As the theme of his first Message for the World Day of Peace, Pope Francis
has chosen Fraternity. Since the beginning of his Petrine Ministry, the Pope
has stressed the need to combat the “throwaway culture” and to
promote instead a
"culture of encounter", in order to build a more just and peaceful world.
Fraternity is a dowry that every man and every woman brings with himself or
herself as a human being, as a child of the one Father. In the face of the
many tragedies that afflict the family of nations - poverty, hunger,
underdevelopment, conflicts,
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migrations, pollution, inequalities, injustice, organized crime,
fundamentalisms - fraternity is the foundation and the pathway to peace.
The culture of personal well-being leads to a loss of the sense of
responsibility and fraternal relationship. Others, rather than being
“like us”, appear more as antagonists or enemies and are often
treated as objects. Not uncommonly, the
poor and needy are regarded as a "burden", a hindrance to development. At
most, they are considered as recipients of aid or compassionate assistance.
They are not seen as brothers and sisters, called to share the gifts of
creation, the goods of progress
and culture, to be partakers at the same table of the fullness of life, to be
protagonists of integral and inclusive development.
Fraternity, a gift and task that comes from God the Father, urges us to be
in solidarity against inequality and poverty that undermine the social fabric,
to take care of every person, especially the weakest and most defenceless, to
love him or her as
oneself, with the very heart of Jesus Christ.
In a world that is constantly growing more interdependent, the good of
fraternity is one that we cannot do without. It serves to defeat the spread of
the globalization of indifference to which Pope Francis has frequently
referred. The globalization
of indifference must give way to a globalization of fraternity.
Fraternity should leave its mark on every aspect of life, including the
economy, finance, civil society, politics, research, development, public and
cultural institutions.
At the start of his ministry, Pope Francis issues a message in continuity
with that of his predecessors, which proposes to everyone the pathway of
fraternity, in order to give the world a more human face.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of
Ljubljana, Slovenia, presented by Archbishop Anton Stres, C.M., in accordance
with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of
Maribor, Slovenia, presented by Archbishop Marjan Turnsek, in accordance with
canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- appointed Bishop Frank Joseph Caggiano as bishop of Bridgeport (area
1,621, population 955,000, Catholics 479,000, priests 272, permanent deacons
103, religious 362), U.S.A. Bishop Caggiano, previously auxiliary of Brooklyn,
U.S.A., was born in
Brooklyn, U.S.A. in 1959, was ordained to the priesthood in 1987, and received
episcopal ordination in 2006.
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PAPAL AND HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY-JULY 2013
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) - Following are highlights of the
activities of Pope Benedict XVI and of the Holy See for the months of May to
July 2013.
MAY
2: Pope emeritus Benedict XVI returns to the Vatican after a two month stay
in the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, and takes up permanent residence
in the recently restored “Mater Ecclesiae” convent.
2: The Holy Father receives in audience Aleksander Avdeev, the new
ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Holy See, presenting his
credential letters.
3: The Holy Father receives in audience Michel Sleiman, president of the
Republic of Lebanon.
3-5: Pilgrimage of Confraternities to Rome, for the “Days of the
Confraternities and Popular Piety”, an initiative promoted as part of
the Year of Faith.
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Ueli Maurer. president of the Swiss
Confederation.
8: Pope Francis receives the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the
International Union of Superior Generals.
10: Meeting between Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic
Orthodox Church of Egypt.
12: Seventh Sunday of Easter. Canonisation of the Blesseds Antonio Primaldo
and companions; Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya y Upegui and Maria
Guadalupe García Zavala.
13: The Holy Father receives in audience the president of the Republic of
Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderon.
14: This year, for the first time, the Holy See will participate in the
Venice Bienniale (1 June – 24 November) with a pavilion inspired by the
Biblical story of Genesis, entitled “In the Beginning”.
15: The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) declares its intention to
open, before the end of the year, a website where it will make public, among
other information, the “Yearly Report” of its activities.
16: The Holy Father receives the credential letters of four new ambassadors
to the Holy See: Bolot Iskovich Otunbaev from Kyrgyzstan, David Shoul from
Antigua and Barbuda, Jean-Paul Senninger from Luxembourg and Lameck Nthekela
from Botswana.
18: The Holy Father receives in audience Angela Merkel, chancellor of the
Federal Republic of Germany, and entourage.
18-19: "Day of Ecclesial Movements, New Communities and Lay A
sociations” on the Solemnity of Pentecost and the fiftieth anniversary
of the beginning of the Ecumenical Council.
19: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, major archbishop of Trivandrum of
the Syro-Malankars, India, takes possession of the title of St. Gregory VII al
Gelsomino on Via del Cottolegno, 4.
22: Pope Francis visits the “Gift of Mary” House of Hospitality
located within Vatican City, just outside St. Peter's Square, near the Palazzo
del Sant'Uffizio.
22: The Holy Father receives in audience Thomas Boni Yayi, president of the
Republic of Benin.
23: The Holy Father receives in audience Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena,
president of the Republic of El Salvador.
23: The Pontifical Lateran University dedicates a chair in “Political
Socialization in Africa” to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin.
26: Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, pastoral visit to the Roman parish of
“Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah” in Valle Muricana, Prima Porta.
26: Cardinal James Michael Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul
Outside-the-Walls, takes possession of the diaconate of St. Pius V at Villa
Carpegna in Largo San Pio V, 3.
31: The Holy Father receives in audience the president for the 67th session
of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Vuk Jeremic.
JUNE
1: The Holy Father receives in audience Jose Mujica Cordano, president of
the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
2: On the Solemnity of Corpus Domini and as part of the Year of Faith, the
Holy Father presides as a solemn Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration in St.
Peter's Basilica, in communion with cathedrals and parishes all over the
world.
3: The Holy Father receives in audience Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca,
president of the Republic of Cape Verde, and entourage.
5: Death of Cardinal Stanislaw Nagy, S.C.I., cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria
della Scala, at the age of 91.
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Mohamed Taher Rabbani, ambassador
of the Islamic Republic of Iran, presenting his credential letters.
7: The Holy Father receives in audience Mikayel Minasyan, ambassador of
Armenia, presenting his credential letters.
8: The Holy Father receives in an official visit the president of the
Republic of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
10: The Holy Father receives in audience Mariano Palacios Alcocer, new
ambassador of Mexico, presenting his credential letters
13: The Holy Father receives in audience Alenka Bratusek, prime minister of
the Republic of Slovenia.
14: Visit of the archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace Justin Welby.
15: Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop of Manila, Philippines,
takes possession of the title of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle in
Piazza San Felice da Cantalice, 20, Rome.
15: The Holy Father receives in audience José Manuel Durão
Barroso, president of the European Commission.
17: The Holy Father receives in audience Nicolas Maduro Moro, president of
the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
24: The Holy Father receives in audience Joseph Muscat, prime minister of
the Republic of Malta.
24: The Holy Father establishes a Pontifical Commission for Reference on
the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) by chirograph dated 24 June
2013.
JULY
4: The Holy Father receives in a private visit Enrico Letta, prime minister
of the Republic of Italy.
4: The Financial Intelligence Authority of the Holy See and Vatican City
State (AIF) is admitted to the Egmont Group, a global network of Financial
Intelligence Units.
4-7: “Day for seminarians, novices, and all those who have taken the
path of vocation”, with the theme “I trust in you”, as part
of the Year of Faith.
5: Publication of Pope Francis' first encyclical, entitled "Lumen
fidei".
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona,
president of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, with his wife and
entourage.
8: The Holy Father visits the island of Lampedusa.
22-29: Apostolic trip to Brazil for the 28th World Youth Day.
26: The Financial Intelligence Authority (AIF) of the Holy See and Vatican
City State signs a Memorandum of Understanding with its Italian counterpart,
the Unità di Informazione Finanziaria (UIF) of the Bank of Italy.
28: Death of Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, archbishop emeritus of
avenna-Cervia, Italy, at the age of 99.
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Information Service will remain closed during the entire month of August.
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