VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 201
DATE 14-11-2014

Summary:
- Audience with the president of Peru: promote full development and the
protection of the environment
- Francis to accountants: the dignity of the person must prevail over
bureaucracy
- Programme for the Pope's apostolic trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines
- Third World Congress of Movements Guided by Evangelii gaudium
- Audiences

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 Audience with the president of Peru: promote full development and the
protection of the environment
 Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father Francis today received
in audience, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the president of the Republic of
Peru, Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso, who subsequently met with Archbishop
Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States, in the absence of
Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.
 During the cordial discussions, mention was made of the good relations
between the Holy See and the Republic of Peru, with particular emphasis on the
special role of Christianity in the formation of the identity of the country,
as well as the contribution the Catholic Church has given and continues to
guarantee in favour of the human, social and cultural progress of the
population.
 Finally, there was an exchange of views on the political and social situation
in the Region, with attention to the efforts made to promote full development
and the protection of the environment.

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 Francis to accountants: the dignity of the person must prevail over
bureaucracy
 Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - "From your professional observatory,
you are well aware of the dramatic situation faced by many people who are
precariously employed or have lost their jobs; of the many families who pay
the consequences; of the many young people in search of a first occupation and
dignified work. They are many, especially immigrants, who are compelled to
work illegally, and lack the most basic legal and economic guarantees", said
the Pope this morning in his address to the seven thousand participants at the
World Congress of Accountants, held in Rome from 10 to 13 November.
 In this economic context, there is a "strong temptation to defend one's own
interests without worrying about the common good, without paying too much
attention to justice and legality. However, we are all, especially those who
exercise a profession associated with the good functioning of the economic
life of a country, required to play a positive and constructive role in
carrying out our work on a daily basis, aware that behind every piece of paper
there is a story, and there are faces. In this task ... the Christian
professional draws strength every day from prayer and the Word of God to carry
out his or her own duties well, with skill and wisdom; and then, to go further
than this, which means reaching towards those in difficulty; exercising that
creativity that allows solutions to be found in situations of impasse; to make
the reason of human dignity prevail over the rigidity of bureaucracy".
 Francis affirmed that the economy and finance are "dimensions of human
activity and may be opportunities for encounters, dialogue, cooperation, the
recognition of rights and the rendering of services, of dignity affirmed in
work. But it is therefore necessary always to place man and his dignity at the
centre, opposing those dynamics that tend to homogenise everything and place
money at the summit. When money becomes the aim and reason for every activity
and initiative, this leads to the prevalence of a utilitarian perspective and
the untrammelled logic of profit that does not respect people, with the
consequent widespread decline in the values of solidarity and respect for the
human person. Those who work in various roles in economics and finance are
required to make decisions that favour the social and economic well-being of
humanity as a whole, offering everyone the opportunity to realise their own
development".
 "You, in your profession", he said, addressing the accountants, "work
alongside companies, but also families and individuals, to offer economic and
financial advice. I encourage you always to work responsibly, favouring
relationships of loyalty, justice and, if possible, fraternity, courageously
facing, above all, the problems faced by the weakest and poorest. It is not
enough to give concrete answers to economic and material questions; it is
necessary to promote and cultivate the ethics of the economy, finance and
work; it is necessary to keep alive the value of solidarity as a moral
attitude, an expression of attention to others and all their legitimate needs.
If we wish to hand our environmental, economic, cultural and social patrimony
to future generations in a better condition than that in which we have
inherited it, we must assume the responsibility of working for a globalisation
of solidarity. ... And the social doctrine of the Church teaches us that the
principle of solidarity works in harmony with that of subsidiarity. Thanks to
the effect of these two principles, processes are placed at the services of
humanity and enable the growth of justice, without which there cannot be true
and lasting peace".

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 Programme for the Pope's apostolic trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines
 Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - Today the Holy See Press Office
published the programme for Pope Francis' upcoming trip to Sri Lanka and the
Philippines, scheduled for 12 to 19 January 2015.
 The Holy Father will depart from Rome's Fiumicino airport on Monday, 12
January at 7 p.m. and will arrive in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, on
Tuesday 13 at 9 a.m. Following the welcome ceremony he will meet with the
country's bishops at the archbishop's residence, after which he will pay a
courtesy visit to the president of the Republic. The day will conclude with an
interreligious meeting at the Bandaranaike Memorial.
 On Wednesday, 14 January, during a Mass to be celebrated at 8.30 a.m. at the
Galle Face Green, he will canonise Blessed Joseph Vaz and will then transfer
by helicopter to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary at Madhu. From there he
will proceed by helicopter to Colombo.
 Thursday will begin with a visit to the chapel of Our Lady of Lanka in
Bolawalana, after which the Pope will leave Sri Lanka and depart by air, at 9
a.m., for Manila, the capital of the Philippines, where he will be officially
received at 5.45 p.m.
 On Friday, 16 January, Francis will pay a courtesy visit to the president of
the Philippines in the presidential palace, followed by an address to the
authorities and the diplomatic corps. At 11.15 a.m. in the cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception he will celebrate Mass with bishops, priests and
consecrated persons. His final activity on Thursday will be an encounter with
families in the Arena Mall of Asia.
 On Saturday, 17 January, the Pontiff will transfer by air to Tacloban
International Airport where he will celebrate Mass, followed by and lunch with
survivors of Typhoon Yolanda. In the afternoon he will bless the Pope Francis
Centre for the Poor and will meet priests, consecrated persons, seminarians
and families of the typhoon survivors in the cathedral of Palo. He will then
return to Manila.
 On Sunday, 18 January, he will meet with the religious leaders of the
Philippines at the St. Thomas University of Manila and later with young people
at the university sports field. The day will conclude with a Mass celebrated
in Rizal Park.
 On Monday, 19 January, the Pope will conclude his trip, leaving from Manila
at 10 a.m. The aircraft carrying the Holy Father is expected to land in Rome's
Ciampino airport at 5.40 p.m.

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 Third World Congress of Movements Guided by Evangelii gaudium
 Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - This morning, in the Holy See Press
Office, a conference was held to present the Third World Congress of Ecclesial
Movements and new communities. Promoted and organised by the Pontifical
Council for the Laity on the theme "The Joy of the Gospel: a missionary joy",
the Congress will be held from 20 to 22 November in the Maria Mater Ecclesiae
Pontifical College, Rome.
 The speakers in the conference were Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of
the Pontifical Council for the Laity; Bishop Josef Clemens, secretary of the
same dicastery; Maria Voce, president of the Focolare Movement; and Jean-Luc
Moens, president of Fidesco, young volunteers in evangelisation and
development projects, and member of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum".
 Cardinal Rylko remarked that the Pontifical Magisterium has perceived in the
phenomenon of movements "a current of grace, a gift and a timely response from
the Holy Spirit to the serious challenges that today's world poses to the
mission of the Church". He recalled that, for St. John Paul II, movements
constituted a "reason for hope for the Church and for mankind", and were seen
by Pope Benedict XVI as "new incursions of the Holy Spirit in the life of the
Church, powerful ways of living faith, a healthy provocation, of which the
Church is always in need, and 'creative minorities', decisive for the future
of humanity". He added that Pope Francis, in this respect, is in perfect
harmony with his predecessors.
 The Congress will be attended by approximately three hundred laypersons -
founders, moderators and general delegates - representing around a hundred
movements and new communities, with a broad international dimension. They will
be joined by a large number of pastors, bishops and priests. The prelate
explained that the novelty of this Congress derives from the fact that it
originated from the great meeting with the Pope that took place at Pentecost
in 2013 in the context of the Year of Faith, and added that the theme of the
congress clearly expresses that "our work is guided by the Apostolic
Exhortation 'Evangelii gaudium'. This is the great challenge that Pope Francis
presents to us. ... He wants an 'outbound' Church, that reaches out to the
geographical and existential peripheries of our world, a Church that is
particularly attentive and close to all the poor, suffering and excluded, the
bitter product of the 'throwaway culture' that dominates nowadays. ... And it
is precisely this that is the great and fundamental challenge that the
movements wish to accept during this third world Congress'".

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 Audiences
 Vatican City, 14 November 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father received in audience:
 - Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy;
 - Franco Anelli, rector of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

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