VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 186
DATE 24-10-2014

Summary:
- To the Oriental Lumen Foundation: there is no true ecumenical dialogue
without the will for inner renewal
- Holy Father's calendar for November 2014
- World Meeting of Popular Movements: the excluded are the motor of social
change
- Audiences

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 To the Oriental Lumen Foundation: there is no true ecumenical dialogue
without the will for inner renewal
 Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) - "Every Christian pilgrimage is not only a
geographical journey, but also and above all an opportunity to take a path of
inner renewal taking us ever closer to Christ our Lord", said Pope Francis to
the members of the Oriental Lumen Foundation in America, who are meeting in
Rome in these days as part of an ecumenical pilgrimage.
 "These dimensions are absolutely essential to proceed along the road that
leads us to reconciliation and full communion among all believers in Christ.
There is no true ecumenical dialogue without openness to inner renewal and the
search for greater fidelity to Christ and to His will".
 The Holy Father expressed his satisfaction at learning that the pilgrims had
decided to honour the memory of Popes St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II,
remarking that "this decision underlines their great contribution to the
development of ever closer relations between the Catholic Church and the
Orthodox Churches. The example of these two saints is without doubt enriching
for all of us, since they always bore witness to an ardent passion for
Christian unity".
 The Pope asked those present to pray for him during their pilgrimage to Rome,
"so that, with the intercession of these two Saints, my predecessors, I may
carry out my ministry as bishop of Rome in the service of the communion and
unity of the Church, always following the will of the Lord". With regard to
the pilgrims' upcoming meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch, His Holinesss
Bartholomaio I, in Fanar, he remarked that he too will meet with the Patriarch
during his apostolic trip to Turkey in November. "I beg you to convey to him
my cordial and fraternal greetings, as testimony of my affection and esteem".

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 Holy Father's calendar for November 2014
 Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the
Supreme Pontiff has published the following calendar of liturgical
celebrations at which the Holy Father will preside in November:
 Saturday, 1: Solemnity of All Saints. At 4 p.m., Holy Mass at the Cemetery of
Verano, Rome.
 Sunday, 2: Solemnity of All Souls. At 6 p.m. in the Vatican Crypts, a moment
of prayer for deceased Supreme Pontiffs.
 Monday,3: At 11.30 a.m., Holy Mass for cardinals and bishops who died during
this past year.
 Sunday, 23: Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. At
10.30 a.m. in the Papal Chapel, Holy Mass for the canonisation of Blesseds
Giovanni Antonio Farina, Kuriakose Elias Chavara of the Holy Family, Ludovico
da Casoria, Nicola da Longobardi, Eufrasia Eluvathingal of the Sacred Heart
and Amato Ronconi.
 Friday 28 to Sunday 30: Apostolic trip to Turkey.

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 World Meeting of Popular Movements: the excluded are the motor of social
change
 Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) - A press conference was held this morning in the
Holy See Press Office to present the World Meeting of Popular Movements, to be
held in Rome from 27 to 29 October. The event was organised by the Pontifical
Council "Justice and Peace", in collaboration with the Pontifical Academy for
Social Sciences and the leaders of various movements.
 The speakers at the conference were Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson,
president of "Justice and Peace", Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo,
chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences, and Juan Grabois,
head of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy, dedicated
principally to organisations and movements for the excluded and marginalised.
 Grabois knew Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and
emphasised that the then-Cardinal Bergoglio sympathised with the struggle of
excluded workers in very difficult moments, and accompanied them in the work
of assisting the cartoneros, peasants, those forced to live on the streets
and, in general, the heirs of a crisis brought on by neoliberal capitalism.
"Francis summons us again today, from a universal perspective; he calls to the
poor, organised in thousands of popular movements, to fight, without arrogance
but with courage, without violence but with tenacity, for this dignity that
has been taken from us, and for social justice".
 "Our encounter responds mainly to concrete and simple objectives we share and
want to pass on to our children and grandchildren, but that are increasingly
harder for the popular majority to reach: land, housing and work", he
continued, also expressing the need to promote the organisation of the poor
"to construct from grass-roots level a human alternative to this exclusionary
globalisation that has robbed us of our sacred rights to housing, work, land,
the environment and peace".
 The World Meeting of Popular Movements will be attended by the social leaders
of the five continents, representing organisations of increasingly excluded
social sectors: workers in precarious employment conditions; migrants;
temporary workers; the unemployed and those those who are self-employed,
without legal protection, labour rights or union recognition; peasants; the
landless; indigenous peoples and those at risk of expulsion from the fields as
a result of agricultural speculation and violence; and those who live in the
peripheries and in temporary settlements, often migrants and displaced
peoples, who are marginalised, forgotten, and without adequate urban
infrastructure. Alongside them there are trades unions and social, charitable
and human rights organisations, who have demonstrated their closeness to these
movements and who, it has been suggested, might accompany them, respecting the
role of grass-roots movements.
 "The aims of the meeting include sharing Pope Francis' thought on social
matters, debating the causes of growing social inequality and the increase in
exclusion throughout the world, reflecting on the organisational experiences
of popular movements and the resolution of problems regarding land, housing
and work, evaluating the role of movements in the processes of peace-building
and care for the environment, especially in regions affected by conflicts and
disputes over natural resources, discussing the relationship between popular
movements and the Church, and how to go ahead in the creation of joint and
permanent collaboration".
 Grabois emphasised the importance of the two acts with which the meeting will
conclude: the publication of a final declaration with the widest consensus
possible, and the constitution of a Council of Popular Movements which will
work to establish possible cases of global level collaboration.
 Cardinal Turkson stated that it was essential for both the Church and the
world to "listen to the cry for justice" from the excluded; "not only to the
sufferings, but also to the expectations, hopes and proposals which the
marginalised themselves have. They must be protagonists of their own lives,
and not simply passive recipients of the charity or plans of others. They must
be protagonists of the needed economic and social, political and cultural
changes. ... The Church wants to make its own the needs and aspirations of the
popular movements, and to join with those who, by means of different
initiatives, are making every effort to stimulate social change towards a more
just world".

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 Audiences
 Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father received in audience:
 - Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy;
 - Archbishop Augustine Kasujja, apostolic nuncio in Nigeria, and Holy See
permanent observer at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS);
 - delegation from the World Union of Catholic Teachers.

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