26 CATHOLIC NEW YORK May 6, 2021 Foundation Receives Personal Writings of Pope John Paul I By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES bishop Moraglia wrote. spanning 50 years, made up of papers including Pope John Paul I served only 33 days as pope. handwritten pieces, notebooks, diaries, printed he John Paul I Vatican Foundation an- He died in 1978 at the age of 65, shocking the and photographic material and correspondence.” nounced the recovery of a collection of world and a Church that had just mourned the “The scope of these papers, which is mainly Tthe late pope’s writings. death of St. Paul VI. characterized as a personal file, largely includes In a statement released by the Vatican April The foundation, established in 2020 by Pope interventions, lectures, conferences, homilies, 28, Archbishop Francesco Moraglia of Venice Francis, was set up to sponsor a variety of initia- articles and publications,” she said. said the personal archives of his predecessor, tives, including conventions, meetings, seminars Among the writings, which are expected then-Cardinal Albino Luciani, are a testament to and study sessions. It also is expected to publish to be digitized, was the pope’s 1978 personal the late pontiff’s humility as “a meek and brave research and be a point of reference throughout agenda that included notes written by John worker in the vineyard of the Lord.” the world for people who wish to further their Paul I for his Sunday Angelus addresses and “I hope the foundation will always undertake studies on Pope John Paul I. weekly audiences. the work of spreading his religious and cultural Italian journalist Stefania Falasca, a member of Archbishop Moraglia said the archives show heritage so that we may know better the beau- the foundation’s administrative board and vice that even after his election, Pope John Paul I’s tiful ‘surprise’ that God wanted to reserve, one postulator of the late pope’s sainthood cause, “priority and attention went to the proclamation day, for His Church and the world by placing said the writings—dated from 1929 to 1978—are of the Gospel without ever leaving it in ‘second Albino Luciani on the chair of St. Peter,” Arch- a “very rich collection of diverse documentation place’ or trivializing it.” —CNS CNEWA Launches Emergency Campaign for India atholic Near East Welfare Association with special needs, children and the elderly. cal leaders; sponsors catechesis programs for (CNEWA) has launched an emergency An agency of the Holy See founded by Pope children and young adults; and funds initiatives Ccampaign to rush funds to India to help the Pius XI in 1926, CNEWA works for, through and for the marginalized, especially the elderly and local churches respond to the escalating Covid-19 with the Eastern churches to provide aid to reli- those with special needs. crisis that has resulted in more than 220,000 gious sisters caring for orphaned and abandoned CNEWA is a registered charity in the United deaths and overwhelmed hospitals there. children; helps displaced and refugee families; States by the State of New York. 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