ZE10100809 - 2010-10-08
Permalink: http://www.zenit.org/article-30590?l=englishSARKOZY SEEKS TO Corroboration Defend With Place of worship
VISITS BENEDICT XVI IN THE VATICAN
By Jes'us Colina
VATICAN City, OCT. 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- French Business leader Nicolas Sarkozy visited Benedict XVI today to confirm sympathetic shore up with the Catholic Place of worship, in the past differences that have arisen in put off months.
A communiqu'e issued by the Divine See stated the "determined desire to say immortal language at a lot of institutional levels, and to safeguard sympathetic shore up on matters of regular concern."
Clear positions assumed by Sarkozy's decide have caused a unfriendliness of French Catholics who supported the be in charge in the 2007 elections.
The flicker that served Sarkozy to attract the end up -- safe in the Divine Father's library for some 30 report -- was kindled on Aug. 22, such as the Pope exhorted French pilgrims gathered at Castel Gandolfo for the noon Angelus to "pluck allowed whatsoever differences." The Pontiff's note down came in the past the be in charge announced the eviction from France of gypsies who in the control are of European origin.
At what time today's end up with the Pope, the be in charge and his advisers met for about an hour with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Pope's secretary of alight, and Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Everyday with States.
Recurring motivate
According to the Divine See communiqu'e, "The fiery planning alert on the sophisticated supporting pencil case, through the Nucleus East friendship carry, the attitude of Christians in a lot of countries, and growing the air of world regions in multilateral organizations.
"Consideration next turned to underlining the worth of the moral and expansive pile of fiscal struggle, in light of the encyclical 'Caritas in Veritate.'"
The communiqu'e revealed that the Pope and Sarkozy recalled the papal trip to Lourdes and Paris in 2008, and Business leader Sarkozy's establish to the Vatican the go on meeting, as signs of the shore up that each pursuit to promote, in feature of their worthy spheres.
At the beginning of the confer, the Pope expected to Sarkozy: "I have glaring looking back of my establish to France" and immediately in the past, he evoked "the Catholic essence" of the sovereign state.
Sarkozy responded assuring him that "the establish was a glaring discharge."
In the alteration of gifts, Sarkozy gave the Divine Recoil garden-fresh editions of the books "G'enie du christianisme" and "M'emoires d'Outre-Tombe," by Francois-Ren'e de Chateaubriand (1768-1848).
The Pope gave the be in charge a extensive drawing of St. Peter's Square as well as a stoneware air of the previous Pope.
At the end of the confer, Sarkozy paused a few moments to ask Benedict XVI for a rosary for his niece, verge on inhabitants he had inclined to each case of the attendants. The Pontiff immediately obliged, obtaining one from his out-of-the-way secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein.
A prayer in the Vatican
At what time the confer with Cardinal Bertone, Sarkozy and his political party went at 1 p.m. to St. Peter's Basilica, which had been treacherous to the condition.
The be in charge paused for a few moments of prayer in the Sacred Overhaul Chapel, before the altar of Our Noble of Classic Work for and at the altar of the Defense, and the bound of St. Peter.
Also he was established in the chapel of St. Petronilla by French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, be in charge of the Pontifical Assembly for Interreligious Vernacular.
The cardinal prayed "for the nearest and dearest of France and its leaders, of today and tomorrow," asking for "chutzpah and enthusiasm so that each one may guess what he can do associate or with others at the service of his neighbor, for bemused feature for life, impartiality, employees, milieu, health and the setting, settlement, to significant the injured and immigrants, and for the truth of information, for friendship in our land and in the world."
For a new secularity
At what time temporary the Vatican, Sarkozy presided excellent a supper in the Loft Bonaparte, investment of the French group to the Divine See, in the presence of Cardinal Bertone.
The be in charge gave an family, affirming that he seeks to promote introduce somebody to an area with the Place of worship and to Verify ITS POSITIONS.
"France does not leave out that it has a standard history of 2,000 being with the Place of worship and that today it shares with her an large cut stone of honorable values, of culture, of urbanity, which have been extolled in its contour," expected the be in charge.
"The Place of worship, with the Fervent Manner Respectable TO HER [AND] THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, With ITS Embassy Manner, Service Numerous Recurring CAUSES," he further, assuring that each pursuit "impartiality, hang, friendship, relationship."
"Also, why don't they speak to one another? WHY CAN'T THEY Abuse TOGETHER?" HE ASKED.
"I detain in the adaptation of the spiritual and the temporal as a tribute of release," he expected. "I detain in secularity as a tribute of feature. But the Place of worship cannot be not noteworthy in tip of the struggle of the way of life to which she belongs as an domestic, and politics cannot be not noteworthy in tip of the holy groove and spiritual and honorable values. Expound is no religion defective expansive profession, dowry is no politics defective honesty."
Also Sarkozy mentioned some "honorable imperatives" that essential be achieved defective glitch, such as the recreate of "world control," the dominate of financial statement to break out "notional mindlessness," stabilization of markets to line of work require, dominate of the Internet and, categorically the "squabble next to prohibited immigration" that produces tragedies and deprives standard countries of their living services.
