{"id":3436,"date":"2006-04-04T01:25:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T01:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/heh-2.html"},"modified":"2006-04-04T01:25:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T01:25:28","slug":"heh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/heh-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Heh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good catch from American Papist here.<\/p>\n<p>First, he noted a few days ago<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpapist.com\/2006\/03\/archbishop-fitzgerald-criticizes-pope.html\">Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald&#8217;s indirect critique of Pope Benedict&#8217;s recent curial moves<\/a> which <a href=\"http:\/\/zadokromanus.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/interesting-curial-movements.html\">Zadok noted and explained here:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It seems fairly clear what is happening. The temporary unification of the presidencies will ultimately result in the Council for Migrants being subsumed into Justice and Peace; whilst Culture and Inter-religous Dialogue also seem slated for merger. This is just the kind of curial &#8216;tidying-up&#8217; that has been expected for some time. Incidentally, some of you may be curious as to what Culture has to do with Inter-religious Dialogue. The Pontifical Council for Culture used to be known as the Pontifical Council for Non-believers. In the early 1990s, the title of the Council was changed to reflect a broadening of its interests and a certain sensitivity of nomenclature. It should be noted that The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity remains a seperate entity, but dialogue with non-Christians, non-believers and modern culture as a whole is now to be dealt with by the one Council<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From the article that AmericanPapist links in his post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Inter-religious dialogue should not be considered merely as an aspect of cultural discussions, Archbishop Fitzgerald told a Rome seminar on March 29. <strong>Pope Benedict apparently thinks otherwise.<\/strong> On March 11, Pope Benedict announced that Cardinal Paul Poupard, the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, would double as president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Although that appointment was described as temporary in an official Vatican announcement, many informed observers believe that the Pope intends to merge the two offices. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpapist.com\/2006\/04\/couple-interesting-papal-audiences.html\">And what did AP note in today&#8217;s Vatican Information Service communique? That on Saturday, the Pope received in audience&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald<\/strong> M. Afr., apostolic nuncio to the Arab Republic of Egypt and delegate to the Organization of the League of Arab States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good catch from American Papist here. First, he noted a few days agoArchbishop Michael Fitzgerald&#8217;s indirect critique of Pope Benedict&#8217;s recent curial moves which Zadok noted and explained here: It seems fairly clear what is happening. The temporary unification of the presidencies will ultimately result in the Council for Migrants being subsumed into Justice and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Heh - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/heh-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heh - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good catch from American Papist here. 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