“"Everyone is a missionary", we are all "missionary disciples", we hold "mission congresses"... Never has "mission" been so much talked about, and never, perhaps, so little defined. ”
“Rather, we intend to highlight his Christian and religious witness, and the evangelical inspiration that sustained his extraordinary apostolate, in other words, his holiness.”
“These evangelical-inspired gatherings have increased across England in the past ten years – ever since Dr. Justin Welby was installed as Archbishop of Canterbury on March 21, 2013. ”
“"As young Europeans, you have an important mission. If in the past your ancestors went to other continents, not always for noble interests, it is now up to you to present the world with a new face of Europe", the pope said in his msg to participants the EU Youth Conf., 11-13 July in Prague.”
“Guerrero (63) Spanish Jesuit, was appointed as Prefect of Secretariat of Economy in Nov. 2019, after Card. Pell. "The economy is not primary activity of the Curia. But it helps us to carry out our mission. It must do so without losing the credibility of the Church's mission,"”
“PP, taking up an expression contained in No. 30 of his November 24, 2013, apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (EG),[3] sees the Church in a “missionary conversion” that commits her to a renewal “according to the image of Christ’s own mission of love””
“In 2006, the then-Cardinal Bergoglio gave the Spiritual Exercises to the Spanish bishops. His meditations were later published in a book entitled En Èl solo la esperanza [In Him alone is hope] which we will refer to in order to assess his specific way of making Ignatian spirituality his own.”
“Church and state are confronting one another right now over the federal freedom of religion bill and the Victorian anti-discrimination bill. Whenever such confrontation occurs it reveals our priorities. We define our identity by what we choose to fight for hardest. ”
“W/ the ap. letter Maximum Illud,[2] November 30, 1919, specifying in the subtitle that it focuses on “ the activities undertaken by missionaries in the world,” Pp BXV touched upon themes that were not dealt with before and which laid guiding principles for subsequent missionary documents.”
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