INAUGURATION OF THE ARGENTINIAN PRIESTLY COLLEGE IN ROME

VATICAN CITY, FEB 25, 2002 (VIS) - Made public today was a letter from the Pope to Archbishop Estanislao Karlic of Parana, Argentina, president of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, and to the archbishops and bishops of that country, for the occasion of the inauguration of the Argentinian Priestly College.
"The priests sent by their bishop to this center", the Holy Father writes in the letter dated February 24, "will have the privileged opportunity to complete their studies and deepen - using particularly appropriate scientific methods - their reflections on the one true faith, which is expressed in different languages and cultural forms."

John Paul II affirmed that "apart from this moving experience, your stay in the Church of Rome, See of Peter and his successors, must serve to increase your faithfulness to the Church. Your physical proximity will contribute strongly to this end, as will the chance you will have to see and listen personally to those who have received the mission to confirm their brothers in the faith and to nourish the people of God as an 'amoris officium'."

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