Two V.I.S. bulletin items: One on the new Curial dicastery, the other on recent Vatican personnel changes

"POPE CREATES A DICASTERY FOR NEW EVANGELISATION"

From today's edition of the Vatican Information Service (V.I.S.) daily e-mail bulletin:

POPE CREATES A DICASTERY FOR NEW EVANGELISATION

VATICAN CITY, 28 JUN
2010 (VIS) - ...

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And he went on: "It is in this perspective that I have decided to create a new organisation, in the form of a Pontifical Council, with the fundamental task of promoting renewed evangelisation in countries where the first announcement of the faith has already been heard and where there are Churches of ancient foundation, but where a progressive secularisation of society is being experienced, a kind of 'eclipse of the meaning of God'". These countries, he said, "are a challenge to us to find the adequate means to re-present the perennial truth of the Gospel of Christ".

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Important recent Vatican personnel changes:

Also from today's V.I.S. daily e-mail bulletin (note: The following is not the complete news item, just the parts of it which I want to highlight):

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 30 JUN 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Cardinal Marc Ouellet P.S.S., archbishop of Quebec, Canada, as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. He succeeds Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, whose resignation from the same office the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life and rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, as president of the recently-announced Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation.

- Appointed Msgr. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, as president of the same academy.

- Appointed Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, as apostolic nuncio to Poland.

- Appointed Fr. John Richard Cihak as a master of pontifical ceremonies.
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Reginaldvs Cantvar

Feast of The Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, A.D. 2010

Msgr. Migliore on freedom of conscience and religious liberty

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28885

At the Angelqueen forum I found this:

After discussing the Holy See’s track record in the area of interreligious dialogue, Archbishop Migliore pointedly reminded those assembled that it is far more important for the UN to promote religious freedom than to discuss the role of religion in international conflicts. “Having in mind the spirit and the word of the UN Charter as well as core juridical instruments,” he said, “it is safe to say that the United Nations' specific and primary responsibility vis-à-vis religion is to debate, elucidate and help States to fully ensure, at all levels, the implementation of the right to religious freedom as affirmed in the relevant UN documents which include full respect for and promotion not only of the fundamental freedom of conscience but also of the expression and practice of everybody's religion, without restriction.

Here are some other quotations: Condemned ex Cathedra:

the best plan for public society, and civil progress absolutely requires that human society be established and governed with no regard to religion, as if it did not exist, or at least, without making distinction between the true and the false religions.
[Quanta cura, Encyclical of Bl. Pius IX,
http://www.catecheticsonline.com/SourcesofDogma17.php]

Condemned ex Cathedra:

the best condition of society is the one in which there is no acknowledgment by the government of the duty of restraining, by established penalties, offenders of the Catholic religion, except insofar as the public peace demands.
[Ibid.]

Condemned ex Cathedra:

liberty of conscience and of worship is the proper right of every man, and should be proclaimed and asserted by law in every correctly established society; that the right to all manner of liberty rests in the citizens, not to be restrained by either ecclesiastical or civil authority; and that by this right they can manifest openly and publicly and declare their own concepts, whatever they be, by voice, by print, or in any other way.
[Ibid.]

Continuity or rupture?

Reginaldvs Cantvar

Feast of the Dedications of the Basilicas of SS. Peter and Paul, A.D. 2009