SUMMARY:
- THE
POPE ON TWITTER
- "ROAD
MAP" FOR PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS IN EUROPE
- OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
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THE
POPE ON TWITTER
Vatican
City, 29 November 2012 (VIS) – Benedict XVI is now present on
Twitter. All related information will be reported on Monday 3
December at a press conference to be held in the Holy See Press
Office, with the participation of Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli,
president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Msgr.
Paul Tighe, secretary of the same dicastery, Fr. Federico Lombardi
S.J., director of the Holy See Press Office, Professor Gian Maria
Vian, editor of “L'Osservatore Romano”, and Greg Burke, Media
Advisor to the Secretariat of State.
The Pope
has already used the 140 character “tweet” format when, in June
2011, he launched the Vatican information portal www.news.va., with
the words: “Dear friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our
Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI”.
"ROAD
MAP" FOR PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS IN EUROPE
Vatican
City, 29 November 2012 (VIS) – The meeting of the “Caritas in
Veritate” Commission of the Council of European Episcopal
Conferences (CCEE), held in Rome on the theme of “A Pastoral of
Communion for a Renewed Evangelisation” concluded today with the
presentation of a “road map” by the Section for pastoral care of
migrants.
The
conference was held over three days, from 27 to 29 November, during
which more than forty bishops and national directors for the pastoral
care of migrants from the CCEE discussed the role of the Church in
Europe in this field. “The economic crisis affects the weak and
migrants above all. Those who are forced to migrate due to poverty
are the first to suffer the consequences of the crisis and become
even more vulnerable”, explained Fr. Duarte da Cunha, secretary
general of the CCEE. “The pastoral care of the Church, which aims
to evangelise but also to create communities, is called upon to
assist in integration, to reinforce links, and to accompany and
support both those who are left behind, such as children left by
parents who emigrate in search of work, and those who leave”.
The
meeting of the Commission was opened by Cardinal Antonio Maria
Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of
Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, Cardinal Josip Bozanic, archbishop of
Zagreb, Croatia, president of the “Migration” section of “Caritas
in Veritate”, Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi of Trieste, Italy,
president of the same Commission, and Bishop Paolo Schiavon,
auxiliary of Rome and president of the “Migrantes” Foundation.
The
themes considered during the conference included “Witnessing
ecclesiastical communion for a new evangelisation”, presented by
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council
for Promoting the New Evangelisation; “Communion and pastoral care:
an outlook from the Eastern Catholic Churches”, presented by
Archbishop Cyril Vasil S.J., secretary for the Congregation for the
Oriental Churches; “Guidelines for a pastoral theology of communion
regarding migrations” by Fr. Fabio Baggio, Director of the
Scalibrini International Migration Institute, and “New
evangelisation and human mobility”, by Msgr. Giancarlo Perego,
director-general of the “Migrantes” Foundation.
“In
this time of economic crisis, social assistance, pastoral care and
evangelisation cannot be separated”, Fr. Duarte da Cunha continued.
“Charity, political lobbying, proclamation and celebration of the
faith are a unified commitment and the only path of action,
especially for those who assist and support the reception and
integration of migrants in Europe”.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
29
November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr Radoslaw
Zmitrowicz O.M.I., superior of the Delegation of Missionary Oblates
of Mary Immaculate in Ukraine, as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of
Kamyanets-Podilskyi (area 47,100, population 2,982,200, Catholics
250,000, priests 158, religious 306), Ukraine. The bishop-elect was
born in Gdansk, Poland in 1962 and ordained a priest in 1989. He
carried out a pastoral mission in Turkmenistan from 1997 to 2000, and
has fulfilled a number of pastoral roles in Ukraine.
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