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Pope Francis emphasizes importance of ethics in the economy and social life
Yesterday, May 16, 2013, the Holy Father received the credentials of four new ambassadors to the Holy See from Kyrgyzstan, Antigua and Barbuda, Luxembourg, and Botswana. Pope Francis used this opportunity to speak about “the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them. The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.” Pope Francis also emphasized that “the ultimate origin” of the financial crisis is found in a “profound human crisis … the denial of the primacy of human beings”. He points out that “The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.”
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Archbishop Durocher speaks on ‘the Church and the media’ at national conference on New Evangelization and Communications
 The recent national bilingual conference on New Evangelization and Communications featured a panel with the Most Reverend Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of Gatineau and Vice President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), and Mr. Pierre Maisonneuve, former journalist with Radio-Canada (the French network of CBC). The panel was broadcast by Salt+Light TV and is now available on YouTube. Three other Bishops were among the principal speakers for the two-day conference: the Most Reverend Brian Dunn, Bishop of Antigonish, the Most Reverend François Lapierre, P.M.É., Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, and the Most Reverend Thomas Dowd, Auxiliary Bishop of Montreal. The conference, organized by the Association of Roman Catholic Communicators of Canada (ARCCC) and the Quebec Catholic organization Communications et Société, took place May 8-10, 2013, in Montreal.
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Pope Francis addresses plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General
During the recent plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General, Pope Francis received the delegates in an audience on May 8, 2013. In his address to the representatives of superiors of 1,900 communities of women religious around the world, the Holy Father said “May you always know how to exercise authority by accompanying, understanding, helping and loving; by embracing every man and every woman, especially people who feel alone, excluded, barren, on the existential margins of the human heart. Let us keep our gaze fixed on the Cross: there is found any authority in the Church, where the One who is the Lord becomes a servant to the point of the total gift of himself.”
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New National Director appointed for Pontifical Mission Societies
 The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, following a consultation with the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has appointed Father Alex Osei, C.S.Sp., as Director of the Canadian English Sector of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS). He succeeds Mr. Robert Gutcher, who was Interim Director after the former PMS Director, Mrs. Marie Deans, had been obliged to discontinue work in 2012 because of serious illness. Since November 2008, Father Osei was director of Brottier House Spiritan Refugee Centre in Toronto.
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