Salt and Light Magazine Fall 2014

THE
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SYNOD OF BISHOPS
ON THE FAMILY 2014
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Letter From the CEO
INSIDE THE SYNOD

Synod of Bishops on the Family
Closing Address of Pope Francis
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Blessed Paul VI:
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Pope Paul VIs Closing

Messages of Vatican II
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Letter from the CEO
Dear Friends of
Salt and Light,
During the recent Extraordinary Synod of Bishops at the
Vatican, Salt and Light Television was granted a great privilege
and opportunity to document the Synod for the Vatican and
share our television and video coverage with the entire world.
In this edition of our magazine, you will read more about the
Synodal experience from three of our producers, Sebastian
Gomes (English), Charles Le Bourgeois (French) and Rodney
Leung (Chinese). Not only did we have many opportunities to
interview the Synod Fathers and other delegates and experts
who took part in this important, universal ecclesial assembly
dedicated to the theme of the Family, we were also able to
conduct a number of very significant interviews for our various
television programs. During the exclusive interview I did with
the new Vatican Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro
Parolin, the Cardinal shared this message with our viewers at
the end of the wonderful interview:
Thank you, thanks to you. And if you don't mind me saying:
Always try to be light and salt of the earth.
Cardinal Parolin and so many others at the Synod and else
where have often commented on the name of our network and
media foundation: Salt and Light. It is a name that comes from
Jesus sermon on the mount in Matthews Gospel (5:1314).
Those words were the theme of World Youth Day 2002 in

Canada, and were chosen for us by St. John Paul II. Jesus con
tinues to invite us to bring the flavor of the Gospel into some
very tasteless times and places. He challenges us to bear the light
of Christ and become that light to those who dwell in shadows,
darkness and the shadow of death.
During these days of Advent and Christmas when we reflect
on Gods greatest communication with us through his son,
Jesus, we are given many moments to think of the ways that
we communicate with one another. We live in a technological
universe in which we are always communicating.
Christmas reminds humanity of one profound message: that
God has mixed with the human family, and loved them all- the
women and the men, the weak and the strong, the rich and the
poor, those who love and those who hate, those who are beauti
ful and those who are not. At Christmas we are taught where
to find God: in the midst of humanity, in the thick and thin
of the human race, in the smile and tears of a newborn baby,
in the suffering of strangers, in the cherished gift of friendship.
From now on, anyone who really understands that God has
become human will never be able to communicate and act in
an inhuman way.
The Word did not become an e-mail, a tweet or text message,
or some kind of divine oracle uttered from some distant heaven
long ago. Through Mary, the Word became flesh and pitched
his tent among us. The Word became close to real people in real
time. This Christmas, may our words become flesh in real time
among the people we love and those with whom we live and
work. Let us become salt and light in our times and places, and
offer the flavor of the Gospel and the light of Christ to those we
love and cherish.
Thank you for all you doyour prayers, friendship and
financial assistancethat enable our mission of bringing the
flavor of the Gospel and the light of Christ to a waiting world.
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SYNOD
Inside the
Synod of Bishops on the Family 2014
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INSIDE THE SYNOD
Salt and Light producers (from left)

Sebastian Gomes, Rodney Leung and
Charles Le Bourgeois inside the Synod Hall.
They reported daily in English, Chinese
and French respectively, documenting the
discussions taking place during the Synod
on the Family.
A Synod means walking together but also praying together.

~ Pope Francis, October 2nd, 2014.
RODNEY LEUNG
From October 5 to 19, I witnessed the
reality of the statement above. There
was in total over 250 people inside the
hall where the Synod was held, including
cardinals, bishops and lay couples from 5
continents. All gathered together not only
for the meetings, but also for celebrating
a reunion in the Church. Everyone shared
their interventions, experiences and sug
gestions about the Pastoral Challenges
to the Family in the Context of Evange
lization. At that moment, the Church is
alive! Although every participants speech
was limited to 4 minutes, they spoke their
minds very freely. Also, it was a great op

portunity for them to open their hearts
and listened to each other.
We are very thankful that Salt and
Light was part of this historic moment
in Church history, especially for our
Chinese programming team. It was a
fruitful lesson for us to cover the Synod
in Chinese. Although family challenges
are similar in every country, the mean
ings behind these challenges are very
different from one culture to another.
The challenge of the Church is: how can
the bishops of the world pastor their
flocks based on the truth and the teach
ings of the Church on families? This is a
big question. These two weeks were an
amazing opportunity for them to discuss
their challenges and listen to lay couples
share their family stories. All the par
ticipants contributed to the discussions
and debates but no single answer was
considered the consensus of all. Their
Rodney greeting Pope Francis inside the
Synod hall during a coffee break. All three
S+L producers met the Holy Father several
times over the course of the Synod.
contributed works and thoughts will

be used as preparatory materials and
working documents for the next Synod.
The conclusion of this Synod is how
the Church could provide pastoral care
for families facing particular challenges,
in accordance with the teachings of the
Church. Unlike some might have hoped,
the Synod is a vehicle for implementing
the teachings and doctrines of the Church
rather than to change them. We have to
understand the meaning of Mercy from
Jesus Christ. The true meaning of Mercy
is to bring people to the truth. The Third
Extraordinary General Assembly of the
Synod of Bishops is just a stage for pre
paring for the Synod that is to come in
October, 2015. There is still a long road
ahead for the Church and the faithful. Let
us all learn not to judge but to love, and
pray with others for all families.
CHARLES LE BOURGEOIS
Before it even began this past October at
the Vatican, the Synod on the family was
widely talked about and evoked a broad
range of emotions. Some, on the outside of
the Synod, even ventured to ask: will the
Left: Charles takes notes during the

discussions in the Synod hall.
Bottom left: Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri,
Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops
and the S+L team.
Bottom right: Pope Francis presiding over on
of the Synod sessions.
a balance between the demands of the

Gospel and the mercy which Christ
proclaims. The Synod showed just how
diverse and complex the situations the
Church faces throughout the world are.
The Church will give answers to these
situations at the next Synod on the family
in October 2015.
SEBASTIAN GOMES
Church change its doctrine on the family?

A question that sets high expectations
for a Synod whose priority is to change
neither the dogma nor the doctrine.
Even before the bishops assembled,
the Synod was being presented to us as
a battlefield on which conservatives
and progressives would have to cross
swords. This disagreement seemed to be
focused solely on the question of divorced
and remarried couples. Although such a
discussion is fundamental and necessary,
the Synod extends to a wider range of
concerns. To limit the Synod to just one
question is to ignore all other difficult
situations facing families.
The Synod fathers arrived with their
own expectations and concerns from
their respective corners of the globe. If
bishops from the West were concerned
for the divorced and remarried and
homosexuals, the issues were altogether
different coming from African countries,
where polygamy remains their biggest
challenge. In the Middle East, the ques
tion is one of survival for families whose
women and children are constantly
facing death.
Contrary to the expectations of the
mainstream media, there were no battles
between factions, regardless of opposing
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views which came to light in the final

document. What I found most impressive
was the fraternity between the Synod
fathers, who were not there to defend
their own agendas but to uphold the
fidelity of the Church and the family.
In his final message, Pope Francis
synthesized these temptations well: first,
to close oneself within the written word,
within the law. It is the temptation of
the so-calledtodaytraditionalists.
Second, the temptation of a destructive
tendency to goodness, that in the name
of a deceptive mercy binds the wounds
without first curing them. It is the temp
tation of the so-called progressives.
The challenge, therefore, is to find
What a great joy and privilege it was for

Salt and Light to be present inside the
recent Extraordinary Synod of Bishops
on the Pastoral Challenges to the Family
in the Context of Evangelization! It was
an incredible and historic two weeks of
open discussion and debate on themes
that affect each and every one of us.
Without focusing on any one storyline
that might risk missing the forest for
the trees, I would like to share what I
witnessed inside the Synod and suggest
a broader perspective for understand
ing the historic journey that the whole
church is now undertaking.
Pope Francis October 2013 an
nouncement of the first two-stage Synod
in modern history immediately changed
the levels of interest and expectation.
Discussions about the pastoral chal
lenges to family life would occur at
the same time as the Synod structure

and process themselves were being
renewed. Part of that renewal was the
drafting and disseminating of a surpris
ingly direct pastoral survey that invited
feedback from the local churches on the
challenges facing families and how the
churchs teachings are understood today.
The information was collected and pro
cessed in a working document called an
Instrumentum Laboris, which was used
as the starting point for the bishops dis
cussion. The Synod officially opened on
October5,2014.
As John XXIII had done at the opening
of Vatican II, Pope Francis gave the as
pastoral approach to those situations but,

unlike some speculations in the media,
they were conducted charitably and from
a genuine concern for the wellbeing of
people and the teachings of the church.
It may be surprising to learn that not one
single bishop at the Synod challenged the
churchs teaching of the indissolubility of
marriage.
At the same time it would be false to
say that this Synod was like any others of
the past fifty years. It was precisely that
dynamic of raising very serious pastoral
questions in an environment of free and
honest expression that gave rise to some
disagreements, the likes of which have
happily say thatwith a spirit of colle

giality and of Synodalitywe have truly
lived the experience of Synod, a path of
solidarity, a journey together.
The beginning of a journey together:
that is what I witnessed inside the Synod.
Anyone who has walked with friends
or family on one of lifes many journeys
knows well the complex and unpredict
able struggles that arise, and the daunting
challenges and reasonable hesitations
present from the outset. Deciding to go
at all requires a good amount of faith.
Inside the Synod I watched the pastors
of the church decide to take the first step
on a journey, prompted by the Successor
of Peter, toward a more collegial commu
nion. And like any journey worth taking,
much will be learned along the way.
The sensitive themes of marriage
and family life give this journey a kind
of double-edged complexity that will
require of everyone an equal amount of
knowledge of the tradition and openness
to the Holy Spirit. But even at this stage,
with more questions than answers, there
is consolation in the fact that the church,
whether we realize it or not, is always
journeying; that salvation history is itself
a journey and that we are by definition a
pilgrim people.
With that comes a renewed spirit and,
in the context of the pastoral challenges
to the family, the humbling realization
that we do not own the truth but are
always stewards and students of it. The
Fathers of the Second Vatican Council,
whose memory and prophetic wisdom
Sebastian meeting Pope Francis inside the
Synod Hall.
sembly a clear directionnot in content

but in approachby insisting from the
beginning that the bishops speak with
freedom and listen with humility. Then
he sat down and listened attentively.
One by one the bishops presentwho
were mostly heads of episcopal confer
encesvoiced the concerns of their local
churches and the complex situations that
families find themselves in today. There
were disagreements over the churchs
not been experienced in a Synod since

Vatican II.
The intense discussions, interpreted
by some Catholics as creating confusion
and discord, elicited a different response
from Pope Francis. Addressing the Synod
for a second time during its final session
on October 18, the Pope said he would
be worried if there werent animated dis
cussions and he gave the revived Synod
process his unequivocal approval: I can
shine like a beacon for the church on

this historic journey, do well to remind
us that, The church is not motivated
by earthly ambition but is interested in
one thing onlyto carry on the work of
Christ under the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, who came into the world to bear
witness to the truth, to save and not to
judge, to serve and not to be served.
(Gaudium et Spes, 3)
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INSIDE THE SYNOD
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS

FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE THIRD EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS
Synod Hall
October 18, 2014
Dear Eminences, Beatitudes, Excellencies, Brothers and Sisters,

With a heart full of appreciation and gratitude I want to
thank, along with you, the Lord who has accompanied and
guided us in the past days, with the light of the Holy Spirit.
From the heart I thank Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary
General of the Synod, Bishop Fabio Fabene, under-secretary,
and with them I thank the Relators, Cardinal Peter Erdo, who
has worked so much in these days of family mourning, and the
Special Secretary Bishop Bruno Forte, the three President del
egates, the transcribers, the consultors, the translators and the
unknown workers, all those who have worked with true fidelity
and total dedication behind the scenes and without rest. Thank
you so much from the heart.
I thank all of you as well, dear Synod fathers, Fraternal
Delegates, Auditors, and Assessors, for your active and fruit
ful participation. I will keep you in prayer asking the Lord to
reward you with the abundance of His gifts of grace!
I can happily say thatwith a spirit of collegiality and of
synodalitywe have truly lived the experience of Synod, a
path of solidarity, a journey together.
And it has been a journeyand like every journey there
were moments of running fast, as if wanting to conquer time
and reach the goal as soon as possible; other moments of fatigue,
as if wanting to say enough; other moments of enthusiasm
and ardour. There were moments of profound consolation listen
ing to the testimony of true pastors, who wisely carry in their
hearts the joys and the tears of their faithful people. Moments
of consolation and grace and comfort hearing the testimonies of
the families who have participated in the Synod and have shared
with us the beauty and the joy of their married life. A journey
where the stronger feel compelled to help the less strong, where
the more experienced are led to serve others, even through con
frontations. And since it is a journey of human beings, with the
consolations there were also moments of desolation, of tensions
and temptations, of which a few possibilities could be mentioned:
- One, a temptation to hostile inflexibility, that is, wanting to
close oneself within the written word, (the letter) and not
allowing oneself to be surprised by God, by the God of
surprises, (the spirit); within the law, within the certitude of
what we know and not of what we still need to learn and to
achieve. From the time of Christ, it is the temptation of the
zealous, of the scrupulous, of the solicitous and of the socalledtodaytraditionalists and also of the intellectuals.
- The temptation to a destructive tendency to goodness [it.
buonismo], that in the name of a deceptive mercy binds the
wounds without first curing them and treating them; that
treats the symptoms and not the causes and the roots. It is
the temptation of the do-gooders, of the fearful, and also
of the so-called progressives and liberals.
- The temptation to transform stones into bread to break
the long, heavy, and painful fast (cf. Lk 4:1-4); and also
to transform the bread into a stone and cast it against the
sinners, the weak, and the sick (cf Jn 8:7), that is, to trans
form it into unbearable burdens (Lk 11:46).
- The temptation to come down off the Cross, to please the
people, and not stay there, in order to fulfil the will of the
Father; to bow down to a worldly spirit instead of purifying
it and bending it to the Spirit of God.
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- The temptation to neglect the depositum fidei [the deposit

of faith], not thinking of themselves as guardians but as
owners or masters [of it]; or, on the other hand, the tempta
tion to neglect reality, making use of meticulous language
and a language of smoothing to say so many things and to
say nothing! They call them byzantinisms, I think, these
things
Dear brothers and sisters, the temptations must not
frighten or disconcert us, or even discourage us, because no
disciple is greater than his master; so if Jesus Himself was
temptedand even called Beelzebul (cf. Mt 12:24)His
disciples should not expect better treatment.
Personally I would be very worried and saddened if it were
not for these temptations and these animated discussions; this
movement of the spirits, as St Ignatius called it (Spiritual Exer
cises, 6), if all were in a state of agreement, or silent in a false
and quietist peace. Instead, I have seen and I have heardwith
joy and appreciationspeeches and interventions full of faith,
of pastoral and doctrinal zeal, of wisdom, of frankness and
of courage: and of parresia. And I have felt that what was set
before our eyes was the good of the Church, of families, and
the supreme law, the good of souls (cf. Can. 1752). And
this alwayswe have said it here, in the Hallwithout ever
putting into question the fundamental truths of the Sacrament
of marriage: the indissolubility, the unity, the faithfulness, the
fruitfulness, that openness to life (cf. Cann. 1055, 1056; and

Gaudium et spes, 48).
And this is the Church, the vineyard of the Lord, the fertile
Mother and the caring Teacher, who is not afraid to roll up her
sleeves to pour oil and wine on peoples wound; who doesnt see
humanity as a house of glass to judge or categorize people. This
is the Church, One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and composed
of sinners, needful of Gods mercy. This is the Church, the true
bride of Christ, who seeks to be faithful to her spouse and to
her doctrine. It is the Church that is not afraid to eat and drink
with prostitutes and publicans. The Church that has the doors
wide open to receive the needy, the penitent, and not only the
just or those who believe they are perfect! The Church that is
not ashamed of the fallen brother and pretends not to see him,
but on the contrary feels involved and almost obliged to lift
him up and to encourage him to take up the journey again and
accompany him toward a definitive encounter with her Spouse,
in the heavenly Jerusalem.
The is the Church, our Mother! And when the Church, in
the variety of her charisms, expresses herself in communion, she
cannot err: it is the beauty and the strength of the sensus fidei,
of that supernatural sense of the faith which is bestowed by the
Holy Spirit so that, together, we can all enter into the heart of
the Gospel and learn to follow Jesus in our life. And this should
never be seen as a source of confusion and discord.
Image 2014 Catholic News Service
Pope Francis listens attentively on the final day of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family.
All images 2014 Catholic News Service

Above: Pope Francis using incense as
he celebrates the beatification Mass
of Blessed Paul VI. The mass (centre)
marked the end of the extraordinary
Synod of Bishops on the Family.
Many commentators, or people

who talk, have imagined that they
see a disputatious Church where
one part is against the other, doubting even the Holy Spirit, the
true promoter and guarantor of the unity and harmony of the
Churchthe Holy Spirit who throughout history has always
guided the barque, through her Ministers, even when the sea was
rough and choppy, and the ministers unfaithful and sinners.
And, as I have dared to tell you , [as] I told you from the begin
ning of the Synod, it was necessary to live through all this with
tranquillity, and with interior peace, so that the Synod would take
place cum Petro and sub Petro (with Peter and under Peter), and
the presence of the Pope is the guarantee of it all.
We will speak a little bit about the Pope, now, in relation to the
Bishops [laughing]. So, the duty of the Pope is that of guarantee
ing the unity of the Church; it is that of reminding the faithful of
their duty to faithfully follow the Gospel of Christ; it is that of
reminding the pastors that their first duty is to nourish the flock
to nourish the flockthat the Lord has entrusted to them, and
to seek to welcomewith fatherly care and mercy, and without
false fearsthe lost sheep. I made a mistake here. I said welcome:
[rather] to go out and find them!
His duty is to remind everyone that authority in the Church
is a service, as Pope Benedict XVI clearly explained, with words
I cite verbatim: The Church is called and commits herself to
exercise this kind of authority which is service and exercises it
not in her own name, but in the name of Jesus Christ through
the Pastors of the Church, in fact: it is he who guides, protects and
corrects them, because he loves them deeply. But the Lord Jesus,
the supreme Shepherd of our souls, has willed that the Apostolic
College, today the Bishops, in communion with the Successor
of Peter to participate in his mission of taking care of God's
People, of educating them in the faith and of guiding, inspiring
and sustaining the Christian community, or, as the Council puts
it, to see to it... that each member of the faithful shall be led
in the Holy Spirit to the full development of his own vocation
in accordance with Gospel preaching, and to sincere and active
charity and to exercise that liberty with which Christ has set us
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI arrives at

the beatification Mass of Blessed Paul VI
in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The
mass was celebrated on Oct. 19.
free (cf. Presbyterorum Ordinis, 6)

and it is through us, Pope Benedict
continues, that the Lord reaches
souls, instructs, guards and guides them. St Augustine, in his
Commentary on the Gospel of St John, says: let it therefore be
a commitment of love to feed the flock of the Lord (cf. 123, 5);
this is the supreme rule of conduct for the ministers of God, an
unconditional love, like that of the Good Shepherd, full of joy,
given to all, attentive to those close to us and solicitous for those
who are distant (cf. St Augustine, Discourse 340, 1; Discourse 46,
15), gentle towards the weakest, the little ones, the simple, the
sinners, to manifest the infinite mercy of God with the reassuring
words of hope (cf. ibid., Epistle, 95, 1).
So, the Church is Christsshe is His brideand all the
bishops, in communion with the Successor of Peter, have the
task and the duty of guarding her and serving her, not as masters
but as servants. The Pope, in this context, is not the supreme lord
but rather the supreme servantthe servant of the servants of
God; the guarantor of the obedience and the conformity of
the Church to the will of God, to the Gospel of Christ, and to
the Tradition of the Church, putting aside every personal whim,
despite beingby the will of Christ Himselfthe supreme
Pastor and Teacher of all the faithful (Can. 749) and despite
enjoying supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary
power in the Church (cf. Cann. 331-334).
Dear brothers and sisters, now we still have one year to
mature, with true spiritual discernment, the proposed ideas and
to find concrete solutions to so many difficulties and innumer
able challenges that families must confront; to give answers to
the many discouragements that surround and suffocate families.
One year to work on the Synodal Relatio which is the
faithful and clear summary of everything that has been said and
discussed in this hall and in the small groups. It is presented to
the Episcopal Conferences as lineamenta [guidelines].
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Virgin Mary and of Saint Joseph. And please, do not forget to
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BLESSED
PAUL
VI:
THE HELMSMAN
OF VATICAN II
BY FR. THOMAS ROSICA, CSB
iovanni
Battista
Enrico
Antonio Maria Montini was
born on September 26, 1897
at Concesio (Lombardy) of
a wealthy family of the upper class.
His father was a non-practicing lawyer
turned editor and a courageous promoter
of social action. Even after entering the
seminary (1916) he was allowed to live at
home because of his frail health. After his
ordination in 1920 he was sent to Rome
to study at the Gregorian University and
the University of Rome, but in 1922 he
transferred to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical
Academy in Rome to study diplomacy
and pursue his canon law studies at the
Gregorian University. In 1923 he was sent
to Warsaw as attach of the nunciature
but was recalled to Rome (1924), because
of the effect of the severe Polish winters
on his health, and assigned to the office of
the Secretariat of State where he remained
for the next thirty years. During those
years he also taught the Ecclesiastical
Academy and was named chaplain to the
Federation of Italian Catholic University
Students (FUCI), an assignment that was
to have a decisive impact on his relations
with the founders of the post-war Chris
tian Democratic Party.
In 1937 he was named substitute for

ordinary affairs under Cardinal Eugenio
Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State.
On Pacelli's election as Pius XII in 1939,
Montini was reconfirmed in his position
under the new secretary of state, Cardinal
Luigi Maglione. When the latter died in
1944, Montini continued to discharge
his office directly under the pope. During
World War II he was responsible for or
ganizing the Vaticans massive relief work
and care of political refugees.
In the secret consistory of 1952 Pope
Pius XII announced that he had intended
to raise Montini and Domenico Tardini
to the Sacred College of Cardinals but
that they had both asked to be dispensed
from accepting. Instead he conferred on
both of them the title of Pro-secretary
of State. The following year Montini
was appointed Archbishop of Milan
but still without the title of cardinal.
Soon he became known and loved as
the "archbishop of the workers." He
revitalized the entire diocese, preached
the social message of the Gospel, worked
to win back the laboring class, promoted
Catholic education at every level, and
supported the Catholic press. His impact
upon the city at this time was so great
that it attracted world-wide attention.
At the conclave of 1958 his name was
frequently mentioned, and at Pope John's
BLESSED PAUL VI: THE HELMSMAN OF VATICAN II
first consistory in December of that year

he was one of 23 prelates raised to the
cardinalate with his name leading the list.
Montinis response to the call for a
Council was immediate and even before
it met he was identified as a strong ad
vocate of the principle of collegiality. He
was appointed to the Central Preparatory
Commission for Vatican II and also to the
Technical-Organizational Commission.
On the death of Pope John XXIII,
Montini was elected June 21, 1963 to
succeed him, taking the name of PaulVI.
Few imagined the upheaval that would
shake both church and world in the
next decade. Within a short span of five
years, Papa Giovanni had humanized
the papacy and launched an ecumeni
cal council that captured hearts, stirred
imaginations and elevated hopes of many
outside the Roman Catholic Church, as
well as within.
In PaulVIs first message to the world,
he committed himself to a continuation
of the work begun by John XXIII. The
historical backdrop of the Council must
never be forgotten: it was a post-war
period where fears diminished, economies
began to grow in many industrialized
countries, a young Catholic president in
the United States breathed courageous
hope into what many had considered an

uncertain future.
In a seeming flash, the hopes and
dreams of the early 1960s were dashed
as senseless, political assassinations were
followed by violence, terrorism, race
riots and a far-away war in Vietnam that
would suddenly overtake our world.
And with that war came a new wave of
poverty, unemployment, violence, mass
protests and massive disorientation.
This was the modern world over which
Pope Paul VI would preside; these were
the confusing and often violent times
into which PaulVI would introduce the
themes of Sacrosanctum Concilium,
Gaudium et Spes, Lumen Gentium,
and Dignitatis Humanefirst fruits of
the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
The waters upon which the barque of
Peter would sail those years were choppy
and stormy.
Throughout his pontificate the tension
between papal primacy and the collegi
ality of the episcopacy was a source of
conflict. PaulVI overcame the resistance
of reactionaries and implemented the
reforms established by the council in the
areas of liturgy, church governance and
the attitudes of Catholics toward other
religions. The popes highly personal

encounters with other religious leaders

ushered in a new openness of the Roman
Catholic Church to other faiths.
On September 14, 1965 he announced
the establishment of the Synod of Bishops
called for by the Council fathers to
pursue the councils accent on episcopal
collegiality. National conferences of
bishops were strengthened or newly
established, and Paul VI would preside
over five synods of bishops from around
the world. Certain issues that seemed
suitable for discussion by the synod were
reserved to himself. Celibacy, removed
from the debate of the fourth session of
the Council, was made the subject of an
encyclical, June 24, 1967); the regula
tion of birth was treated in Humanae
vitae July 24, 1968), his last encyclical.
Controversies over these two papal docu
ments often overshadowed the last years
of his pontificate.
As the world came undone, Paul VI
breathed into its very fabric the idea,
hope and dream of a lasting justice and
peace for humanity through a very per
sonal campaign that was fought by his
own, peaceful and passionate personal
witness and his magnificent papal docu
ments noted for their clarity, depth and
beauty.
PaulVI took the Church off the banks
of the Tiber to the ends of the earth
and brought with him his message and
human rights, human dignity and human
development. We must never forget his
attentive listening to the voices of the
poor in slums and barrios in Calcutta,
Manila and Medellin. We can still hear
his voice echo through the General As
sembly of the United Nations in New
York in 1964: War never again. In
his 1967 encyclical, The Development
of Peoples (Populorum Progressio),
he employed modern methods of social
and economic analysis to underscore the
injustice of a world where material re
sources were so unevenly distributed that
they failed to serve the purpose of human
developmenta message ever ancient,
ever relevant and ever new.
President John F. Kennedy meeting with Pope

Paul VI at the Vatican in July of 1963.
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Pope Paul VI presides over a meeting of the Second Vatican Council in

St. Peters Basilica at the Vatican in 1963.
Those who knew him best, however,

described him as a brilliant man, deeply
spiritual, humble, reserved and gentle, a
man of "infinite courtesy." During the
final years of his life, PaulVI often spoke
of the burdens of age and the imminence
of death. He was deeply troubled by the
senseless violence and terrorism in the
world and tried to stir human consciences
to seek peace.
Though profoundly saddened at the
cheapening of human life, he never failed
to see beyond the tragedy of our times and
glimpse the radiant beauty of the transfig
ured Lord. It was no coincidence that he
closed his eyes on this sad yet beautiful
world on the Feast of the Transfiguration
of the Lord, August 6, also the day in
1945 on which the first atomic bomb was
dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Could
it be that the Lord Jesus, whom Paul
loved so deeply, was letting this successor
of Peter know that despite the darkness
of our times, the blazing radiant light of
Jesus would overcome the shadows and
the night, and lead Paul VI home to a
place of enduring light and peace?
After 80 years of earthly pilgrimage,
PaulVI found his own transfiguration in
that Light. Pope Paul VI asked that his
funeral be simple with no catafalque and
no monument over his grave.
On October 19, 2014, during the con
cluding mass of the Extraordinary Synod
of Bishops in Rome, Pope Francis spoke

these words at Pauls Beatification:
When we look to this great Pope,
this courageous Christian, this tireless
apostle, we cannot but say in the sight of
God a word as simple as it is heartfelt and
important: thanks! Thank you, our dear
and beloved Pope PaulVI! Thank you for
your humble and prophetic witness of
love for Christ and his Church!
In his personal journal, the great
helmsman of the Council wrote, at the
conclusion of its final session: Perhaps
the Lord has called me and preserved me
for this service not because I am particu
larly fit for it, or so that I can govern and
rescue the Church from her present diffi
culties, but so that I can suffer something
for the Church, and in that way it will be
clear that he, and no other, is her guide
and saviour (P. Macchi, Paolo VI nella
sua parola, Brescia, 2001, pp. 120-121).
In this humility the grandeur of Blessed
Paul VI shines forth: before the advent
of a secularized and hostile society, he
could hold fast, with farsightedness and
wisdomand at times aloneto the
helm of the barque of Peter, while never
losing his joy and his trust in the Lord.
May this great helmsman of the
Church watch over us, teach us and help
us to never lose our joy and our hope
(gaudium et spes) in the Lord. Blessed
PaulVI, pray for us.
Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch

Athenagoras attend a prayer service in
Jerusalem in January 1964.
Archbishop Karol Wojtyla of Krakow,

Poland, receives the cardinal's red
biretta from Pope Paul VI in the Sistine
Chapel June 26, 1967.
Pope Paul VI greets children as he visits

the Church of St. Leo the Great in Rome
March 31, 1968
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POPE PAUL VIs CLOSING

MESSAGES OF VATICAN II
December 8, 1965
The hour for departure and separation has sounded. In a few

moments you are about to leave the council assembly to go out
to meet mankind and to bring the good news of the Gospel of
Christ and of the renovation of His Church at which we have
been working together for four years.
This is a unique moment, a moment of incomparable signifi
cance and riches. In this universal assembly, in this privileged
point of time and space, there converge together the past, the
present and the future -- the past: for here, gathered in this spot,
we have the Church of Christ with her tradition, her history, her
councils, her doctors, her saints; the present: for we are taking
leave of one another to go out towards the world of today with
its miseries, its sufferings, its sins, but also with its prodigious
accomplishment, its values, its virtues; and lastly the future is
here in the urgent appeal of the peoples of the world for more
justice, in their will for peace, in their conscious or unconscious
thirst for a higher life, that life precisely which the Church of
Christ can and wishes to live them.
We seem to hear from every corner of the world an immense
and confused voice, the questions of all those who look towards
the council and ask us anxiously: "Have you not a word for
us?" For us rulers? For us intellectuals, workers, artists? And
for us women? For us of the younger generation, for us the sick
and the poor?
These pleading voices will not remain unheeded. It is for
all these categories of men that the council has been working
for four years. It is for them that there has been prepared this
Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, which we
promulgated yesterday amidst the enthusiastic applause of your
assembly.
From our long meditation on Christ and His Church there
should spring forth at this moment a first announcement of
peace and salvation for the waiting multitudes. Before breaking
up, the council wishes to fulfill this prophetic function and to
translate into brief messages and a language accessible to all
men, the "good news" which it has for the world and which
some of its most respected spokesmen are now about to pro
nounce in your name for the whole of humanity.
Excerpts of the Messages read and delivered at the end of
Vatican II:
Coat of Arms of Pope Paul VI by Tom Lemmens.
TO MEN OF THOUGHT AND SCIENCE

(read by Paul Emile Cardinal Leger of Montreal, assisted by
Antonio Cardinal Caggiano of Buenos Aires and Norman Cardinal Gilroy of Sydney, Australia.)
A very special greeting to you, seekers after truth, to you,
men of thought and science, the explorers of man, of the uni
verse and of history, to all of you who are pilgrims en route to
the light and to those also who have stopped along the road,
tired and disappointed by their vain search.
Why a special greeting for you? Because all of us here, bishops
and Fathers of the council, are on the lookout for truth. What
have our efforts amounted to during these four years except a
more attentive search for and deepening of the message of truth
entrusted to the Church and an effort at more perfect docility to
the spirit of truth.
Hence our paths could not fail to cross. Your road is ours.
Your paths are never foreign to ours. We are the friends of your
vocation as searchers, companions in your fatigues, admirers of
your successes and, if necessary, consolers in your discourage
ment and your failures.
Hence for you also we have a message and it is this: Continue
your search without tiring and without ever despairing of the
truth. Recall the words of one of your great friends, St. Augus
tine: "Let us seek with the desire to find, and find with the desire
to seek still more." Happy are those who, while possessing the
truth, search more earnestly for it in order to renew it, deepen it
and transmit it to others. Happy also are those who, not having
found it, are working toward it with a sincere heart. May they
seek the light of tomorrow with the light of today until they
reach the fullness of light.
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MESSAGES of VATICAN II
July 21, 1969: Pope Paul VI watches the first

manned lunar landing on television at the
Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy.
But do not forget that if thinking is something great, it is first

a duty. Woe to him who voluntarily closes his eyes to the light.
Thinking is also a responsibility, so woe to those who darken the
spirit by the thousand tricks which degrade it, make it proud,
deceive and deform it. What other basic principle is there for
men of science except to think rightly?
For this purpose, without troubling your efforts, without
dazzling brilliance, we come to offer you the light of our mys
terious lamp which is faith. He who entrusted this lamp to us is
the sovereign Master of all thought, He whose humble disciples
we are, the only one who said and could have said: "I am the
light of the world, I am the way, the truth and the life."
These words have meaning for you. Never perhaps, thank
God, has there been so clear a possibility as today of a deep
understanding between real science and real faith, mutual
servants of one another in the one truth. Do not stand in the
way of this important meeting. Have confidence in faith, this
great friend of intelligence. Enlighten yourselves with its light
in order to take hold of truth, the whole truth. This is the wish,
the encouragement and the hope, which, before disbanding, is
expressed to you by the Fathers of the entire world assembled
at Rome in council.
TO ARTISTS
(read by Leo Cardinal Suenens of Malines Brussels, Belgium,
assisted by Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore and Jaime
Cardinal de Barros Camara of Rio de Janeiro.)
We now address you, artists, who are taken up with beauty
and work for it: poets and literary men, painters, sculptors, ar
chitects, musicians, men devoted to the theater and the cinema.
To all of you, the Church of the council declares to you through
our voice: if you are friends of genuine art, you are our friends.
The Church has long since joined in alliance with you. You
have built and adorned her temples, celebrated her dogmas,
enriched her liturgy You have aided her in translating her divine
message in the language of forms and figures, making the invis
ible world palpable. Today, as yesterday, the Church needs you

and turns to you. She tells you through our voice: Do not allow
an alliance as fruitful as this to be broken. Do not refuse to put
your talents at the service of divine truth. Do not close your
mind to the breath of the Holy Spirit.
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink
into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart
of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear
of time, which unites generations and makes them share things
in admiration. And all of this is through your hands. May these
hands be pure and disinterested. Remember that you are the
guardians of beauty in the world. May that suffice to free you
from tastes which are passing and have no genuine value, to
free you from the search after strange or unbecoming expres
sions. Be always and everywhere worthy of your ideals and you
will be worthy of the Church which, by our voice, addresses
to you today her message of friendship, salvation, grace and
benediction.
TO WOMEN
(read by Leon Cardinal Duval of Algiers, Algeria, assisted by
Julius Cardinal Doepfner of Munich, Germany, and Raul Cardinal Siloa of Santiago, Chile.)
And now it is to you that we address ourselves, women of all
states -- girls, wives, mothers and widows, to you also, conse
crated virgins and women living alone -- you constitute half of
the immense human family. As you know, the Church is proud
to have glorified and liberated woman, and in the course of the
centuries, in diversity of characters, to have brought into relief
her basic equality with man. But the hour is coming, in fact
has come, when the vocation of woman is being achieved in
its fullness, the hour in which woman acquires in the world an
influence, an effect and a power never hitherto achieved. That
is why, at this moment when the human race is under-going so
deep a transformation, women impregnated with the spirit of
the Gospel can do so much to aid mankind in not falling.
POPE PAUL VIS CLOSING MESSAGES OF VATICAN II
You women have always had as your lot the protection of the
home, the love of beginnings and an understanding of cradles.
You are present in the mystery of a life beginning. You offer
consolation in the departure of death. Our technology runs the
risk of becoming inhuman. Reconcile men with life and above
all, we beseech you, watch carefully over the future of our race.
Hold back the hand of man who, in a moment of folly, might
attempt to destroy human civilization.
Wives, mothers of families, the first educators of the human
race in the intimacy of the family circle, pass on to your sons
and your daughters the traditions of your fathers at the same
time that you prepare them for an unsearchable future. Always
remember that by her children a mother belongs to that future
which perhaps she will not see.
And you, women living alone, realize what you can accom
plish through your dedicated vocation. Society is appealing to
you on all sides. Not even families can live without the help of
those who have no families. Especially you, consecrated virgins,
in a world where egoism and the search for pleasure would
become law, be the guardians of purity, unselfishness and piety.
Jesus who has given to conjugal love all its plenitudes, has also
exalted the renouncement of human love when this is for the
sake of divine love and for the service of all.
Lastly, women in trial, who stand upright at the foot of the
cross like Mary, you who so often in history have given to men
the strength to battle unto the very end and to give witness to
the point of martyrdom, aid them now still once more to retain
courage in their great undertakings, while at the same time
maintaining patience and an esteem for humble beginnings.
Women, you do know how to make truth sweet, tender and
accessible, make it your task to bring the spirit of this council
into institutions, schools, homes and daily life. Women of the
entire universe, whether Christian or non-believing, you to
whom life is entrusted at this grave moment in history, it is for
you to save the peace of the world.
TO YOUTH
(read by Gregorio Cardinal Agagianian of the Roman curia,
assisted by Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and Valerian
Cardinal Gracias of Bombay.)
Lastly, it is to you, young men and women of the world, that
the council wishes to address its final message. For it is you who
are to receive the torch from the hands of your elders and to live
in the world at the period of the most gigantic transformations
ever realized in its history. It is you who, receiving the best of the
example of the teaching of your parents and your teachers, are
to form the society of tomorrow. You will either save yourselves
or you will perish with it.
For four years the Church has been working to rejuvenate
her image in order to respond the better to the design of her
Founder, the great Living One, the Christ who is eternally
young. At the term of this imposing re-examination of life, she
now turns to you. It is for you, youth, especially for you that the
Church now comes through her council to enkindle your light,
the light which illuminates the future, your future. The Church
is anxious that this society that you are going to build up should
respect the dignity, the liberty and the rights of individuals.
These individuals are you. The Church is particularly anxious
that this society should allow free expansion to her treasure ever
ancient and ever new, namely faith, and that your souls may be
able to bask freely in its helpful light. She has confidence that
you will find such strength and such joy that you will not be
tempted, as were some of your elders, to yield to the seductions
of egoistic or hedonistic philosophies or to those of despair and
annihilation, and that in the face of atheism, a phenomenon of
lassitude and old age, you will know how to affirm your faith in
life and in what gives meaning to life, that is to say, the certitude
of the existence of a just and good God.
It is in the name of this God and of His Son, Jesus, that we
exhort you to open your hearts to the dimensions of the world,
to heed the appeal of your brothers, to place your youthful
energies at their service. Fight against all egoism. Refuse to
give free course to the instincts of violence and hatred which
beget wars and all their train of miseries. Be generous, pure,
respectful and sincere, and build in enthusiasm a better world
than your elders had.
The Church looks to you with confidence and with love.
Rich with a long past ever living in her, and marching on toward
human perfection in time and the ultimate destinies of history
and of life, the Church is the real youth of the world. She pos
sesses what constitutes the strength and the charm of youth,
that is to say the ability to rejoice with what is beginning, to give
oneself unreservedly, to renew one's self and to set out again
for new conquests. Look upon the Church and you will find in
her the face of Christ, the genuine, humble and wise Hero, the
prophet of truth and love, the companion and friend of youth.
It is in the name of Christ that we salute you, that we exhort
and bless you.
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"Run, jump, sing,

do anything but sin."
- St. John Bosco
CELEBRATE WITH US
Sat. Jan. 31, 2015
Solemn Mass for the Feast of Don Bosco

His Eminence Thomas Cardinal
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Presider and Homilist. Light
luncheon to follow in Church Hall.
Mass: 10:00 am at St. Paul's
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Sat. april 11, 2015
Family Life : Perspectives from the Synod

on the Family
Salt+Lights Fr. Tom Rosica and Sebastian Gomes
lead this workshop on Pope Francis recent Synod
on the Family. 9:00 am 1:00 pm.
St. Benedict Church Hall, 2194 Kipling Ave., Etobicoke
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At 200 years of age, Don Bosco is alive and well. From his humble roots in the hamlet of
Becchi, to the growth of his work during Turins Industrial Revolution, his unique style of
education and evangelization, leadership and service has spread to every continent.
In 1854 he founded the Salesians, a congregation of brothers and priests, to continue his
mission. In 1872, together with St. Mary Domenica Mazzarello, he founded the Salesian
Sisters (Daughters of Mary Help of Christians). Following the Spirits lead, the Salesians
are now the largest missionary congregation in the Church. With the other branches of
the Salesian Family consecrated lay people, co-operators, alumni, associations and lay
collaborators we share Don Boscos awareness of living in the presence of God, his joyful
belonging to the Church, his solid trust in the intercession of Mary, Help of Christians, his
creative and tireless outreach to the neediest among us, especially the young and families
on the margins of society.
His spiritual legacy continues to attract. Through schools and universities, youth centres
and parishes, social justice initiatives and a vast array of missionary presences, generations
of young people have experienced Gods love for them. Don Bosco has led them to a Church
they are proud to call home. Don Bosco has provided an education that prepares for
responsible service in all sectors of society and the church. Don Bosco has helped them
recognize in Jesus the Good Shepherd a model for a meaningful, personal plan of life.
On January 31, 1988, the centenary of Don Bosco's birth, St. John Paul II honoured him with
the title "Father and Teacher of Youth".
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Sat. May 23, 2015
Salesian Family Day for the Feast of Mary,

Help of Christians
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badassery /badasr/ n.
NORTH AMERICAN informal
by Cheridan Sanders
Behaviour, characteristics, or actions regarded as formidably impressive:

few of us can attain her level of badassery
he other day I read an article that used the word

badassery. I couldnt believe it: had the word finally
crossed the Rubicon and become a legitimate word?
I checked the Oxford dictionary. Yup, there it was.
That got me thinking: the word has some social heft. Its simply
not a word that you toss out there for casual emphasis. No,
baddassery is a word that should be used to describe only the
most substantial, the most impactful of characters.
Now, the article I read used the term in reference to an actor
who had taken on some interesting roleshardly badass, I
thought. You know who are really badass? The missionaries to
New France. These men and women had courage. And theres
no one with more true grit than St. Marie of the Incarnation.
From a young age she realized she had a religious calling but
her parents couldnt see their daughter being cloistered, so they
wed her to a silk merchant instead. Tragedy soon struck, and the
early death of her spouse left Mary Guyart a widow at nineteen
with a six-month-old child. She also inherited a bankrupt busi
ness and lawsuits.
But she had a knack for business, and not only did she make
the silk merchant business profitable, from there she went on to
run her brother-in-laws transport company. She took care of ev
erything: the inventory of goods, the drivers, even the 60 horses.
Again she wanted to enter the convent but her relatives
thought her totally irrational. Even after she entered they tried to
persuade her to leaveher son went so far as to raid the convent.
Thats just the beginning of her trials and tribulations...Once
she got permission to go to New France to be a missionaryand
lets be clear the closest analogy today would be if she decided

to sign up for the Mars Missiontheres the perilous voyage
there, the work of setting up the mission and learning the native
languages. But get this, once she accomplishes all this, the whole
convent burns down and she has to start again! Shes in mounds
of debt, without shelter, and its winter. Nevertheless she fights
on and rebuilds.
Whats so impressive about St. Marie of the Incarnation is
that God uses her faith to forge her into someone altogether
exceptional. She becomes a formidable heroine, a saint!
Check out this CV:

Founder of Canada
First female missionary to North America
Founder of the Canadian Church
Fluent in Huron, Algonkian, Montagnais,
and Iroquois
Authored first catechism in Iroquois
Eminent historical source of Catholic, French,
and Canadian history
So all this is to say that although few of us can attain her

level of badassery, with a little faith and humility nothing is
impossible for God.
St.
Franois
de
Laval
Our Founding Father
by Charles Le Bourgeois
is name is renowned and his

portrait can be found on the
walls of many churches and
seminaries. On April 3rd 2014,
more than 300 years after his
death, Franois de Laval was raised to
the glory of the altars and recorded in the
catalogue of the saints by Pope Francis.
With the news of his canonization, carried
out with simplicity in a consistory instead
of a large papal Mass, came word that
Marie de lIncarnation was also enrolled
and raised to the altars. It was an honor
for Quebec who welcomed their two
newest saints who were also key players
in the history of la belle province.
This French missionary arrived in
Quebec as apostolic vicar in 1659. He
became the first bishop of Quebec and
founder of the Church in North America.
Inspired by the council of Trent, of which
he is an heir, he undertook massive proj
ects, beginning with the foundation of
Quebecs Major Seminary. A community
of priests charged with the formation of
seminarians in order to ensure renewed
evangelization in the new Country. He
oversaw the construction of the NotreDame de Quebec Cathedral Basilica,
the mother church of all other churches
in that part of the world, north of the
Spanish colonies. Strongly tied to the
Native people, Bishop Franois de Laval

boldly defended their dignity. He advo
cated against the commerce of alcohol
which was being used to manipulate
them. Detached from worldly things, he
gave everything he had to the poor. A tire
less traveler, he returned to New France
four times to find human and financial
resources. To visit his diocese he traveled
by foot; to reach out to the faithful on the
peripheries, he journeyed with snow
shoes and a canoe. His life was a total
gift to God, a reckless abandonment to
divine providence. This detachment came
simply from his desire to radically shape
his life on the Gospel.
The ministry of Franois de Laval saw
many hardships, obstacles, sacrifice and
sadness. He saw his seminary burn twice,

a great symbol of his apostolate. His suc
cessor, Bishop Saint-Vallier, later brought
changes to the organization of the Cana
dian Church and of his seminary. This
was a sacrifice he had to accept in faith.
Saint Franois de Laval, this giant of
the faith according to his successor Car
dinal Grald Cyprien Lacroix, died at the
age of 85 in his own diocese of Quebec.
This founding father of the Church in
America was a pastor, an evangelizer and
a builder. The precious heritage of this
great apostle is no less than the catholic
faith of so many men and women.
The universal Church celebrates
the feast of Saint Franois de Laval on
May6th.
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AS THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH
sits nestled between two Synods on the
family in Rome, the Archdiocese of Phila
delphia is preparing to host families from
every corner of the globe. It is now less
than a year until the World Meeting of
Families in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
scheduled to take place in September
2015. Preparations for an international
event on this scale would be taxing for
any diocese, however the attendance of
Pope Francis takes the organizational
efforts to a whole different level.
Tasked
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Chaput,OFM. Leading both his flock and
the organizational efforts are two enor
mous tasks, which is why he has assigned
one of his auxiliary bishops, Bishop John
McIntyre to manage preparations and act
as a point man for the global event. He
describes his thoughts on the upcoming
event as follows:
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is
very excited to welcome the world to our
city and our region for this joyous occasion. We are working each day to create
a memorable event that truly celebrates
the plan of God for the family. Along
with our World Meeting of Families
team, so many people in the Archdiocese
of Philadelphia and the communities of
the region are offering so much support
and assistance as we take on this great
task. We are working with city, state and
national government officials, as well as
local organizations and businesses, to
ensure that we are as prepared as possible for the large volume of people we
anticipate will join us for the Congress.
Bishop John McIntyre,
Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia
As the bishop alludes to, the World
Meeting of Families is not simply some
thing that will be marked by the Church
in Philadelphia. It will be an event that
encompasses the whole of the city and
the wider community. Likewise, the topic
of family life and the challenges families
face in the 21st century is not strictly a
Catholic discussion. It is however the
hope and mission of the Church, that it
be a catalyst, breathing renewal and new
life into the family, one of Gods most
sacred institutions.
From left: Philadelphia Auxiliary Bishop John J. McIntyre, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter,
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family,
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput,
Bishop Jean Laffitte, secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family, and Everett A. Gillison,
chief of staff for Mayor Nutter, at the Holy See press office on March 25, 2014.
Part 1 by Stefan Slovak Part 2 by Sebastian Gomes
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AMONG THE MANY lively and
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heartfelt plea that the assembly strongly
encourage and celebrate families. The
moving stories of great hardship and suf
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had to be accompanied, the bishops felt,
by a word of thanksgiving and hope.
As the Church journeys toward the
2015 Synod, a wonderful opportunity for
this kind of celebration will be the World
Meeting of Families in Philadelphia from
September 22-27. Like the World Youth
Day, the World Meeting of Families was
conceived by Saint John Paul II, who
hosted the first event in Rome in 1994.
Pope Francis called JPII the pope of the
family, and the saint has been named
one of the patrons of the Philadelphia
meeting.
Held in a different country every
three years, the meeting is designed to
strengthen family bonds and encourage
families to live their Christian vocation.
The 2015 meeting will be the first in the
United States and has already drawn
much attention since Pope Francis an
nounced that he will participate.
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and Light is producing a series of videos
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of videos will focus on the lives of the
saints and their families, some of whom
are also saints and blesseds!
The reflections of the recent Synod of
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these days. The Church, which the Synod
Fathers called the family of families, is
at the beginning of a journey, one that
requires honest discussion and humble
listening. Stay tuned to Salt and Light
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themes of the 2014 Synod.
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Baltimore, November 9, 2014
St. John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council for

two specific purposes: aggiornamentobringing the Church
into the Modern World and presenting the enticing mystery of
the Church to the Modern World; and second, for the cause
of Christian Unityfor the whole oikumene. One of the main
achievements of the Council in the mid-1960s was to find a
theological logic to break down the walls between Christian
churches, and to usher in a new era of dialogue and partnership
that we now refer to as ecumenism.
Vatican II articulated a new theology of Church. While the
fullness of the Church, according to Catholic doctrine, may exist
only in Catholicism, there are nevertheless precious elements of
it to be found outside that deserve our honor and respect. In
terestingly enough, this theme emerged once again at the recent
Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome and evoked once again
those great lively discussions and impassioned debates that sur
rounded and continue to flow from the expressionsubsistit
in from Vatican IIs Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
Lumen Gentium.
Pope Francis Ecumenical Outreach
The ultimate goal of ecumenism is the fulfillment of Jesus' prayer
that his disciples would be one so the world would believe. What
we long for is full unity in faith and the sacraments. A central
image of the Christian life for Pope Francis is the movement
toward Christian unitya movement that happens one step at
a time. For Francis, it is not about waiting for others to catch
up with us. It is about everyone continuing to walk with and
toward the Lord, supporting and learning from the brothers and
sisters whom God places on the same path. The deeper we all
grow in holiness, the closer we will be to one another.
Francis and Orthodox Christianity

With Pope Francis we are witnessing a growing coopera
tion among the recognized leaders from the Eastern Orthodox
Churches. The idea of Orthodox Christians being able to learn
from the Pope of Rome appears foreign to many of us. The
renewed Roman efforts of outreach to Orthodox Christians

have not passed unnoticed. Orthodox Christians are learning
from the unique witness of Pope Francis. He is in many ways a
bishop who reflects the Christianity of the first millennium when
the Church was undivided. Pope Francis also models a form of
leadership that is badly needed in Orthodox Christianity today.
Let me offer a few lessons that Francis is offering to the East.
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople
was present at the first moments of the Petrine Ministry of
Francis in March 2013. From May 24-25, 2014 the Ecumenical
Patriarch and Pope Francis welcomed each other in Jerusalem to
observe the anniversary of the historic encounter between Pope
Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras and the subse
quent lifting of mutual anathemas. Following the historic visit
to the Holy Land, Patriarch Bartholomew travelled to Rome
and joined Pope Francis and the Presidents of Israel and Pales
tine in a very historic prayer for peace in the Vatican Gardens.
What is it about Francis exercise of the Petrine ministry that
is so enticing to the Orthodox? I would like to refer to three
distinctive qualities emerging from the Papacy of Pope Francis.
The Bishop of Rome is teaching us each day that authentic
power is service. There is no place for the trappings of power,
privilege and prestige in the exercise of Francis Petrine ministry.
Francis shocked many on that first Holy Thursday night in 2013
when he visited a youth detention center in Rome and chose to
wash the feet of young offenders, including one who was an
Orthodox Christian. If we do not learn this Christian rule and
posture of servanthood, we will never be able to understand
Jesus true message about true power.
Second, Francis has taught us about life on the peripheries of
society. Pope Francis challenges Orthodox Christians with the
following words: I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting
and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a
Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from cling
ing to its own security. I do not want a Church concerned with
being at the center and then ends by being caught up in a web of
obsessions and procedures.
A risk-taking Church that is not afraid to fail is much
healthier than a Church that is focused on institutional security
and closed in on itself. Such a lesson is not only meant for the
Churches of the West.
Third, Francis has repeatedly taught us that evangelization,
by its very nature a noisy business. Pope Francis provided this
bold exhortation to young people in Rio de Janeiro: Let me
tell you what I hope will be the outcome of World Youth Day:
I hope there will be noise. I want you to make yourselves
heard in your dioceses, I want the noise to go out, I want the
Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything
worldly, everything static, everything comfortable, everything
to do with clericalism, everything that might make us closed in
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Francis has written: Christians of the East and West must

give common witness so that, strengthened by the Spirit of the
risen Christ, they may disseminate the message of salvation to
the entire world.
Evangelicals and Pentecostals

Pope Francis has approached ecumenism characterized through
personal relationships specifically addressed to the world of
Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity and somewhat discon
nected from the official efforts and initiatives of those who
work through formal structures and agencies in the area of
ecumenism. This outreach to Evangelicals and Pentecostals
is most certainly influenced by then-Cardinal Jorge Bergo
glios pastoral ministry in Latin America, and his now famous
Aparecida document from the 2007 Latin American Bishops
Meeting in Brazil. There was a strong wake-up call given to us
last July when the Bishop of Rome went on a private visit to
a Pentecostal church in Caserta, Italy. The event concluded with
a historic first: an apology from the Pope for anything involve
ment Catholics may have had in the persecution of Pentecostals
in Italy in the 1930s.
Francis spoke of that one sin present among Christians since
apostolic times, and definitely not a divine trait: name-calling.
On the path of Christian life, "when we stop and spend too
much time looking at each other, we start a different journey, an
ugly one," the pope said. In the First Letter to the Corinthians,
St. Paul criticizes early Christians who, bragging and promot
ing rivalry, started saying, "I belong to Paul" or "I belong to
Apollos," rather than "I belong to Jesus."
Francis ecumenical strategy in all of these efforts is not
sheep stealing. His motto is not swim the Tiber nor his mantra:
Rome sweet home. The Popes friend, evangelical Bishop Tony
Palmer pointed this out: Pope Francis pulled me up on more
than one occasion when I used the expression coming home to
the Catholic Church. He said, Dont use this term. He told me,
No one is coming home. You are journeying towards us and we
are journeying towards you and we will meet in the middle. We
will meet on the road as we seek each other.
Efforts with the Charismatic Communities

When Pope Francis met with members of the Catholic Frater
nity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowship in
Rome for its Sixteenth International Conference, he touched on
several themes in his address to the group, beginning with the
idea of unity in diversity. Unity does not imply uniformity,
the Pope said. It does not necessarily mean doing everything
together or thinking in the same way. Nor does it signify a loss
of identity. Unity in diversity is actually the opposite: it involves
the joyful recognition and acceptance of the various gifts which
the Holy Spirit gives to each one and the placing of these gifts at
the service of all members of the Church. Francis reminded his
audience that the Charismatic Renewal is, by its very nature,
ecumenical.
Francis approach to ecumenism has a very charismatic char
acter, as he himself explains in this excerpt from a book recently
published Italian Renewal in the Holy Spirit (RnS), entitled Il

Cardinale Bergoglio al Rinnovamento: I dont believe in a
definitive ecumenism, much less do I believe in the ecumenism
that as its first step gets us to agree on a theological level. I think
we must progress in unity, participating together in prayer and
in the works of charity. And this I find in the Renewal. Now
and then we get together with a few pastors and stop and pray
together for about an hour. This has been made possible thanks
to the Charismatic Renewal, both on the evangelical side and on
the Catholic side.
Relations with Judaism

Because of some wonderful relationships and friendships with
rabbis in Buenos Aires, Francis has brought personal relation
ships into his pastoral ministry in Rome. I am convinced that if
we get the relationships right, everything else will follow. Its all
about relationships. Is this not the real legacy of Nostra Aetate?
Pope Francis never met the great Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel. But the more I see Francis in action, I cannot help
but think that Heschels influence is hidden in Francis heart
and mind. Rabbi Abraham Skorka of Argentina, one of Pope
Francis closest friends is convinced of this fact. Rabbi Skorka
accompanied Francis to the Holy Land in May, and in 2010
they co-authored a book, On Heaven and Earth.
Francis also shares Rabbi Heschels criticism of religion
when it speaks only in the name of authority rather than with
the voice of compassion. The pope has repeatedly warned
against clericalism, for example. Francis warning to newly
appointed bishops in September 2013, that careerism is a form
of cancer, echoed Rabbi Heschels remark in a now famous
address to the American Medical Association years ago: Ac
cording to my own medical theory, more people die of success
than of cancer.
The Vocation and Mission of Pontifex
Building bridges is the work of evangelization, the work of
going out to the whole world to proclaim the Good News of our
salvation in Jesus Christ. Building walls is what fearful, insecure
people do to protect what they have and to keep others out.
Pope Francis wants to build bridges that everyone can cross. In
Evangelii Gaudium Pope Francis invites and challenges all
of us to move beyond our comfort zones. He wants us to be
warm, welcoming and forgiving. He wants us to eat with tax
collectors and sinners; he wants us to forgive the woman caught
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Perspectives /
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Perspectives /
Catholic Focus
Perspectives /
Catholic Focus
Perspectives /
Catholic Focus
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7:30 AM
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Nouvelles de
Terre Sainte
Perspectives /
Focus catholique
Perspectives /
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Perspectives
/ Audience
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Perspectives /
chos du Vatican
Perspectives /
glises du monde
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8:00 AM
The Rosary in the

Holy Land
8:30 AM
Chapelet en Terre Sainte
5:00 AM
Messe du jour en direct de lOratoire Saint-Joseph
5:30 AM
9:00 AM
9:30 AM
The Rosary in the Holy Land

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Facing Life
Head-On
Vatican
Connections with
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Movie / Series
6:00 AM
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Aid to the Church

in Need
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Where God
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Perpetual Help
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7:00 AM
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
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11:30 AM
12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
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Angelus / Catholic
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Angelus /
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Tmoin
Reel Faith
Terra Santa
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Vatican
Connections with
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9:30 AM
Lumire du
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Facing Life
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Context with
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Witness
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This Is the Day
The Gist
This Is the Day
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Where God
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Perspectives: The
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11:30 AM
Nothing More
Beautiful
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12:30 PM
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Documentary /
Movie / Series
The Rosary in the Holy Land
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5:30 PM
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5:00 PM
8:30 AM
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Italian
Chinese
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Catholic Focus
Perspectives /
Catholic Focus
Perspectives /
Catholic Focus
Perspectives /
Catholic Focus
Catholic Focus
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Nouvelles de
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Focus catholique
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Perspectives
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gnrale
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