SUMMARY:
- MESSAGE
TO THE PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE CCEE
-
RATZINGER PRIZE 2012 TO GO TO PHILOSOPHER REMI BRAGUE AND HISTORIAN
BRIAN DALEY
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AUDIENCES
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MESSAGE
TO THE PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE CCEE
Vatican
City, 28 September 2012 (VIS) - The plenary assembly of the Council
of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) is meeting in Sankt-Gallen,
Switzerland, from 27 to 30 September, in an event which coincides
with the 1400th anniversary of the arrival there of St. Gallus, a
disciple and compatriot of St. Columbanus. For the occasion Cardinal
Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. has, in the Holy
Father's name, sent a message to Cardinal Peter Erdo, president of
the CCEE, in which he notes that this anniversary "invites us to
reflect on the perennial task of evangelisation, and on its current
and renewed importance".
"The
experience of St. Gallus, like that of so many other protagonists of
the evangelisation of Europe and the entire world, teaches us that
the Christian message is sowed and takes root where it is put into
authentic and eloquent effect by a community, in such a way that
preaching is supported by the witness of fraternal charity and
animated by joint prayer", the cardinal writes.
"Thus
the memory of St. Gallus and his work, on the eve of the Synod on the
New Evangelisation, will be a stimulus to the plenary of the CCEE to
look with faith and hope - with the gaze of Christ the Lord - to the
'great harvest' of the European peoples, following the path of
Vatican Council II and the teachings of the Supreme Pontiffs who have
put it into effect. In particular, we should recall the magisterial
lesson of Servant of God Paul VI in his 'Evangelii nuntiandi', and
the bequest of Blessed John Paul II in 'Novo millennio ineunte',
naturally in the light of Magisterium of the Holy Father Benedict XVI
and with a view to the forthcoming Year of Faith".
RATZINGER
PRIZE 2012 TO GO TO PHILOSOPHER REMI BRAGUE AND HISTORIAN BRIAN DALEY
Vatican
City, 28 September 2012 (VIS) - At midday today in the Holy See Press
Office, a press conference was held to present the "Ratzinger
Prize", which was established by the "Vatican Foundation:
Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict XVI" and is due to be conferred on
20 October.
At the
press conference Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the
Foundation's academic committee, announced the names of the prize
winners: the French historian Remi Brague and the American scholar of
patrology and theology Fr. Brian Edward Daley S.J.
From 1990
to 2010 Remi Brague was professor at La Sorbonne University in Paris,
France. He currently holds the "Romano Guardini" chair at
the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, while continuing
to work as visiting professor at a number of American, Spanish and
Italian universities. He is a member of the "Institut de France,
Academie des sciences morales et politiques", and holds the
"Grand Prix de Philosophie de l'Academie Francaise". His
many works include: "Europe, la voie romaine", "La
sagesse du monde. Histoire de l'experience humaine de l'univers",
"Du Dieu des chretiens et d’un ou deux autres" and "Les
Ancres dans le Ciel".
Cardinal
Ruini described Professor Brague as "a true philosopher and, at
the same time, a great historian of cultural thought who unites a
profound and unequivocal Christian and Catholic faith to his
speculative ability and historical vision".
From 1978
to 1996 Fr. Brian Edward Daley taught theology and the history of
theology at the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Currently he is a professor at the University of Notre
Dame. He is active in the field of ecumenism, particularly as regards
relations between Catholics and Orthodox, and is the Catholic
secretary of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological
Consultation. Among other works, he is author of "The Hope of
the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology". He has
also edited an anthology of texts of Jesuit spirituality entitled
"Companions in the Mission of Jesus", and contributed to
the "Handbuch der Dogmengeschichte".
Fr.
Daley, said Cardinal Ruini, "is a great historian of patristic
theology, but also a man entirely committed to the life and mission
of the Church, an exemplary model of the fusion of academic rigour
with passion for the Gospel".
Benedict
XVI ordered the creation of the "Vatican Foundation: Joseph
Ratzinger - Benedict XVI" on 1 March 2010, in order to respond
to a desire expressed by many scholars over the course of the years.
One of the tasks of the academic committee is to establish criteria
of excellence for the creation and conferral of prizes to scholars
who have distinguished themselves in academic publications and/or
research.
"The
aim of the Foundation", explained Msgr. Giuseppe Scotti,
president of that institution who was also present at today's press
conference, "is to place the issue of God at the core of
philosophical reflection. ... The conferral of the Ratzinger Prize,
which seeks to place the question of God before the eyes of the
public, is just one of the Foundation's three regular activities. The
other two, perhaps less well know but equally important, ... are the
granting of bursaries to doctorate students of theology, and
organising high-level academic conferences".
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 28 September 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in
audience:
- Zion
Evrony, the new Israeli ambassador to the Holy See, for the
presentation of his Letters of Credence.
-
Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council
for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples.
-
Cardinal Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for
Health Pastoral Care.
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