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News World News of the Eastern Church PAULINE YEAR: ANTIOCH, CARD. TAURAN, THE CHURCH IS NOT “A MULTINATIONAL” | PAULINE YEAR: ANTIOCH, CARD. TAURAN, THE CHURCH IS NOT “A MULTINATIONAL” |
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(Antioch) “The Church of Jesus is not an absolute monarchy not is it an international organisation or a multinational, it is a family, it is communion and dialogue”. This was said by card. Jean Louis Tauran, president of the Papal Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, last night in Antioch (Turkey), as he opened the final celebrations for the Pauline Year that he is attending as Benedict XVI’s special envoy. “The Church – the cardinal said to the devotees gathered in the yard of the only Catholic Church in the city, which is emblematically located between a mosque and a synagogue – is Christ’s face, and we are its traits. So we must be Jesus’s believable witnesses. We should bear in mind that Jesus can usually be reached through the Church”. Drawing the devotees’ attention to the example of the Apostle Paul, Tauran urged everyone to “ask God to give them the courage they need to proclaim and propose the Gospel, without fear and without giving in, to our brothers in humanity. The pluralism that is widespread in today’s world drives us to insist that those who wish to follow Jesus must bear their own Cross, those who love their own life will lose it, the human person is as sacred as life. Since the beginning, Christianity has been the opposite of worldly wisdom. Such martyrs as father Andrea Santoro are evidence of this. If we have the courage to be different, then the Gospel will be announced by our own life”. The celebration was opened by the greeting of mgr. Luigi Padovese, Latin Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia and president of the Turkish Bishops Conference, who mentioned the testimony of the Apostles Peter and Paul, whose “difference did not prevent their unity”. “Their testimony – he pointed out – reminds us that the difference of our churches, with their heritage of traditions, culture, spirituality, is an even more precious value, the more it is rooted into the will to be faithful to the only Lord”. © SIR |
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