VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 044
DATE 03-03-2015

Summary:
- Programme of the Holy Father's visit to Pompeii and Naples
- The Pope approves the statutes of the new economic entities
- The Piazza and the Temple: new meeting of the Courtyard of the Gentiles
- Other Pontifical Acts

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 Programme of the Holy Father's visit to Pompeii and Naples
 Vatican City, 3 March 2015 (VIS) - Pope Francis will travel to Pompeii and
Naples on Saturday, 21 March. He will leave the Vatican by helicopter at 7
a.m., and will arrive at the meeting area of the Shrine of Pompeii an hour
later. Following a moment of prayer at the shrine, he will transfer by
helicopter to the Scampia sports field in Naples. He will meet with
representatives of various different groups in Piazza Giovanni Paolo II, and
at 11 a.m. he will celebrate Holy Mass in Piazza del Plebiscito.
 At 1 p.m., Pope Francis will visit the "Giuseppe Salvia" detention centre at
Poggioreale, where he will lunch with a group of detainees. Two hours later he
will venerate the relics of St. Januarius and, in the Cathedral of Naples,
will meet the clergy, men and women religious and permanent deacons of the
archdiocese. An hour later, in the Gesù Nuovo Basilica, he will meet with a
group of sick people and, at 5 p.m. in the maritime quarter of Caracciolo, he
will meet with a group of young Neapolitans.
 The Pope will depart from the Naples Maritime Centre by helicopter at 6.15
p.m., and is due to arrive in the Vatican at 7 p.m.

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 The Pope approves the statutes of the new economic entities
 Vatican City, 3 March 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has approved the statutes
of the new economic entities of the Holy See: the Council for the Economy, the
Secretariat for the Economy and the General Auditor's Office. The three
statutes, signed 22 February 2015, feast of the Chair of St. Peter, were
approved "ad experimentum" and entered into force on 1 March 2015, prior to
their publication in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis.
 The statutes may be consulted on the Vatican website: www.vatican.va

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 The Piazza and the Temple: new meeting of the Courtyard of the Gentiles
 Vatican City, 3 March 2015 (VIS) - "The Piazza and the Temple" is the title
of an event to take place next Friday, 6 March, in the Centre for American
Studies in Rome. It is an initiative of the Courtyard of the Gentiles, a forum
for dialogue between believers and non-believers which has for some years
organised meetings of this type in various cities throughout the world, under
the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
 The event in Rome, organised with the collaboration of the Institut
Francais-Centre St. Louis of the French Embassy at the Holy See and the
Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, will be a meeting between
believers and non-believers on how these two sensibilities - city square and
temple - can coexist in the twenty-first century. According to a communique
released by the Courtyard of the Gentiles, "the square is increasingly
occupied by merchants, and by those who demand justice for the victims of
merchants. The faithful of the temple also ask that their voice be heard in
the square, because in a free society the square must be open to all". The
meeting will facilitate discussion regarding "the way in which these different
voices can coexist, what limits every right involves, and the relationship
that the square and the temple can have with the Palace", or seats of power. A
post-secular dialogue, that unfolds against the backdrop of the sure decline
of an idea of secularisation according to which the temples would have
gradually emptied".
 The chair and moderator will be the constitutional lawyer and former prime
minister of Italy, Giuliano Amato, president of the Courtyard of the Gentiles
Foundation. The meeting will also be attended by the Canadian philosopher
Charles Taylor, author of the influential essay "A Secular Age", among other
works, and other experts on the theme of secularisation: Jose Casanova,
professor of the sociology of religion at Georgetown University, Washington
D.C., U.S.A.; Alessandro Ferrara, professor of political philosophy at the Tor
Vergata University of Rome; Giacomo Marramao, professor of theoretical
philosophy at the University of Rome III; and Francois Bousquet, historian and
anthropologist of religions.

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 Other Pontifical Acts
 Vatican City, 3 March 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop
Robert W. McElroy, auxiliary of San Francisco, U.S.A., as bishop of San Diego
(area 22,942, population 3,127,045, Catholics 986,499, priests 309, permanent
deacons 145, religious 335), U.S.A.

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