VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 143
DATE 31-07-2014

Summary:
- FULL AGENDA FOR POPE'S APOSTOLIC TRIP TO TIRANA
- POPE FRANCIS' PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR AUGUST
- PAPAL AND HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY - JULY 2014
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
- NOTICE

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 FULL AGENDA FOR POPE'S APOSTOLIC TRIP TO TIRANA
 Vatican City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) - The programme of the Pope's Apostolic
trip to Tirana, Albania, scheduled for 21 September, was published today.
 The Holy Father will depart at 7.30 a.m. from Rome's Fiumicino airport,
and will arrive at the "Mother Theresa" aerodrome in Tirana at 9
a.m., where he will be greeted by the prime minister, Edi Rama. He will
proceed to the Presidential Palace to make a courtesy visit to the
president of the Republic of Albania, Bujar Nishani, followed by greetings
with the political authorities.
 At 11 a.m., Francis will celebrate Mass and pray the Sunday Angelus in
Mother Theresa Square. He will then transfer to the apostolic nunciature to
lunch with the Albanian bishops and members of the papal entourage. At 4
p.m. he will address the leaders of other religions and Christian
denominations at the Catholic University "Our Lady of Good
Counsel". At 5 p.m. he will celebrate Vespers with the priests,
religious, seminarians and members of Albanian lay movements in the
Cathedral of Tirana, after which, at 6.30 a.m., he will visit children at
the Betania Centre, along with various people from other charitable centres
in Albania.
 At 7.45 the Pope will leave for the airport, departing for Rome at 8 p.m.
He is expected to arrive in Rome's Ciampino airport at 9.30 p.m.

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 POPE FRANCIS' PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR AUGUST
 Vatican City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) - Pope Francis' universal prayer
intention for August is: "That refugees, forced by violence to abandon
their homes, may find a generous welcome and the protection of their
rights".
 His intention for evangelisation is: "That Christians in Oceania may
joyfully announce the faith to all the people of that region".

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 PAPAL AND HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY - JULY 2014
 Vatican City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) - The following are highlights of the
activities of Pope Francis and the Holy See during the months of May to
July 2014.
 MAY
 2: Audience with the president of the Republic of Angola, Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
 2: Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue, is nominated as the Pope's special envoy to the
consecration of the recently restored shrine to St. Augustine d'Ippona at
Annaba, Algeria, to take place on 2 May 2014, the centenary of its
elevation to a Basilica.
 2: First meeting of the Council for the Economy, instituted by the Holy
Father by the Motu proprio "Fidelis dispensator et prudens" on 24
February.
 3: Audience with the bishops of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sri
Lanka, at the end of their five-yearly "ad limina" visit.
 5: Audience with the bishops of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of
Burundi, at the end of their five-yearly "ad limina" visit.
 7-12: The Holy See is guest of honour at the 27th Turin International Book Fair.
 8: His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians, meets the Holy Father.
 9: Audience with the prelates of the Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia and
Eritrea, at the end of their "ad limina" visit.
 10: During his audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect of the
Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Holy Father authorised the
dicastery to communicate that the rite of beatification of the Venerable
Servant of God Paul VI will take place in the Vatican on 19 October 2014.
 11: Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of
Bishops, takes possession of the diaconate of Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino,
Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 5.
 12: Death of Cardinal Marco Ce, Patriarch emeritus of Venice, Italy, at
the age of 88.
 13: Pope Francis presides at the 13th Ordinary Council of the Synod of Bishops.
 15: Pope Francis receives the credential letters of seven new ambassadors
to the Holy See: Pierre Yves Fux, Switzerland; Rudolf P. von Balimoos,
Liberia; Nega Tsegaye Tessema, Ethiopia; Nasreldin Ahmed Wali Abdeltif,
Sudan; Margaret Ann Louise Jobson, Jamaica; Claudinah Ntini Ramosepele,
South Africa; and Mysore Kapanalah Lokesh, India.
 15: The Holy Father receives in audience the Governor General of New
Zealand, Sir Jerry Mateparae.
 19: Audience with the bishops of the Mexican Episcopal Conference, on
their five-yearly "ad limina" visit.
 19: The Holy Father Francis receives in audience His Majesty Hamad bin Isa
Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain.
 19: The Holy Father Francis receives in audience the prime minister of
Poland, Donald Tusk.
 19: The Financial Information Authority (AIF) of the Holy See and the
Vatican City State presents its Annual Report for 2013.
 19: For the first time, Pope Francis opens the 66th General Assembly of
the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI).
 21: Audience with Gjorge Ivanov, president of the Republic of Macedonia,
with his wife and entourage.
 24-26: Pilgrimage in the Holy Land to commemorate the 50th anniversary of
the encounter in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and the Patriarch
Athenagoras.
 25: Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy,
takes possession of the diaconate of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, Via dei Fori
Imperiali, 1.
 31: Cardinal Kelvin Edward Felix, archbishop emeritus of Castries,
Antilles, takes possession of the title of Santa Maria della Salute a
Primavalle, Via Tommaso De Vio, 5.
 JUNE
 2: Audience with the prelates of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops'
Conference, at the end of their "ad limina" visit.
 2: Death of Cardinal Simon Duraisamy Lourdusamy, prefect emeritus of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches and archbishop emeritus of
Bangalore, India, at the age of 90.
 5: The Holy Father meets with His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the
Armenian Apostolic Church of Cilicia.
 6: Audience with the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.
 7: Cardinal Chibly Langlois, bishop of Les Cayes, Haiti, takes possession
of the title of San Giacomo in Augusta, Via del Corso, 499.
 7: Audience with the president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto.
 7: The Financial Information Authority (AIF) of the Holy See and Vatican
City State, formalises its bilateral cooperation with the U.K., France,
Malta, Romania, Poland and Peru.
 7: Cardinal Ferdinand Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples, is appointed as the Pope's special envoy to the
celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the diocese of
Funchal, in Madeira, Portugal, from 13 to 16 June 2014.
 8: Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti takes possession of the title of St.
Cecilia, Piazza di St. Cecilia, 22.
 8: Invocation for Peace in the Vatican Gardens, an initiative Pope Francis
proposed to presidents Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas during his pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, to pray for the gift of peace for the Israeli and
Palestinian peoples.
 9: Death of Cardinal Bernard Agre, archbishop emeritus of Abidjan, Cote
d'Ivoire, at the age of 88.
 12: Ordinary Public Consistory for the canonisation, on 23 November 2014,
of Blesseds Giovanni Antonio Farina, bishop of Vicenza, Italy, and founder
of the Institute of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred
Hearts; Kuriakose Elias Chavara of the Holy Family, Indian priest and
founder of the Congregation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate; Ludovico
de Casoria, Italian professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, founder
of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Elizabeth
("Bigie"); Nicola da Longobardi, Italian professed oblate of the
Order of Minims; Eufrasia Eluvathingal of the Sacred Heart, Indian
professed religious of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, and Amato
Ronconi, Italian layperson of the Third Order of St. Francis, founder of
the founder of the Hospital-Hospice for Poor Pilgrims of Saludecio, now the
Beato Amato Ronconi Nursing Home.
 13: Pope Francis receives in audience Danilo Medina Sanchez, president of
the Dominican Republic.
 14: Publication of the Holy Father's message for the 88th World Mission
Day, to be held on 19 October 2014.
 15: Visit to the Sant'Egidio Community.
 16: Pope Francis receives in audience the Archbishop of Canterbury, His
Grace Justin Welby.
 17: The 2014 Ratzinger Prize will be awarded to Professor Anne-Marie
Pelletier and Professor Msgr. Waldemar Chrostowski on 22 November.
 21: Pastoral visit to the diocese of Cassano all'Jonio, Calabria.
 21: Pope Francis appoints Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect emeritus of the
Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as his special envoy to the
25th anniversary of the liberation of the Greek Catholic eparchy of
Mukachevo, to take place in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on 28 June 2014.
 22: Presentation of the Instrumentum laboris of the 3 rd Extraordinary
General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (5-19 October 2014), on the theme
"The pastoral challenges of the family in the context of
evangelisation".
 28: The Pope receives in audience the president of the Republic of
Madagascar, Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina.
 30: The Holy Father receives in audience Their Majesties King Felipe VI
and Queen Letizia of Spain.
 JULY
 1.4: Fifth meeting between the Pope and the Council of Cardinals,
instituted by Pope Francis to assist in the governance of the universal
Church and to draw up a plan for the review of the Apostolic Constitution
"Pastor bonus" on the Roman Curia.
 5: Pastoral visit to the dioceses of Campobasso-Boiano and Isernia-Venafro
in the region of Molise, Italy.
 5: Pope Francis proclaims the Celestine Jubilee Year in the Cathedral
Square, Isernia, the birthplace of the hermit Pietro da Morrone, the future
Pope Celestine V (1209-1296) who was elected in the Conclave of 1292-1294
and after just five months abdicated from the papacy to resume his life as
a hermit.
 5: Message from the Holy Father to the Archbishop of Agrigento, Francesco
Montenegro, on the first anniversary of the papal visit to the Sicilian
island of Lampedusa, where he prayed for African migrants who have lost
their lives in the Mediterranean.
 7: Seven victims of abuse by members of the clergy attend Mass celebrated
by the Holy Father in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
 8: Motu proprio of the Holy Father Francis on the transfer of the Ordinary
Section of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See to the
Secretariat of the Economy.
 8: The Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See reports a positive
balance for the 2013 Budgets of the Holy See and the Governorate of Vatican
City State.
 26: Pastoral visit to Caserta.
 27: Death of Cardinal Francesco Marchisano, archpriest emeritus of St.
Peter's Basilica, at the age of 85.
 28: Private visit with the evangelical pastor Giovanni Traettino, Caserta.
 29: Announcement of the Holy Father's Apostolic trip to Sri Lanka from 12
to 15 January, and the Philippines from 15 to 19 January 2015.
 31: Publication of the programme for Pope Francis' forthcoming Apostolic
trip to Tirana, Albania, on 21 September 2014.

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 AUDIENCES
 Vatican City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father received in
audience Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto, dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota.

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 OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
 Vatican City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr.
Ephrem Nariculam as bishop of the eparchy of Chanda of the Syro-Malabars
(area 32,233, population 4,357,654, Catholics 13,119, priests 85, religious
563), India. The bishop-elect was born in Sanjopuram, India in 1960, and
was ordained a priest in 1986. He holds a doctorate in spiritual theology
from the St. Peter's Pontifical Institute in Bangalore, India, and has
served as parish priest in Ernakulam and Delhi and rector of the minor
seminary of the eparchy of Chanda. He is currently chaplain of the
Syro-Malabar community of Toronto, Canada. He succeeds Bishop Vijay Anand
Nedumpuram, C.M.I., whose resignation from the pastoral governance of the
same eparchy, upon reaching the age limit, was accepted by the Holy Father.

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 NOTICE
 Vatican City, 31 July 2014 (VIS) - We inform our readers that during the
month of August, the Vatican Information Service will remain closed.
Service will resume on Monday 1 September.

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