EUROPE/SPAIN - Pope Benedict XVI a prophet of truth and humility: testimony from Archbishop Francisco Perez Gonzelez, PMS National Director in Spain

Wednesday, 20 April 2005

Madrid (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI “is a great gift and we must be at his side with prayers and being united among ourselves” said Archbishop Francisco Pérez González, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain in a letter to Fides commenting the election of the new Pope. “Benedict XVI is a prophet of truth and humility. This is the secret of his wisdom which is authentic because it is based on profound adoration of God and in total fidelity to Jesus Christ and the teaching of the Church. “What this Pope will do is yet unknown but he will certainly help us focus our life on the one Lord of history”.
The Archbishop said he wished to be in deep communion with the new Pope. “This historic time in which we live with bear fruit if we take new evangelisation as the key for leading humanity to the deepest dignity of its way of being and existing. Pope Benedict XVI will lead us on this path of authentic dignity. The searching of mankind today is every day more dramatic and it is the Church’s duty to offer the water of eternal life. In this the new Pope will certainly help us” the archbishop concluded. (R.G.) (Agenzia Fides 20/4/2005, righe 15, parole 236)


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