Subject: VISnews140318
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 52
DATE 18-03-2014
Summary:
- THE HOLY SEE GUEST OF HONOUR AT THE 2014 TURIN INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
- CARDINAL SARAH IN MISSION IN GUATEMALA
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
- NOTICE
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THE HOLY SEE GUEST OF HONOUR AT THE 2014 TURIN INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
Vatican City, 18 March 2014 (VIS) -; A press conference was held in the
Holy See Press Office this morning to present the Holy See's participation as
a guest of honour at the 27th Turin International Book Fair, to take place
from 8 to 12 May. The speakers were: Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of
the Pontifical Council for Culture; Rolando Picchioni, president of the for
Books, Music and Cultural Activities; Fr. Giuseppe Costa, S.D.B., director of
Libreria Editrice Vaticana, and Ernesto Ferrero, editorial director of the
Turin International Book Fair.
The Holy See will be represented by a stand in the form of a dome made out of
books, explained Cardinal Ravasi. The plan incorporates the design for the new
Vatican Basilica by Donato Bramante; the 500th anniversary of whose death is
commemorated on 11 April.
The stand will be located in the third pavilion of the complex, and will host
cultural and artistic events including: on Wednesday 7, a pre-inauguration
concert performed by the choir of the Sistine Chapel; on Friday 9, a cultural
debate between Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and a distinguished non-believer;
and on Saturday 10, the presentation by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro
Parolin of a new book dedicated to the Holy Father and a dialogue on the first
year of Pope Francis' pontificate.
The Turin International Book Fair opened its doors for the first time in 2001,
and each year it invites a different country to attend as a guest of honour.
The participation of the Holy See this year, said Rolando Picchioni,
"not only constitutes an out of the ordinary presence, but in a certain
way has also shaped the spirit according to which the most important debates
and events are structured. ... Its most relevant contribution is the
profoundly international and universal character of its constitutive and
spiritual nature, and the marvellous variety of ways in which the message and
teaching of the Church is translated into works of thought, reflection and
literary and artistic creation".
According to Ernesto Ferrero, the Vatican participation offers "a
substantial contribution to the reflection that the Book Fair has promoted for
years, posing questions on the current meaning of concepts such as Time,
History, Beauty, Creativity, the 'I', the 'Other', by means of mutations,
impetuous but disordered, not managed or directed. But it is precisely this
function of governance that we must ask of books".
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CARDINAL SARAH IN MISSION IN GUATEMALA
Vatican City, 18 March 2014 (VIS) -; Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of
the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", will visit Guatemala from 18 to
21 March in order to inaugurate a residential complex of nineteen houses and a
chapel, constructed by various families, in Cuilapa, Santa Rosa de Lima. This
project was carried out with the support of a donation given by the Holy
Father following the natural disasters that afflicted the country in autumn
2011, as a sign of spiritual closeness to those people engaged in
reconstruction works.
During his visit, Cardinal Sarah will meet with the representatives of Caritas
Guatemala and the archdiocesan Caritas, and will visit the Villa de los Ninos,
a college for poor young people who receive a study grant and full education
up to the age of 18.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 18 March 2014 (VIS) -; The Holy Father has:
- erected the new diocese of Pankshin (area 8,486, population 1,100,000,
Catholics 168,606, priests 47, religious 10) Nigeria, with territory taken
from the archdiocese of Jos and the diocese of Shendam, making it a suffragan
of the metropolitan church of Jos.
- appointed Rev. Michael Gobal Gokum of the clergy of Jos as first bishop of
the new diocese of Pankshin, Nigeria. The bishop-elect was born in Kadyis,
Nigeria in 1964 and was ordained a priest in 1991. He studied for a licentiate
in ecumenism at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum),
Rome, and has served in a number of pastoral roles, including priest of the
parishes of "St. Mary's" in Tafawa Balewa, "St.
Theresa's" in Bwari, and "Murumba" in Igu; president of the
archdiocesan catechetical commission and chaplain of the Catholic Women
Association; and priest of the parishes of "Immaculate Conception"
and "Sts. Peter and Paul". He is currently administrator of the
"Our Lady Queen of Nigeria" pro-Cathedral of Abuja, dean of the
Garki deanery, archdiocesan director for the teaching of the Catechism and
chaplain for the youth of the archdiocese.
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NOTICE
Vatican City, 18 March 2014 (VIS) -; We inform our readers that tomorrow,
19 March, Solemnity of St. Joseph patron of the Universal Church, no VIS
bulletin will be transmitted. Service will resume on Thursday, 20 March.
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