Pope urges PNG and SI Bishops apply the Gospel to local customs

Pope Benedict has urged the Bishops from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to apply the Gospel to local customs as they carry out their task of evangelisation building on positive elements already present and to purifying others when necessary.

He said this in his address to the Bishops the Bishops ,who are in Rome for their five yearly ad limina visits, when he met with them last Saturday.

In his address Pope Benedict also praised the Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands for  their attention for the poor, the marginalized and the sick, especially those suffering from HIV/AIDS, and for speaking publicly “as an objective moral voice on behalf of those in need … in order to contribute to the common good ”

 

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