SUMMARY:
- FIVE
YEARS SINCE THE MOTO PROPRIO SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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ARCHBISHOP MAMBERTI ADDRESSES INTERPOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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FIVE
YEARS SINCE THE MOTO PROPRIO SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Vatican
City, 6 November 2012 (VIS) - In a message sent in the name of
Benedict XVI on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the
Apostolic Letter "Summorum Pontificum", Cardinal Secretary
of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. affirms that "by this Motu
Proprio, the Holy Father wished to respond to the hopes of the
faithful regarding the forms of liturgy", prior to Vatican
Council II.
Benedict
XVI's Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio data", "Summorum
Pontificum" on the use of the Roman liturgy prior to the reform
of 1970, was published on 7 July 2007, and came into effect on 14
September of the same year.
In his
message the secretary of State notes that "it is good to
conserve the richness that has developed in the faith and prayer of
the Church and to accord it due space, at the same time fully
recognising the value and sanctity of the ordinary form of the Roman
rite”.
Cardinal
Bertone adds that in the Year of Faith, which coincides with "the
fiftieth anniversary of Vatican Council II, the Holy Father invites
all the faithful to make a special demonstration of their unity in
faith; in this way they will become effective agents of new
evangelisation”.
The
message, written in French, was read out on the the occasion of the
international pilgrimage to Rome, "Una cum Papa nostro",
organised by "Coetus internationalis Summorum Pontificum".
The pilgrimage culminated in a Mass presided by Cardinal Antonio
Canizares, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the
Discipline of the Sacraments, celebrated according to the
extraordinary form of the Roman rite. Among those participating were
faithful belonging to groups linked to the use of the 1962 Missal,
which was approved by John XXIII and remained in force until the
reforms of the Council.
ARCHBISHOP
MAMBERTI ADDRESSES INTERPOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Vatican
City, 6 November 2012 (VIS) - Archbishop Dominique Mamberti,
secretary for Relations with States, yesterday addressed the
eighty-first session of the general assembly of the International
Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL), which is currently being
held in Rome on the theme: "Challenges for police facing
contemporary criminal violence".
Archbishop
Mamberti noted that "crime has undergone a substantial increase,
both in quantitative terms and as regards the use of violence. The
characteristics of criminal activity have evolved in a worrying
fashion, as the aggression and atrocity of incidents has augmented
dangerously. Furthermore, criminal activities have now assumed a
planetary scale, with systems of coordination and criminal pacts
which traverse national frontiers".
"The
struggle against all forms of violence, especially in its most brutal
forms, presupposes a moral duty to help create the conditions
necessary to ensure violence does not arise and develop. People who
work with the forces of law and order, and the police organisations
you represent, are well aware that the most effective antibody to any
form of criminality is a country's citizens. Alliance and solidarity
between citizens and police is the strongest bastion against
criminality".
The
archbishop went on: "Actions that help create a society ordered
for the common good include the removal of factors which give rise to
and nourish situations of injustice. In this field a primary and
preventative role belongs to education inspired by respect for human
life in all circumstances. Without this, it is not in fact possible
to create a strong social fabric, united in its fundamental values
and able to resist the provocation of extreme violence. In this
context, the most important place in which human beings are formed is
the family. There children experience the value of their own
transcendent dignity, as they are accepted gratuitously on the basis
of the stable and reciprocal love of their parents. There they
experience the first forms of justice and forgiveness, which cements
family relationships and acts as a foundation for the correct
insertion into social life".
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