Pope encourages Italian bishops to confront secularism, recalls nation’s consecration to Immaculate Heart
In a message to Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, president of Italian Episcopal Conference, Pope Benedict has encouraged the Italian hierarchy to confront “the great questions of the modern age”: “the question concerning the nature of man and his dignity (a decisive element in the complete formation of the person), and the ‘question of God,’ which seems ever more pressing in our own times.”
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