Church in Poland thanks Pope
Francis for Querida Amazonía
A fisherman in Amazonia (AFP) |
The President of the Polish Bishops Conference writes to
Pope Francis to thank him for his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Querida
Amazonía”, on “the beloved Amazon region”.
By Vatican News
The president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop
Stanisław Gądecki, has expressed his gratitude to Pope Francis for the
Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonía, which, he says, “arose in
the heart of your Holiness as the fruit of the dialogue and discernment during
the recent General Synod of Bishops on the Amazon”.
Pope Francis' care for the Amazon
In a letter to Pope Francis, written on behalf of the
“faithful and pastors of Poland”, the Archbishop of Poznan said, “My gratitude
is deeper the more I discover with what care and love the Holy Father, as Pater
Patrum [father of fathers] surrounds the children of our beloved
Mother, the Church, scattered across all continents and inhabiting even the
most distant places, often not only forgotten and overlooked, but also
exploited and destroyed”.
Archbishop Gądecki notes that Querida Amazonía “is
above all a manifestation of the faithful memory and responsible care of the
whole Church for our brothers living in this region of the world, who often
with great heroism and devotion, in suffering but also with hope, follow the paths
of the Gospel of Christ”.
The voice of the Church
Citing the Exhortation itself, the Archbishop continues,
“Thank you, your Holiness, for this necessary, important, and sensitive voice
that becomes the loud voice of the Church ‘for the rights of the poor, the
indigenous peoples and the least of our brothers and sisters, where their
voices can be heard and their dignity advanced’; for the call for Amazonia to
‘preserve its distinctive cultural riches, where the beauty of our humanity
shines forth in so many varied ways’, and to ‘jealously preserve its
overwhelming natural beauty and the superabundant life teeming in its rivers
and forests’”.
Archbishop Gądecki concluded his letter with the prayer
that, “through the grace of God and the commitment of us all”, Pope Francis’
dreams for the beloved Amazon region “will inspire people of good will to take
even greater care of the Amazon and its peoples”.
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