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Interview with the Substitute of the Secretary of State

Pope Francis' reform

On 13 April the news was made public that Pope Francis had assembled a group of eight cardinals to advise him in the governance of the Universal Church and in order to study a project to revise the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus on the Roman Curia. This decision has aroused a great deal of interest, resulting in not a little speculation. On this issue Archbishop Angelo Becciu, Substitute of the Secretariat of State, gave an interview to L'Osservatore Romano. There has been much speculation...
May 1, 2013
 
Interview with Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel after meeting with Pope Francis

A time of hope and renewal

A strong embrace, one full of affection. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel smiles as he looks at the picture of perhaps the most intense moment of his meeting with Pope Francis. At 81-years-old, he has spent his life defending human rights. This man, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980, has been imprisoned and subjected to torture, still has a kind of child-like excitement. Only a few hours had  passed since his audience in the Vatican, when he recalled to our newspaper the joy of having been able to greet...
March 23, 2013
 
A conversation with Antonio Maggiotto and Giuseppe Canesso

At the Pope's press for decades

Having played lead roles during least four revolutions in a world as complex as that of the Vatican typographical section for a little more than 30 years, Antonio Maggiotto and Giuseppe Canesso are retiring. These Salesian Coadjutors, respectively the Commercial Director and the Technical Director of the Vatican Polyglot Press, actually stepped down on 28 February  – but the conclusion of Benedict XVI's pontificate is obviously only a coincidence – after devoting the whole of their lives to serving...
March 5, 2013
 
A conversation with the Rector of the Roman Major Seminary, which the Holy Father will visit for the Feast of Our Lady of Trust

 Priests for Rome

Vocational discernment and the formation of a priestly identity: these are the fundamental objectives of the formation process at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary. Fr Concetto Occhipinti,  the Rector, explains them in this interview with L'Osservatore Romano. Together with the community of formators and students, he will be welcoming Benedict XVI this evening, 8 February, on the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Trust. What situation will you present to the Pope who is coming to visit...
February 9, 2013
 
A conversation with Archbishop Celli on the eve of the presentation of the Message for World Communications Day

The apostles of the digital age

As the first disciples were sent to traverse the tortuous roads of world unknown, far from God, dominated by idolatry and by a malevolent reasoning, thus today new apostles are sent on the trails of the digital world. It is largely a world yet to be discovered, it knows about God – but often tends to disavow him – or at least it keeps him far from its horizons, withdrawn into itself as it is and with a marked tendency for “a technological Prometheism”. Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli cites the...
January 23, 2013
 
Archbishop Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State, on the ruling of the Court in Strasbourg

If relativism
is taken as a norm

ROME, 16. “There is a real risk that moral relativism, which imposes itself as a new social norm, will come to undermine the foundations of individual freedom of conscience and religion”. Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State, said this regarding the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights for various cases on respecting religious freedom in the United Kingdom. The Court of Strasbourg has in fact sanctioned the right to wear...
January 17, 2013
 
Archbishop Fisichella outlines an initial overview of the Year of Faith

The first 100 days

The Year of Faith has now landed in China. The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization has put the logo and calendar online in Chinese characters, making them present in the communities and Churches of this vast Asian country. Our newspaper was told about it by Archbishop Rino Fisichella,  President, who  in this interview almost 100 days after the opening of the celebrations sums up its first results and looks with optimism to the future.  Benedict XVI inaugurated the Year...
January 16, 2013
 
A conversation with Archbishop Tempesta on the preparations for the WYD in July

Rio de Janeiro
a welcoming capital

More than 63,000 volunteers have signed up and 3,500 of them have already begun work. And with the start of the new year, more and more volunteers are registering every day. This is just one of the most important figures of the 28th World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro from 23-28 July. Just a few days less than 200 days before the meeting, Archbishop Orani João Tempesta described the preparations to our newspaper in this interview. Archbishop Tempesta hopes that the participants will enrol “as soon...
January 11, 2013
 
Mons. Dal Toso summarizes the activities of “Cor Unum” over the past year

The charity of the Pope
for the humanitarian crises on the planet

388 armed conflicts, 20 of them very intense; 79 humanitarian crises, 41 desperate appeals requiring immediate responses. These are figures which reflect the dramatic situation affecting a large part of the world's population and which also reflect this year's work of “Cor Unum” - the body which is called on to allocate the charitable funds of the Pope. Syria, Libya, Bangladesh, South Sudan, Bolivia, Paraguay: are a few of the countries where the most crucial interventions of the dicastery in 2012...
January 5, 2013
 
Interview with Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran

In dialogue on the question of god

A world open to dialogue on the question of God. This is how Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, imagines the scenario that is unfolding at the beginning of this year. And he reinforced his impression by underlining – in the interview he granted to our newspaper – the timeliness of the debate between Christianity and secularism, today taken up in many books and international journals. This point inspired the Cardinal  to reassert the importance...
January 4, 2013
 
A conversation with Archbishop Guido Pozzo, Almoner of His Holiness

The poor
knocking at the Pope's door

With 7,000 requests for financial assistance and approximately 900,000 Euros donated in 2011, the Office of Papal Charities testifies to the Pope's “hand” in charity to the poor. His work is all the more important in the face of the continuing economic crisis making it evermore urgent and precious. The Papal Charities operate mainly in the Diocese of Rome but its breath is universal reaching out to other countries, especially those in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Not only individuals of...
December 29, 2012
 
A conversation with the Iraqi Archbishop of Kerkūk for Chaldeans on the Pope's Visit to Lebanon

The courage of witnessing

“I firmly believe: this document and the message it contains will be of very great help to the Church in Iraq. It will help her understand what she urgently needs to do to give empower Christians and thereby help them regain the courage to bear witness”. When last Sunday, 16 September, Archbishop Louis Sako of Kerkūk for Chaldeans  received from the Pope's hands in Beirut a copy of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Medio Oriente – he was representing the Assembly of Catholic Bishops...
September 29, 2012
 
A conversation with Sr Nicla Spezzati, Director of the new Studium of the Dicastery for Religious

Facing today's cultures

Among the Second Vatican Council's recommendations to religious are a return to the Gospel, a rediscovery of the founding charism and adherence to the magisterium of the Church with the assumption of one's apostolic and missionary responsibilities. During these days the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life is presenting these instructions in a thoroughly updated and streamlined Studium course. Indeed, fifty years after the beginning of the Council...
September 26, 2012
 
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran on the Pope's Visit to Lebanon

The road map of peace

Benedict XVI pointed out the way to peace. It is now up to those who have the destiny of the Middle East in their hands to decide whether to take it – and thus put an end to the suffering of the peoples who dwell in that troubled region – or whether to continue to leave room for violence that is also nurtured by the exploitation of religious convictions that have nothing to do with violence. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious dialogue, has developed...
September 25, 2012
 
A conversation with Cardinal Kurt Koch

The ecumenical dimension
of the Pope's Visit to Lebanon 

A big step forward in achieving unity with the Christian Orthodox Churches. It is in this way that Cardinal Kurt Koch,  President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, described the most recent Apostolic Visit of Benedict XVI to Lebanon. The Cardinal, who participated in the Visit as member of the Holy Father's entourage, gave our newspaper the following interview in which he analyzes the ecumenical meaning of the Visit in light of his experience alongside the Pope. Much...
September 22, 2012
 
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri on his return from his journey to Lebanon with the Pope

A conviction in faith

A Church not like a museum but alive and creative: this is the face of the Catholic community in the Middle East as Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, described it on his return from Lebanon where he had “had the joy of being beside the Pope”, he said in the interview he granted our newspaper, “in these historic days. I saw the image of a flock never frightened by  howling wolves, rediscovering the full force and courage that it receives from the dependable...
September 19, 2012
 
Interview with Cardinal Vinko Puljic

Religions must give
a message of peace

During the war in Bosnia he suffered three attacks. He never left the besieged capital, strolling among his people. Yet Cardinal Vinko Puljić, Archbishop of Vrhbosna, Sarajevo, does not put on a heroic attitude. He smiles, remembering those terrible years but with great seriousness sends a message to politics and to the international community: “This city was wounded by the thirst for power, not by religion: religions, on the contrary, can change the rules of the game and give a sign of unity to...
September 12, 2012
 
Speaking to the Patriarch of Antioch for Syrians on the Pope's Visit to Lebanon

Truth and justice in Arabic

“The Arabic word haqq has two meanings: truth and law, in the sense of justice. No other language, as far as I know, has this particular richness of expression in a single word. For the Arab peoples might the fact that there is such a close link between truth and justice not be a significant coincidence, and even a commitment?”. For Ignace Youssif III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch for Syrians, whose headquarters are located in the Syrian district of Beirut, “if violence has always been abhorrent...
September 7, 2012
 
Interview with the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe

A tired continent in an identity crisis and which
must rediscover the meaning of the absolute

“Europe no longer knows exactly what its role in the world is”, it “retreats” into a perspective which from a historical viewpoint is “losing”, “it is suffering a cultural identity crisis” and at the same time is “self-destructive”, especially when the necessary self-criticism “becomes the disintegration of our values”, “the inability to understand the great vocation” of the continent. And certain signs that are also coming from the recent sentences of the European Court of Human Rights “raise...
September 7, 2012
 
Interview with Comboni Missionary Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

Knowledge and respect
for a journey of peace

He was a missionary in Egypt and Sudan for 20 years. And it was there that he discovered the importance of dialogue as a “tool for settling conflicts and at the same time for drawing from the wellsprings of peace”. Strong in this knowledge and in the experience that he developed as head of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies  (PISAI) — of which he has been President sine 2006 — the Spanish Comboni Father Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot is preparing for his new task as Secretary of...
September 1, 2012
 
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New Appeal of Pope Francis for the safeguard of the fundamental rights of everY person involved in forced migration

The cry of oppression

It is impossible to be indifferent to the cry of distress and oppression raised by millions of people, the victims of violence and abuse, who live far from their own country and from the love of their family. This is the appeal that Pope Francis addressed to the Church and to the international community, this morning, Friday, 24 May, at the Audience for those taking part in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant...
 
The Pope at the profession of faith with the Italian Bishops

For a humble and brotherly Church which serves

Pope Francis asked the Italian Bishops to get rid of “burdens that obstruct healthy apostolic promptness”, and to put themselves “before the flock”, as “ungroping” guides. However he also urged them to know how to be “among” and “behind” their flock, “sharing with the lowly”, to “set aside every form of arrogance” in order “to bend down to all whom the Lord has entrusted to our care, and especially to priests”. The occasion was the meeting on Thursday afternoon, 23 May, in St Peter's Basilica, for...
 
The Pope's Mass at Santa Marta

The salt that gives flavour

The Christian, according to the Gospel metaphor in Matthew (5:13-14), is called to be the salt of the earth. But if the Christian does not transmit the flavour which the Lord has given to him then he becomes “tasteless salt” and the person becomes “a museum-piece Christian”. Pope Francis spoke about this at Thursday morning's Mass on 23 May in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The day's Gospel (Mk 9:41-50) inspired the Holy Father to reflect on one characterizing peculiarity of Christians:...
 

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