DOLENTIUM HOMINUM No. 79 – year XXVII – No. 2, 2012 JOURNAL OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS (FOR HEALTH PASTORAL CARE) ARCHBISHOP ZYGMUNT ZIMOWSKI, Editor-in-Chief CORRESPONDENTS MONSIGNOR JEAN-MARIE MUPENDAWATU, Executive Editor REV. MATEO BAUTISTA, BOLIVIA MONSIGNOR JAMES CASSIDY, U.S.A. REV. RUDE DELGADO, SPAIN REV. RAMON FERRERO, MOZAMBIQUE REV. BENOIT GOUDOTE, IVORY COAST EDITORIAL BOARD PROFESSOR SALVINO LEONE, ITALY REV. JORGE PALENCIA, MEXICO REV. CIRO BENEDETTINI REV. GEORGE PEREIRA, INDIA DR. LILIANA BOLIS MRS. AN VERLINDE, BELGIUM SR. AURELIA CUADRON PROFESSOR ROBERT WALLEY, CANADA REV. GIOVANNI D’ERCOLE, F.D.P DR. MAYA EL-HACHEM REV. GIANFRANCO GRIECO REV. BONIfaCIO HONINGS MONS. JESÚS IRIGOYEN EDITORIAL STAFF REV. JOSEPH JOBLIN REV. VITO MAGNO, R.C.I DR. COLETTE CHALON DR. DINA NEROZZI-FRAJESE MRS. STEfaNIA CASABIANCA DR. FRANCO PLACIDI DR. ANTONELLA FARINA REV. LUCIANO SANDRIN DR. MATTHEW FFORDE MONSIGNOR ITALO TADDEI DR. GUILLERMO QWISTGAARD Editorial and Business Offices: PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS (FOR HEALTH PASTORAL CARE) VATICAN CITY; TEL. 06.698.83138, 06.698.84720, 06.698.84799 - FAX: 06.698.83139 e-mail: [email protected] www.holyseeforhealth.org Published three times a year. Subscription rate: 32 € postage included Printed by Editrice VELAR, Gorle (BG) Cover: Glass window Rev. Costantino Ruggeri Poste Italiane s.p.a. Spedizione in Abbonamento Postale - D.L. 353/2003 (conv. In L. 27/02/2004 nº 46) art. 1, comma 2, DCB Roma 2 DOLENTIUM HOMINUM N. 79-2012 Contents SEMINAR TO END THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY 35 Keynote Address OF THE INSTITUTION OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL by Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski FOR HEALTH-CARE WORKERS on the Occasion of the Twentieth CATHOLIC ASSOCIATIONISM AND THE CULTURE OF LIFE World Day of the Sick 5 FEBRUARY 2011 H.E. Msgr. Zygmunt Zimowski 4 Twenty-Five Years of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers TOPICS under the Protection of Mary ‘Salus infirmorum’ 42 ‘And give the physician his place, H.E. Msgr. Zygmunt Zimowski for the Lord created him’ (Sir 38:12) Msgr. Pascal Ide 8 The Associationism of the Faithful, with Special Reference to the Promotion 52 Humanity in the Elderly of the Culture of Life Fr. Mariano Galve Moreno Prof. Avv. Guzmán Carriquiry Lecour 62 The Casa de Belén Centre: 15 Catholic Associationism at the Service Putting Everything on Life of Life: Issues and Prospects Fr. Rudesindo Delgado Pérez Prof. Juan Viñas Salas Sr. Isabel Bello Colmenero 23 The Raoul Follereau Foundation Mr. Michel Récipon TESTIMONIES 25 The New Challenges for Cooperation 66 The Archdiocese of Chicago between Catholic Health-Care Long Term Care Facilities: Associations Pastoral Considerations Fr. Ján Dˇ acˇok, SJ Dr. Patrick Guinan, M.D. 29 Conclusions 68 Sister Maria Benedetta Frey: H.E. Msgr. Sergio Pintor a Witness to Suffering for Love Fr. Gianluca Scrimieri THE TWENTIETH WORLD DAY OF THE SICK 70 Program of the XXVII International 11 FEBRUARY 2012 Conference of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers 32 Message of the Holy Father Benedict XVI The Hospital, Setting for Evangelisation: on the Occasion of the Twentieth World a Human and Spiritual Mission Day of the Sick (11 february 2012) Vatican City, 15-17 November 2012 “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you” (Lk 17:19) DOLENTIUM HOMINUM N. 79-2012 3 Seminar to End the Twenty-Fitfth Anniversary of the Institution of the Pontifical Council for Health-Care Workers Catholic Associationism and the Culture of Life 5 February 2011 The Saint Pius X Hall Vatican City 4 DOLENTIUM HOMINUM N. 79-2012 Twenty-Five Years of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers under the Protection of Mary ‘Salus infirmorum’ H.E. MSGR. Much has been done since then ru. This group also took part in ZYGMUNT ZIMOWSKI under its three Presidents: Cardi- the international meeting for deaf President of the Pontifical nal Fiorenzo Angelini first, Cardi- people which is held annually in Council for Health Care nal Javier Lozano Barragán sec- the Polish city of Kalkow on the Workers, ondly, and lastly the current holder first Saturday of July. the Holy See of this position, Archbishop Zyg- One should here also remember munt Zimowski. There is a still a the twenty-third World Congress great deal to be done and to cel- of FIAMC (the world federation wenty-five years have passed ebrate its ‘silver jubilee’ this year of Catholic doctors) at Lourdes Tsince His Holiness John Paul II (February 2010-February 2011) on 6-9 May 2010, in which Arch- on 11 February 1985, by his Motu the Pontifical Council for Health bishop Zimowski also took part. Proprio ‘Dolentium Hominum’, Care Workers (for Health Pastoral These were all initiatives when instituted the Pontifical Com- Care) has promoted, and is now the participants felt enveloped as mission for Pastoral Assistance organising, numerous events: a never before in the maternal pres- to Health Care Workers, which series of initiatives which began ence of Mary. ‘Her motherhood, would subsequently become, with 9 February 2010 with the inter- which began in Nazareth and was the Apostolic Constitution ‘Pastor national symposium, the painting lived most intensely in Jerusalem Bonus’ of 28 June 1988, the Pon- exhibition and the concert of clas- at the foot of the Cross, will be tifical Council for Pastoral Assis- sical music, inspired by the Mes- felt….as a loving and urgent invi- tance to Health Care Workers. In sage of His Holiness Pope Bene- tation addressed to all the children his homily at the Mass for the sick dict XVI for the World Day of the of God, so that they will return to of 11 February 1986 the Supreme Sick (WDS) of 2010 and thus enti- the house of the Father when they Pontiff stressed that: ‘It is neces- tled ‘The Church at the Service of hear her maternal voice’ (Tertio sary to stimulate and promote the Love for the Suffering’. The Holy Millennio Adveniente, n. 54). work of formation and study that Father then presided over the sol- A maternal protection that has the various Catholic institutions emn Mass celebrated on 11 Feb- certainly accompanied the twen- carry out in the health-car world; ruary, the day of the eighteenth ty-five years of work of the Pon- it is necessary to spread and de- WDS, in St. Peter’s Basilica. tifical Council and the attention fend the teachings of the Church Archbishop Zimowski and the that it has paid to the present con- in this field; it is necessary above other Superiors of the Pontifical text, to globalisation and to faith- all else to arouse and coordinate Council, the Secretary, Msgr. Jo- fulness to its general objective the living energies present in the sé L. Redrado O.H, and the Un- which the Servant of God Pope Church, so that they direct them- der-Secretary, Msgr. Jean-Marie John Paul II summed up as fol- selves with a renewed spirit of ser- Mupendawatu, have engaged in lows: ‘reveal the suffering and vice towards our brothers and sis- various pastoral visits to sick peo- glorious face of Christ enlighten- ters afflicted by illness, seeing in ple in Roman hospitals. In April ing the world of health care, suf- them the limbs of suffering Christ. was held the pilgrimage to Ars fering and illness with the Gospel, With these goals is born the new and Lourdes of hospital chap- sanctifying the sick and health- institution of the Holy See, which lains (from twelve countries and care workers and promoting the is taking specifically today its first four continents), which was fol- coordination of pastoral health steps, under the guidance of Car- lowed, amongst other activities, care of sick persons in the Church’ dinal Edoardo Pironio, the Presi- by the visit of the personnel of (John Paul II, ‘Audience to those dent, and Archbishop Fiorenzo the Pontifical Council to Poland taking part in the Plenary Assem- Angelini, the Vice-President. I at the end of April and the begin- bly of the Pontifical Council for invite you to pray that the new ning of May, ‘In the footsteps of Health Care Workers’, Rome, 2 Pontifical Commission can ful- the Founder, the Servant of God May 2002, n. 3). ly achieve its goal, that is to say Pope John Paul II’. The same itin- The apostolic letter Salvifici that of improving and enlarging erary was then followed at the Doloris on the Christian meaning the material and spiritual assis- beginning of July by about sixty of human suffering, like the Pon- tance that the Church has always pilgrims, non-sighted people and tifical Council for Health Care promoted in favour of the sick’ pastoral workers in this field, from workers, was, indeed, a personal, (Insegnamenti, VIII,1 (1985), p. over ten Italian dioceses, from courageous and incisive initia- 480). Ireland, from Brazil and from Pe- tive taken by John Paul II. Assert- DOLENTIUM HOMINUM N. 79-2012 5 ing once again the full contempo- n. 31). And Lourdes, the Marian for its work. ‘The tandem ‘Mary rary relevance of the predilection sanctuary which is one of those and the sick’ profoundly charac- of Jesus for those who suffer, he held most dear by the Christian terises the life, the spirituality, the also launched in our globalised, people, is a place and at the same magisterium, and the exempla- tormented and divided world a time a symbol of hope and grace riness of John Paul II’ (Riccarda decisive factor for dialogue, for under the sign of the acceptance Lazzari, Maria nel mondo della solidarity and for co-operation and the offering up of saving suf- salute, San Paolo, Cinisello Bal- (cf.