SUMMARY:
- THE
POPE GRANTS PARDON TO PAOLO GABRIELE
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AUDIENCES
- OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
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THE
POPE GRANTS PARDON TO PAOLO GABRIELE
Vatican
City, 22 December 2012 (VIS) - Given below is the communiqué
released this morning by the Secretariat of State:
"This
morning the Holy Father Benedict XVI visited Paolo Gabriele in prison
in order to confirm his forgiveness and communicate in person his
decision to grant Mr Gabriele's request for pardon, thereby remitting
the sentence passed against the latter. This constitutes a paternal
gesture towards a person with whom the Pope shared a relationship of
daily familiarity for many years.
"Mr
Gabriele was subsequently released from prison and has returned home.
Since he cannot resume his previous occupation or continue to live in
Vatican City, the Holy See, trusting in his sincere repentance,
wishes to offer him the possibility of returning to a serene family
life".
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 22 December 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in
audience Cardinal Marc Ouellet P.S.S., prefect of the Congregation
for Bishops.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 22 December 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today appointed:
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Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the Pontifical Council
for Legislative Texts; Cardinal James Michael Harvey; Archbishop
Felix del Blanco Prieto, almoner emeritus of His Holiness; Archbishop
Fabio Bernardo D'Onorio O.S.B. of Gaeta; Archbishop Renato Boccardo
of Spoleto-Norcia; and Bishop Paolino Schiavon, auxiliary of Rome, as
members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
- Bishop
Alfonso Cortes Contreras of Cuernavaca, Mexico, as archbishop of Leon
(area 8,110, population 2,866,000, Catholics 2,543,000, priests 355,
permanent deacons 12, religious 882), Mexico. He succeeds Archbishop
Jose Guadalupe Martin Rabago, whose resignation from the pastoral
care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
- Fr.
Estanislau Marques Chindekasse S.V.D. as bishop of the diocese of
Dundo (area 103,130, population 827,000, Catholics 269,000, priests
10, religious 23), Angola. The bishop-elect was born in Huambo,
Angola in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1987. He has served as a
missionary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and as a professor at
the major seminary of Luanda. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy
from the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome, and is currently
General Counsellor of the Society of the Divine Word.
- Fr.
Robert W. Oliver, assistant for canonical matters of the archdiocese
of Boston, U.S.A., as promoter of justice of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith.
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