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POPE AUTHORIZES PUBLICATION OF CELAM FINAL DOCUMENT

VATICAN CITY, JUL 11, 2007 (VIS) - Made public today was a Letter from Benedict
XVI to bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, in which he authorizes the
publication of the final document of the Fifth General Conference of the
Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAM). On May 13, during the
course of his apostolic trip to Brazil, the Pope inaugurated the conference at
the Brazilian shrine of Aparecida.

In his Letter, the Pope calls for the final document "to be a light and a
stimulus for fruitful pastoral and evangelizing work in the years to come,"
observing that the text contains "many useful pastoral indications motivated
with rich reflections in the light of the faith and of the current social
situation.

"Among them," the Pope adds, "I read with particular appreciation the
exhortation for priority to be given, in pastoral programs, to the Eucharist
and the sanctification of the Day of the Lord, as well as the expressed wish to
strengthen the Christian formation of the faithful in general and of pastoral
workers in particular. In this context I was happy to learn of the desire to
create a 'Continental Mission,' which episcopal conferences and dioceses are
all called to study and put into effect, channeling all their vital energies to
this end."

In a separate development, during the inaugural session of the 31st Ordinary
CELAM Assembly, which began yesterday in Havana, Cuba, the new leaders of that
institution for the next four-year period (2007-2011) were elected. The
president is Archbishop Raymundo Damasceno Assis of Aparecida, Brazil, the
first vice-president is Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida, Venezuela, and the
second vice president is Bishop Andres Stanovnik O.F.M. Cap. of Reconquista,
Argentina.
BXVI-LETTER/CELAM/...VIS 070711 (300)

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