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Maronite Patriarch

VATICAN CITY, February 26, 2011 (VIS). Today was published the letter of the Holy Father to SB Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, which he accepted the resignation:

"The year spent in 1000-6 hundredth anniversary of the death of Saint Maron reaches its conclusion. This exceptional jubilee was a time of grace has been given to the Maronite Church. It is also the culmination of your service for the greater glory of God and the good of all its faithful . In his unfathomable love, God you have shaped and marked its indelible mark for a special election to its service. This choice has found his secret correspondence in your reply to the free and enthusiastic example of the Mother of God, Let me according to thy word. "You could celebrate your last year's sixty years of priesthood, which prove your loyalty and love for Jesus Christ, the High Priest. In July, you will again have the opportunity to raise a thanksgiving to the Trinity for your fifty years of episcopate. For nearly a quarter century, you've worked with both of your predecessors in the See of Antioch before being chosen by the Synod to succeed them April 19, 1986. This moment puts you on the threshold of your silver jubilee this charge.Vous have started this noble ministry of the Maronite Patriarch in the turmoil of the war that bloodied Lebanon for too many years. With the ardent desire for peace for your country you have driven this Church and traveled the world to comfort your people forced to emigrate. Peace finally came back, always fragile, but still present. John Paul II, I have to proclaim the joy Blessed May 1, has called you to become a member of the College of Cardinals, November 26 1994, to insert yourself into a deeper communion with the universal Church. The arrival of my venerable Predecessor on Beirut in 1997 to sign the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation (A New Hope for Lebanon) scored again the constant link of your Church with the Successor of Peter. When I convened the extraordinary Synod for the Middle East in September 2009, I have appointed Deputy Chairman ad honorem to emphasize the value of ecclesial service you have done in the name of Christ. These days I blessed the statue of Saint Maron placed in a niche in the Vatican Basilica for the closing of the jubilee year, and I was able to greet you and the President of the Lebanese Republic and numerous bishops and faithful. You have chosen to forego the expense of Maronite Patriarch of Antioch in this circumstance and I welcome your decision which is free and magnanimous expression of great humility and deep detachment. I am sure you will always accompany the path of the Maronite Church in prayer, wise counsel and sacrifices. I ask God Almighty through the intercession of St. Maron and Our Lady of Lebanon, to fill you with his blessings. In my heart I wish you the apostolic blessing as well as bishops, priests, people devoted and faithful to all Maronites, and the beloved Lebanese nation! ".
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HEARING IN ACADEMY FOR THE RESIGNATION OF LIFE

VATICAN CITY, February 26, 2011 (VIS). The Holy Father received participants at noon today at the annual meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and its new President Mgr.Ignacio Carrasco de Paula. Echoing the theme of this meeting, Benedict XVI affirmed that psychological distress often affecting women having an abortion "reveals the problem of moral consciousness accompanying the deep wounds suffered whenever a human act reveals the innate vocation of man to well ". But the moral conscience can "distinguish good from evil so that man can freely choose the good. Given that wants to deny the existence of moral consciousness in man, reducing his choices to the result of outer packaging or a pure emotion, we must reiterate that the moral quality of an act has no intrinsic value. It is not an option or a prerogative of Christians or other believers, but a quality common to all human beings. Through this moral conscience God speaks to everyone with an invitation to defend life in all circumstances. It is in this individual link with the Creator lies the profound dignity of conscience, as the reason for its inviolability. "

Then the Pope said that doctors" can not betray their mission to preserve consciousness Women who are tempted to see in abortion a solution to their family problems or socio-economic, or the health of the child unborn. In the latter case they are often driven, sometimes by doctors at abortion as if abortion was morally licit, and even a therapeutic act had to avoid suffering the unborn child and his family, and that is an unfair burden to society. In a cultural context where the meaning of life is offended, where the perception of serious immorality of abortion is largely mitigated, as well as other attacks on human life, doctors must be good at continuing to assert that Abortion does not solve anything, it removes a being ravaged his mother died and his conscience father, often causing the ruin of the family. This mission does not look that doctors and the medical world. The whole society must defend the right to life to be well designed and the real mother, who resides in any case in abortion. Certainly, we also provide assistance to women who had abortions and live a moral and existential drama. Many initiatives are on the diocesan level as in volunteering to support them psychologically and spiritually for a full recovery. The solidarity of the Christian community can not abdicate that responsibility. "

Benedict XVI then again one of the topics discussed by the assembly, the banking of umbilical cord for clinical and research: "It is scientifically promising applications that depend on the generosity of donors of blood cord and the adaptation of structures to meet the desire for donation to delivery. I invite you to promote genuine human and Christian solidarity in this field. " This choice of establishing private banks, "as evidenced by the work of your Assembly, far from guaranteeing superiority over donations of cord, weakens the spirit of solidarity which must always animate the common good, which tends science and medical research.
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FOR A NEW LANGUAGE MEDIA

VATICAN CITY, February 28, 2011 (VIS). At noon, the Pope received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, gathered around the question of language of new media. Thinking and relationships, said Benedict XVI, "are always under the terms of language, broadly and not reduced to the floor ... The new languages that develop in the digital communication such capacity determine more intuitive and emotional than analytical. They therefore induce new logical organization of thought and the relationship to reality, often focusing the image and hyper-textual links. The traditional distinction between oral and written language is reduced to the benefit of a written submission with immediate oral form .. . The risks are obvious, the loss of interiority, a superficial relationship, loss of emotion, domination of public opinion against the strongest desire for truth, all consequences of an inability to live fully and authentically new. Here are a reflection on why languages that develop new technologies is now required.

Then he said he was not only express through digital culture "in the Gospel message contemporary language. We must have the courage to ask what is the relationship between faith, church life and the changes that humanity lives. It should help those who have responsibilities in the Church to understand, interpret and use the new language media in key pastoral. In dialogue with the world, we must ask what is the challenge posed to faith and theology that thought digital, what are the issues and expectations? ... Digital culture poses new challenges to our ability to speak and listen to a symbolic language that speaks of transcendence ... We are called today to discover here as symbols and metaphors and helpful to people who can help to speak of the Kingdom of God to our contemporaries ... The call to spiritual values will develop a truly human communication beyond any easy enthusiasm or skepticism. It is a response to a call that is in our nature as beings created in the image and likeness of God communion ... Thus the contribution of believers can she help the world even the media, by opening the horizons of meaning and value that digital culture is not only able to recognize and represent ".
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