2010-03-12 16:00:22

Pope: "Be Priests to the Very End"


(12 Mar 10 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI today addressed the participants in an international theological congress organized by the Congregation for Clergy to examine priestly identity. RealAudioMP3


Promoted by the curial dicastery responsible for Catholic Clergy throughout the world, the conference is titled: “Christ’s Fidelity and the fidelity of the Priest”.


Over the course of two days at Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University, bishops and priests from all around the world examined the identity of the priest in his rapport with contemporary culture, the liturgy and the charism of priestly celibacy.


Featured speakers were the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William Levada, the Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, and Cardinal Claudio Hummes, who is Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, which sponsored the Congress.


In his remarks to the participants on Friday, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the uniqueness and dignity of the priestly vocation.


Dear priests, said Pope Benedict, the men and women of our time ask only that we be priests, and nothing else, to the very end. The lay faithful will always find in many other people, that, which they have need naturally, but only in the priest shall they be able to find the Word of God, which must ever be in his mouth.








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