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NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER 9 NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES FROM ROME JUNE 26 - JULY 9, 2016 , New Office for Family Takes Shape , Holy See Creates dance with the current legislation ment, the section for life will con - Congregation for Bishops, the Sec - of the Roman Curia. tinue the work of the Pontifical retariat of State, the Congregations ‘Super Dicastery’ According to the Vatican’s June Academy for Life in supporting and for Catholic Education, the Oriental That Includes 4 statement, the section7 3/for8 the lay coordinating activities to “encour - Churches and the Clergy and the NAME faithful “will inspire and encourage age responsible procreation and the Pontifical Councils for Culture, for Laity and Life the promotion of the vocation and protection $4.25 of Canada human life from con - Volume 92, No. 13 $3.00 USA Promoting Christian Unity and for mission of the lay faithful in the ception to natural end,” adding that Interreligious Dialogue. BY EDWARD PENTIN Church and in the world, as individ- ROME CORRESPONDENT -, it will do so “bearing in mind the He also said the results of earlier uals, married or unmarried, or as UNEXPECTEDneeds of the person in the different discussions about the future of the NCREGISTER.COM members of associations, move - phasesTURNAROUND. of development.” Congregations for the Doctrine of new “super-dicast- ments and communities.” The new statute also says it the Faith, Divine Worship and the ery” for laity, the Oklahoma Gov. It will also promote research will “promote and encourage Discipline of the Sacraments, family and life has Mary Fallin’s May and “contribute to the doctrinal organizations and associations Causes of Saints, Institutes of Con yet to be defined 20 veto of a bill - Oklahoma Pro-Lifers ‘Stunned’ by Bill’s“While I Vetoconsistently have and examination of themes and issues helpingthat would women have and families to secrated Life and Societies of Apos - eitherbers as a ofcongrega the legislature- by over- continue to support a re-examina- regarding the lay faithful,” encour - welcome and protect the gift of tolic Life “have been entrusted to homa to perform abortions.Ation or pontifical councilwhelming because majorities. made it a felony BY BRIAN FRAGA age the “active and responsible Several figures who pushed S.B. tion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s life,for especiallya doctor to in the case of diffi - the Pope for further examination REGISTER CORRESPONDENT its foreseen role does Butnot onyet May fall 20, a week before , this legisla- decision in Roe v. Wade presence of the laity” in the Church cult pregnancies, and to prevent and consultations, as he may con - 1552 — also knowneasily as the into Protect the establishedthe legislative catego -session was sched- perform an abor- tion cannot accomplish that re- and “evaluate” initiatives coming recourse to abortion.” sider appropriate.” Life Initiative — throughries of thea traditional Okla- dicastery. tion in the state OKLAHOMA CITY — Pro-life uled to end, Fallin vetoed the bill. In examination,” Fallin wrote. from bishops’ conferences regard- Furthermore, it is expected to During the June 6-8 meeting, homa Legislature told Vaticanthe Register spokesman Father Fed- chagrined state her veto letter to lawmakers, Fallin Paul Blair, a local Baptist pastor, ing the institution of “new minis - support programs and initiatives Cardinals George Pell, prefect of activists and legislators say Okla- that Fallin assured ericothem inLombardi a meet- told reporters on C pro-lifers. AP photo/ said the bill’s language was too ULTURE homa Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican who initiated the legislation a year tries and ecclesiastical offices.” intended to help women who have the Secretariat for the Economy, ing last October thatJune she 8 supportedthat the lack ofvague a decision and onambiguous, and she NCREGISTER.COM Sue Ogrocki who has described herself as strongly ago, told the Register that he was It will further help in creating had an abortion, as well as “study Cardinal Reinhard Marx, coordi - the initiative. Theythe said precise the gover- nature of the new dicast - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER expressed doubts that the law CONTINUES ON PAGE 6 groups of faithful and lay move - and promote formation on the nator of the Council for the Econ pro-life, betrayed them when she nor expressed no reservationsery was “intentional.” about - would survive a legal challenge. ments of an international character main issues of biomedicine and of omy, BUILDING which oversees CATHOLIC the Secretar FAMILIES recently vetoed a bill that would have the bill, which passedDicastery both cham- is the general word - and approve or acknowledge stat- the law regarding human life and L iat, and Msgr. Dario Edoardo IFE made it illegal for doctors in Okla- used by the Holy See for Curial JUNE 26-JULY 9, 2016 utes without impinging on the juris - the ideologies developing in rela - Viganò, prefect of the Secretariat departments. Eucharistdiction of the secretary ofGives state.Abuse of Hope to the Persecuted tion to human life and gender for Communications, updated the B1 ADDRESS There is a significant difference The section for the family will identity.” council on the reforms in their between pontifical councils and focus on many of the issues raised It will do this, the statute respective offices. congregations: The former essen - Iraqi Refugees Power in CHAMPION OF FAMILIES. Pope Francis embraces the Walker family, who at the recent synods on the family: stresses, “on the basis of Catholic Father Lombardi reiterated that Surrogacy’s tially serve as think tanks and con - traveled 11,000 miles from Argentina to see the Holy Father in Philadel Celebrate - It will “promote family pastoral moral doctrine and the teaching of Cardinal Pell would be staying on sultation bodies, while the latter phia during his apostolic journey to the United States last September. ministry, protect its dignity Daleidenand the Church.” as prefect, despite turning 75 that have executive and administrative First Communion L’Osservatore Romano well-being based on the sacrament day. He also said Msgr. Viganò told Unh appy Fanningpower, are always headed by a car - the Flames of BY DOREEN ABI RAAD of marriage,” in the “light of papal Council of Nine Cardinals the Pope and cardinals that Vatican their homes by terrorists are still very pain dinal and exert greater influence in cease their functions and merge ration for the laity or hosting a con Indictment? - teaching.” It will also promote the Meanwhile, proposals for a sec - Radio and the Vatican Television ful. When the children — most of whom are Ending the decision-making and implemen - into the new body. The Pontifical ference.” family’s “rights and responsibility - utside the Cathedral of Our ond “super-dicastery” have been Center would be integrated later between 9 and 11 years old — asked the tation process. Academy for Life would become Father Lombardi added that he Attorneys Contend Lady of the Annunciationin the Church and in civil society” delivered to the Pope, this time deal - this year. priest questions, such as, “What wrong did Since his reform of the Roman part of the new dicastery but con- could imagine the new dicastery so that, as an institution, it canProsecutorial Experts Say Service Is Religious Freedomin Beirut, Lebanon, the ing with “Charity, Justice and Peace,” Cardinal Sean O’Malley, as head we do?” he would remind them of Matthew Curia began in 2013, Pope Francis has tinue to operate as a separate entity. having powers that don’t easily “fall children could hardly confunction better. the Vatican announced June 8. of the Pontifical Commission on the 5:3-11, the beatitudes, particularly verse 11: Rife With Exploitation been known to be considering the “There isn’t any confusion,” into the previous categories of a Misconduct With tain their excitement. - The Pope will now examine and Protection of Minors, updated the “Blessed are you when they insult you and creation of a congregation for the laity Father Lombardi said. “It has been OcongregationAll the suffering or council,” of their andlives so, in for forced Other Duties Plannedconsult Parenthood further about the new council about the Pope’s recent doc - persecute you and utter every kind of evil BY JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND in view of his wish to involve laypeo - said on more than one occasion that exilenow, seemed “they haven’tto vanish wanted as tothey define antici SENIOR EDITOR The family section’s other duties dicastery, which, as with the new ument, “Like a Loving Mother,” against you [falsely] because of me.” ple more in the life of the Church, in it is a dicastery … but it is not patedthem the precisely.” holy sacrament He was forat painswhich to they will- include monitoring all CatholicBY PETERdepartment JESSERER forSMITH laity, family and life, issued motu proprio (of his own accordance with the vision of the Sec - endowed with the quality of a con had so diligently prepared.