Price € 1,00. Back issues € 2,00 L’O S S E RVATOR E ROMANO WEEKLY EDITION IN ENGLISH Unicuique suum Non praevalebunt Fifty-third year, number 35 (2.661) Vatican City Friday, 28 August 2020 At the General Audience the Pope continues his catechesis on the crises aggravated by the pandemic Inequality fruit of a ‘sick economy’ See page 3 Children from Harare, Zimbabwe, where the population is affected by severe drought, help carry buckets of water (Epa) Audiences to resume As of Wednesday, 2 September, To weather the storm: all together the General Audiences with the participation of the faithful will take place in the San Damaso ANDREA MONDA we cannot go on thinking of the gift of hope that comes from Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, ourselves, but only together can we Christ. It is He who helps us navig- beginning at 9.30 am. Everyone remembers what hap- do this.... The storm exposes our ate the tumultuous waters of sick- Attendance is open to all pened five months ago in the after- vulnerability and uncovers those ness, death and injustice, which do without the need of tickets. noon of 27 March, when the shad- false and superfluous certainties not have the last word over our final ows of sunset were gathering togeth- around which we have constructed destination”. The risk is not only of er with the rain filled clouds over our daily schedules, our projects, losing hope but also reason, and of Saint Peter’s Square, and the Pope our habits and priorities”. letting fear and the struggle for sur- slowly climbed the steps of the par- The message was strong and vival prevail over the sense of solid- vis to raise his voice and pray to clear: we are not self-sufficient; on arity. When the storm rages, the cry John Paul I God the Creator, who in those days, our own we drown. And then an that is raised in fact translates to seemed to have forgotten to watch opening towards hope, towards a “save yourself if you can”. But there History of the Cause over his creation. “For weeks now it wider gaze and above all a more is deceit in the word “yourself”…. It of Canonization has been evening”, Francis said. grateful one: our lives are “sustained would be more correct to cry “save “Thick darkness has gathered over by ordinary people — often forgot- me if you can”. If it is true that no FALASCA ON PA G E 4/5 our squares, our streets and our cit- ten people — who do not appear in one can save themselves on their ies; it has taken over our lives, newspaper and magazine headlines” own, then demand must give way to filling everything with a deafening but who “are in these very days prayer. Your life becomes vita mea silence and a distressing void, that writing the decisive events of our instead of m o rs . Enrico Macrohon stops everything as it passes by; we time: doctors, nurses, supermarket There is a true story that feel it in the air, we notice in employees, cleaners, caregivers, pro- happened about half a century ago Rix the Seminarian p eople’s gestures, their glances give viders of transport, law and order which demonstrates this truth and them away. We find ourselves afraid forces, volunteers, priests, religious undoes an ancient myth; a story that CETERA ON PA G E 6 and lost. Like the disciples in the men and women and so very many speaks precisely about the storm. Gospel we were caught off guard by others who have understood that no Dutch economist Rutger Bregman an unexpected, turbulent storm. We one reaches salvation by them- told this story in his essay, “Human- have realized that we are on the selves”. kind. A Hopeful History”, and Sunday Angelus same boat, all of us fragile and dis- The Pope returned to this image Francesco Chiamulera proposed it oriented, but at the same time im- of the storm, once again opening again at a theatre reading a few days God will hold us portant and needed, all of us called our gaze to hope, during his cat- ago during the event, “A Mountain to row together, each of us in need echesis for the General Audience on of Books” in Cortina D’Amp ezzo. to account of comforting the other. On this Wednesday, 26 August: “In the face In June 1965, six youths between the boat … are all of us. Just like those of the pandemic and its social con- ages of 13 and 16, students at Saint PAGE 8 disciples, who spoke anxiously with sequences, many risk losing hope. A n d re w ’s, a strict Catholic boarding one voice, saying ‘We are perishing’ In this time of uncertainty and an- (v. 38), so we too have realized that guish, I invite everyone to welcome CONTINUED ON PA G E 7 page 2 L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO Friday, 28 August 2020, number 35 New Ambassador of Australia On Thursday morning, 27 August, the Holy Father received in audience H.E. Ms Chiara Porro, Ambassad- VAT I C A N or of Australia, for the presentation of the Letters by which she is accred- Mr Alberto Minali; Ms María Con- ited to the Holy See. BULLETIN cepción Osákar Garaicoechea, and Ms Ruth Maria Kelly. H.E. Ms Chiara Porro, 36, is married and has two children. AUDIENCES COUNCIL FOR THE ECONOMY She holds a Master of Interna- RE L AT I O N S WITH STAT E S tional Relations and Diplomacy Thursday, 27 August On 6 August, the Holy Father ap- The Holy Father appointed Arch- from the University of Leiden, pointed as Members of the Council the Netherlands and a Bachelor H.E. Mrs Chiara Porro, Ambassador bishop Luciano Russo, titular Arch- for the Economy the following: bishop of Monteverde, as Apostolic of Arts in Politics, Philosophy of Australia, for the presentation of and Economics from the Uni- Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop Nuncio to Panama. Until now he her Letters of Credence has been Apostolic Nuncio to Alger- versity of York, United Kingdom. of Esztergom-Budapest; Cardinal She speaks Italian and French. Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Arch- Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of ia and Tunisia (22 Aug.). bishop of Utrecht, Holland Ambassador Porro is a career dip- São Paulo; Cardinal Gérald Cyprien lomat who joined Australia’s De- NECROLO GY Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Lacroix, ISPX, Archbishop of Qué- partment of Foreign Affairs and bec; Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, OFM, titular Archbishop of Verbe, Archbishop Luis Abilio Sebastiani Trade (D FAT ) in 2009. She has Apostolic Administrator “sede va- Archbishop of Newark; Cardinal held a range of positions in Can- Anders Arborelius, Bishop of Stock- Aguirre, SM, Archbishop emeritus of cante” of the Patriarchate of Jerusa- Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru, at age berra, including most recently as lem for Latins holm; and Cardinal Giuseppe Pet- Director, Ministerial and Execu- rocchi, Archbishop of L’Aquila; and 85 (10 Aug.) Mr Maximino Caballero Ledo, Sec- lay people: Prof. Charlotte Kreuter- Bishop François-Mathurin Gourvès, retary General of the Secretariat for Kirchhof; Ms Eva Castillo Sanz; Ms M E P, Bishop emeritus of Vannes, the Economy, with his wife Leslie Jane Ferrar; Ms Maríja Kolak; France, at age 91 (12 Aug.) Pope Francis expresses his closeness to the people of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique Surprise phone call to the Bishop of Pemba Pope Francis recently made a sur- great concern and that he is con- izations and many individuals, both prise telephone call to Bishop Luiz stantly praying for us”, the Bishop local and not. “Holy Father, you Fernando Lisboa of Pemba, Mozam- explained. “He also told me that if have placed Cabo Delgado on the bique, expressing his closeness to there was anything else that he world map”, Bishop Lisboa said to the people of Cabo Delgado region. could do, we should not hesitate to Pope Francis gratefully. The Pope’s gesture brought much ask him. He is ready to walk with During the telephone call, Bishop tive Liaison Section, Executive “reassurance and comfort”, said us”. The prelate said he took the op- Lisboa also informed Pope Francis Branch. She was seconded as an Adviser to the International Divi- Bishop Lisboa, who has been draw- portunity to thank Pope Francis for of the difficult situation in the port sion of the Department of Prime ing attention to the worsening hu- his prayers for Cabo Delgado dur- city of Mocimboa da Praia. The manitarian situation in this region ing the Urbi et Orbi Blessing on Minister and Cabinet (2016-17), Pope encouraged the Bishop to con- where growing insurgency is posing Easter Sunday, 12 April, highlighting and has worked in D FAT ’s Budget tact Cardinal Michael Czerny for a threat to large investments in the that the mention had led to in- Branch (2015-16) and Africa a re a ’s gas reserves. creased awareness of the area’s humanitarian aid assistance, and Branch (2014). Overseas, Ms “The Holy Father said he was fol- plight, as well as to aid from various offered his blessing to the people of Porro has served as Deputy Con- lowing events in our province with congregations, humanitarian organ- Cabo Delgado and to all Mozambic- sul-General in Noumea, New ans. Meanwhile, Bishop Lisboa as- Caledonia (2018-2020), on a short sured the Holy Father of his person- term mission to West Africa al and his community’s daily prayers (2016), and as Second Secretary for him and his ministry. in New Delhi, India (2011-2014).