ARCHBISHOP AMATO OPENS ACADEMIC YEAR AT "ANGELICUM"

VATICAN CITY, NOV 15, 2006 (VIS) - Today, November 15, the liturgical feast of St. Albert the Great, Dominican bishop and doctor of the Church, a ceremony took place to mark the opening of the academic year at Rome's Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the "Angelicum," of which St. Albert is co-patron.

  Following a brief address from Fr. Joseph Agius O.P., rector of the university, Archbishop Angelo Amato S.D.B., secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, delivered a talk on the subject of: "The ecclesiology of communion and the Letter 'Communionis notio' on some aspects of the Church understood as communion."

  The central themes of that document, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1992 are: the Universal Church and particular Churches, the communion of Churches, Eucharist and episcopate, ecclesial communion, and ecumenism.
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