Pope sends message to Council of European Bishops'
Conferences
Pope Francis with members of the presidency of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences.- ANSA |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday sent a message to
participants in the plenary assembly of the Council of European Bishops'
Conferences (CCEE), encouraging them to continue promoting initiatives of
solidarity and fraternity.
The message, signed by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal
Pietro Parolin, urges European Church leaders to impart “courageous impetus to
the Church’s mission in Europe, especially on behalf of young people”.
This week’s plenary assembly of the CCEE is being held for
the first time in Minsk, the capital of Bielorussia. The Church leaders have
been discussing the pastoral care of young people, ahead of next autumn’s Synod
of Bishops on the faith and vocational discernment of young people.
Please see below the full text of the Pope’s message to
the Plenary Assembly of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences
From the Vatican, 23 September 2017
To His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, President of the
Council of European Episcopal Conferences
The Holy Father sends his most cordial greetings to the
participants in the plenary assembly of the Council of European Episcopal
Conferences and encourages them to continue the important work aimed at
identifying paths of pastoral collaboration between the various countries,
appreciating the differences and promoting initiatives of solidarity and
fraternity. His Holiness hopes that the meeting may contribute to strengthening
the bonds of unity and communion between the European bishops, imparting a
further and courageous impetus to the church’s mission in Europe especially on
behalf of young people to help them to discover, in the light of faith,
their own vocation in the Christian community and in society. With such
sentiments, he asks that you continue to pray for him and he willingly imparts
the apostolic blessing.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State for His
Holiness
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