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Ex-nuncio accuses Israel of breaking promises

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RELATIONSbetween Israel and the Holy See have deteriorated since the two countries established formal diplomatic ties, the former papal envoy to Israel has said. Archbishop Pietro Sambi accused Israel of failing to fulfil promises made in formal agreements with the Holy See. He said: “If I must be frank, the relations between the Catholic Church and the state of Israel were better when there were not diplomatic relations. “The Holy See decided to establish diplomatic relations with Israel as an act of faith, leaving the promises to handle the more concrete aspects of the life of Catholic communities and the Church to be addressed later.” The 1993 Fundamental Agreement between Rome and Israel established diplomatic relations. A later deal, signed in 1997, entailed an economic agreement, which was to address the status of Church property, provide

compensation for Church services and give the Church tax-exempt status. But Archbishop Sambi said that in recent years the Israeli government had failed to address the issue of Church property and restricted multiple-entry visas for Arab Christian priests travelling between Israel and the Palestinian territories. He said: “After 10 years of negotiations the economic agreement has not yet been signed, undercut by delays and the Israeli delegation’s limited power to negotiate, weakened, that is, by a lack of political will. “Every one can see how much faith can be placed in Israel’s promises,” he said. According to Catholic News Service (CNS), roughly 250 Catholic priests have been affected by Israel’s new visa policy. Oded Ben-Hur, Israel’s ambassador to the Vatican, told CNS that he was “really surprised” at the criticisms, “especially coming from our good friend, Archbishop Sambi”.

Archbishop Sambi, centre, on a peace march in Bethlehem in October 2001

He said: “I know where he’scoming from. There have been difficulties, but I see the situation much more positively.” The Israeli ambassador said Vatican and Israeli delegations had met in Jerusalem on November 7 to prepare for a fuller negotiation session in December teams. “Things are going much better,” he said. Mr Ben-Hur said he also understood the concern of Church leaders regarding the impact on priests and other

Church workers of new restrictions on multiple-entry visas. He explained that Church personnel from Europe and other western countries faced new restrictions as a result of the government’s efforts to restrict the number of multientry visa holders. “The Ministry of the Interior has promised to resolve the problem very soon,” he said. The question of multipleentry visas for Church person

nel from Arab countries is different, he added. “That is in the hands of the security services and makes it more difficult to resolve. Visas for personnel originally from countries that are at war with us are a question of security. I am making every effort to facilitate as many visas as possible.” An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said: “Israel is interested in good relations withthe Vatican and Israeli and Vatican officials are work

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ing to overcome gaps that exists.” Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said that Archbishop Sambi’s remarks were based on “his thoughts and personal experience”. He said: “The Holy See, for its part, reiterates its... desire ... for a rapid conclusion to the important negotiations already in progress.” Archbishop Sambi served as nuncio to Israel between 1998 and 2005 before moving to his current post as papal nuncio to the United States.

Pope pays tribute to Blessed Antonio Rosmini

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POPEBENEDICTXVI has praised the life and example of a 19th-century Italian philosopher and religious order founder whose writings were still condemned by the Church only six years ago. Blessed Antonio Rosmini was a great priest and an “illustrious man of culture” who generously dedicated his life to harmonising the relationship between reason and faith, the Pope said on November 18, just a few hours before Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins led Rosmini’s beatification ceremony in the northern Italian city of Novara. In his midday Angelus prayer in St Peter’s Square the Pope asked that Blessed Rosmini’s example help the Church, “especially Italian ecclesial communities, [to] grow in the awareness that the light of human

reason and grace, when they walk together, become a source of blessing for the human person and for society”. Blessed Rosmini, who lived from 1797 to 1855, founded the Institute of Charity –also known as the Rosminian Fathers – and the Congregation of the Rosminian Sisters of Providence. The road to his beatification was for a long time impeded by an 1887 Vatican condemnation of 40 proposals selected from works written by the Italian priest. But in 2001 the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, declared that the positions condemned 114 years ago did not accurately reflect Blessed Rosmini’s thinking or beliefs. Historians said the propositions were pulled out of the context in

which they were written. In his homily during the beatification Mass Cardinal Saraiva Martins said that elevating the Italian holy man to blessed status “will certainly help restore the friendship between reason and faith, between religion, ethical behaviour and the public service of Christians”. He said that Blessed Rosmini’s message that reason and faith should be intertwined has “burning relevance” for today’s world where there is “a steady eclipse of God and his providence”. The cardinal also told 30 Giorni, an Italian magazine, he was “truly happy” to see this “great, bright, prophetic thinker” finally elevated to “the glory of the altars”. In an interview published in the magazine’s September issue Cardinal Saraiva Martins said because the 1887 condemnation was issued

posthumously Rosmini was not able to defend himself from allegations that were “pulled out of their context and therefore interpreted arbitrarily”. Two of Rosmini’s books, The Five Wounds of the Churchand The Constitution According to Social Justicewere placed on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1849. But six years later a top-level Vatican review of all of his published works led to a judgment by Pope Pius IX that they were free from heterodoxy. While he was alive Blessed Rosmini’s attempts to find a way to bridge the gap between Catholic philosophy and secular philosophy were seen as a dangerous concession to those who thought reason alone could lead people to truth and ultimate happiness. His popularity with the papal court was not enhanced

by his belief that the unification of Italy was inevitable and the Vatican should loosen its temporal grip on the Papal States, supporting the formation of a confederation of Italian states in order to safeguard the independence of the papacy. Cardinal Saraiva Martins told 30 Giornithat Blessed Rosmini’s ideas and opinions made him “an uncomfortable figure, above all for some circles of political power”. He said The Five Wounds of the Church was “in some ways prophetic, ahead of its time, perhaps too much”. “A prophet’s destiny in the Bible but also, alas, in the history of the Church is often to be misunderstood and persecuted,” he said. Blessed Rosmini is seen by many as having helped inspire some of the reforms made during the Second Vatican Council.

NOVEMBER 23, 2007 THE CATHOLIC HERALD

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US bishops choose new conference president

AMERICA’Sbishops have elected Cardinal Francis George of Chicago as president of their conference. Cardinal George was voted into the post on the first ballot with 85 per cent approval. He is completing his three-year term as vicepresident of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is the first cardinal to

be elected president or vice president of the conference since 1971. He succeeds Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane, Washington, whose three-year term came to an end at the close of the autumn meeting in Baltimore. Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona, was chosen as the new vicepresident.

Protesters force cathedral to close

THECATHEDRALof Mexico City had to be closed last weekend after more than 100 political protesters disrupted Sunday Mass. The decision to shut the cathedral doors was announced by Armando Martíínez, the president of the College of the Catholic Lawyers of Mexico, who said that the cathedral will not open again until the government can guarantee the security of the faithful and priests. During the midday Mass at the cathedral last Sunday a group from the Leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) members interrupted the liturgy, chanting slogans and shouting their approval of Andréés Manuel Lóópez Obrador, the 2006 presidential candidate who lost by a slim margin to Felipe Calderóón. Mr Lóópez Obrador is contesting the results, claiming that an electoral fraud denied him victory and proclaiming himself the “legitimate president” of Mexico.

Cardinal Bertone visits Argentina

ARGENTINA’Spresident-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has received the Vatican secretary of state. In a move seen as signalling a warming of relations between Buenos Aires and the papacy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone met Mrs Kirchner and her husband, outgoing president Nestor Kirchner, on November 14. After the meeting, Cardinal Bertone said he hoped Mrs Kirchner would “take the country out of purgatory and elevate it to paradise”.

EU: Turkey failing faithful

THEEUhas criticised Turkey for its failure to protect Christian minorities. A commission report published earlier this month documented attacks against clergy and churches, unpunished incitement against Christians and a denial of full property rights.The report also claimed that Turkish authorities regard missionaries as a national threat. Less than one per cent of Turkey’s 70 million population is Christian.

Church aid to Chile quake victims

THECATHOLICCHURCHhas begun collecting funds for more than 15,000 people left homeless after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked the desert and mining region of Antofagasta, 760 miles north of Chile’s capital, Santiago. The Archdiocese of Antofagasta, through its regional Caritas office, is coordinating with local parishes and the national offices of Caritas Chile to mount a nationwide fundraising campaign for victims of the earthquake. Two women died and 161 people were injured while nearly 4,000 homes were severely damaged or lay practically flat on the ground after the quake on November 14. “People have not only lost their homes, but also many of their belongings, from furniture to kitchen utensils. “But to save the costs and complications of transporting donated goods, we are calling on people to donate money that we can convert into bedsheets, chairs, pots and pans,” said Luis Gonzalez Pizarro, director of Caritas Antofagasta. “The problem is that distances are long, and there are isolated areas that can only be reached by helicopter, because roads have been cut off due to landslides.”

Green light for World Youth Day after government pay out to racing industry

Spanish bishop sorry for Church’s war role

Eritrean state expels missionaries

BYMIGUELCULLEN

THEAUSTRALIANgovernment has announced a massive payout to the horse racing industry to clear the way for the Pope’s visit to the country next July for World Youth Day. The figure was agreed following a four-month row between the racing industry in Australia, the Church and the government over the use of the Sydney’s Royal Randwick racecourse next year for the six-day World Youth Day event, which will attract an estimated 500,000 people. The event will mean the race track will be closed for roughly 10 weeks, at huge

cost to the racing industry. To compensate, the Australian and New South Wales governments will disburse a £13 million taxpayer-funded package to the affected parties. Under the terms of the agreement an additional £4 million will be set aside in a contingency fund in case the racecourse cannot be used for the 2008 racing carnival, which this year had to be cancelled due to the outbreak of highly contagious equine influenza. During the build up and celebration of World Youth Day the 700 thoroughbred horses and their trainers at Randwick will be relocated

to Warwick Farm and Rosehill racecourses in western Sydney. The payout comes on top of the government’s pledge to cover the £15 million security and visa expenses. Racing New South Wales chief executive Peter Vlandys said: “The NSW Racing industry has always recognised this is a world signature event, but it shouldn’t be subsidised financially by the racing industry.” The Deputy Premier of New South Wales, John Watkins, defended the huge pay out by saying that the event would bring at least £64 million into his state.

The twists and turns of the four-month dispute have included WYD organisers and media being locked out of the course during an inspection and the unfortunate coincidence of an outbreak of equine flu, during which horses were quarantined within the ground. The Randwick location was chosen for the reason that 400,000 people could be within the eye-line of the altar where Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate the final Mass. The evening vigil will take place the day before, on July 19, and will be followed by an invitation to young people to “sleep under the stars”.

THEHEADof the Spanish bishops’ conference has issued an apology for the Church’s role in the Spanish Civil War. Bishop Ricardo Bláázquez of Bilbao surprised Spanish commentators by acknowledging the Church’s failures during the conflict. He said: “On many occasions we have reasons to thank God for what was done and for the people who acted, [but] probably in other moments we should ask for forgiveness and change direction.” The Church has not formally expressed regret for its part in the 1936-39 war, which resulted in victory for dictator Francisco Franco.

Yet Bishop Bláázquez’s apologycomes a month after Pope Benedict XVI beatified the nearly 500 Spanish priests and nuns who were killed in in the civil conflict. The beatifications prompted bitter complaints from the Spanish Left. Critics complained that only priests aligned with Franco’s troops have been honoured by the Church. Bishop Bláázquez, nearing the end of his three-year term as head of the conference, further shocked conservatives by praising the controversial Bishop Enrique y Tarancóón, known as the “red bishop”, for his attempts to distance the Church from Franco.

BYMIGUELCULLEN

THEERITREANgovernment has expelled 13 Catholic missionaries. The expulsions have heightened tensions between missionary groups and President Isaias Afewerki’s regime. The move has been seen as part of a bid by the dictatorship to take control of humanitarian work in the country. The official reason for the missionaries being expelled was because of expired residency permits. However, a spokesman for an Italian aid agency said: “The [Eritrean] government of Asmara ... has had a policy of running western humanitarian workers out

of the country. The population will be abandoned. The situation itself is already tragic.” He said that the Eritrean people were not allowed to leave the country and “they don’t realise that another way of life exists”. The 13 missionaries were given two weeks from November 6 to leave the troubled country. Eritrea is reported to have one of the world’s worst records on religious freedom. A 2002 decree that all churches must be officially registered resulted in the closure of all the religious facilities not belonging to the four recognised faiths. THE CATHOLIC HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Pope appeals for increased aid to cyclone victims

BYMARKBENBOW

POPEBENEDICTXVIhas called for more international assistance for Bangladesh, where thousands have been killed in one of the worst cyclones in the country’s history. The Pope expressed his condolences to the families of the dead and said that he hoped the international community, which has moved quickly to aid the survivors, would continue to provide relief. “In recent days a tremendous cyclone struck southern Bangladesh, causing numerous victims and serious destruction,” Benedict XVI told pilgrims at his Sunday blessing at the Vatican last weekend. “I encourage every possible effort to help these brothers and sisters who have been so sorely tried.” Government officials estimated that at least 3,000 people died as the cyclone tore through coastal areas of Bangladesh on November 15 with winds estimated at 150 mph. Relief agencies said the final death toll could reach 10,000. In Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, the head of the nation’s charitable agency said Caritas officials were rushing aid to the coast. “Though there were warnings of the cyclone, its impact has been deadly. The people

have been badly affected,” said Auxiliary Bishop Theotonius Gomes of Dhaka, chairman of Caritas Bangladesh and secretarygeneral of Catholic bishops’ conference of Bangladesh. Bishop Gomes said Caritas officials had rushed to the worst-affected areas, such as the port city of Chittagong to assess the needs of the affected people and plan the Church’s relief work. Caritas Bangladesh appealed for food aid and tarpaulins or plastic sheeting and blankets to provide shelter to the families rendered homeless by the cyclone. “Crops have been destroyed in waterlogged areas, fishermen communities and day labourers have lost their sources of income and thousands of people are too poor to have any food stocks in their homes,” said the appeal. Caritas said its national, regional and field offices had taken preventive measures and joined in cautioning the villagers along the coastlines to flee the coastal areas. Many villagers could find no trace of their homes the day after the disaster. Bishop Gomes said that many simple Church structures had been damaged, but there has been no report of damage to any major Church properties.

Meanwhile, the international Caritas network responded with pledges of financial assistance. For instance, Catholic Relief Services, the US bishops’ international relief and development agency, initially pledged $50,000 (£24, 000) in aid. Meanwhile, Cafod, Caritas’s partner in England and Wales, has offered £200,000 of immediate aid for the cyclone victims. Christians make up less than one per cent of Bangladesh’s estimated 150 million population, nearly 90 per cent of whom are Muslim. Hindus and Buddhists account for the rest of the population. In his Sunday Angelus Pope Benedict spoke about how Christians are called on to face painful trials –including natural catastrophes –with the confidence of faith. Christians should trust in God’s love as they cope with difficulties, he argued. “We don’t fear the future, even when it appears ominous, because the God of Jesus Christ, who took up history to open it up to its transcendent fulfillment, is its alpha and omega, the beginning and the end,” he said. He added that Christ guarantees that the meaning of the universe is contained in “every small but genuine act of love.”

A Bangladeshi mother and child amid the wreckage of the cyclone CNS

Cardinal hails Orthodox ‘breakthrough’

BYMARKGREAVES

AJOINTcommission of Orthodox and Catholic theologians has agreed that the pope has primacy over all of the Church’s bishops. The agreement was hailed as a “breakthrough” by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity. But the cardinal, who led the commission’s discussions, admitted that the road towards healing the 950-year-old schism was still a “long and difficult” one. The Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue reached the agreement after a week-long meeting in Ravenna, Italy, last month. It was only the second Catholic-Orthodox meeting since

2006, the year when talks resumed after a six-year break. The final document was not signed by the Russian Orthodox Church, which abandoned the talks in protest at the inclusion of the Estonian Orthodox Church. Cardinal Kasper told Vatican Radio that “the real breakthrough is that, for the first time, the Orthodox were ready to speak about the universal level of the Church”, instead of limiting the discussion to a local area under a particular patriarch or archbishop. This enabled the commission to agree that “the Bishop of Rome was therefore the protos [first] among the patriarchs”. But the commission did not explore the nature of the authority that the pope derived from

his primacy. Disagreements remain over the way in which the pope’s authority is exercised. The document, entitled The Ecclesiological and Canonical Consequences of the Sacramental Nature of the Church, stated: “While the fact of primacy at the universal level is accepted by both East and West, there are differences of understanding with regard to the manner in which it is to be exercised, and also with regard to its scriptural and theological foundations.” The next meeting of the Catholic-Orthodox commission will focus on papal authority during the first millennium of Christian history, before the schism that separated the Orthodox from Rome. After that discussion the

commission would need to address whether the Orthodox churches can accept the teachings of the Church since the schism. It is thought that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council will prove especially hard to agree upon. Pope Benedict XVI, who has described the struggle towards Christian unity as a “fundamental” priority of his pontificate, has reportedly called cardinals to a meeting in Rome to discuss the document. Cardinal Kasper said he regretted the dispute that prompted the Russian delegate to leave the meeting. He said it was an “inter-Orthodox question” in which the Vatican would not interfere.

However, he added that the Holy See is anxious to see the problem resolved. The Russian Orthodox Church is the dominant faith in Russia and is by far the largest of the eastern churches. Vatican officials see the relationship with Moscow as key to future ecumenical advances. Cardinal Kasper said: “We do not want to dialogue without the Russians.” Bishop Illarion, the Russian Orthodox representative who walked out of the meeting, said that Moscow would offer its views after analysing the document. The Catholic and Orthodox were united until the Great Schism of 1054, which was largely caused by disagreements over the primacy of the pope.

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Benedict XVI gives a sneak preview

On Sunday Pope Benedict XVI gave a sneak preview of what can be expected from his forthcoming encyclical, if reports on its theme are correct. Addressing crowds before reciting the Angelus prayer in St Peter’s Square, the Holy Father acknowledged the calamities and tragedies that effect the world, but rejected assertions that the end of the world is nigh. “When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for these things must take place first, but the end will not follow immediately,” he said. The Pope spoke of the need to hope and trust in God. “We must not fear the future,” he said, “even though it may at times appear bleak, because the God of Christ, who took history upon himself opening it to transcendence, is alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.” He recalled that, since its inception, the Church “prayerfully lives in the care of its Lord, scrutinising the signs of the times and keeping the faithful on guard against the calls of messianisms, which from time to time announce the imminent end of the world”. History must take its course, he added, “which also involves human tragedies and natural calamities”. The Pope then went on to praise religious for being an exemplary Christian model, separated from earthly concerns. They are a true antidote, he said, “against a nihilist mentality which, in our time, is extending its influence ever more widely in the world”. The Pope’s words came as the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that the Pope is to publish an encyclical (his second after Deus Caritas Est) before Christmas. The title is said to be Spe Salvi, meaning “Saved by Hope”. According to Vatican sources, it is one of three documents he is working on. Another is thought to be an encyclical on the subject of globalisation to mark the 40th anniversary of Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum Progressio. It’s expected to be published next year. The third work is said to be the second volume of his book, Jesus of Nazareth. The volume is expected to cover the Passion, Resurrection and infancy of Jesus. Every avenue has been tried, even heavy pressure from the United States. But Israel is still thwarting resolution of an agreement with the Holy See that was supposed to be completed 14 years ago. Meetings have been held between the two states, on and off, for all that time, yet although progress has been made in resolving the juridical status of the Church in the Holy Land, agreement on taxation of Church property remains a distant hope. Now the Church is also being hit by visa restrictions for foreign priests. All of which explains an ostensibly surprising remark last week by the former Apostolic Nuncio to Israel, Archbishop Pietro Sambi. Now the Pope’s ambassador to Washington, Archbishop Sambi said in an interview with Terrasanta magazine that he felt relations were in a better state when there were no diplomatic ties between Israel and the Holy See (relations were formally established in 1993). The archbishop put the delays down to a lack of political will on Israel’s part. He then cuttingly questioned how much “trust can be placed in the promises of Israel”. The Holy See gave a veiled backing to the archbishop, stressing in a statement the archbishop’s experience, and calling for a “rapid conclusion to these important negotiations”. Israel argues that it has been preoccupied with the conflict with the Palestinians. It is also known to be reluctant to grant the Church taxation rights for fear that requests from other religious minorities will follow. Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See, Oded Ben-Hur, insisted that negotiations have accelerated in recent months. Ever the optimist, Mr Ben-Hur has been a useful ally for the Holy See, but he is expected to leave at the end of December to make way for a new diplomat who was supposed to take his place in June but couldn’t because of allegations of sexual harassment. The next bilateral meeting between the Holy See and Israel is due on December 12. As concern over visa restrictions casts a shadow over the already troubled negotiations, the Holy See no doubt feels that it may be a case of now or never. Archbishop Sambi’s strong words, backed up by his friends in Washington, may just do the trick.

Rome Correspondent: Edward Pentin E-mail: vaticannotebook@yahoo.com

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