VATICAN - Benedict XVI addresses students at Pontifical Universities in Rome: “The whole culture of man today must be imbued with the Gospel”

Friday, 26 October 2007

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of a Mass in St Peter's Basilica for the inauguration of the new Academic Year 2007-2008, on Thursday 25 October XVI Pope Benedict addressed thousands of students from all over the world who are in Rome to attend Pontifical Ecclesiastic Universities here in Rome. At the end of the Mass presided by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education the Pope went into the Basilica to address the student and teachers.
“The time spent in Rome can and should help prepare you to carry out in the best possible manner the task awaiting you in different fields of apostolic activity - the Pope said among other things - . The evangelising mission proper to the Church demands, in our day, not only for the Message of the Gospel to be spread everywhere but for it to penetrate deeply into ways of thinking, criteria for personal judgement and behaviour. In a word, the whole culture of man today must be imbued with the Gospel ”. (C. E.) (Agenzia Fides 26/10/2007; righe 12, parole 170)


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