Press briefing for XVIII Meeting of Cardinal Advisors
(Vatican Radio) The Vice-director of the Holy See Press
Office, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, gave a briefing on Wednesday on the XVIII
Meeting of the Cardinal Advisors with Pope Francis.
The Council of Cardinals met together with the Holy Father
for three days, Monday through Wednesday, 13-15 February.
Pope Francis was not present for the second part of the
morning meeting on Monday, on account of the ad limina visit
of the Bishops of Costa Rica; he was absent as well on Wednesday morning
because of the weekly General Audience. He will, however, be present at the 105th sitting
of the Council set for Wednesday afternoon.
On Monday and Tuesday the Cardinals concelebrated Mass with
the Pope.
Following their first meeting on 13 February, the Cardinals
released the following statement through the Holy See Press Office:
The Council of Cardinals began its eighteenth session
today.
At the beginning, Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez
Maradiaga, coordinator of the group, after greeting the Holy Father, thanked
him on behalf of all the Members for his words in the Christmas address to the
Roman Curia on 22 December 2016, acknowledging his encouragement and guidance
for the work of the Council.
In relation to recent events, the Council of Cardinals
pledges its full support for the Pope’s work, assuring him at the same time of
its adhesion and loyalty to the figure of the Pope and to his Magisterium.
The working sessions of the Council’s meeting took place
each morning from 9:00-12:30, and each afternoon from 16:30-19:00; and were
dedicated to further considerations concerning the different Curial
Dicasteries. In particular, they continued the discussion on the Congregation
for the Evangelization of Peoples (Propaganda Fide); the Congregation for
Oriental Churches; and the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.
The Cardinals also began their examination of the “Diakonia
of Justice,” and thus considerable time was dedicated to the Tribunals: the
Apostolic Penitentiary, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Segnatura, and
the Tribunal of the Roman Rota.
During the meetings, the Council also studied the process
for the selection of candidates to the Episcopate.
Cardinal George Pell reported on his work at the Secretariat
for the Economy, entrusted to him, for the full realization of the economic
reform requested by the Holy Father, with particular attention to the activity
of personal formation and human resources.
The Prefect for the Secretariat for Communications, Msgr
Dario Edoardo Viganò, presented the current state of the reform of the
communications of the Holy See, or the unification of Vatican Radio and the
Vatican Television Centre in the dicastery entrusted to him. Meetings have been
initiated with the Secretariat of State, the Secretariat for the Economy, APSA,
and the Labour Office to accompany this new phase of the reform. Further, the
plan for restructuring Vatican Radio frequencies, and the new policies for the
world of social networks were presented. Finally, there was a reflection on the
project for the beginning of the reform of the Vatican publishing house, the
Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
The next meeting of the Council of Cardinals will take place
24-26 April 2017.
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