Pope Francis receives Uruguayan Bishops in audience
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| Pope francis receives Uruguayan Bishops on their ad limina visit. |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday
received in audience the Bishops of Uruguay who are in the
Vatican for their ad limina visit.
They will be in the Vatican until November 22nd and are scheduled
to meet with officials at various Vatican Dicasteries, including a meeting with
members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints where they will discuss
some ongoing beatification and canonization processes.
On Sunday, November 19th, they will concelebrate Mass with
Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica for the 1st World Day of the Poor.
Bishop Heriberto Bodeant of Melo told us that
the bishops of Uruguay are very close to Pope Francis also thanks to the
geographical proximity of their homelands.
Bishop Bodeant notes that the Uruguayan bishops come from
the same ‘neighbourhood’ where Cardinal Bergoglio used to live, and they speak
the same kind of Spanish as he does.
He says that they also recognize in him the echo of their
Latin American ‘way’ in communion with the whole Catholic Church and in line
with the directives of the Aparecida document which Bergoglio himself penned.
He says they are listening to his appeal to go forth and
into the existential and geographical peripheries and in this appeal they
recognize a Latin American voice: “this is very encouraging for us”.
“Pope Francis knows deeply our country and the Uruguayan
church” he said and is very aware of the reality the Catholic Church works
within after more than a century of secularized culture.
“Religion is banned in public schools, religious ignorance
is frequent, the charisma must be permanently announced” he said.
After this session with Pope Francis, Bishop Bodeant
concluded: “we felt our hearts burning, we are ready to go on the road and to
continue inviting all our people to live a personal encounter with Jesus Christ
in His Church.”
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