Defensor Fidei - Magazine awards title to Cardinal
Zen....and more
MILAN: 29th May 2006 -- The Italian magazine for Christian
apologetics, Il Timone (The Helm) has awarded Cardinal Zen with
the title Defensor Fidei (Defender of the Faith). The
award carries with it a sum of €10,000 which the Cardinal says will
help provide lodging for visiting youth next July when Hong Kong hosts
the Asian World Youth Day events. The title is carefully worded
to distinguish itself, no doubt, from the title Fidei Defensor
which still appears on British-minted coins (with the initials FD) and
was first granted by Pope Leo X to King Henry VIII for a book he
claimed authorship of - more probably written by Thomas More - in
defence of the Seven Sacraments. When the Tudor King broke from
Rome, Pope Paul III revoked the title but the British Parliament
re-instituted it in favour of the Head of the Church of England, always
the reigning Monarch.
Cardinal Zen's visits to Northern Italy have been
reported in ANS so no need to repeat what was said there, except to add
that this morning he also visited the Crocetta where he had been a
student many years ago - the austraLasia correspondent at the Crocetta
was keen that this aspect of his Italian visit was well
publicised. After Mass and a talk to the staff and students
there, the Cardinal went off to pay a long courtesy visit to Cardinal
Severino Poletti, the Archbishop of Turin. Later in the morning
he came back to spend some time chatting with the students at the
Crocetta. While in Turin he was sought out by many journalists
for comment on the situation of the Church in China.
This evening the Cardinal goes to Southern Italy, to
Locri, the former diocese of Bishop Arduino, a Bishop in China.
He then comes up to Rome to take possession of the Church of St Mary
Mother of the Redeemer, of which he is titular bishop.
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