Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States, urged
the bishops assembled at the fall meeting of the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops to evangelize.
“Evangelization is the deepest identity of the Church, and the urgency
of the present time,” he said, recalling statements on evangelization by
Pope Paul VI, Venerable John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI.
“The pastoral ambition, the only ambition which is praiseworthy, is the
following,” Archbishop Sambi concluded: “for parents and teachers to
transmit to the new generation, by word and example, the solid spiritual
and human values which they received; and for bishops, parish priests,
and religious superiors to leave their dioceses, parishes, and religious
communities strong in faith, hope, and love then when they received
it.”
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