SUMMARY:
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CONSISTORY FOR THE CREATION OF CARDINALS: THE POPE EMPHASISES THE
CATHOLICITY OF THE CHURCH
- TITULAR
AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
-
AUDIENCES
- OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
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CONSISTORY
FOR THE CREATION OF CARDINALS: THE POPE EMPHASISES THE CATHOLICITY OF
THE CHURCH
Vatican
City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - In St. Peter's Basilica at 11 a.m.
today, Benedict XVI celebrated an ordinary public consistory for the
creation of six new cardinals: James Michael Harvey, Bechara Boutros
Rai O.M.M., Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan,
Ruben Salazar Gomez and Luis Antonio G. Tagle. Following the new
appointments the College of Cardinals will be composed of 211 members
of whom 120, being under the age of eighty, are eligible to vote in a
conclave for the election of a new Pope.
After the
opening prayer and the proclamation of the Gospel, the Holy Father
pronounced his homily, following which he solemnly pronounced the the
formula of creation of the new cardinals, their names and the
diaconate or presbyteral order to which they have been assigned. The
new cardinals then recited the Creed and swore their faithfulness and
obedience to the Pope and his successors.
Each new
cardinal then knelt before the Pope to received his biretta. The Pope
said "you must be ready to conduct yourselves with fortitude,
even to the shedding of your blood, for the increase of the Christian
faith, for the peace and well-being of the people of God". He
then also consigned to them a ring, saying, "Know that with the
love of the Prince of the Apostles your love for the Church is
reinforced", and he assigned to each one a titular or diaconate
church in Rome as a sign of their participation in the Holy Father's
pastoral care of Rome. The Pope then handed over the Bull of Creation
as cardinal, assigned the title or diaconate and exchanged an embrace
of peace with the new members of the College of Cardinals. The
cardinals also exchanged such a sign among themselves. The rite
concluded with the Prayer of the Faithful, the recitation of the Our
Father and the final blessing.
Extracts
from Benedict XVI's homily are given below:
"'I
believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church'. … These
words, which the new Cardinals are soon to proclaim in the course of
their solemn profession of faith, come from the
Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed, the synthesis of the Church’s
faith that each of us receives at baptism. Only by professing and
preserving this rule of truth intact can we be authentic disciples of
the Lord. In this consistory, I would like to reflect in particular
on the meaning of the word 'catholic', a word which indicates an
essential feature of the Church and her mission. … What makes the
Church catholic is the fact that Christ in His saving mission
embraces all humanity. While during His earthly life Jesus’ mission
was limited to the Jewish people, 'to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel' from the beginning it was meant to bring the light of the
Gospel to all peoples and lead all nations into the kingdom of God".
"This
universalist perspective can be seen, among other things, from the
way Jesus applied to Himself not only the title 'Son of David', but
also 'Son of Man'. … Jesus takes up this rich and complex
expression and refers it to Himself in order to manifest the true
character of His Messianism: a mission directed to the whole man and
to every man, transcending all ethnic, national and religious
particularities. And it is actually by following Jesus, by allowing
oneself to be drawn into His humanity and hence into communion with
God, that one enters this new kingdom proclaimed and anticipated by
the Church, a kingdom that conquers fragmentation and dispersal.
"Jesus
sends His Church not to a single group, then, but to the whole human
race, and thus He unites it, in faith, in one people, in order to
save it. … This universal character emerges clearly on the day of
Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit fills the first Christian community
with His presence, so that the Gospel may spread to all nations,
causing the one People of God to grow in all peoples. … From that
day, in the 'power of the Holy Spirit', according to Jesus’
promise, the Church proclaims the dead and risen Lord 'in Jerusalem
and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth'. The
Church’s universal mission does not arise from below, but descends
from above, from the Holy Spirit: from the beginning it seeks to
express itself in every culture so as to form the one People of God.
Rather than beginning as a local community that slowly grows and
spreads outwards, it is directed towards a universal horizon, towards
the whole: universality is inscribed within it.
"'Go
into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation';
'make disciples of all nations'. With these words, Jesus sends the
Apostles to all creation, so that God’s saving action may reach
everywhere ... and giving them both a promise and a task: He promises
that they will be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, and He
confers upon them the task of bearing witness to Him all over the
world, transcending the cultural and religious confines within which
they were accustomed to think and live, so as to open themselves to
the universal Kingdom of God. At the beginning of the Church’s
journey, the Apostles and disciples set off without any human
security, purely in the strength of the Holy Spirit, the Gospel and
the faith. This is the yeast that spreads round the world, enters
into different events and into a wide range of cultural and social
contexts, while remaining a single Church. Around the Apostles,
Christian communities spring up, but these are 'the' Church which is
always the same, one and universal, whether in Jerusalem, Antioch, or
Rome".
"Situated
within the context and the perspective of the Church’s unity and
universality is the College of Cardinals: it presents a variety of
faces, because it expresses the face of the universal Church. In this
Consistory, I want to highlight in particular the fact that the
Church is the Church of all peoples, and so she speaks in the various
cultures of the different continents. She is the Church of Pentecost:
amid the polyphony of the various voices, she raises a single
harmonious song to the living God".
TITULAR
AND DIACONATE CHURCHES OF THE NEW CARDINALS
Vatican
City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - Given below are the names of the six
new cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI in this morning's
consistory, and the titular or diaconate churches assigned to each:
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Cardinal James Michael Harvey, diaconate of San Pio V a Villa
Carpegna.
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Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai O.M.M.
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Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, title of San Gregorio VII.
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Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, title of San Saturnino.
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Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez, title of San Gerardo Maiella.
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Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, title of San Felice da Cantalice a
Centocelle.
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - This evening the Holy Father is
scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Marc Ouellet P.S.S.,
prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 24 November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:
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Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples and Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller,
prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as members
of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.
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Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico,
and Archbishop Jose Horacio Gomez of Los Angeles, U.S.A., as members
of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
- Fr.
William Crean of the clergy of the diocese of Kerry, Ireland, pastor
of Cahersiveen and vicar forane, as bishop of Cloyne (area 3,440,
population 164,500, Catholics 161,600, priests 118, religious 203),
Ireland. The bishop-elect was born in Tralee, Ireland in 1951 and
ordained a priest in 1976. He studied in Ireland and at the
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and has held a number of
pastoral roles.
- Msgr.
Krzysztof Jakub Wetkowski of the clergy of the archdiocese of
Gniezno, Poland, vicar general, as auxiliary of Gniezno (area 8,122,
population 669,431, Catholics 651,692, priests 539, religious 328).
The bishop-elect was born in Gniezno in 1963 and ordained a priest in
1988. Among other posts he has worked as professor of canon law,
master of ceremonies of the cathedral and judge of the metropolitan
tribunal.
- Fr.
Michael John Zielinski O.S.B. Oliv, as bureau chief at the
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
- Fr.
Edmondo Caruana O. Carm., official of the Vatican Publishing House,
as bureau chief of the editorial office of the same organisation.
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