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IN THE CHURCH
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God’s Word Can Never Be ‘Enchained,’ Pope Says at Audience
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A true
apostle is one who continues to be a
courageous and joyful evangelizer
even in the face of persecution and
certain death, Pope Francis said.
By choosing to close the Acts of
the Apostles not with Saint Paul’s
martyrdom but with his continuing
to preach the Gospel even while un-
der house arrest, Saint Luke wanted
to show that the word of God cannot
be “enchained,” the pope said Jan. 15
during his weekly general audience.
“This house open to all hearts is
the image of the church which -- al-
though persecuted, misunderstood
and chained -- never tires of welcom-
ing with a motherly heart every man
and woman to proclaim to them the
love of the Father who made himself
visible in Jesus,” he said.
The pope concluded his series of
talks on the Acts of the Apostles with
a reflection on Saint Paul’s imprison-
ment in Rome.
Saint Paul’s treacherous journey
and adventures to “the heart of the
empire,” he said, did not weaken
the Gospel he preached but instead
strengthened it by “showing that the
direction of events does not belong to
men but to the Holy Spirit, who gives
fruitfulness to the church’s mission-
ary action.”
During his imprisonment, the
pope continued, the apostle would
meet with notable Jewish people in
his efforts to show “the fulfillment
of the promises made to the chosen
people” through Christ’s death and
resurrection.
While not everyone was convinced
by his preaching, Saint Paul continued
to welcome anyone “who wanted to re-
ceive the proclamation of the kingdom
of God and to know Christ,” which is
a grace that all Christians should pray
for, he said.
May the Lord “enable us, like
Paul, to imbue our houses with the
Gospel and to make them cenacles of
fraternity, where we can welcome the
living Christ, who comes to meet us in
every person and in every age,” Pope
Francis said.
Pope Appoints First Woman to Vatican Foreign Ministry Post
Pope Francis named Francesca Di Giovan-
ni, a longtime Vatican official, as an under-
secretary in the Vatican’s foreign ministry
office, making her the first woman to hold
a managerial position at the Vatican Secre-
tariat of State. She is pictured in an undated
photo with Pope Francis. (CNS photo/Vati-
can Media)
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope
Francis named Francesca Di Giovanni,
a longtime Vatican official, as an un-
dersecretary in the Vatican’s foreign
ministry office, making her the first
woman to hold a managerial position
at the Vatican Secretariat of State.
The Vatican announced Jan. 15 that
within the Vatican Secretariat of State’s
Section for Relations with States, Di
Giovanni will head the multilateral
sector, which deals with intergovern-
mental organizations and multilateral
treaties. With the new appointment,
the Vatican foreign ministry, led by
Archbishop Paul J. Gallagher, will
have two undersecretaries. Di Giovan-
ni will serve as undersecretary along-
side Msgr. Miroslaw Wachowski, who
will continue to work in the area of
bilateral diplomacy. In an interview
with Vatican News published shortly
after the announcement, Di Giovanni
said that there had been a need for an
undersecretary for the multilateral
sector, but “I sincerely never would
have thought the Holy Father would
have entrusted this role to me. It is a
new role and I will try to do my best to
live up to the Holy Father’s trust, but
I hope not to do it alone,” she said. “I
would like to count on the harmony
that has characterized our working
group so far.”
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