杏MAP导航 Francis receives Uruguayan Bishops in audience
杏MAP导航 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 杏MAP导航 Francis in St. Peter鈥檚 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 杏MAP导航 Francis also thanks to the geographical proximity of their homelands.
Bishop Bodeant notes that the Uruguayan bishops come from the same 鈥榥eighbourhood鈥� 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 鈥榳ay鈥� 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: 鈥渢his is very encouraging for us鈥�.
鈥溞覯AP导航 Francis knows deeply our country and the Uruguayan church鈥� he said and is very aware of the reality the Catholic Church works within after more than a century of secularized culture.
鈥淩eligion is banned in public schools, religious ignorance is frequent, the charisma must be permanently announced鈥� he said.
After this session with 杏MAP导航 Francis, Bishop Bodeant concluded: 鈥渨e 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.鈥�
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