Vatican City, 13 January 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has sent a message to greet the participants in the
meeting of the presidents of the Doctrinal Commissions of the
European Episcopal Conferences with the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith in Esztergom, “the religious heart of Hungary”. The
text was read this morning, during the opening session of the
meeting, which will be held from 13 to 15 January.
“I thank Cardinal Gerhard Muller,
prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for this
timely initiative that emphasises the importance of the local
Episcopates, and in particular the Doctrinal Commissions, in their
responsibility for the unity and integrity of the faith as well as
its transmission to the younger generations. As I wrote in my
Apostolic Exhortation 'Evangelii Gaudium', resuming the teaching of
the dogmatic Constitution 'Lumen Gentium' of Vatican Council II,
'Episcopal conferences are in a position to contribute in many and
fruitful ways to the concrete realisation of the collegial spirit'. I
hope that your meeting will contribute to enabling a collegial
approach to various doctrinal and pastoral difficulties that present
themselves in Europe today, with the aim of inspiring in the faithful
a new missionary zeal and greater openness to the transcendent
dimension of life, without which Europe risks losing the very
'humanistic spirit' that it loves and defends.
“I commend your works to the maternal
intercession of the Virgin Mary, model for every believer, and impart
my heartfelt blessing”.
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