Vatican Weekend for December 4, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye” and EWTN’s Rome bureau chief, Joan Lewis looks back at the past week's events in the Vatican.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for December 4, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye” and EWTN’s Rome bureau chief, Joan Lewis looks back at the past week's events in the Vatican.
Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
(Vatican Radio) On 1 December, the Holy Father Pope Francis received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.In the course of the audience, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the Congregation to promulgate decrees regarding: The miracle, attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Giovanni, Schiavo, professed Priest of the Congregation of San Giuseppe; born 8 July 1903 and died 27 January 1967; The martyrdom of the Servant of God Vicente Queralt Lloret, professed Priest of the Congregation of the Missions, and 20 Companions, amongst them six professed priests of the same Congregation, five diocesan Priests, two religious Daughters of Charity, and seven Lay members of the Association Sons of Mary of the Miraculous Medal, killed in hatred of the Faith during the civil war in Spain between 1936 and 1937; The martyrdom of the Servant of God Teofilius Matulionis, Archbishop-Bishop of Kaišiadorys (Lithuania), ...
(Vatican Radio) On 1 December, the Holy Father Pope Francis received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
In the course of the audience, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the Congregation to promulgate decrees regarding:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a Message to mark the Calasanctian Jubilee Year – a special Jubilee marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Pious Schools, which provide free education to the sons of the poor, and the Religious Order that runs them, commonly known as the Piarists, by St. Joseph Calasanctius (Joseph of Calasanz), Sch.P.Click below to hear our report In his Message, Pope Francis says, “[The Piarist Fathers] have always exercised their ministry in school, but have been able to incarnate their charisma also in several other areas. And, at the same time, they have been able to respond to the requests of the Church, assuming pastoral services wherever necessary.”He goes on to say, “Today more than ever we need an evangelizing pedagogy capable of changing the heart and reality in harmony with the Kingdom of God, making people protagonists and participants in the process. Christian education, especially among the po...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a Message to mark the Calasanctian Jubilee Year – a special Jubilee marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Pious Schools, which provide free education to the sons of the poor, and the Religious Order that runs them, commonly known as the Piarists, by St. Joseph Calasanctius (Joseph of Calasanz), Sch.P.
Click below to hear our report
In his Message, Pope Francis says, “[The Piarist Fathers] have always exercised their ministry in school, but have been able to incarnate their charisma also in several other areas. And, at the same time, they have been able to respond to the requests of the Church, assuming pastoral services wherever necessary.”
He goes on to say, “Today more than ever we need an evangelizing pedagogy capable of changing the heart and reality in harmony with the Kingdom of God, making people protagonists and participants in the process. Christian education, especially among the poorest and where the Good News has little place or touches life marginally, is a privileged means to achieve this goal.”
The Calasanctian Jubilee Year opened on November 27 of 2016 in the church of San Pantaleo in Rome, with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The Jubilee Year will end on November 25 of 2017, with a Eucharistic celebration in San Pantaleo, presided by the Father General of the Congregation of Piarists, Fr. Pedro Aguado, Sch.P.
(Vatican Radio) Following the closure of the Jubilee of Mercy, the Holy Doors in Jerusalem and Nazareth will be closed respectively on December 3 and 9, during Solemn Masses in the Church of All Nations and the Basilica of the Annunciation. The masses will be presided by Patriarchal Vicars Bishop William Shomali in Jerusalem, Bishop Giacinto Marcuzzo in Nazareth and by Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land.The Apostolic Administrator of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa spoke to Linda Bordoni of the meaning of the event in the Holy Land.Listen: Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa points out that the Holy Door will also be closed in Anjara in Jordan that together with Getsemane and Nazareth are the three most significant Holy places in the Holy Land.“The meaning is the same as it is all over the world: first of all to close the Jubilee Year but also to remind the community that the commitment to mercy for us Christians isn’t over, but must ...
(Vatican Radio) Following the closure of the Jubilee of Mercy, the Holy Doors in Jerusalem and Nazareth will be closed respectively on December 3 and 9, during Solemn Masses in the Church of All Nations and the Basilica of the Annunciation.
The masses will be presided by Patriarchal Vicars Bishop William Shomali in Jerusalem, Bishop Giacinto Marcuzzo in Nazareth and by Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land.
The Apostolic Administrator of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa spoke to Linda Bordoni of the meaning of the event in the Holy Land.
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Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa points out that the Holy Door will also be closed in Anjara in Jordan that together with Getsemane and Nazareth are the three most significant Holy places in the Holy Land.
“The meaning is the same as it is all over the world: first of all to close the Jubilee Year but also to remind the community that the commitment to mercy for us Christians isn’t over, but must continue, especially here in the Holy Land where divisions and hatred are so evinent – mercy is the language that we Christians have to talk” he said.
Pizzaballa says that the Holy Year of Mercy has not had any visible effects at the macro level of politics and high level decisions, but he says at a ground level “with the people, in the communities, in the schools we have seen many initiatives of encounter and dialogue between Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Christians and Muslims.”
Vatican City, Dec 2, 2016 / 03:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Vatican this week has raised curiosity, with some asking what exactly the famed astrophysicist and self-proclaimed atheist was doing in the heart of the Catholic Church.But for the Vatican, his visit was nothing out of the ordinary. Hawking is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences – which includes 80 of the most brilliant scientists in the world – and he was in Vatican City for the group’s annual meeting.This year’s conference was focused on “Science and Sustainability.” Hawking himself gave a talk on “The Origin of the Universe,” the topic that has earned him world renown.Religious belief – Catholic or otherwise – is not a criterion for membership in the Pontifical Academy. The group’s president, Werner Arber, a former Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine, is a Protestant. And members of the Academy are Catholics, atheist...
Vatican City, Dec 2, 2016 / 03:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Vatican this week has raised curiosity, with some asking what exactly the famed astrophysicist and self-proclaimed atheist was doing in the heart of the Catholic Church.
But for the Vatican, his visit was nothing out of the ordinary. Hawking is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences – which includes 80 of the most brilliant scientists in the world – and he was in Vatican City for the group’s annual meeting.
This year’s conference was focused on “Science and Sustainability.” Hawking himself gave a talk on “The Origin of the Universe,” the topic that has earned him world renown.
Religious belief – Catholic or otherwise – is not a criterion for membership in the Pontifical Academy. The group’s president, Werner Arber, a former Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine, is a Protestant. And members of the Academy are Catholics, atheists, Protestants and members of other religions.
This open membership policy exists because the Pontifical Academy is conceived as a place where science and faith can meet and discuss. It is not a confessional forum, but a place where it is possible to have an open discussion and examine future scientific developments.
The Academy was founded back in 1603 by Prince Federico Cesi with Pope Clement VII’s blessing, and its first leader was Galileo Galilei. When Prince Cesi died, the Academy was shut down. Pius IX refounded it in 1847, but the Academy was then embodied in the Kingdom of Italy after the fall of the Pontifical State. In 1936, Pius XI founded the Academy once more, giving it the current name and a statute that Paul VI updated in 1976 and St. John Paul II updated once more in 1986.
Scrolling through the lists of the members of the Academy over the course of the years, one can find many Nobel Prize Laureates, some of them already part of the Pontifical Academy when they won the Prize, some who became laureates after their membership to the Academy.
Among the Nobel Prize Laureates who were part of the Pontifical Academic are Niels Bohr, Rita Levi Montalcini, Werner Heisenberg, Alexander Fleming, and Carlo Rubbia.
For academy chancellor Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the period of the 1930s was one of “the most exciting of the Academy.”
One of the members during that time was Max Planck, Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics in 1918 and initiator of the studies on quantum physics. It was Max Planck who warned Pius XII about the possible consequences of nuclear war.
Planck’s warnings inspired some of Pius XII’s magisterium. Speaking in front of the Pontifical Academy for Science Nov. 30, 1941, the Pope said that “war is lacerating the world and is employing all available technological resources to destroy it.” The Pope noted that science can be a double-edged sword in the hands of men, capable of both healing and killing. He mentioned the “incredible venture of men committed in the research on nuclear energy and on nuclear transformations.”
Then, delivering a speech to the same Academy Feb. 21, 1943, Pius XI made an appeal to the Heads of State: “Though we cannot still think to take a technical profit out of that stormy (nuclear) process, this same process paves the way to a series of opportunities, so that the possibility of the construction of a uranium-powered machine cannot be considered a mere utopia.”
The Pope added that “it should be important not to let this process happen, but rather to halt the process with proper chemical means,” because “otherwise a dangerous catastrophe could take place not only in that place, but in the whole planet.”
Meetings of the Pontifical Academy for Science discuss topics on the cutting edge of science. For example, the Pontifical Academy has discussed the “Higgs boson” many times. The elementary particle was finally discovered in 2015, but scientists of the CERN of Geneva anticipated its imminent discovery at a 2011 gathering on subnuclear physics held at Casina Pio IV, the Academy’s headquarters.
In a certain sense, the Academy is a bridge between science, faith and the world. It proves that scientific knowledge does not exclude the presence of God.
“The scientist,” Archbishop Sanchez has said, “discovers things he had not put there. Questioning who placed those things there is a theological question: the scientist just discovers them, the believer sees in them the presence of God.”
The archbishop also recounted that he asked Hawking how he could maintain that God does not exist, if he had reached this conclusion as a scientist or on the basis of his experience of life. And, he said, “Hawking had to recognize that his affirmation had nothing to do with science.”
This is one of just many anecdotes that has arisen from the Academy, giving evidence that the Vatican is not an enemy to science, but a place where debate on scientific progress has long been both encouraged and actively promoted.
During his conference at Casina Pio IV, Stephen Hawking paid homage to Msgr. George Lemaitre, president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences from 1960 to 1966. Hawking said that Msgr. Lemaitre was the real father of the “Big Bang Theory,” thus dismissing the common belief that the father of the theory was the U.S. naturalized physicist George Gamow.
“Georges Lemaitre was the first who proposed a model according to which the universe had a very dense beginning. He, and not George Gamow, is the father of Big Bang,” Hawking said.
It’s no wonder, then, that Hawking will take part in an academic session on Dec. 2 marking the 50th anniversary of Lemaitre’s death. The event, to be held at the Academy of Belgium in Italy, will be concluded by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.
Vatican City, Dec 2, 2016 / 04:15 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his latest prayer video, which highlights his prayer intention for the month of December, Pope Francis focused on putting an end to the phenomenon of child-soldiers, which he called a “form of slavery.”The video, published Dec. 1, shows a soldier suiting up for battle in the dark, boots, gun and ammo included. When the soldier’s face is shown, it’s a young boy with the lower half of his face covered by a bandana.As the child pulls the bandana down revealing his entire face, Francis’ voice is heard in his native Spanish, saying: “in this world, which has developed the most sophisticated technologies, weapons are sold that end up in the hands of child soldiers.”The scene then changes to show children running and playing in the sun, while the Pope says “we must do everything possible so that the dignity of children may be respected, and end this form of slavery.”“Whoeve...
Vatican City, Dec 2, 2016 / 04:15 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his latest prayer video, which highlights his prayer intention for the month of December, Pope Francis focused on putting an end to the phenomenon of child-soldiers, which he called a “form of slavery.”
The video, published Dec. 1, shows a soldier suiting up for battle in the dark, boots, gun and ammo included. When the soldier’s face is shown, it’s a young boy with the lower half of his face covered by a bandana.
As the child pulls the bandana down revealing his entire face, Francis’ voice is heard in his native Spanish, saying: “in this world, which has developed the most sophisticated technologies, weapons are sold that end up in the hands of child soldiers.”
The scene then changes to show children running and playing in the sun, while the Pope says “we must do everything possible so that the dignity of children may be respected, and end this form of slavery.”
“Whoever you are, if you are moved as I am, I ask you to join me in this prayer intention: that the scandal of child-soldiers may be eliminated the world over,” he said, as the faces of smiling children flashed across the screen.
Recruitment of child soldiers is a problem largely isolated to Africa, as well as some countries in the Middle East and Asia. South Sudan is among the worst in the world when it comes to the phenomena, with an estimated 16,000 child soldiers fighting since the country’s conflict intensified in December 2013.
Archbishop Paulino Luduku Loro of Jubo, South Sudan was in Rome for a meeting with Pope Francis in October, and told CNA after the encounter that a primary concern for child-soldiers is what violence does to a young person’s psyche, particularly as they transition into adulthood.
Since many soldiers recruited by the government don't want to fight, the government has resorted to the use of more militia-type fighters, or forces children to fight for them, he said.
However, it's also children and young boys who “simply go by themselves” to fight against the government, he said, and insisted that the only solution to end the phenomena “is to stop fighting and talk peace. This is what we are working on together.”
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Archbishop Loro traveled to Rome alongside Rev. Daniel Deng Bul Yak, Archbishop of the Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, and Rev. Peter Gai Lual Marrow, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan to meet with the Pope to discuss the desperate situation of the country, to highlight their joint collaboration and to invite him to visit.
The meeting was arranged by Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, currently President of the Vatican’s Council for Justice and Peace and president-elect of the new mega-dicastery dedicated to Integral Human Development, which will go into effect as of Jan. 1, 2017.
An initiative of the Jesuit-run global prayer network Apostleship of Prayer, the Pope’s prayer videos are filmed in collaboration with the Vatican Television Center and mark the first time the Roman Pontiff’s monthly prayer intentions have been featured on video.
The Apostleship of Prayer, which produces the monthly videos on the Pope’s intentions, was founded by Jesuit seminarians in France in 1884 to encourage Christians to serve God and others through prayer, particularly for the needs of the Church.
Since the late 1800s, the organization has received a monthly, “universal” intention from the Pope. In 1929, an additional missionary intention was added by the Holy Father, aimed at the faithful in particular.
While there are two intentions, the prayer videos are centered on the first, universal intention.
The Pope’s evangelization intention for December is for Europe, specifically, "that the peoples of Europe may rediscover the beauty, goodness, and truth of the Gospel which gives joy and hope to life."
Having emerged as a sort-of social justice champion, Francis has focused his intentions so far on themes he speaks about frequently and which have formed a sort of “road-map” for his pontificate, such as interreligious dialogue, care for creation, families in hardship, the elderly and marginalized, refugees and respect for women.
By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has recognized themartyrdom of Father Stanley Rother of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, makinghim the first martyr born in the United States.The Vatican made the announcement Dec. 2. The recognitionof his martyrdom clears the way for his beatification.Father Rother, born March 27, 1935, on his family's farmnear Okarche, Oklahoma, was brutally murdered July 28, 1981, in a Guatemalanvillage where he ministered to the poor.He went to Santiago Atitlan in 1968 on assignment fromthe Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. He helped the people there build a smallhospital, school and its first Catholic radio station. He was beloved by thelocals, who called him "Padre Francisco."Many priests and religious in Guatemala became targetsduring the country's 1960-1996 civil war as government forces cracked down onleftist rebels supported by the rural poor.The bodies of some of Father Rother's deacons andparishioners were left in front of his church and soon he receive...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, making him the first martyr born in the United States.
The Vatican made the announcement Dec. 2. The recognition of his martyrdom clears the way for his beatification.
Father Rother, born March 27, 1935, on his family's farm near Okarche, Oklahoma, was brutally murdered July 28, 1981, in a Guatemalan village where he ministered to the poor.
He went to Santiago Atitlan in 1968 on assignment from the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. He helped the people there build a small hospital, school and its first Catholic radio station. He was beloved by the locals, who called him "Padre Francisco."
Many priests and religious in Guatemala became targets during the country's 1960-1996 civil war as government forces cracked down on leftist rebels supported by the rural poor.
The bodies of some of Father Rother's deacons and parishioners were left in front of his church and soon he received numerous death threats over his opposition to the presence of the Guatemalan military in the area.
Though he returned to Oklahoma for a brief period, he returned to the Guatemalan village to remain with the people he had grown to love during the more than dozen years he lived there.
He was gunned down at the age 46 in the rectory of his church in Santiago Atitlan. Government officials there put the blame on the Catholic Church for the unrest in the country that they said led to his death. On the day he died, troops also killed 13 townspeople and wounded 24 others in Santiago Atitlan, an isolated village 50 miles west of Guatemala City.
Many priests and religious lost their lives and thousands of civilians were kidnapped and killed during the years of state-sponsored oppression in the country.
While his body was returned to Oklahoma, his family gave permission for his heart and some of his blood to be enshrined in the church of the people he loved and served. A memorial plaque marks the place.
Father Rother was considered a martyr by the church in Guatemala and his name was included on a list of 78 martyrs for the faith killed during Guatemala's 36-year-long civil war. The list of names to be considered for canonization was submitted by Guatemala's bishops to St. John Paul II during a pastoral visit to Guatemala in 1996.
Because Father Rother was killed in Guatemala, his cause should have been undertaken there. But the local church lacked the resources for such an effort. The Guatemalan bishops' conference agreed to a transfer of jurisdiction to the Oklahoma City archdiocese.
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Los Angeles, Calif., Dec 2, 2016 / 12:42 am (CNA).- The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe made its way through the narrow halls of the Century Regional Women Detention Facility in Lynwood, California on Sunday, Nov. 27.Stopping at several two-tier cells at the facility’s east and west towers, Gonzalo de Vivero, director of the L.A. Archdiocese’s Office of Restorative Justice, together with Knight of Columbus Mark Padilla, pulled a makeshift cart carrying the digital reproduction of the original copy of the Guadalupana, a gift to the archdiocese of from Mexico City’s Basilica a decade ago.Accompanied by a few of the facility’s deputies and volunteers from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the men also carried the Virgin’s message of love, forgiveness and reconciliation to the incarcerated women, showing them that they too are important to the Church.Catholic Chaplain Evelia Ortiz couldn’t miss the visit. Every week, from Sunday to Thursday, she offers...
Los Angeles, Calif., Dec 2, 2016 / 12:42 am (CNA).- The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe made its way through the narrow halls of the Century Regional Women Detention Facility in Lynwood, California on Sunday, Nov. 27.
Stopping at several two-tier cells at the facility’s east and west towers, Gonzalo de Vivero, director of the L.A. Archdiocese’s Office of Restorative Justice, together with Knight of Columbus Mark Padilla, pulled a makeshift cart carrying the digital reproduction of the original copy of the Guadalupana, a gift to the archdiocese of from Mexico City’s Basilica a decade ago.
Accompanied by a few of the facility’s deputies and volunteers from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the men also carried the Virgin’s message of love, forgiveness and reconciliation to the incarcerated women, showing them that they too are important to the Church.
Catholic Chaplain Evelia Ortiz couldn’t miss the visit. Every week, from Sunday to Thursday, she offers the incarcerated women the support, comfort and counsel they so much need. Most of the women long for her visit because in Evelia they find someone who does not judge them.
“There’s so much hurt, fear, anxiety in them, especially with the ones who are away from their children,” said Ortiz, who is supported in her work by volunteers and priests. She also started as a volunteer and was slowly captured by the women’s needs, which changed her life.
“They (the incarcerated women) need our support; an opportunity to find their own path. Some of them tell me these are the only visits they receive,” said Ortiz.
‘We’re here for you’
The visitors stopped at each cell for a few minutes, while De Vivero, Padilla and Imelda Bermejo, the Office of Restorative Justice’s coordinator of Families of the Incarcerated, offered a summary of the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe’s encounter with St. Juan Diego at the Hill of Tepeyac, and they invited the women to venerate the Morenita during a minute of silence.
“Think about how amazing it is to have a Mother in Heaven who listens to us and sends our prayers to her son, Jesus Christ. Ask her for her intercession,” De Vivero told them with an empathetic voice.
Some of the women looked with curiosity through the thick windows or through slots on the bottom of the thick steel doors, while others remained silent. Some got emotional and cried as they heard more of the story of the apparition of the Virgin to Juan Diego, about the miracle of the roses that Juan Diego found on a hill, during a season when no roses grew, and her request to the humble indigenous to build a Church at Tepeyac, Mexico.
De Vivero invited the women to a minute of silence “to feel her unconditional love and to turn her into their celestial Mother at that moment.” In unison, the visitors and the incarcerated women prayed “Hail Mary,” and to end each visit, Bermejo sang a few verses of a very candid song for God.
“We are here for you,” De Vivero told the women, adding that Archbishop José H. Gomez had asked him to communicate to them his daily prayers, and asked them to please pray for him. “Let’s pray for one another so that we all can move forward together,” said the director of the Office of Restorative Justice. Some of the incarcerated bid farewell with shy claps or waving good-bye.
‘She’s a mother, just like me’
Rosa María, 29, is one of the nearly 2,000 women incarcerated at Lynwood’s facility. She was jailed two years ago; first in Orange and then she was transferred to Lynwood’s jail. The masseuse, who also worked at an optical shop, is waiting for her sentence. Many of her peers are in the same situation, as most of the judicial cases last longer than expected. Soon after her arrest, Rosa María suffered from deep depression, remaining all day in her cell under the bed sheets - but the attention and support from Catholic Chaplain Evelia Ortiz and archdiocesan volunteers helped her overcome her crisis.
With teary eyes, she expressed to Angelus News how the image of La Peregrina had brought her hope and joy because as a Catholic she feels a “special connection with the Virgin.”
“She’s a mother, just like me,” said the mother of three children, ages 2 to 12, who are under relatives' care. They visit her every two weeks.
“Faith has helped me a lot, and here in prison my faith has increased. I take Bible courses that I receive by mail and I reflect very much about how to be a better person.” She is also completing studies to earn a high school diploma.
Imelda Bermejo, who in her role as the archdiocesan coordinator of Families of the Incarcerated, organizes support groups for the families of the women in Lynwood’s facility, said several of the women are behind bars for minor crimes that turned into felonies due to procrastination, and some others are in jail for supporting their partners’ criminal activities.
Ortiz said the crimes vary from minor crimes to serious felonies, including sentences of life without parole.
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