Work for communion of peoples, Belgian bishops ask in Lenten message
March 03, 2017
The bishops of Belgium have issued Populorum Communio, a 32-page Lenten letter commemorating the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical on the development of peoples, Populorum Progressio.
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In their letter, the bishops call upon the faithful to work for the communion of peoples. The letter’s sections are entitled “a planetary mercy: the communion of peoples”; “the Gospel of the man born blind: from exclusion to communion and mission”; “the challenges of contemporary society”; and “commitments that impose themselves.”
75% of Belgium’s 11.4 million people are Catholic.
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