NEW EVANGELIZATION: THE MEANS CANNOT TAKE THE PLACE OF THE END

VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2001 (VIS) - Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop of Paris, spoke last evening during the second session of the extraordinary consistory of the College of Cardinals on the theme chosen for this gathering: "Pastoral Perspectives of the Church in the Third Millennium." He focussed his talk on the means the Church should use to achieve the objectives set out for the Church by Pope John Paul in "Novo millennio ineunte."

The cardinal began by asking in what perspective the cardinals should reflect on the questions facing them. Of primary importance, he answered, is "identifying the subject of action. It is the Church considered not from a human point of view as one of the institutions of the social body of mankind, but with the eyes of faith as the spouse of Christ."

Noting that "Christ (is) the only 'program' of the Church," he asked: "According to what method should we plan pastoral programs? ... We must reflect deeply on the relationship between the end and the means. The means must be coherent with the end."

"We have entered," Cardinal Lustiger continued, "a new era which calls for a new evangelization on our part. In this regard one could say that proclaiming the Gospel is still at its beginning stages and today uses a power of salvation, justice and peace that men could not imagine in the limits of the ancient world."

In programming the Church's ministries in the Third Millennium, said the archbishop of Paris, "we must have our eyes of faith ever more fixed on Christ. ... There exists in fact a perfect coherence between the works of Christ and the humble means that we are called to use to accomplish the salvific will of the Father and the mission of reconciliation entrusted to us by the Son."

"Are all means neutral?" he asked. "Are they all suitable to the service of the Gospel, unless of course they bear some element which is contrary to the moral good?" He also asked whether or not the Church can or should use "technical solutions" or "know-how marked by human and social sciences and the multiple methods of management (which have been) developed today."

Cardinal Lustiger suggested that human means are not always suitable for the Church "because in human life, the means chosen often take on the aspect of an end: they are reduced to serving unavowed goals: the will for power, the desire for pleasure, profit, glory or vanity. In brief, we make idols of the means. Our idols remain hidden."

The cardinal stated that "means cannot take the place of the end. That is true in political action, as in economic life as in all human enterprise which must have as its goal serving the common good of mankind. A fortiori, human means cannot be substituted for the divine end of the Church, for her mission of sanctification of the Name (of Jesus)."
He observed that "in limiting ourselves to technical choices in our evangelizing work, we misunderstand the subject of the action which is the Church herself. This would be to ignore the original nature of the mission Christ entrusted to her."

"Reorganization," stated Cardinal Lustiger, "always has a human cost, victims, and it is often diverted from its ends. The revolutionary period which Eastern Europe knew over the last century is an illustration of this."

"Charity and love," he said in concluding remarks, "must be the source and strength of every renewal. Change can be received and desired as the expression of a greater mercy and a greater fidelity: greater mercy for the least, the poor, those who don't understand, those who don't know what they are doing; and greater fidelity to Christ Himself and to His Spirit."

"Proceeding in this humility and this poverty, the new ideas that we will propose, far from being a cause of breaches or divisions, will excite new conversions and a greater love of the One Lord."

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WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION MEETING IN HUNGARY

VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2001 (VIS) - Msgr. Piero Monni, Holy See Permanent Observer to the World Tourism Organization, will participate in the 37th Meeting of the Regional Commission for Europe and in a seminar on "The Future of Small and Medium-sized European Tourism Enterprises in the Face of Globalization."

According to a communique published today, the meeting, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from May 23 to 26, will address problems associated with the application of the World Ethics Code for Tourism. This meeting is part of a series of meetings planned in view of the celebration of the International Ecotourism Year, in 2002.

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BRIEFING ON CONSISTORY OF COLLEGE OF CARDINALS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2001 (VIS) - Early this afternoon, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Holy See Press Office director, briefed journalists on the speeches given yesterday evening and this morning in the extraordinary consistory of the College of Cardinals, highlighting the themes which emerged, rather than summarizing individual speeches. There were 153 cardinals at the sessions.

One of the most dominant themes, he stated, was that of the family. Most cardinals indicated the need for a strong formation for family life and for a reflection on an anthropology of human sexuality. They also felt that the Church should produce a lexicon of terms relating to the "new" sexuality and to themes relating to the family. Navarro-Valls pointed out that the Pontifical Council for the Family is already working on such a lexicon. He said, by way of example, that some of the "new" terms regarding human sexuality, such as "sexual health," or "gender," emerged in recent years during the United Nations conferences on population, women, social development and human settlements in which Holy See delegations took part.

Ecumenism was another very dominant theme in both sessions of the consistory and was presented under two aspects: in terms of relations between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church and between the Catholic Church and non-Catholic Christians. The press office director said that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor suggested a pan-Christian encounter. Cardinal Adam Maida said that there must be, at the level of universities, education towards evangelization and interreligious dialogue. He and a great number of the other cardinals present, said Navarro-Valls, thanked Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for the document "Dominus Iesus" and suggested that it be used in interreligious dialogue.

Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, termed ecumenism "the" theme of our times. He added that, while we cannot deny resistance and misunderstandings on the part of some Christians, the path taken since Vatican Council II has produced much progress. He noted that interreligious dialogue "has accelerated" in John Paul II's pontificate but nonetheless remains a great commitment involving all Christians.

Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, archbishop major of Lviv of the Ukrainians, referring to the Oriental Catholic Churches and to the Orthodox, stated that there was a principal difference, the primacy of Peter. Thus, he underlined, when full unity is reached it will perforce come through us who have the same liturgy and same rite.

Cardinal Avery Dulles also spoke of the primacy of Peter and its importance for the unity of the Church. Theoretically, he stated, one could think that primacy creates a great ecumenical difficulty; still, it is precisely the lack (of such a primacy) in other Christian confessions which creates difficulties of doctrinal and disciplinary types, for example.

For a series of reasons of historical nature, said Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Vatican Council II preserves yet today a great richness which must be developed in such as way that it would not be truly useful to speak of a new council.

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, archbishop of Milan, suggested that the Synod of Bishops hold an assembly on the theme "The Word of God in the Life of the Church."

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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Alois Schwarz, auxiliary of Vienna, as bishop of Gurk (area 9,533, population 563,925, Catholics 442,801, priests 284, permanent deacons 30, religious 447), Austria.

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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father received today in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly, archbishop emeritus of Armagh, Ireland.
- Archbishop Patrick Coveney, apostolic nuncio in New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga, Nauru, and Kiribati, apostolic delegate in the Pacific Ocean.

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PLEA TO LOWER PHARMACEUTICAL PRICES FOR POOREST COUNTIES

VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2001 (VIS) - Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, addressed the 54th World Health Assembly on Wednesday, May 16 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting began May 14 and ends today.

In his discourse, the text of which was published today, the head of the Holy See delegation affirmed that the Church "recognizes the intellectual ownership of pharmaceutical patents, on the condition that they respect the international well-being of health and the conditions foreseen by proper national and international legislation" and has consistently taught that "there is a 'social mortgage' on all private property."

Archbishop Barragan noted that "the 'social mortgage' which, as the Pope affirms, also weighs heavily on patents, must allow the lowering of medicine prices as well as those of all science and medical technology products." On this point, the archbishop affirmed that it is necessary "to differentiate the price of pharmaceuticals destined for markets in industrialized countries from that in developing countries. It is also necessary to promote pharmaceutical research on lesser-known products or those destined for the cure of specific illnesses of developing countries. Furthermore, it is necessary to expand the list of generic medicines destined for the majority of the worldwide population and to promote national legislation and international agreements in order to counter the monopoly of a few pharmaceutical industries and thus to bring down prices, in particular of products destined for developing countries. Finally, it would be necessary to promote agreements for the proper transfer of health-care technology to these countries."

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FIVE CARDINALS TO TAKE POSSESSION OF TITLES, DIACONATES

VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2001 (VIS) - According to a note from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, the following cardinals will take possession of their diaconate or title churches this weekend:
- Sunday, May 27 at 11 a.m.: Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo, patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal, title of St. Anthony in Campo Marzio, on Via dei Portoghesi, 2.

- Sunday, May 27 at 11 a.m.: Cardinal Jean Honore, archbishop emeritus of Tours, France, title of St. Mary of Health in Primavalle, on Via Tommaso De Vio, 5.

- Sunday, May 27 at 11 a.m.: Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk, diaconate of St. Francis Xavier in Garbatella, on Via Daniele Comboni, 4.

- Sunday, May 27 at 11:15 a.m.: Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., metropolitan archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, title of St. Mary of Hope, on Via F. Cocco Ortu, 61.

- Sunday, May 27 at 11:15 a.m.: Cardinal Bernard Agre, metropolitan archbishop of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, title of St. John Chrysostom in Monte Sacro Alto, on Via Emilio De Marchi, 60.

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IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2001 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

- Bishop Paul Bui Chu Tao, emeritus of Phat Diem, Vietnam, on May 5, 2001, at the age of 92.
- Bishop Andre Reginald Jacq, O.P., former apostolic vicar of Lang Son and Cao Bang (now a diocese), Vietnam, on May 2, 2001, at the age of 95.
- Bishop Jean-Berchmans Nterere of Muyinga, Burundi, on May 5, 2001, at the age of 58.

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