{"id":5840,"date":"2006-09-15T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T11:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/cardinal-bertone-says.html"},"modified":"2006-09-15T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T11:25:50","slug":"cardinal-bertone-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/cardinal-bertone-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Bertone says.."},"content":{"rendered":"

…gee, thanks Your Holiness. Nice first day on the job…<\/em><\/p>\n

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From VIS, on this morning’s ceremony in which the reigns of State were passed from Sodano to Bertone:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In a brief greeting addressed to the Holy Father, Cardinal Bertone expressed the hope that his past experience would help him "to carry out the task I take on today. I am aware of the heavy responsibility that this brings, and of the gravity and complexity of the questions which, every day, I will have to face. My only ambition is that of putting into practice the motto of my episcopal service: ‘fidem custodire, concordiam servare’." <\/p>\n

"The profound communion that binds us together in the shared commitment of service to the Church – and consequently to human dignity and peaceful coexistence between people – cannot but translate into loyal and faithful collaboration, reinforced for many of us by the priestly spirit and the pastoral charity that must always inspire us in our activities." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Listen to Catherine Smibert’s Vatican Radio report on the ceremony.<\/a> She reports that at the end of the ceremony, the Pope gave Cardinal Sodano a Black Madonna statue. <\/p>\n

A new head of diplomacy, announced at the end of the ceremony:<\/a><\/p>\n

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As the changes at the Vatican\u2019s Secretariat of State kick into high gear today, Pope Benedict XVI moved quickly to fill a vacant slot with a man born and raised in mostly Islamic Morocco.  Archbishop Dominique Mamberti will take charge as the Holy See\u2019s Secretary for Relations with States after having served as the Pope\u2019s representative to such troubled zones as Sudan and Somalia.<\/p>\n

Benedict made his announcement just after welcoming Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as the new head of the Secretariat of State.  Mamberti will work under Bertone and takes over for Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, who also started his new job as the \u201cGovernor\u201d of the Vatican City State today.<\/p>\n

The 54 year old Mamberti was born in Marrakech, Morocco in 1952.  He was ordained a priest in 1981, for the French Diocese of Ajaccio, on the island of Corsica.  <\/p>\n

The archbishop completed degrees in both civil and cannon law before entering service with the Vatican\u2019s diplomatic corps in 1986.  As a priest, he served tours in the Vatican delegations to Algeria, Chile, and Lebanon, as well as serving a stint at the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the U.N., in New York.<\/p>\n

Prior to being made a bishop and sent to the Sudan in 2002 Mamberti also worked in the offices of the section he now leads.  <\/p>\n

He served as Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan and Delegate to Somalia for two years, working with the bishops in those countries as they attempted to achieve peace between their people and radical Muslims.  In February of 2004 he was appointed Nuncio to nearby Eritrea, where he has served to the present.  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Catherine’s report ends with a brief telephone interview with Archbishop Mamberti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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