Vatican City, 1 July 2014 (VIS) –
“The news of the killing of the three young abducted Israelis is
terrible and dramatic”, declared the director of the Holy See Press
Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., late yesterday afternoon. “The
assassination of innocent people is always an execrable and
unacceptable crime, and a very serious obstacle on the path towards
the peace for which we must tirelessly continue to strive and pray.
Violence begets violence, and feeds the vicious circle of hatred.
Pope France participates in the unspeakable suffering of the families
struck by this homicidal violence and the pain of all persons
afflicted by the consequences of hatred, and prays that God might
inspire all with thoughts of compassion and peace”.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
STATISTICS ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Vatican City, 1 July 2014 (VIS) – The
Holy Father will make an apostolic trip to the Republic of Korea from
13 to 18 August, on the occasion of the 6th Asian Youth Day. The
following statistics relate to the Catholic Church in Korea, dating
from 31 December 2013, and are provided by the Central Office of
Church Statistics.
The Republic of Korea has an area of
99,268 square kilometres and a population of 50,220,000, of whom
5,393,000 are Catholics, corresponding to 10.7% of the population.
There are 16 ecclesiastical circumscriptions, 1,673 parishes and 843
pastoral centres. The apostolate is carried out by 35 bishops, 4,261
priests, 516 male religious and 9,016 female religious, 123 lay
missionaries and 14,195 catechists. There are 395 minor and 1,489
major seminarians.
There are 328 educational centres of
all levels directed or owned by the Catholic Church throughout the
Republic of Korea, in which there are 221,020 students, as well as 49
special centres. There are also 200 health and welfare centres
belonging to or directed by the Church: 40 hospitals, 4 clinics, 9
leper colonies, 513 rest homes for the elderly and disabled, 277
orphanages and nurseries, and 83 centres for family counselling and
the protection of life.
IN MEMORIAM
Vatican City, 1 July 2014 (VIS) – The
following prelates died in recent weeks:
- Bishop Joseph Befe Ateba of Kribi,
Cameroon, on 4 June at the age of 52.
- Bishop Alejandro Antonio Buccolini,
S.D.B, emeritus of Rio Gallegos, Argentina, on 6 June at the age of
84.
- Bishop Juan Maria Leonardi Villasmil
of Punto Fijo, Venezuela, on 7 June at the age of 67.
-Cardinal Bernard Agre, archbishop
emeritus of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, on 9 June at the age of 88.
- Bishop Vital Joao Geraldo Wilderink,
O. Carm., emeritus of Itaguai, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 11 June at
the age of 82.
- Archbishop Moacyr Jose Vitti, C.S.S.
of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, on 26 June at the age of 73.
- Bishop Bernard Ferdinand Popp,
emeritus of San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., on 27 June at the age of 96.
- Archbishop Petero Mataca, emeritus of
Suva, Fiji, on 30 June at the age of 81.
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 1 July 2014 (VIS) – The
Holy Father has appointed the following as consultors of the
Pontifical Council for Culture:
Fr. Paul Bere, S.J., professor of
sacred scripture at the Theological Institute of the Society of Jesus
in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Fr. Pablo d'Ors, C.M.F., director of the
theatre writing workshop of the University of Madrid, Spain; Fr.
Kevin Fitzgerald, S.J., lecturer in bioethics at Georgetown
University, U.S.A.; Fr. Fernando Ortega, dean of the faculty of
theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina; Professor Edward Alam, U.S.A., lecturer in philosophy and
theology at the Notre Dame University in Louaize, Lebanon; Professor
Ralf van Buhren, Federal Republic of Germany, lecturer in Christian
art and religious architecture at the faculty of social communication
of the Pontifical University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Professor
Glen Chatelier, director of the office for international affairs at
the Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand; Edio Costantini,
director of the “Luigi Gedda” national study centre of the Centro
Sportivo Italiano - CSI, Italy; Professor Ivano Dionigi, rector of
the University of Bologna and president of the Pontificia Accademia
Latinitatis, Italy; Joachim Hake, director of the Katholische
Akademie of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany; Choe Hyondok, Korea,
coordinator of the Catedra de Estudios de Corea y del Este Asiatico
at the University of Costa Rica; Marguerite Lena, lecturer in
philosophy at the College des Bernardins in Paris, France; and Piotr
Pasterczyk, lecturer in cultural history at the Catholic University
of Lublin, Poland.
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