Grech (Pontifical Lateran
University and Augustinianum,
Rome).
Joseph Ratzinger's proposal of “Jesus of Nazareth” will be the key
theme of the third day. Professor Thomas Soding (University of Bochum,
Germany) and Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for
the Causes of Saints, will
discuss the importance of Ratzinger's research on exegesis, theology, and
methodology. The symposium will also address two specific areas: the figure of
Jesus in the Gospel passages relating his infancy and the Last Supper.
Professors Dr. Armand Puig I
Tarrech (dean of the Theological Faculty of Catalonia, Barcelona) and Dr.
Ermenegildo Manicardi (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome) will coordinate
the presentations of the various experts in these areas.
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCE
Vatican City, 21 June 2013 (VIS) – This afternoon, the Holy Father is
scheduled to receive Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
___________________________________________________________
Per ulteriori informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il
sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va
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VISnews130621
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXIII - N° 133 DATE 21-06-2013
Summary: - FRANCIS: LOOK FOR PASTORS NOT
PRINCES FOR EPISCOPACY -
RICHARD BURRIDGE AND CHRISTIAN SCHALLER, RECIPIENTS OF RATZINGER PRIZE 2013 - AUDIENCE
FRANCIS: LOOK FOR PASTORS NOT PRINCES FOR EPISCOPACY
Vatican City, 21 June 2013 (VIS) – This morning in the Clementine
Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, as part of the Year of Faith, the Holy
Father received the pontifical representatives. After an introduction by
Cardinal Secretary of State
Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., the Holy Father addressed the nuncios with
“simple thoughts” and informal words “close to his
heart” regarding what he called some “existential” aspects
of the labour they carry out.
“Your lives,” the Pope said, “are nomadic. Every three or
four years … you change your place, move from one continent to another,
one country to another, one reality of Church to another, often very different
one. You always
have your suitcase in hand. … This entails … mortification, the
sacrifice of stripping yourselves of things, friends, ties, and always
beginning anew. This isn't easy.”
Francis recalled the words that, then-substitute of the Secretariat of
State, Msgr. Montini, used on 25 April 1951 to describe the figure of the
pontifical representative: “one who is truly aware of bearing Christ
with him”. With this,
the Pope clarified that “the goods and perspectives of this world end up
disappointing, they push and are never satisfied. The Lord is the good that
does not disappoint.”
The Pope didn't forget to mention that this “nomadic” life
holds the danger, even for men of the Church, to give in to what he
called—using an expression from the theologian Henri de Lu
ac—“spiritual worldliness”.
“Giving in to the spirit of the world, which leads one to act for
personal realization and not for the glory of God in that kind of 'bourgeoisie
of spirit and life' that urges one to get comfortable, to seek a calm and easy
life.”
“We are shepherds and we must never forget this! Dear pontifical
representatives, you are Christ's presence, you are a priestly presence, as
pastors. … Always do everything with profound love! Even in dealing
with the civil authorities
and colleagues: always seek the good, the good in everyone, the good of the
Church, and of every person.”
The Holy Father wanted to conclude his address by highlighting one of the
principal and most delicate tasks of the representatives, to look for
episcopal appointments: “be attentive,” he told them, “that
the candidates are Pastors
who are close to the people, fathers and brothers; that they are gentle,
patient, and merciful; that they love poverty, interior poverty as freedom for
the Lord and exterior poverty as simplicity and austerity of life; that they
don't have a
'principles' psychology. Be attentive that they aren't ambitious, that they
don't seek the episcopate—'volentes nolumus'—and that they are
spouses of a Church without constantly seeking another. That they are capable
of 'keeping an eye on'
the flock that will be entrusted to them, that is, of caring for everything
that keeps it united; of being 'vigilant' over it; of being attentive to
dangers that threaten it; but above all
that they are capable of 'keeping an eye over' the flock; of keeping watch; of
tending hope, that there is sun and light in their hearts; of sustaining with
love and patience the plans that God has for his people.”
RICHARD BURRIDGE AND CHRISTIAN SCHALLER, RECIPIENTS OF RATZINGER PRIZE
2013
Vatican City, 21 June 2013 (VIS) – At 11:30 this morning in the John
Paul II Hall of the Holy See Press Office, a press conference was held to
present the activities of the "Vatican Foundation: Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict
XVI", in particular,
its symposium “The Gospels: History and Christology. The Research of
Joseph Ratzinger”, which will be held at the Pontifical Lateran
University from 24 to 26 October of this year. The names of the candidates
selected by its academic
committee for the Foundation's annual prize, which will be conferred on 26
October, were also announced.
Benedict XVI instituted the Foundation on 1 March, 2010, in response to the
desire expressed by many scholars over the years. One of the areas of
competency of the academic committee is precisely to establish the criteria of
excellence for the
creation and assignment of prizes to scholars who have distinguished
themselves in the areas of publication and/or academic research. The
Foundation's aim is to place the question of God at the heart of academic
reflection. With the Ratzinger Prize, one
of the Foundation's three main activities, it hopes to call attention to this
subject. Its two principal activities are awarding scholarships to those
pursuing doctorates in Theology and organizing conferences of high academic
standard.
Speakers at the conference included: Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of
the Foundation's academic committee; Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, O.P.,
president of the symposium's organizing committee; Msgr. Luis Romera, vice
president of the
symposium's organizing committee; and Msgr. Giuseppe Scotti, the Foundation's
president.
The recipients of this year's Ratzinger Prize are the English Biblical
scholar Richard A. Burridge, dean of King's College London and minister in the
Anglican Communion—the first non-Catholic to receive the award—and
the German lay
theologian Christian Schaller, professor of Dogmatic Theology and deputy
director of the Pope Benedict XVI Institute of Regensburg, Germany, which is
publishing the complete works of Joseph Ratzinger.
“Richard Burridge today,” said Cardinal Ruini, “is
definitely an eminent figure in the field of Biblical studies and not only of
the English language. In particular, he has made a great contribution in that
decisive area of the
historical and theological recognition of the Gospels' inseparable connection
to Jesus of Nazareth.” Christian Schaller will also be awarded the
Ratzinger Prize, “not only for his contribution to theological studies
but also in recognition
of the role he is carrying out in the publication of Joseph Ratzinger's
complete works. This publication is of primary importance for the future of
studies inspired by the thought of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI, which is the
main purpose of our
Foundation.”
Msgr. Giuseppe Scotti, the Foundation's president, outlined some details
regarding the upcoming symposium to be held at Rome's Pontifical Lateran
University. It will be the Foundation's third conference. The fi
st—“Pilgrims of Truth,
Pilgrims of Peace”—was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2011. The
second—“What Makes Man Man”—was held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, last year.
This year's symposium, “The Gospels: History and Christology”,
starting from Joseph Ratzinger's research, will focus on the major themes of
his trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth and will last three days. The first day will
address the issue of
the Jesus of the Gospels, considering them as texts. After a summary of the
historical research on the Jesus of the New Testament over the last centuries,
the contribution of papyrology to the study of those texts will be analysed
along with the
definition of the literary genre of the Gospels in comparison to Greco-Roman
biographies and their historical significance. Professors participating in the
first day include: Dr. Bernardo Estrada (Pontifical University of the Holy
Cross, Rome); Dr. Juan
Chapa (University of Navarra, Spain); Dr. Richard Burridge (King's College,
London); and Dr. Yves Simoens (Pontifical Biblical Institute and Gregorian
University, Rome).
The second day will be dedicated to the figure of Jesus presented in the
Gospels and the theology they contain, also in relation to other New Testament
writings. First the reliability of the Gospel text will be analysed, with the
purpose of
discovering who Jesus really was. Then the historical figure that emerges from
the Gospels and Pauline witness will be outlined. Finally, the impact of the
Gospels in Early Christianity and the theology of the Fathers will be
examined. Speakers on the
second day will include: Dr. Klaus Berger (University of Heidelberg, Germany);
Dr. John P. Meier (University of Notre Dame, USA); Dr. Antonio Pitta
(Pontifical Lateran University, Rome); and Cardinal Prosper Grech (Pontifical
Lateran University and
Augustinianum, Rome).
Joseph Ratzinger's proposal of “Jesus of Nazareth” will be the
key theme of the third day. Professor Thomas Soding (University of Bochum,
Germany) and Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for
the Causes of Saints,
will discuss the importance of Ratzinger's research on exegesis, theology, and
methodology. The symposium will also address two specific areas: the figure of
Jesus in the Gospel passages relating his infancy and the Last Supper.
Professors Dr. Armand
Puig I Tarrech (dean of the Theological Faculty of Catalonia, Barcelona) and
Dr. Ermenegildo Manicardi (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome) will
coordinate the presentations of the various experts in these areas.
Vatican City, 21 June 2013 (VIS) – This afternoon, the Holy Father is
scheduled to receive Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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/v
s/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
Information Service possono essere riprodotte parzialmente o totalmente
citando la fonte: V.I.S. - Vatican Information Service.
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