The third suggestion relates to the relationship between the economy and
social justice, dignity and the value of the person. "It is well known that a
certain liberalism believes it is necessary first and foremost to produce
wealth, and that it is not important how, before promoting any form of
redistributive policy", explained the Pope. "Others think that it is the same
enterprise that must donate the crumbs of accumulated wealth, thus absolving
it of its so-called 'social responsibility'". However, we know in achieving a
new quality of the economy, it is possible to enable people to grow in all
their potential. A member of a cooperative must not be merely ... a worker ...
but must instead always be a protagonist, and must grow, through the
cooperative, as a person, socially and professionally, in responsibility ...
an enterprise managed by a cooperative must grow in a truly cooperative way,
involving all".
 "If we look around us, we see that the economy is never renovated in an
ageing society, instead of one that grows", he continued, presenting his
fourth suggestion: strengthening the harmonisation between work and family
within the cooperative movement. "Doing this also means helping women to fully
achieve their vocation and to put their talents to use" through initiatives
that meet the needs of all, from nurseries to domestic care.
 "The fifth suggestion may be surprising. Doing all these things takes money!
Cooperatives are not generally founded by great capitalists. ... The Pope
instead says to you: you must invest, and you must invest well! In Italy
certainly, but not only, it is difficult to obtain public funding to
compensate for the scarcity of resources. The solution I propose to you is
this: unite with determination the right means for carrying out good works.
Collaborate more with cooperative banks and businesses, organise resources to
allow families to live with dignity and serenity, and pay fair salaries to
your workers. ... Money, placed at the service of life, can be managed in the
right way by the cooperative, if however it is an authentic and true
cooperative, where capital does not rule over people, but people over capital".
 "Therefore, I say that you do well to oppose and combat false cooperatives,
and to continue to do so; they prostitute the name of cooperative, a very
positive thing, to deceive people in the interests of profit, contrary to
those of a true and authentic cooperative. ... In the field in which you are
active, to display an honourable facade while instead pursuing dishonourable
and immoral objectives, often associated with the exploitation of labour or
the manipulation of the market, or even a scandalous traffic in corruption, is
a shameful and serious falsehood. The cooperative economy ... if it seeks to
fulfil a strong social function, if it wishes to be an agent of the future for
a nation and for each local community, must pursue clear and transparent aims.
It must promote an economy of honesty, a healing economy in the treacherous
sea of the global economy. A real economy promoted by people who have at heart
and in their minds only the common good".
 The final part of the Pope's address was dedicated to cooperation at the
international level. "Extend your hand to the old and new existential
peripheries, where there are disadvantaged people, where there are people who
are alone and discarded, where there are people who do not receive respect.
... It is necessary to have the courage and imagination to build the right
road to integrate development, justice and peace throughout the world", he
concluded.

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 Presentation of the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM): Incentive and
relaunch of the Church in the Amazon
 Vatican City, 2 March 2015 (VIS) - A press conference was held in the Holy
See Press Office this morning to present the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network,
established in 2014 in Brasilia, Brazil, during a meeting of bishops whose
territories include Amazon regions, priests, missionaries of congregations who
work in the Amazon jungle, national representatives of Caritas and laypeople
belonging to various Church bodies. The speakers were Cardinal Peter Kodwo
Appiah Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council "Justice and Peace";
Archbishop Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J., of Huancayo, Peru and president
of the Department of Justice and Solidarity of the Latin American Episcopal
Council; Michel Roy, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis; and
Mauricio Lopez Oropeza, executive secretary of REPAM. Cardinal Claudio Hummes,
O.F.M., president of the Commission for Amazonia of the National Conference of
Bishops of Brazil, was unable to be present but participated via an audio
message.
 The Amazon territory is the largest tropical forest in the world. It covers
six million square kilometres and includes the territories of Guyana, Suriname
and French Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. It
is home to 2,779,478 indigenous people, comprising 390 indigenous tribes and
137 isolated (uncontacted) peoples with their valuable ancestral cultures, and
240 spoken languages belonging to 49 linguistic families. As Archbishop
Barreto explained, it is "a territory that is devastated and threatened by the
concessions made by States to transnational corporations. Large-scale mining
projects, monoculture and climate change place its lands and natural
environment at great risk", leading to the destruction of cultures,
undermining the self-determination of peoples and above all affronting Christ
incarnate in the people who live there (indigenous and riparian peoples,
peasant farmers, afro-descendants and urban populations). REPAM was founded as
"God's answer to this heartfelt and urgent need to care for the life of people
so they are able to live in harmony with nature, starting from the widespread
and varied presence of members and structures of the Church in Pan-Amazonia".
 Cardinal Turkson illustrated the main characteristics of the network,
starting with transnationality. "The large number of countries involved is due
to the awareness that effective action to face challenges that cross the
borders of a single State requires synergy between the living forces of all
the nations involved, from the Secretariat of the REPAM to that of the
dioceses and other Church initiatives in the various States, without
forgetting that, from the beginning, the REPAM has worked in harmony with the
Holy See, CELAM and its structures". Another key feature is ecclesiality: "as
well as working transnationally, REPAM proposes the institution of harmonious
collaboration between the various components of the Church: religious
congregations, dioceses, Caritas, various Catholic associations and
Foundations, and lay groups".
 Commitment to the defence of life is, for Cardinal Turkson, the third
characteristic. "REPAM was born in response to important challenges. It is
engaged in defending the life of a number of communities who cumulatively
comprise 30 million people. They are threatened by pollution, the radical and
rapid change of the ecosystem upon which they depend, and the lack of
protection for their basic human rights". He added that the network is
presented in Rome not only on account of the symbolic value of the See of
Peter, but also to give visibility to REPAM. "The form in which REPAM, acting
as a platform, is structured and defines its working methods, its agenda, its
allies or its methods of accreditation, could serve as a model for other local
churches in other countries facing similar challenges. In addition, REPAM has
been conceived so as to become a took that may be applied in different basic
contexts, such as justice, legality, the promotion and protection of human
rights; cooperation between the Church and public institutions at various
levels; conflict prevention and management; research and spread of
information; inclusive and equitable economic development; responsible and
equitable use of natural resources, respecting Creation; and the preservation
of the traditional cultures and ways of life of the different populations".
 Cardinal Hummes, in his audio message, reiterated that the creation of the
Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network "represents a new incentive and relaunch of the
work of the Church in Amazonia, strongly desired by the Holy Father. There,
the Church wishes to be, with courage and determination, a missionary Church,
merciful, prophetic, and close to all the people, especially the poorest, the
excluded, the discarded, the forgotten and wounded. A Church with an
'Amazonian face' and an 'native clergy', as Pope Francis proposed in his
address to the bishops of Brazil".

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 Cardinal Murphy O'Connor, Pope's special envoy to the 4th centenary of the
martyrdom of St. John Ogilvie, S.J.
 Vatican City, 28 February 2015 (VIS) - Today a letter was published, written
in Latin and dated 15 February, by which the Holy Father appoints Cardinal
Cormac Murphy O'Connor, archbishop emeritus of Westminster, as his special
envoy to the solemn celebrations in honour of St. John Ogilvie S.J. (from 9 to
10 March in Glasgow, Scotland).
 The pontifical mission accompanying the cardinal will be composed of his
personal secretary Rev. Roger Reader, and Msgr. Javier Herrera Corona, adviser
to the apostolic nunciature in London.

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 Audiences
 Vatican City, 2 March 2015 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in
audience:
 - Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, and entourage;
 - Rev. Janusz Urbanczyk, Holy See permanent observer at the International
Governing Organisations in Vienna;
 - Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Council of Ministers of the Regional
Government of Iraqi Kurdistan;
 - Ten prelates of the Regional Episcopal Conference of North Africa
(C.E.R.N.A) on their "ad Limina" visit:
 Bishop Claude Rault of Laghouat, Algeria;
 Archbishop Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader of Algiers, Algeria;
 - Bishop Paul Desfarges of Constantine, Algeria;
 - Bishop Jean-Paul Vesco of Oran, Algeria;
 - Bishop Sylvester Carmel Magro, apostolic vicar of Benghazi, Libya;
 - Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, apostolic vicar of Tripoli, Libya;
 - Archbishop Vincent Landel of Rabat, Morocco;
 - Archbishop Santiago Agrelo Martínez of Tangier, Morocco;
 - Fr. Mario Leon Dorado, O.M.I., apostolic prefect of the Western Sahara; and
 - Archbishop Ilario Antoniazzi of Tunis, Tunisia.
 On Saturday, 28 February, the Holy Father received in audience Cardinal
Crescenzio Sepe, archbishop of Naples, Italy.

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 Other Pontifical Acts
 Vatican City, 2 March 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Msgr.
Fidencio Lopez Plaza as bishop of San Andres Tuxtla (area 13,495, population
1,113,000, Catholics 1,035,000, priests 100, permanent deacons 33, religious
109), Mexico. The bishop-elect was born in Capullin, Mexico in 1950 and was
ordained a priest in 1982. He specialised in pastoral and catechesis at the
Pastoral Theological Institute of Medellin, Colombia, and has served in a
number of pastoral roles, including coordinator of the diocesan secretariat
for evangelisation and catechesis, professor in the conciliar seminary of
Queretaro, parish priest in a number of parishes, head of the deanery of
Guanajuato and member of the presbyteral council and the college of
consultors. He is currently episcopal vicar for pastoral ministry of the
diocese of Queretaro and parish priest of the "Pentecostes" parish.
 On Saturday, 28 February, the Holy Father appointed:
 - Rev. Fr. Francesco Savino as bishop of Cassano all'Jonio (area 1,311,
population 108,100, Catholics 104,187, priests 98, permanent deacons 3,
religious 74), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Bitonto, Italy in 1954 and
was ordained a priest in 1978. He holds a licentiate in theology from the
Istituto Teological Pugliese and has served in a number of pastoral roles in
the archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto, including parish vicar of San S
lvestro-Crocifisso and parish priest of Cristo Re Universale in Bitonto. He is
currently parish priest-rector of the parish-santuary of the Santi Medici in
Bitonto, member of the College of Consultors, the diocesan presbyteral council
and the Ministry of Health Commission on palliative care. He succeeds Bishop
Nunzio Galantino, secretary general of the Italian Episcopal Conference, whose
resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese was accepted by the
Holy Father.
 - Msgr. Marek Marczak as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Lodz (area 5,200,
population 1,490,000, Catholics 1,410,000, priests 763, religious 759),
Poland. The bishop-elect was born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1969 and
was ordained a priest in 1994. He holds a doctorate in dogmatic theology from
the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and has served in a number of
roles, including lecturer in dogmatic theology and the major seminary of Lodz,
president of the Commission for the Lay Apostolate, visitator for catechesis,
pastoral collaborator in the parish of St. Dorothy in Loz-Mileszki, and
collaborator for the pastoral ministry of university lecturers in the
archdiocese. He is currently rector of the major seminary and member of the
presbyteral council.

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