capital is guided by people. Favour the growth of an economy of honesty".
 "The economy of honesty - in this age in which the wind of corruption blows in
all places. You are required not only to be honest - this is normal - but to
spread and entrench honesty everywhere. A struggle against corruption",
remarked
the Pope, suggesting as a final point "active participation in globalisation so
that it may be a globalisation of solidarity".
 "You are the largest Cooperative Credit Bank in Italy", he recalled. "The most
important challenge you face is to grown while continuing to be truly
cooperative, rather, becoming even more so. This means promoting the active
participation of your members. Work together and work for others. ... Banking
is
delicate enterprise that requires great rigour. But a cooperative bank must
have
something more: it must seek to humanise the economy, uniting efficiency with
solidarity".
 In social doctrine there is an important word: "solidarity. As cooperative
credit banks you have put the principle of subsidiarity into practice when you
faced the difficulties of the crisis with your means, joining forces and not at
the expense of others. This is subsidiarity: not placing a burden on
institutions and therefore on the country when it is possible to face problems
with one's own strengths, responsibly". It is also important for cooperatives
to
allocate resources to charity and mutual funds and to be aware of where income
is produced, "with attention to keep people, the young and families, at the
centre".
 "At the origin of rural savings banks it was expected that the credit
cooperative would be able to stimulate further initiatives of cooperation",
observed Francis. "This spirit remains valid. The BCC can be the nucleus around
which a large network can be built, allowing the birth of businesses that
create
employment ... there are many people without work. Businesses that create work
in
order to support families, and to experiment with microcredit and other ways of
humanising the economy, and above all to give every man and woman the
opportunity to have the dignity of work", he concluded.

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 Pope's message for the opening of the plenary Assembly of the Council of
Episcopal Conferences of Europe
 Vatican City, 12 September 2015 (VIS) - Yesterday afternoon the Holy Father
send a message to Cardinal Peter Erdo, president of the Council of Episcopal
Conferences of Europe, which holds its plenary assembly in the Holy Land from
11
to 16 September. The following is the full text of the message:
 "I send fraternal greetings and prayerful good wishes to you and all the
members of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences gathering in the Holy
Land from 11 to 16 September 2015. As you reflect on the life of the Church in
your various countries, I pray that your time together may be above all a time
of deep prayer and solidarity. May your rest in the Lord renew you in holiness
of life and in apostolic zeal for those entrusted to your care. May it also
rekindle for you the freshness of the Gospel, from which 'new avenues arise,
new
paths of creativity open up, with different forms of expression, more eloquent
sings and words with new meaning for today's world'. I especially entrust to
your prayers the upcoming General Synod, that the Church may respond with ever
greater urgency and generosity to the needs of the family. Invoking the
intercession of Mary, our Mother, I willingly impart my Apostolic Blessing to
all of you as a pledge of wisdom and strength in Jesus Christ our Lord".

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 Holy Father's calendar for September to November 2015
 Vatican City, 12 September 2015 (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 from September to November:
 SEPTEMBER
 Saturday 19 to Monday 28: Apostolic trip to Cuba and the United States of
America.
 OCTOBER
 Saturday 3: at 7 p.m. in St. Peter's Square, prayer vigil in preparation for
the 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
 Sunday 4, 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time: at 10 a.m. in the Vatican Basilica,
Holy Mass for the opening of the 14th General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of
Bishops.
 Sunday 18, 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time: at 10.15 a.m. in the Vatican
Basilica,
Holy Mass for the canonisation of Blesseds Vincenzo Grossi, Mary of the
Immaculate Conception, and the couple Louis and Marie-Azelie Martin.
 Sunday 25, 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time: at 10 a.m. in the Vatican Basilica,
Holy Mass for the conclusion of the 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod
of Bishops.
 NOVEMBER
 Sunday 1, Solemnity of All Saints: Holy Mass at 4 p.m. in the Verano Cemetery,
Rome
 Monday 2, All Souls Day: at 6 p.m. in the Vatican Grottoes, a moment of prayer
for deceased Supreme Pontiffs.
 Thursday 5: at 11.30 a.m. at the altar of the Cathedra in the Vatican
Basilica,
Holy Mass for the souls of cardinals and bishops who died during the year.
 Sunday 15: at 4 p.m., visit to the Evangelical and Lutheran Church of Rome.
 Wednesday 25 to Monday 30: Apostolic trip to Kenya, Uganda and the Central
African Republic.

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 Cor Unum convenes meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Syria and Iraq
 Vatican City, 14 September 2015 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" has
organised a meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Syria and Iraq to be held on
17 September, which will be attended in particular by the Catholic charitable
organisations active in the Middle East and the bishops of the region.
 The meeting, supported by more than 30 organisations, will be divided into two
parts. During the morning, after the introduction by Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso,
secretary of the Pontifical Council, there will be addresses from Cardinal
Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, and the
United Nations under-secretary general for Humanitarian Affairs. There will
then
be a presentation of the report on humanitarian aid provided by ecclesial
entities in the context of the crisis in Syria and Iraq (2014-2015), prepared
by
"Cor Unum".
 In the afternoon, following the presentation by Msgr. Khaled Akasheh, director
of the Office for Islam of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue,
and updates from the local Churches by Archbishop Mario Zenari, apostolic
nuncio
in Syria, Bishop Antoine Audo, president of Caritas Syria and Bishop Shlemon
Warduni, president of Caritas Iraq, the meeting will focus on concrete aspects
of cooperation between the various actors in Syria, Iraq and the neighbouring
countries.
 The aim of the meeting, following the itinerary adopted during the last three
years, will be to evaluate the work carried out so far by Catholic charitable
organisations in the context of the crisis; to share information on the
evolution of the crisis and the Church's responses to the humanitarian
situation; to discuss key issues that have emerged and to identify future
priorities; to analyse the situation of Christian communities resident in the
countries affected by war, promoting synergy between ecclesial organisms,
religious congregations and dioceses; and to analyse the activity of the
"Humanitarian Focal Point", instituted by Catholic charitable agencies within
"Cor Unum" last year.
 The crisis in Syria and Iraq is at the centre of the attention of the
international community due to the seriousness of the situation caused by war.
The Holy See, aside from its diplomatic activity, participates actively in aid
programmes and in offering humanitarian assistance. Since 2011, according to
available data, the crisis has claimed over 250 thousand victims and has caused
a million injuries. There are currently over 12 million people in need of aid
in
Syria and more than eight million in Iraq; there are 7.6 million internally
displaced people in Syria and more than three million in Iraq, and four million
Syrian refugees throughout the Middle East: in particular, there are 1.9 in
Turkey, 1.1 in Lebanon, and more than 600 thousand in Jordan.

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 The Courtyard of Francis, from 23 to 27 September in Assisi
 Vatican City, 14 September 2015 (VIS) - From 23 to 27 September the Italian
city of Assisi will be the seat of the "Courtyard of Francis", a place of
encounter and dialogue, that will welcome political and institutional figures,
artists and intellectuals, and all other men and women who wish to listen and
to
participate.
 The initiative, which develops from the "Courtyard of the Gentiles" organised
by the Pontifical Council for Culture some years ago, proposes, in the
birthplace of the saint who "was not afraid to speak with the Sultan of Egypt,
to embrace a leper, to involve all of creation in a choral chant", to delve
into
the deepest identity of people, "way beyond differences of faith, ideas,
behaviour and political and social alliances", as Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi
explained today in a press conference held in the Holy See Press Office.
 The other speakers at the Conference were the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the
director of the Museum of Bardo Moncef Ben Moussa, the architect Santiago
Calatrava and the philosopher Massimo Cacciari.

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 Cardinal Kurt Koch, Pope's special envoy to the 1500th anniversary of the
Swiss
Abbey of Saint-Maurice
 Vatican City, 13 September 2015 (VIS) - In a letter published today, written
in
Latin and dated 8 August, the Holy Father appoints Cardinal Kurt Koch president
of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, as his special envoy
to
the closing celebration of the 1500th anniversary of the founding of the Abbey
of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, to be held on 22 September.
 The mission accompanying the cardinal will be composed of Bishop Markus Buchel
of Sankt Gallen and president of the Conference of Swiss Bishops, and Rev. Dom
Marc de Pothuau,O.Cist., Cistercian Abbey of Hauterive, Fribourg.

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 Audiences
 Vatican City, 14 September 2015 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in
audience Archbishop Martin Krebs, apostolic nuncio in New Zealand, Fiji, Cook
Islands, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Federated States of
Micronesia, Vanuatu and Tonga, and apostolic delegate for the Pacific Ocean.
 On Saturday 12 September 2015, the Holy Father received in audience:
 - Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic
Education (for Educational Institutions), accompanied by the secretary of the
same dicastery, Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani;
 - Archbishop Guido Pozzo, secretary of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia
Dei";
 - Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa, Italy, president of the
Italian Episcopal Conference;
 - Rev. Fr. Raul Reinaldo Troncoso.

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 Other Pontifical Acts
 Vatican City, 14 September 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:
 - Msgr. Angelo De Donatis as auxiliary of the diocese of Rome (area 849,
population 2,885,272, Catholics 2,365,923, priests 4,834, permanent deacons
122,
religious 27,524). The bishop-elect was born in Casarano, Italy in 1954 and was
ordained a priest in 1980. He holds a licentiate in moral theology from the
Pontifical Gregorian University, and has served in a number of roles, including
parish vicar in the parishes of San Saturnino and Santissima Annunziata a
Grottaperfetta and officer of the General Secretariat of the Vicariate. He is
currently archivist of the Secretariat of the College of Cardinals; director of
the Clergy Office of the Vicariate of Rome and spiritual director of the
Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, pastor of San Marco Evangelista in
Campidoglio,
Rome, and assistant for the diocese of Rome at the National Association of
Families of Clergy.
 On Saturday 12 September the Holy Father appointed:
 - Cardinal Malcolm Ranjit Patabendige Don, archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka,
as
his special envoy to the National Eucharistic Congress of India, to be held in
Mumbai from 12 to 15 November 2015.

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