Personal holiness is basis for evangelization, Pope reminds Chilean bishops
December 04, 2008
Meeting on December 4 with bishops from Chile who were completing their ad limina visits, Pope Benedict XVI said that a new impulse of evangelization in Latin American "requires particular efforts of purification and charity from everyone." The Holy Father encouraged the bishops to pursue holiness, and invite their people to do the same, as their first priority. Working from that foundation, he said, "All sectors of life can be illuminated with the light of the faith. I am thinking, among other areas, of the world of culture, science and politics; of the promotion of the family founded on marriage between a man and a woman; of the creation of more just working conditions and the assistance of the disadvantaged; of concern for the environment; of defense of human life at every stage of existence, and of the right and obligation of parents to the spiritual and moral education of their children."
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