Friday, November 15, 2002

ARCHBISHOP MILINGO TO CELEBRATE MASS NEAR ROME

VATICAN CITY, NOV 15, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy See Press Office communicated today that Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia, will preside at a solemn Eucharistic celebration on Thursday November 21, memorial of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, at 3 p.m. at the Abbey of Casamari, diocese of Frosinone, near Rome, Italy.

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DOCUMENT ON MISSION OF CONSECRATED PEOPLE IN SCHOOLS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 15, 2002 (VIS) - On November 19 at 11:30 a.m. in the Holy See Press Office there will be a presentation of the document published by the Congregation for Catholic Education, "Consecrated people and their mission in schools. Reflections and orientations."

Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski and Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, S.J., prefect and secretary of the dicastery, and Reverend Mother Antonia Colombo, superior general of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians, will participate in the presentation.

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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, NOV 15, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Calogero La Piana, S.D.B., inspector of the Salesians in Sicily, as bishop of Mazara del Vallo (area 1,734, population 234,592, Catholics 223,250, priests 100, religious 275), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Riesi, Italy in 1952 and ordained a priest in 1981. He succeeds Bishop Emanuele Catarinicchia whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Jean Gagnon, auxiliary of Quebec, Canada as bishop of Gaspe (area 20,637, population 88,483, Catholics 87,042, priests 58, permanent deacons 3, religious 175), Canada.

- Appointed Bishop Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, as archbishop of Quebec (area 35,180, population 1,072,950, Catholics 1,027,948, priests 896, permanent deacons 82, religious 3,533), Canada. The archbishop-elect was born in 1944 in Lamotte, Canada and was ordained a priest in 1972. He succeeds Archbishop Maurice Couture, R.S.V., whose resignation the Holy Father accepted from the same archdiocese upon having reached the age limit.

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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, NOV 15, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Seven prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Eastern Region II) on their "ad limina" visit:

- Bishop Diogo Reesink, O.F.M., of Teofilo Otoni.

- Bishop Waldemar Chaves de Araujo of Sao Joao del Rei.

- Bishop Joe Alberto Moura, C.S.S., of Uberlandia.

- Bishop Emanuel Messias de Oliveira of Guanhaes.

- Bishop Diamantino Prata de Carvalho, O.F.M., of Campanha.

- Bishop Celio de Oliveira Goulart, O.F.M., of Leopoldina.

- Bishop Guilherme Porto of Sete Lagoas.

- Bishop Jacques Berthelet, C.S.V., of Saint-Jean Longueil, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, accompanied by Archbishop Brendan Michael O'Brien of Saint John's, Newfoundland, vice president and Msgr. Peter Schonenbach, secretary.

- Cardinal Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic, archbishop of Toronto, Canada, accompanied by Bishop Francois Lapierre, P.M.E., of Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada and Fr. Thomas Rosica.

This afternoon the Holy Father is scheduled to receive Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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