Full list of the 450 CARITAS AWARD ARCHBISHOP MARIO CONTI of recipients ahead of the presentation Glasgow celebrates joyful Mass at ceremony at the Clyde Auditorium St Andrew’s Cathedral for people in Glasgow. Pages 14-15 with special needs. Pag e 5 No 5469 www.sconews.co.uk Friday June 1 2012 | £1 Draw inspiration from athletes on Vatican leaks fears grow this Day for Life I Pope speaks of suffering after Papal butler is arrested and promises to help police By Ian Dunn By Ian Dunn FEARS are growing that the Roman Curia ARCHBISHOP Mario Conti has asked could be enveloped in its worst scandal in parishes around Scotland celebrating the Day decades after Paolo Gabriele, the Pope’s but- for Life this Sunday to draw inspiration from ler, was arrested on Friday with private Vati- the athletes competing in this summer’s can documents found in his possession. Olympic Games in celebrating the human body. Following his arrest, Mr Gabriele agreed to co- Those competing in London this summer, he says, operate with investigators, suggesting more arrests are clear examples of ‘the importance we should within the Holy See may follow. place on healthy living and the respect we should Central to the situation is the leaking of dozens show for the body from conception to natural death.’ of private letters to Pope Benedict XVI and other The theme of this year’s Day for Life is the confidential Vatican correspondence and reports, human body and Pope Benedict XVI has encour- including encrypted cables from Vatican embassies aged Catholics to participate in such activity as ‘a around the world, which were given to an Italian training ground of healthy competition and physi- journalist, Gianluigi Nuzzi who published the doc- cal improvement, a school of formation in the uments in a book earlier this month. human and spiritual values, a privileged means Pope Benedict made reference to these recent for personal growth and contact with society.’ difficulties at his general audience on Wednesday To this end, Archbishop Conti of Glasgow has when he spoke of seeking consolation in Faith for written to every parish in Scotland encouraging sufferings coming even from those closest to you. them to mark the Day for Life appropriately In his first public reference to the matter, the while celebrating the human body. Holy Father said that all people must persevere in “The Olympic Games in London this summer the face of ‘conflicts in human relations, often will draw attention to the gifted nature of our from within one’s own family.’ physical reality, as will the preparations for the Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said that Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014,” the scandal had been very difficult for the Holy the archbishop writes. “Athletes are undergoing Father and ‘put trust in the Church and the Holy See training as they did in St Paul’s day, when he to the test.’ “That is why we must confront [this] illustrated how our spiritual efforts should emu- directly and not hide,” Fr Lombardi said. late their physical preparations: ‘Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only Trusted relationships one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get “The Pope is a witness to a case which touches the prize. Everyone who competes in the games him closely,” Fr Lombardi said. “It is a trial for goes into strict training. They do it to get a him. He is suffering but also desires to understand, the Church might be involved in the conspiracy. until enough evidence has been collected and then crown that will not last, but we do it to get a shed light on the matter, and discover the truth.” “No cardinal or woman is under investigation,” he Judge Bonnet will either call Mr Gabriele to stand crown that will last forever.’” The Holy See press officer said that Pope Bene- said in response to reports by newspapers Corriere trial or be acquitted, Fr Lombardi said. The archbishop added that this Biblical message dict was also personally struggling with the betrayal della Sera and La Stampa that the butler had not should remind us of the importance of healthy living. of Mr Gabriele (bottom left of photograph). acted alone. He went on to say it was ‘painful to Leaks “The messages which the theme presents for “He is particularly hurt with regard to one per- see such a negative image’ emerge of the Holy See. A committee of three cardinals Pope Benedict our reflection includes the importance we should son, who he was close to, who he knew, loved and appointed in April to look into the leaks had asked place on healthy living and the respect we should respected,” he said. Arrest the gendarmes to investigate Mr Gabriele just after show for the body from conception to natural Prior to his arrest, Mr Gabriele had worked for Fr Lombardi confirmed that Mr Gabriele was the publication of the book of leaked papers by death,” he writes. “In so doing, we give thanks to the Holy Father for six years and was seldom far arrested last Friday evening by Vatican police after Gianluigi Nuzzi. God for our own bodily existence and for that of from the Pope’s side. The dark-haired assistant can they found the illegally obtained documents in his Fr Lombardi called the publication of the letters the human family made in the image and like- often be seen with the Pope sitting in the front seat home, which is in Vatican territory. The investiga- for commercial gain a ‘criminal act’ and said the Vat- ness of God. We are reminded to show compas- of the Popemobile, next to the driver during Papal tion of the butler and the leaked papers are being ican would take legal action. The publication, he said, sion to those who are bodily weakened, thinking general audiences on Wednesdays. overseen by a panel of cardinals ‘who are contin- violated the right to privacy and the ‘freedom of cor- no less of them, but on the contrary, sharing with Mr Gabriele’s lawyer, Carlo Fusco, said on uing their work and carrying out talks within the respondence’ of Pope Benedict, the letter writers and them our bodily strengths. Indeed this human Monday that his client was ‘very serene and calm,’ time required by the investigation,’ he said. the Pope’s closest collaborators. In the book’s intro- solidarity is an aspect of a genuine ecology despite the press furore surrounding his arrest. Mr “They won’t let themselves be pressured by the duction, Mr Nuzzi said his main source for the texts which embraces also the whole of creation.” Fusco added that Mr Gabriele himself had told the media,” he added. told him he was acting with a ‘small group’ of Vatican The tradition of marking a Day for Life was intro- Vatican judge investigating the case that he would The spokesman said that Vatican judge Nicola insiders concerned about corruption and a thirst for duced by Blessed John Paul II in his great magna ‘respond to all the questions and will collaborate Picardi has completed ‘the first phase’ of a preliminary power within the Vatican. According to his source, Mr carta on life issues Evangelium Vitae in 1995. with investigators to ascertain the truth.’ investigation and Vatican judge Piero Antonio Bonnet Nuzzi said, none of the people giving him documents The Pope is ‘aware of the delicate situation has begun the next step of the inquiry. Mr Gabriele had knew who the others were. I The full message for Day for Life 2012 can be going on inside the Curia,’ Fr Lombardi said, been questioned by Vatican judges in order to obtain found online at http://www.dayforlife.org before denying rumours that senior members of further information. The investigation will continue I [email protected] CARDINAL O’BRIEN, CATHOLIC COMMENT POLISH COMMUNITY Bishop Tartaglia this week from marks the 30th celebrate feast in SCO columnists anniversary today Edinburgh David Kerr and of the late Pope’s and Paisley Gerald Warner INSIGHT visit to Scotland PENTECOST Page 2 Page 10 Pages 12-13 BLESSED JOHN PAUL II PAUL JOHN BLESSED visit www.sconews.co.uk SCO, 19 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6BT I tel 0141 221 4956 I fax 0141 221 4546 I e-mail [email protected] 2 PICTURE NEWS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday June 1 2012 Charismatic Pentecost for Paisley bishop BISHOP Philip Tartaglia of Paisley joined the diocese’s Charismatic movement for a celebration for Pentecost at St Columba’s Church, Renfrew, last Saturday. The day of events and prayer began at 12noon and the bishop celebrated a vigil Mass with the community at 5.30pm. Fr David Boyd, St Columba’s parish priest, Fr Douglas Macmillan, the group’s chaplain, and Deacon Brian Mackenzie, who is based at St Columba’s, joined the bishop in cele- brating Mass PIC: PAUL McSHERRY Cardinal joins Neophytes for Pentecost PENTECOST Sunday saw Cardinal Keith O’Brien cele- brate the annual Neophyte Mass at Edinburgh’s St Mary’s Cathedral. The Pentecost Mass brings together all those who were initi- ated into full communion with the Church at the Easter Vigil. Following the Mass, the cardi- nal took time to greet the Neo- phytes and join them for a photograph, while he also paid tribute to the members of the St Andrews and Edinburgh Arch- diocesan Choir, who ensured a fitting music Liturgy was enjoyed by those gathered for the celebration of Mass.