Pope Francis announces Synod on young people

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Young women workers doing vocational training/S. Moumtzis, USAID/Pixnio

ope Francis has announced that the next Synod of Bishops will be held in October 2018 on the theme "Young people, faith and vocational discernment," the Vatican Press Office reports.

"The theme, an expression of the pastoral care of the Church for the young, is consistent with the results of the recent Synod assemblies on the family and with the content of the post-Synodal apostolic exhortationAmoris Laetitia," the Vatican announcement continues.

"Its aim is to accompany the young on their existential journey to maturity so that, through a process of discernment, they discover their plan for life and realise it with joy, opening up to the encounter with God and with human beings, and actively participating in the edification of the Church and of society."

Greg Burke, the director of the Vatican press office, told reporters in a short briefing Thursday that the discussions are expected to focus on more than the choice between religious and married life, the National Catholic Reporter notes.

This should not be taken to mean that the next Synod will discuss the question of whether married men could be ordained to celebrate the sacraments, as the English speaking world had assumed in recent months, Vatican Insider adds.

Commenting on Twitter, Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia, noted that "yet again @Pontifex has chosen a Synod theme which looks to the deeper question of the engagement of faith & culture central to Vatican II."

In a Facebook post, Philip Callaghan, president of the English and Welsh Young Christian Workers movement, said that the Synod should also address work and unemployment issues.

"As Pope Francis has stated, one of the gravest evils facing our society is the unemployment of the young," Callaghan said. "Work is of fundamental importance to the development of the human person and it is therefore critical that issues surrounding world of work are included in the wider discussions surrounding young people and their place in the Church."

SOURCE

http://www.globalpulsemagazine.com/news/pope-francis-announces-synod-on-young-people/4005

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Pope Francis' special blessing for the IYCW World Council

Pope Francis has asked former IYCW chaplain, Dom Reginaldo Andrietta, who is now the bishop of Jales in Brazil, to communicate a special blessing to the IYCW World Council which will begin in Aachen, Germany this weekend.

"I told (Pope Francis) about my responsibility as a diocesan bishop as the reference bishop for pastoral work for the CNBB (Catholic Bishops Conference of Brazil), which includes support for the Young Christian Worker (YCW/JOC) movement, as well as the World Council of the IYCW, which will take place in Germany from 26 September until the 8 October 2016," Dom Reginaldo wrote in a Facebook post.

"The pope also communicated to me a special blessing for the IYCW Council where I will be present, and has also sent a letter via the Vatican Secretariat of State expressing its pleasure at this world meeting as well as its encouragement to all participants and their mission in the YCW."

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Registrations open for Vatican 2+50 Conference, Chennai

Registrations are now open for the CCI Vatican 2 + 50 Conference to be held in Chennai, India from 5-8 December 2015. The theme of the conference is: "Vatican 2+50: A Cardijn Perspective".

Saint John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council in October 1962 which concluded during the Papacy of Blessed Paul VI on the 5th December 1965. This Ecumenical Council was responsible for steering the Church successfully through the turbulent years after World War II and guided its growing role in the modern world.

In February 1965, Blessed Paul VI appointed Cardijn a Cardinal and Archbishop, enabling him to take part in the Fourth Session of Vatican II as a Council Father. Cardijn was initially a member of the Preparatory Commission on Lay Apostolate and later an expert in the Conciliar Commission at Vatican II.

Cardinal Cardijn made 3 speeches at the Vatican II on 'Religious Freedom', 'Young People and the Developing World' and 'The World of Work'.

At a conference in Manila, The Philippines in October 2012, Cardijn Community International (CCI) launched a 3 year project with the theme "Vatican 2+50: A Cardijn Perspective" to re-examine the spirit and decisions of Vatican II in the areas of 'social teachings of the Church and lay participation'.

This International Conference is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of Vatican II. Representatives from different countries, international organisations and Church leaders are expected to attend this mega event.

The Cardijn Community International (CCI) is a movement of people working for sustainable development. CCI promotes Cardijn's spirituality, vision and SEE-JUDGE-ACT methodology.

The 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council instils a new hope in us with Pope Francis exclaiming 'Oh, how I would like a poor Church and for the poor'.

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http://www.cyours.com/cci/index.html


Online Registration:

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See Judge Act with Pope Francis

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Bergoglio followed the three-step 'See-Judge-Act' method of the Belgian worker priest Joseph Cardijn," writes Matthias Drobinski at Sueddeutsche.de.

"He thus followed one of the basic concepts of Latin American liberation theology, without the human, social and historical model of Marxism, as some liberation theologians did.

"Bergoglio did not lead a scholastic life, he is an initiator in the church. As a maker, he tried to bring himself and the Jesuit order by the time of the military dictatorship, so that after him many accused, he should have been more prophet and less at home in the network of the powerful.

"As a cardinal, he went to the slums and was close to the people," Drobinski writes.

"And in 2007, in Aparecida, Brazil has Bergoglio, practitioners and church leaders helped that these people care about the program was the Latin American church - also in conflict with the Curia, whose chief he is now.

"He has changed, many who know him say - change through action, practice, experience. When Francis follows the theory of practice, the shape of the function. That's one of the big differences to Benedict, which is one of the great struggles of the Pope with the followers of the primacy of form and dogma in the Catholic Church," Drobinski concludes.

Translation by Google Translate (subject to correction)

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Claudio Celli (Intermirifica)

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Pope Francis warned Argentine YCW leader of 'infiltrators'

Aged 54, Gustavo Jorge Buonomo is a former YCW leader from Argentina, who has known Pope Francis for many years.

Buonomo, who is now director of catechesis at the St Pius X diocesan seminary in the Diocese of Morón, also lectures in biblical studies and has written a book "Encuentros entre Mates y Caminos".
He is also academic coordinator of the Christian Education Open Studies Centre of the Buenos Aires Salesians.

"I met Fr Bergoglio in 1979 when I wanted to study in the Jesuit Philosophy and Theology Course in the City of San Miguel in Greater Buenos Aires," Buonomo told El Municipio.

"At that time, the course was only open to seminarians and religious congregations of men. I had an interview with Fr Jorge Bergoglio who then superior of the Jesuits in the province. In consultation with the YCW, I decided to complete my training.

"At that time, the YCW was organised in clandestinity. The movement had been very active in that decade until the beginning of the dictatorship, but persecution of activists and leaders of the movement began by the end of 1975.

"There was a raid in the YCW movement of Buenos Aires and other provinces, which led to the kidnapping and disappearance of the National YCW Advisor, Jose (Pepe) Palacios.

"It was the first time that the movement had a lay chaplain and it was not welcomed by the church. The bishops replaced him with a set of three ecclesiastical advisors, who were active in various provinces.

"The circumstances were difficult. I remember in that interview that he knew about my participation in the YCW and he warned me that I should not disclose my membership in the movement because the intelligence services closely monitored the faculty and he also suspected that there were some infiltrators.

"After I studied that year, the Jesuits were forced to close opportunities for the laity," Buonomo said.

José 'Pepe' Palacios was international collaborator for the IYCW when he "disappeared" in December 1975. University YCS (JUC) leader Daniel Bombara "disappeared" the same month.

Also killed by the military in 1976was Bishop Enrique Angelelli, who founded the YCW in the Cordoba diocese and later became bishop. He took part in Vatican II. Fr Bergoglio also worked in the Cordoba diocese for several years after returning from studies in Germany.

YCS chaplain Fr Carlos Mugica was also killed in 1970.

NB: Translation by Google Translate (subject to correction)

Article updated and translation improved 1 April 2013.

SOURCES

http://elmunicipiodigital.com/cultura/yo-conoci-al-cardenal-bergoglio/

http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/iglesia/complice/8.html

Google Translation

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Me3H4wHU5BBZgg8CJTeMkB_MzqQmzUL5ZEm9wmlc0dI/edit


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José 'Pepé' Palacios

Bishop Enrique Angelelli

Fr Carlos Mugica



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Claudio Celli (InterMirifica)

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