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 25 (2.652) Vatican City Friday, 19 June 2020 Holy Father’s Message for the fourth World Day of the Poor ‘Stretch forth your hand to the poor’ See page 6/7 On Francis’ Message for World Day of the Poor General Audience Bridges to God Revive our sense of responsibility PAGE 3 to counter the risk of indifference ANDREA MONDA The Egyptians and the Hebrews. God walks with his people who ac- St John XXIII and Prof. Isaac Now a new event has occurred. cept his offer of freedom. This story, “I have seen the affliction of my Someone, above nature, the creator like so many others told in the On the 60th anniversary p eople who are in Egypt, and have himself, intervenes, comes in, ‘des- Bible, continues to happen each heard their cry because of their cends’ to free mankind for whom day. God calls and offers, man re- PAGE 5 taskmasters; I know their sufferings, he feels compassion in its ‘afflic- sponds. Man can do so because he and I have come down to deliver tion’. This descent occurs because is able to, he is ‘resp onse-able’. At them”. The words that God ad- three actions are accomplished to- times he does so, but not always. Corpus Christi Homily dresses to Moses from the branches gether: observing, listening, recog- And when man does not respond he nizing. And then we move on to of a bush that burns without being goes back to being simply a natural the action of liberating. element. This can be recognized Close to ones who hunger consumed, in the third chapter of This is the origin of Israel’s his- from the fact that his sense of re- the Book of Exodus, mark the be- PAGE 5 tory which is fulfilled in the advent sponsibility has been put to sleep; it ginning of history, a truly human of Christ, a history that always sees has gone into hibernation. This is history, a history of salvation. Be- mankind as the protagonist togeth- the expression that the Pope used fore these words there was no true er with God. “He who created us in his latest Message for World Day Interview with the Bishop of Gallup ‘history’. Man was only a natural without our help will not save us of the Poor, released on Saturday, 13 element among other similar living without our consent”, Saint Au- June: “Until we revive our sense of Spirit of the Navajo beings, subjugated to the cyclical gustine reminds us. This salvation responsibility for our neighbour and rhythm of nature, within a harsh history can only happen with man’s for every person, grave economic, PAGE 11 struggle for survival that always active response, only if the journey gave rise to a law, that of the fittest. is a synod, a path traveled together: CONTINUED ON PA G E 8 page 2 L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO Friday, 19 June 2020, number 25 titular episcopal See of Croae. Until now he has served as ad interim del- egate for Hispanic Ministry of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and parish priest of the Sacred Heart of Jesus / VAT I C A N Sagrado Corazon de Jesus parish in Highlandtown, Maryland (10 June). The Holy Father appointed Bishop Bishop-elect Lewandowski, 53, Francisco Cota de Oliveira as Bish- BULLETIN was born in Toledo, USA . He com- op of Sete Lagoas. Until now he has pleted his theological studies at the served as titular Bishop of Washington Theological Union. He AUDIENCES Archbishop Rozanski, 61, was Fiorentino and Auxiliary of Curiti- was ordained a priest on 7 May born in Baltimore, USA . He was or- ba, Brazil (10 June). 1994. Friday, 12 June dained a priest on 24 November 1984. He was ordained a bishop on Bishop Cota de Oliveira, 50, was Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, born in Onça do Pitangui, Brazil. The Holy Father accepted the resig- 24 August 2004, subsequent to his Prefect of the Congregation for the He was ordained a priest on 1 Au- nation of Bishop José Vilaplana appointment as titular Bishop of Evangelization of Peoples gust 1999. He was ordained a bishop Blasco from his office as Bishop of Walla Walla and Auxiliary of Bal- on 26 August 2017, subsequent to Huelva, Spain (15 June). H.E. Mr Jan Tombin timore. He was appointed Bishop of ski, Ambassa- his appointment as titular Bishop of The Holy Father appointed Bishop dor of the European Union, on his Springfield in Massachusetts on 19 farewell visit Fiorentino and Auxiliary of Curit- Santiago Gómez Sierra as Bishop of June 2014. iba. Huelva. Until now he has served as Professor Marta Cartabia, President titular Bishop of Vergi and Auxiliary of the Constitutional Court The Holy Father accepted the resig- The Holy Father appointed Fr of Seville, Spain (15 June). nation of Bishop Aloísio Jorge Pena Members of the National Presidency Bruce Lewandowski, CSSR, as Auxili- Bishop Gómez Sierra, 62, was Vitral from his office as Bishop of of the Ecclesial Movement for Cul- ary Bishop of the Archdiocese of born in Madridejos, Spain. He was tural Commitment (Movimento Ec- Sete Lagoas, Brazil (10 June). Baltimore, USA, assigning him the ordained a priest on 18 September clesiale di Impegno Culturale, 1982. He was ordained a bishop on MEIC). 26 February 2011, subsequent to his appointment as titular Bishop of Fr Pasquale Spinoso, Ecclesiastical Vergi and Auxiliary of Seville. Counsellor of the Embassy of Italy London property deal to the Holy See The Holy Father appointed Bishop Saturday, 13 June Torzi granted provisional release Arturo Eduardo Fajardo Bustamante as Bishop of Salto, Uruguay. Until Cardinal Marc Ouellet, PSS, Prefect The Vatican’s Office of the Promotor of Justice, of the interrogator- now he has served as Bishop of San of the Congregation for Bishops ies to which Gianluigi Torzi was subjected in relation to the invest- José de Mayo, Uruguay (15 June). Dr Federico Cafiero de Raho, Na- igation of the sale of the building at 60 Sloane Avenue in London, Bishop Fajardo Bustamante, 58, tional Anti-Mafia and Counter-Ter- has granted provisional release by an order dated 15 June. The de- was born in Aiguá, Uruguay. He rorism public prosecutor cree, signed by Promotor of Justice Gian Piero Milano, and by his was ordained a priest on 8 May Adjunct, Alessandro Diddi, indicates that the magistrates took no- Professor Andrea Monda, Editor-in- 1988. He was ordained a bishop on tice of elements deduced in a joint memorandum consigned by Mr Chief of L’Osservatore Romano 8 September 2007, subsequent to his Torzi, and of the numerous documentary attachments deemed use- Monday, 15 June ful in the reconstruction of facts under investigation. CONTINUED ON PA G E 8 Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern C h u rc h e s Congregation for the Causes of Saints CHANGES IN EP I S C O PAT E Promulgation of Decrees The Holy Father accepted the resig- nation of Bishop Pedro Daniel Mar- tínez Perea from his office as Bishop On 26 May, the Holy Father received in audience Cardin- Columbus, born on 12 August 1852 in Waterbury, USA, of San Luis, Argentina (9 June). al Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the and died on 14 August 1890 in Thomaston, USA; The Holy Father appointed Bishop Causes of Saints. During the audience, the Supreme — the miracle attributed to the intercession of the Gabriel Bernardo Barba as Bishop Pontiff authorized the said Congregation to promulgate the Venerable Servant of God Pauline-Marie Jaricot, of San Luis. Until now he has Decrees relating to: founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith served as Bishop of Gregorio de La- and the Living Rosary Association, born on 22 July ferrere, Argentina (9 June). — the miracle attributed to the intercession of 1799 in Lyon, France, and died there on 9 January Blessed César de Bus, priest, founder of the Congrega- 1862; Bishop Barba, 56, was born in tion of the Christian Doctrine Fathers (Doctrinaries), Morón, Argentina. He was ordained — the martyrdom of the Servants of God Simèon born on 3 February 1544 in Cavaillon, France, and died Cardon and five companions, professed religious of the a priest on 12 August 1989. He was on 15 April 1607 in Avignon, France; Cistercian Congregation of Casamari, killed in ordained a bishop on 1 March 2014, — the miracle attributed to the intercession of Casamari in hatred of the faith between 13 and 16 May subsequent to his appointment as Blessed Charles de Foucauld (known as Charles of 1799; Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere. Jesus), diocesan priest, born on 15 September 1858 in Strasbourg, France, and died on 1 December 1916 in — the martyrdom of the Servant of God Cosma The Holy Father accepted the resig- Tamanrasset, Algeria; Spessotto (in the world Sante), professed priest of the nation of Archbishop Robert James — the miracle attributed to the intercession of Order of Friars Minor, born on 28 January 1923 in Carlson from his office as Archbish- Blessed María Domenica Mantovani, co-founder and Mansué, Italy, and killed in hatred of the faith in San op of the Metropolitan Archdiocese first Superior General of the Institute of the Little Sis- Juan Nonualco, El Salvador, on 14 June 1980; of Saint Louis, USA (10 June). ters of the Holy Family, born on 12 November 1862 in — the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Melchior- The Holy Father appointed Bishop Castelletto di Brenzone, Italy, and died there on 2 Feb- Marie de Marion Brésillac, titular bishop of Prusa, Mitchell Thomas Rozanski as Arch- ruary 1934; formerly vicar apostolic of Coimbaore, founder of the bishop of Saint Louis.