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BC President Visiting Vatican

By David Meyer

12/11/2012

(KAIR) -- Benedictine College President Stephen D. Minnis is now attending a meeting at the Vatican relating to the state of the new evangelization in North, Central and South America based on Ecclesia in America, a 1999 apostolic exhortation.

Minnis is in Rome at the invitation of Marc Cardinal Ouellet, president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

The gathering of about 250 people, including Cardinals, Bishops and well-known Catholic figures from the United States, Canada and Latin America, was organized by both the Pontifical Commission and the Knights of Columbus.

It is entitled “On the Tracks of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in America, under the Guidance of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, Star of the New Evangelization.”

The goals of the conference include deepening some central themes of the new evangelization of the American continents, especially in light of the teachings of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in America.

The gathering also hopes to foster bonds of friendship, communion and collaboration among the Catholic faithful in Latin American countries, the United States and Canada.

According to Minnis, the event will include the creation of eight work groups that will focus on everything from challenges of the Christian family, to implications of the new evangelization, to the presence of the Church in schools and universities.

The group will participate in an audience with Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday, the final day of the conference.

Minnis was also one of only five college presidents selected to participate in a working group associated with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Catholic Education.

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