VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 073
DATE 17-04-2015
Summary:
- Pope Francis praises the work of the "Papal Foundation"
- Declaration of the director of the Holy See Press Office on the Pope's
possible trip to Cuba
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
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Pope Francis praises the work of the "Papal Foundation"
Vatican City, 17 April 2015 (VIS) - Today at midday Pope Francis received in
audience, in the Sala Clementina, 225 members, administrators and collaborators
of the "Papal Foundation" during their annual visit to Rome. The "Papal
Foundation" is a Catholic association established in 1990 in Philadelphia,
U.S.A. by the late Cardinal John Krol, which provides funding for the needs of
the Church throughout the world.
In his address to the institution, the Pope emphasised the wide variety of
projects supported by the Foundation, which offer "witness to the ceaseless
efforts of the Church to promote the integral development of the human family,
conscious as she is of the immense and ongoing needs of so many of our brothers
and sisters". The Papal Foundation "devotes a sizeable percentage of its
resources to the education and formation of young priests, religious and lay
men
and women, hastening the day when their local Churches may be self-supportive,
and, indeed,pass on the fruits of such generosity to others".
Pope Francis thanked those present for the hard work and sacrifice that this
entails, and to assured them of his heartfelt prayers for them, their loved
ones, and all those whom they support.
"As the Church prepares for the coming Jubilee of Mercy, I ask our Lord Jesus
Christ, 'the face of the Father's mercy', to refresh and renew each one of you
through his mercy, the greatest of his many gifts", he concluded. "May each of
you experience the healing and freedom that come from the encounter of
forgiveness and gratuitous love offered in the sacraments of Reconciliation and
the Eucharist".
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Declaration of the director of the Holy See Press Office on the Pope's
possible
trip to Cuba
Vatican City, 17 April 2015 (VIS) - The director of the Holy See Press Office,
Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., in response to questions from journalists
regarding
the possibility of Pope Francis visiting Cuba, has affirmed that "the Holy
Father has taken into consideration the idea of making a stop in Cuba on the
occasion of his upcoming trip to the United States. However, contacts with the
Cuban authorities are still in too early a phase for it to be possible to
regard
this as a firm decision or an operative plan".
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Audiences
Vatican City, 17 April 2015 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in
audience:
- Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for New
Evangelisation;
- Reiner Haseloff, minister president of Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of
Germany, with his wife and entourage.
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Other Pontifical Acts
Vatican City, 17 April 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:
- Rev. Fr. Juan de Dios Pena Rojas as bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia
(area 8,233, population 432,000, Catholics 427,000, priests 32, religious 10),
Venezuela. The bishop-elect was born in Acequias, Venezuela in 1967 and was
ordained a priest in 1992. He holds a bachelor's degree in theology from the
Pontifical Xavierian University of Bogota, Colombia, a licentiate in theology
from the Santa Rosa de Lima University Institute, Caracas, Venezuela, and a
licentiate in history of the Church from the Pontifical Gregorian University,
Rome. He has served in a number of pastoral and academic roles in the
archdiocese of Merida, including formator in the major seminary, assessor for
youth pastoral ministry, administrative director of the archiepiscopal curia,
professor and president of the Scholastic Institute of the major seminary,
parish priest, member and secretary of the presbyteral council, and chaplain of
the Dominican Sisters of Santa Rosa de Lima. He is currently member of the
college of consultors and of the Metropolitan Chapter, and rector of the "San
Buenaventura" major seminary of Merida.
- Msgr. Francesco Viscome, Italy, substitute defender of the bond, as promoter
of justice at the Tribunal of the Roman Rota.
- Rev. Fr. Francesco Ibba, Italy, as substitute defender of the bond at the
Tribunal of the Roman Rota.
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