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From Vatican Information Service - Eng -@1:396/45 to All on Wed Jul 31 08:29:30 2013

As the theme of his first Message for the World Day of Peace, Pope Francis has chosen Fraternity. Since the beginning of his Petrine Ministry, the Pope has stressed the need to combat the “throwaway culture” and to promote instead a
"culture of encounter", in order to build a more just and peaceful world. Fraternity is a dowry that every man and every woman brings with himself or herself as a human being, as a child of the one Father. In the face of the many
tragedies that afflict the family of nations - poverty, hunger, underdevelopment, conflicts,

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migrations, pollution, inequalities, injustice, organized crime, fundamentalisms - fraternity is the foundation and the pathway to peace. The culture of personal well-being leads to a loss of the sense of responsibility and fraternal relationship. Others, rather than being “like us”, appear more as antagonists or enemies and are often treated as objects. Not uncommonly, the
poor and needy are regarded as a "burden", a hindrance to development. At most,
they are considered as recipients of aid or compassionate assistance. They are not seen as brothers and sisters, called to share the gifts of creation, the goods of progress
and culture, to be partakers at the same table of the fullness of life, to be protagonists of integral and inclusive development.
Fraternity, a gift and task that comes from God the Father, urges us to be in solidarity against inequality and poverty that undermine the social fabric, to take care of every person, especially the weakest and most defenceless, to love him or her as
oneself, with the very heart of Jesus Christ.
In a world that is constantly growing more interdependent, the good of fraternity is one that we cannot do without. It serves to defeat the spread of the globalization of indifference to which Pope Francis has frequently referred. The globalization
of indifference must give way to a globalization of fraternity. Fraternity should leave its mark on every aspect of life, including the economy, finance, civil society, politics, research, development, public and cultural institutions.
At the start of his ministry, Pope Francis issues a message in continuity with that of his predecessors, which proposes to everyone the pathway of fraternity, in order to give the world a more human face.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ljubljana, Slovenia, presented by Archbishop Anton Stres, C.M., in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Maribor, Slovenia, presented by Archbishop Marjan Turnsek, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- appointed Bishop Frank Joseph Caggiano as bishop of Bridgeport (area 1,621, population 955,000, Catholics 479,000, priests 272, permanent deacons 103, religious 362), U.S.A. Bishop Caggiano, previously auxiliary of Brooklyn, U.S.A., was born in
Brooklyn, U.S.A. in 1959, was ordained to the priesthood in 1987, and received episcopal ordination in 2006.
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PAPAL AND HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY-JULY 2013
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) - Following are highlights of the activities of Pope Benedict XVI and of the Holy See for the months of May to July 2013.
MAY
2: Pope emeritus Benedict XVI returns to the Vatican after a two month stay in the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, and takes up permanent residence in
the recently restored “Mater Ecclesiae” convent.
2: The Holy Father receives in audience Aleksander Avdeev, the new ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Holy See, presenting his credential
letters.
3: The Holy Father receives in audience Michel Sleiman, president of the Republic of Lebanon.
3-5: Pilgrimage of Confraternities to Rome, for the “Days of the Confraternities and Popular Piety”, an initiative promoted as part of the
Year of Faith.
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Ueli Maurer. president of the Swiss Confederation.
8: Pope Francis receives the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the International Union of Superior Generals.
10: Meeting between Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt.
12: Seventh Sunday of Easter. Canonisation of the Blesseds Antonio Primaldo and companions; Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya y Upegui and Maria Guadalupe García Zavala.
13: The Holy Father receives in audience the president of the Republic of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderon. 
14: This year, for the first time, the Holy See will participate in the Venice Bienniale (1 June – 24 November) with a pavilion inspired by the Biblical story of Genesis, entitled “In the Beginning”. 
15: The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) declares its intention to open, before the end of the year, a website where it will make public, among other information, the “Yearly Report” of its activities. 16: The Holy Father receives the credential letters of four new ambassadors to the Holy See: Bolot Iskovich Otunbaev from Kyrgyzstan, David Shoul from Antigua and Barbuda, Jean-Paul Senninger from Luxembourg and Lameck Nthekela from Botswana. 
18: The Holy Father receives in audience Angela Merkel, chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and entourage.
18-19: "Day of Ecclesial Movements, New Communities and Lay Associations” on the Solemnity of Pentecost and the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Ecumenical Council.
19: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, major archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars, India, takes possession of the title of St. Gregory VII al Gelsomino on Via del Cottolegno, 4.
22: Pope Francis visits the “Gift of Mary” House of Hospitality located within Vatican City, just outside St. Peter's Square, near the Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio.
22: The Holy Father receives in audience Thomas Boni Yayi, president of the Republic of Benin.
23: The Holy Father receives in audience Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, president of the Republic of El Salvador.
23: The Pontifical Lateran University dedicates a chair in “Political Socialization in Africa” to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin.
26: Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, pastoral visit to the Roman parish of “Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah” in Valle Muricana, Prima Porta. 26: Cardinal James Michael Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, takes possession of the diaconate of St. Pius V at Villa Carpegna in Largo San Pio V, 3.
31: The Holy Father receives in audience the president for the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Vuk Jeremic.
JUNE
1: The Holy Father receives in audience Jose Mujica Cordano, president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. 
2: On the Solemnity of Corpus Domini and as part of the Year of Faith, the Holy Father presides as a solemn Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration in St. Peter's
Basilica, in communion with cathedrals and parishes all over the world. 3: The Holy Father receives in audience Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca, president of the Republic of Cape Verde, and entourage.
5: Death of Cardinal Stanislaw Nagy, S.C.I., cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria della Scala, at the age of 91.
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Mohamed Taher Rabbani, ambassador of
the Islamic Republic of Iran, presenting his credential letters.
7: The Holy Father receives in audience Mikayel Minasyan, ambassador of Armenia, presenting his credential letters.
8: The Holy Father receives in an official visit the president of the Republic of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
10: The Holy Father receives in audience Mariano Palacios Alcocer, new ambassador of Mexico, presenting his credential letters
13: The Holy Father receives in audience Alenka Bratusek, prime minister of the Republic of Slovenia.
14: Visit of the archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace Justin Welby. 15: Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop of Manila, Philippines, takes
possession of the title of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle in Piazza San Felice da Cantalice, 20, Rome.
15: The Holy Father receives in audience José Manuel Durão Barroso, president of the European Commission.
17: The Holy Father receives in audience Nicolas Maduro Moro, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
24: The Holy Father receives in audience Joseph Muscat, prime minister of the Republic of Malta.
24: The Holy Father establishes a Pontifical Commission for Reference on the
Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) by chirograph dated 24 June 2013. JULY
4: The Holy Father receives in a private visit Enrico Letta, prime minister of the Republic of Italy. 
4: The Financial Intelligence Authority of the Holy See and Vatican City State (AIF) is admitted to the Egmont Group, a global network of Financial Intelligence Units.
4-7: “Day for seminarians, novices, and all those who have taken the path of vocation”, with the theme “I trust in you”, as part of the Year of Faith.
5: Publication of Pope Francis' first encyclical, entitled "Lumen fidei".
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona, president of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, with his wife and entourage.
8: The Holy Father visits the island of Lampedusa.
22-29: Apostolic trip to Brazil for the 28th World Youth Day.
26: The Financial Intelligence Authority (AIF) of the Holy See and Vatican City State signs a Memorandum of Understanding with its Italian counterpart, the Unità di Informazione Finanziaria (UIF) of the Bank of Italy. 28: Death of Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, archbishop emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia,
Italy, at the age of 99.
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NOTICE
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) - We remind our readers that the Vatican Information Service will remain closed during the entire month of August. Service will resume on Monday, 2 September.
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