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501 VI, 1 | to appeal to the youth: Dear young people, the Synod
502 I, 0 | resources.26~The Synod's debate on the relevance and credibility
503 VII, 0 | gratefully endorsing this dec- laration of the Special
504 III, 0 | live the demands of the Decalogue".111 In this regard the
505 VII, 0 | when they deliberate and decide together as members of their
506 VI, 1 | fratricidal wars which are decimating peoples and destroying their
507 II, 1 | concrete actions, until it decisively attains a series of necessary
508 IV, 1 | one by which it has been decreed that we can be saved (cf.
509 III, 0 | proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in
510 III, 0 | place in history: in clearly defined circumstances of time and
511 VI, 0 | provoke tensions which often degenerate into armed conflicts and
512 III, 0 | denounce and combat all that degrades and destroys the person. "
513 VI, 0 | international life demands a high degree of competence in the art
514 VII, 0 | concern, especially when they deliberate and decide together as members
515 III, 0 | Inculturation is a difficult and delicate task, since it raises the
516 I, 0 | Church in Africa consists in delineating as clearly as possible what
517 VII, 0 | ecclesial resources, or delve deeply into the biblical
518 II, 1 | of Africa, and people are demanding ever more insistently the
519 VI, 0 | considered that an authentic democracy, which respects pluralism, "
520 II, 2 | refugees and displaced persons, demographic concerns and threats to
521 II, 1 | Evangelization of~Peoples clearly demonstrate.40 Africa has responded
522 VII, 0 | Special Assembly clearly demonstrated — that waiting for Christ'
523 V, 1 | of a holy life and self- denial and active charity'. Thus
524 III, 0 | sisters of other Christian denominations, in order that the unity
525 III, 0 | Finally, evangelization must denounce and combat all that degrades
526 VI, 0 | oppressive regimes which deny their subjects personal
527 II, 1 | stripped him, beat him and departed, leaving him half dead (
528 I, 0 | of the Church in Africa depended upon Bishops and priests
529 VI, 1 | Synodal Assembly in order to deplore the situations of unspeakable
530 VI, 1 | apostolic activity.~The Church deplores and condemns, to the extent
531 III, 0 | is in turn sent forth. "Depositary of the Good News to be proclaimed ...
532 I, 0 | and it is he who in the depths of consciences causes the
533 Intro, 0 | collegial endeavour.~But before describing what developed in the course
534 II, 1 | the great Saints of the desert, Paul, Anthony, and Pachomius,
535 II, 1 | peoples of the Continent which deserve to be praised and encouraged.
536 II, 1 | Thecla are particularly deserving of mention.~"These noble
537 I, 0 | of Hope~12. By a singular design of Providence, the solemn
538 I, 0 | Gentiles tells us that God "desires all men to be saved and
539 VI, 0 | increasingly interdependent, the destinies and problems of the different
540 II, 1 | the idea that it can be destroyed, even when the so-called ?
541 VI, 1 | are decimating peoples and destroying their natural and cultural
542 III, 0 | combat all that degrades and destroys the person. "The condemnation
543 VII, 0 | an uncommon readiness to detach themselves from their own
544 Intro, 0 | and laity, subjected to a detailed and realistic study the
545 VI, 0 | malnutrition, the widespread deterioration in the standard of living,
546 V, 1 | catechist has been and remains a determinative force in the implantation
547 I, 0 | international debt and currency devaluation is crushing them, we, the
548 I, 0 | Synodal Assembly manifests and develops solidarity between the heads
549 I, 0 | with genuine frankness and devoid of any complacency. Pope
550 V, 2 | Church as Family, where all devote "themselves to the Apostles'
551 V, 1 | encouraging the permanent diaconate "as an ordained ministry
552 IV, 1 | Spirit the most convincing dialectic has no power over the human
553 III, 0 | Jesus Christ, crucified, died and risen, the Way, the
554 V, 1 | are elderly, sick or in difficulty.196~
555 VI, 2 | within through a better diffusion of information among her
556 II, 1 | and abandoned. They are in dire need of Good Samaritans
557 II, 1 | like to lead them in this direction. And practices hostile to
558 VII, 0 | possible, one of the important directives of the Second Vatican Council: "
559 II, 2 | wisely, to provide competent directors and to oversee the quality
560 II, 1 | the road, sick, injured, disabled, marginalized and abandoned.
561 VI, 0 | nations are among the most disadvantaged. Rich countries must become
562 II, 1 | eighteenth century, with the disappearance of practically all the missions
563 II, 2 | Africa. In order not to disappoint this expectation, the members
564 II, 1 | African victims of wars and disasters, to refugees and displaced
565 III, 0 | counter-values of cultures are to be discerned. Just as the Word of God
566 V, 1 | people will be enabled to discover very early on the value
567 I, 0 | Gentile. When he arrived, he discovered to his joyful surprise that
568 III, 0 | of the problems so much discussed today, concerning justice,
569 VI, 1 | played in the spread of this disease by irresponsible sexual
570 VI, 0 | problems are compounded by the dishonesty of corrupt government leaders
571 II, 1 | political instability and social disorientation. The results stare us in
572 VII, 0 | the poorest, can ever be dispensed from the obligation of sharing
573 VII, 0 | history, have been their dispersion or the accentuation of their
574 VI, 1 | suffer from the massive displacement of refugees, I make a pressing
575 III, 0 | evangelization. It seeks to dispose people to receive Jesus
576 III, 0 | and all inaccurate and disrespectful language should be avoided.
577 III, 0 | order, since one cannot dissociate the plan of creation from
578 IV, 1 | prevails, the law which fatally distances humanity from the hoped-for
579 VII, 0 | human rights committed in distant countries, countries which
580 VII, 0 | since she transcends the distinctions of race and nationality.~
581 VI, 1 | military are called to play a distinctive role in the nation. Thus,
582 I, 0 | celebrations would have a distinctly African character.~
583 VII, 0 | progress must be carefully distinguished from the growth of Christ'
584 II, 2 | They frequently impose a distorted vision of life and of man,
585 VI, 0 | for the exploitation and distribution of often scarce national
586 II, 1 | huge Continent where very diverse situations are found, and
587 VI, 0 | foreign private interests, divert national resources for their
588 V, 1 | as Church unless she is divided into communities small enough
589 IV, 1 | himself to the hostility which divides people and keeps them apart (
590 II, 2 | concerns the various forms of division which need to be healed
591 IV, 1 | therefore seek to act with total docility to the Spirit, who "today,
592 II, 1 | The names of the great doctors and writers come to mind,
593 III, 0 | responsible for the public domain to guarantee ever more the
594 III, 0 | economic and political domains, our local Churches must
595 II, 1 | limited periods, as fidei donum priests in other needy Dioceses —
596 III, 0 | speaking, Jesus' life seemed doomed to failure that he instituted
597 IV, 1 | not afraid to open their doors to the Redeemer.~
598 V, 2 | to be the "leaven in the dough" (cf. Mt 13:33), especially
599 VI, 1 | irresponsible sexual behaviour and drafted this strong recommendation: "
600 II, 1 | apostolic'. That history is a drama of charity, heroism and
601 II, 1 | reversal of the Continent's dramatic situation and facilitate
602 III, 0 | up from the earth, will draw all men to myself" (Jn 12:
603 VI, 0 | witness~106. The Synod Fathers drew attention to the ecclesial
604 V, 1 | illiteracy, idleness, hunger, drugs.181 In order to meet these
605 Intro, 0 | in life to the sound of drums and other African musical
606 I, 0 | therefore also throughout the duration of the Synodal Assembly.
607 III, 0 | faith, hope and love which dwell in them (cf. 1 Pet 2:15).~
608 IV, 1 | reconciliation is far from dwelling in the hearts of everyone.
609 III, 0 | the House in which God dwells with man. According to the
610 III, 0 | the Word became flesh and dwelt among us" (Jn 1:14), so
611 I, 0 | evangelical counsels; upon a dynamic laity, with deeply believing
612 VI, 0 | less time. A compassionate ear must also be lent to the
613 III, 0 | faithful right from their earliest years.85~
614 I, 0 | preparations for the Synod began in earnest in all the particular Churches
615 IV, 1 | elementary stage, and the sects easily profit from this ignorance".
616 II, 1 | their example in both the East and the West. And among
617 VI, 2 | Africa many obstacles impede easy access to these means, not
618 II, 1 | increase in the number of ecclesiastical circumscriptions, the growth
619 III, 0 | Synod's recommendation, an ecclesiology focused on the idea of the
620 III, 0 | live in sub-human social, eco- nomic, cultural and political
621 II, 1 | natural resources, it remains economically poor. At the same time,
622 III, 0 | restricted dimension of economics, politics, social or cultural
623 IV, 2 | foundation on which the social edifice is built. This is why the
624 VI, 0 | insufficiency of means for educating the young, the lack of elementary
625 I, 0 | essential condition for real effectiveness in preaching. Precisely
626 VI, 0 | should be the living sign and efficacious instrument of universal
627 V, 1 | the goods of the Church efficiently and openly, and of living
628 II, 1 | Africa came to an end in the eighteenth century, with the disappearance
629 I, 0 | to recall here that the Eighth Plenary Assembly of SECAM
630 I, 0 | Brothers in the Episcopate who elected us, we want to say a word
631 VI, 0 | governments by free and honest elections. Such political injustices
632 V, 0 | Witness is an essential element of this cooperation. Christ
633 V, 0 | carried out purifies and elevates the cultures of the various
634 III, 0 | of all by its healing and elevating impact on the dignity of
635 V, 0 | contribution towards the elevation and enrichment of specific
636 II, 1 | the peoples of Africa, are eloquent witnesses to this. Together
637 II, 1 | the Church. Pope Paul VI eloquently expressed this when he canonized
638 VI, 1 | impact on the young. They embark on adult life with very
639 VI, 0 | legal ways of having these embezzled funds returned. In the granting
640 VI, 0 | against all forms of waste and embezzlement by citizens lacking public
641 III, 0 | Commitment to dialogue must also embrace all Muslims of good will.
642 IV, 1 | and to the effects of the emergence of a global civilization.~
643 III, 0 | They include links of the eminently evangelical order, which
644 Conclu, 0| the coming on earth of Emmanuel, God with us".269~It is
645 I, 0 | Resurrection, like the disciples at Emmaus with burning hearts and
646 VI, 0 | businessmen or civil servants, law en- forcement agents or politicians,
647 V, 1 | that young people will be enabled to discover very early on
648 VI, 0 | building national unity encounters particular problems in the
649 V, 1 | suitable ways of promoting and encouraging the permanent diaconate "
650 II, 2 | Tribal oppositions at times endanger if not peace, at least the
651 VI, 0 | resulting persistence of endemic diseases, the spread of
652 VII, 0 | special way I would like to endorse the specific recommendation
653 VII, 0 | In gladly and gratefully endorsing this dec- laration of the
654 IV, 2 | equal personal dignity, endowing them with inalienable rights
655 VI, 0 | community of faith, must be an energetic witness to justice and peace
656 II, 1 | be helped to recoup their energies so as to put them at the
657 VII, 0 | the Special Assembly to engage the young Churches of Africa
658 III, 0 | contribute to the development and ennoblement of individuals in their
659 I, 0 | the Church as a whole is enriched. The Church in Africa testifies
660 VI, 1 | fundamental equality and enriching complementarity that exist
661 I, 0 | message in Africa inescapably entailed consideration of the very
662 VII, 0 | evangelize the Continent entails cooperation among the particular
663 I, 0 | clergy, religious and laity — entered with exemplary dedication
664 VII, 0 | 139. By entering into contact with all the
665 III, 0 | animate or inanimate. He enters into relationships with
666 I, 0 | Synod Fathers joyfully and enthusiastically declared in the opening
667 VI, 0 | relatively young political entities. To reconcile profound differences,
668 V, 0 | time (cf. 1 Cor 15:24).~"Entrance into the Kingdom of God
669 Conclu, 0| Millennium draws near, to her I entrust Africa and its evangelizing
670 V, 2 | international life, the environment".205 Thus they are places
671 III, 0 | or cultural life; it must envisage the whole man, in all his
672 VI, 0 | consequences such as famine, epidemics and destruction, not to
673 Intro, 0 | 1989, the Solemnity of the Epiphany — the liturgical commemoration
674 VI, 1 | affirmed the fundamental equality and enriching complementarity
675 Conclu, 0| at the dawn of the new era,~the whole human race with
676 IV, 2 | although different, are essentially equal from the point of
677 IV, 1 | rebirth from the Spirit, establishes real and unbreakable bonds
678 II, 1 | obstacles and resistance to the establishment of the rule of law would
679 II, 2 | Church certainly respects and esteems the non-Christian religions
680 | etc
681 VII, 0 | humanity's pilgrimage towards eternity.~
682 VI, 0 | solid foundation of sound ethical and spiritual principles.~
683 II, 2 | slavery in some places, ethnocentricity and tribal opposition figure
684 III, 0 | as Family, avoiding all ethnocentrism and excessive particularism,
685 I, 0 | matters. Its true raison d'être is the fact that the Church
686 II, 1 | Christians who, returning from Europe, testified to the Christian
687 II, 1 | from Portugal and other European countries to continue, expand
688 II, 1 | and teaching of Mark the Evangelist. We think of their countless
689 Intro, 0 | the very moment when human events seemed to be tempting Africa
690 V, 1 | living Christ's love for everybody, a love which transcends
691 III, 0 | human society and imbues the everyday activity of men with a deeper
692 II, 1 | Churches continue to give evidence down to our own times of
693 II, 2 | and alienation in our fast evolving society".58 During my visit
694 III, 0 | this kenosis necessary for exaltation, which is the way of Christ
695 II, 1 | of mention.~"These noble examples, as also the saintly African
696 I, 0 | Ecclesial Communities, far exceeded every expectation. Many
697 | except
698 VI, 2 | serve all people without exception. Therefore I invite the
699 III, 0 | avoiding all ethnocentrism and excessive particularism, trying instead
700 II, 1 | accepts involvement in the "exchange of gifts" with other particular
701 Intro, 0 | prayers, discussions and exchanges.1 With joy and gratitude
702 III, 0 | 124 How can we fail to exclaim with Saint Leo the Great: "
703 VII, 0 | return "can never be an excuse for lack of concern for
704 III, 0 | about this overwhelming and exhilarating experience of Jesus Christ
705 I, 0 | 14. I exhort all God?s People in Africa
706 I, 0 | the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortations devoted to evangelization,
707 III, 0 | proclaim that Word tirelessly, exhorting "in season and out of season ...
708 VI, 1 | countries where, as if in exile, they live a precarious
709 II, 1 | European countries to continue, expand and strengthen the work
710 II, 1 | of better organizing and expanding the missions.~Because of
711 V, 1 | in the implantation and expansion of the Church in Africa.
712 VI, 0 | politicians, Catholics are expected to bear witness to goodness,
713 VI, 0 | interventions are necessary and expedient, even if in the overall
714 I, 0 | the Good News. The effort expended in preparation for the Synod
715 VI, 1 | away from huge military expenditures and put the emphasis on
716 Intro, 0 | this Continent is today experiencing what we can call a sign
717 II, 1 | rites of purification and expiation.~
718 I, 0 | walked along with us. He has explained the Scriptures to us. Here
719 II, 1 | there is only one possible explanation: all this is a gift of God,
720 V, 1 | 92. The Synod launched an explicit appeal for each African
721 III, 0 | Synod invited Pastors "to exploit to the maximum the numerous
722 VI, 0 | right priorities for the exploitation and distribution of often
723 II, 1 | sixteenth centuries, the exploration of the African coast by
724 III, 0 | Gentium. This admirable text expounds the doctrine on the Church
725 II, 1 | societies expresses the extended family. It is my ardent
726 IV, 2 | by its nature, the family extends beyond the individual household:
727 I, 0 | speaking in tongues and extolling God" (10:45-46).~In the
728 VI, 2 | communications ad intra and ad extra. The Church should promote
729 Conclu, 0| Magnificat was already the exultant hymn of all the humble.
730 VI, 2 | the theatre, proverbs and fables. As vehicles of the wisdom
731 II, 3 | to bear upon the social fabric an influence aimed at changing
732 Conclu, 0| faithful — to set their faces resolutely towards the Great
733 II, 1 | Africa, Catholic health facilities make up seventeen per cent
734 II, 1 | Continent is confirmed by facts such as the noteworthy and
735 III, 0 | remain silent, at the risk of failing in her mission, except in
736 III, 0 | Jesus' life seemed doomed to failure that he instituted the Eucharist, "
737 V, 1 | urged priests to live their "faithfulness to their vocation in the
738 III, 0 | Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies,
739 Conclu, 0| communion in diversity,~fashioning the peoples~of this great
740 II, 2 | confusion and alienation in our fast evolving society".58 During
741 IV, 1 | prevails, the law which fatally distances humanity from
742 VII, 0 | which has its source in the fatherhood of God. "All persons created
743 IV, 1 | upright heart who, through no fault of their own have not been
744 Intro, 0 | hour of Africa" has come, a favourable time which urgently invites
745 III, 0 | Church's missionary work be favoured and actively supported.75~
746 III, 0 | different ethnic groups, favouring solidarity and the sharing
747 V, 1 | pastoral care of youth, which favours their formation through
748 I, 0 | every nation any one who fears him and does what is right
749 I, 0 | characteristics indicate essential features of the Church and her mission.
750 II, 2 | why the Church in Africa feels challenged by the specific
751 IV, 2 | put all things under his feet" (Ps 8:6-7).~Having both
752 II, 1 | them Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, Saint Monica and Saint
753 I, 0 | initiative of SECAM was truly felicitous and did not pass unnoticed
754 II, 1 | Jerusalem to Jericho; he fell among robbers who stripped
755 I, 0 | one in concert with his fellow Bishops is responsible for
756 V, 2 | the Apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread
757 I, 0 | cooperation is necessary through fervent prayer, serious reflection,
758 II, 1 | Congregation de Propaganda Fide for the purpose of better
759 II, 1 | for limited periods, as fidei donum priests in other needy
760 II, 1 | will who are working in the fields of assistance and health-care
761 II, 2 | ethnocentricity and tribal opposition figure among the fundamental challenges
762 I, 0 | Synodal Assembly always figured prominently in my meetings
763 II, 1 | adding to the outstanding figures of the first centuries ...
764 III, 0 | of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation" (Col 1:
765 VII, 0 | native members, it very fitting that the young Churches
766 VI, 1 | That is why they tend to flee the neglected rural areas
767 VI, 2 | programmes with which the media flood the African Continent. In
768 VII, 0 | this missionary zeal may flourish among their native members,
769 I, 0 | the joy of their Church flowed from the same event which
770 II, 1 | Christian vitality which flows from their Apostolic origins.
771 Conclu, 0| time, "everything ought to focus on the primary objective
772 III, 0 | recommendation, an ecclesiology focused on the idea of the Church
773 II, 3 | the actions of the true follower of Christ in every activity,
774 III, 0 | stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles" (1 Cor 1:23).
775 VI, 1 | God" (Mt 5:9).~Those who foment wars in Africa by the arms
776 VI, 0 | horror of fratricidal wars fomented by unscrupulous arms trafficking,
777 II, 1 | waters of the baptismal font in which, by the power of
778 IV, 1 | communities. Following in the footsteps of the Second Vatican Council,
779 I, 0 | acceptable to him ... Can anyone forbid water for baptizing these
780 I, 0 | person of Simon of Cyrene, forced by the Roman soldiers to
781 VI, 0 | civil servants, law en- forcement agents or politicians, Catholics
782 VI, 0 | spirit or by unscrupulous foreigners. It is also the duty of
783 II, 2 | immense Continent while forgetting that it is one of the world'
784 IV, 1 | of true reconciliation. Forgiven and mutually reconciled,
785 VI, 0 | of the responsibility and forthrightness of the beneficiaries.219~
786 Intro, 0 | Archbishops, one hundred forty-six Bishops and ninety priests,
787 V, 2 | constitute in effect public forums which allow the Church to
788 I, 0 | that the Church can move forward only by strengthening communion
789 VII, 0 | the Church by her Divine Founder, I earnestly call upon the
790 II, 1 | and Pachomius, the first founders of the monastic life, which
791 II, 1 | Catholics constitute only fourteen per cent of the population
792 II, 1 | that from the second to the fourth centuries Christian life
793 Intro, 0 | closely the same thematic framework. It will begin from the
794 I, 0 | question directly, with genuine frankness and devoid of any complacency.
795 V, 1 | would serve as a witness to fraternity and as a sign of unity in
796 II, 1 | promotion of human rights and freedoms. In this regard I note with
797 IV, 2 | of the ?beginning', and, freeing man from his hardness of
798 II, 1 | evangelization. Signs of this fruitfulness are also the many sons and
799 II, 1 | want also to mention Saint Frumentius, known by the name of Abba
800 VI, 1 | for a present riddled with frustrations and they look with still
801 V, 1 | life has the particular function not only of indicating to
802 VI, 1 | the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and all
803 III, 0 | false irenicism or militant fundamentalism, and to raising their voices
804 IV, 1 | challenge of dialogue is fundamentally the challenge of transforming
805 II, 1 | The Church in Africa must furnish and write her own Martyrology,
806 VI, 0 | Successor of Peter, the Synod furnished a providential occasion
807 Conclu, 0| announcement, from the Angel Gabriel, and her Magnificat was
808 I, 0 | her social doctrine will gain credibility more immediately
809 II, 1 | ago many African countries gained their independence from
810 VI, 0 | those countries which, after gaining independence, have been
811 III, 0 | the time had fully come" (Gal 4:4), the Word, the Second
812 VI, 1 | neglected rural areas and gather in cities which in fact
813 V, 1 | commitment to evangelization by gathering the faithful together, confirming
814 II, 1 | Victor I, Melchiades and Gelasius I, belong to the common
815 II, 1 | it is necessary to avoid generalizations both in evaluating problems
816 V, 2 | cultures".204~In this time of generalized social upheaval on the Continent,
817 V, 2 | dedicated to projects that will generate resources, with a view to
818 II, 1 | and selfless dedication of generations of missionaries. This fact
819 IV, 1 | ones could not replace the gentle action of the Spirit. Even
820 VII, 0 | their very infancy with a genuinely universal and missionary
821 V, 1 | necessary structures for getting together, dialogue and planning.
822 II, 2 | of a machine, cogs on a gigantic wheel. This is often true
823 Intro, 0 | made; let us rejoice and be glad in it" (Ps 118:24).~
824 I, 0 | the same event which had gladdened the Apostles' hearts on
825 II, 1 | In recalling the ancient glories of Christian Africa, we
826 I, 0 | wished to include the main goals and objectives which that
827 II, 1 | evangelization. It is a history which goes back to the period of the
828 I, 0 | to Africa and Madagascar, going to thirty-six countries.
829 VI, 0 | expected to bear witness to goodness, truth, justice and love
830 III, 0 | Paschal Mystery: "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the
831 Conclu, 0| Son and Holy Spirit — who granted us the privilege of living
832 VI, 0 | embezzled funds returned. In the granting of loans, it is important
833 VII, 0 | 130. In gladly and gratefully endorsing this dec- laration
834 VII, 0 | Christian dimensions of total gratuity, forgiveness and reconciliation".
835 III, 0 | believes she can contribute greatly towards making the family
836 I, 0 | steadfast belief that the greatness and mercy of the one God
837 II, 1 | not in full communion: the Greek Church of the Patriarchate
838 Intro, 0 | Father.7 That is why I myself greeted that moment of grace in
839 II, 2 | nations are still in the grip of famine, war, racial and
840 II, 2 | fullness, everything that it is gropingly searching for concerning
841 VI, 0 | in many African countries gross violations of human dignity
842 VI, 1 | order thereby to prepare the ground for peace. "If you want
843 II, 1 | of honour, continues to grow. How could we fail to mention,
844 III, 0 | for the public domain to guarantee ever more the liberation
845 V, 1 | the Bishop will be able to guide in a suitable manner the
846 III, 0 | power of the Holy Spirit guides the Church into all truth (
847 III, 0 | Church as God's Family as its guiding idea for the evangelization
848 II, 1 | and departed, leaving him half dead (cf. Lk 10:30-37).
849 IV, 1 | culminate in Baptism would stop half-way.~It is true that people
850 IV, 2 | interventions in the Synod Hall highlighted present-day
851 II, 1 | acknowledged by everyone. The hallowed soil of Africa is truly
852 Intro, 0 | Synod Fathers from Africa happily took the occasion offered
853 VI, 1 | The companionship, joy, happiness and peace which Christian
854 II, 1 | That is why we, the happy inheritors of this marvellous
855 IV, 2 | and, freeing man from his hardness of heart, he makes man capable
856 VI, 1 | fruits of wars and economic hardships is the sad phenomenon of
857 III, 0 | values which are readily harmonized with the content of the
858 I, 0 | when so much fratricidal hate inspired by political interests
859 III, 0 | all sides by outbreaks of hatred and violence, by conflicts
860 I, 0 | present difficulties and heal its many ills.10~
861 II, 2 | division which need to be healed through honest dialogue.
862 IV, 1 | kerygma is to bring the hearer to metanoia and Baptism: "
863 III, 0 | the life-situation of the hearers of the Word. Inculturation
864 VI, 2 | which he shares with his Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit.
865 VI, 0 | terrible scourge of AIDS, the heavy and often unbearable burden
866 V, 1 | years of their ministry,194 helping them especially to deepen
867 V, 2 | experiences of the faith and helps to internalize them. They
868 II, 2 | centres mostly in the northern hemisphere, do not always give due
869 | hence
870 I, 0 | would become the principal herald. The first missionaries
871 Conclu, 0| that he sought refuge from Herod's cruelty",270 is called
872 II, 1 | Africa are due largely to the heroic and selfless dedication
873 I, 0 | Jews. After considerable hesitation, Peter, enlightened by the
874 III, 0 | Episcopal Conferences or Hierarchical Assemblies and the Apostolic
875 II, 1 | Bishops who now make up the Hierarchy on the Continent.~The Synod
876 IV, 1 | heart. Without him the most highly developed schemes on a sociological
877 I, 0 | such differences do not hinder unity but rather contribute
878 II, 3 | prophetic challenge to whatever hinders the true good of the men
879 II, 2 | the contrary the Church holds that these multitudes have
880 III, 0 | I said earlier, besides honouring the illustrious Martyrs
881 II, 1 | privilege of raising to the honours of the altar in the course
882 VI, 1 | their spears into pruning hooks (cf. Is 2:4).~
883 III, 0 | 101 "It is earnestly to be hoped that theologians in Africa
884 IV, 1 | distances humanity from the hoped-for civilization of love.~
885 II, 1 | This gave rise to great hopes with regard to the political,
886 IV, 1 | believe, to her reasons for hoping, to the new commandment
887 II, 1 | direction. And practices hostile to life are imposed on them
888 IV, 2 | extends beyond the individual household: it is oriented towards
889 VII, 0 | within herself, the unity of humankind over and above any ethnic,
890 III, 0 | It was precisely when, humanly speaking, Jesus' life seemed
891 Conclu, 0| exultant hymn of all the humble. Whenever we say the Rosary,
892 V, 1 | development: illiteracy, idleness, hunger, drugs.181 In order to meet
893 Conclu, 0| was already the exultant hymn of all the humble. Whenever
894 IV, 1 | insufficiently critical ideas spread by the media.147~
895 Intro, 0 | Council, the Bishops sought to identify appropriate means of better
896 III, 0 | the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to
897 V, 1 | development: illiteracy, idleness, hunger, drugs.181 In order
898 IV, 1 | world, and often tempted by idols, and she always needs to
899 V, 1 | thwarting their development: illiteracy, idleness, hunger, drugs.
900 I, 0 | difficulties and heal its many ills.10~
901 II, 1 | Africa's evangelization are illustrated in a truly admirable way
902 III, 0 | earlier, besides honouring the illustrious Martyrs of the first centuries,
903 III, 0 | seams of human society and imbues the everyday activity of
904 VII, 0 | since they are the means of imbuing Catholics from their very
905 VI, 2 | media and called for its immediate cessation".240~Every Christian
906 IV, 1 | She is the People of God immersed in the world, and often
907 VI, 0 | clergy, religious and laity, imparted in the areas of their apostolate,
908 VI, 1 | find a solution for their impatience to take part in the life
909 VI, 2 | in Africa many obstacles impede easy access to these means,
910 I, 0 | evangelization: it is he who impels each individual to proclaim
911 IV, 2 | anticipation on earth, though imperfect, of the Kingdom. The Christian
912 V, 1 | determinative force in the implantation and expansion of the Church
913 IV, 1 | can the Gospel be firmly implanted in the Continent's Christian
914 II, 1 | practices hostile to life are imposed on them by means of economic
915 III, 0 | cf. Mt 8:17)".118 "It is impossible to accept that in evangelization
916 IV, 2 | that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and
917 VI, 0 | it involves working for improved socio-political relations
918 VI, 0 | Church's apostolate cannot be improvised. Aware that in many African
919 VII, 0 | mission ... The renewed impulse to the mission ad gentes
920 VI, 1 | regimes which trample with impunity the rights and dignity of
921 III, 0 | respect and esteem, and all inaccurate and disrespectful language
922 III, 0 | created thing, animate or inanimate. He enters into relationships
923 II, 1 | faith.~In his Address to the inaugural Assembly of SECAM at Kampala,
924 III, 0 | the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and
925 VI, 1 | more wars!~117. The Synod incisively described the tragedy of
926 V, 1 | their respective sources of income.~The Synodal Assembly, having
927 IV, 2 | Psalmist sings of man's incomparable dignity: "Yet you have made
928 IV, 1 | Inculturating the faith~78. By reason
929 VI, 1 | 120. The question of the indebtedness of poor nations towards
930 IV, 1 | a kind of external sign indicat- ing conversion and attesting
931 V, 1 | particular function not only of indicating to all the call to holiness
932 VI, 1 | no room for attitudes of indifference and complacency.~
933 II, 1 | is the high percentage of indigenous Bishops who now make up
934 II, 3 | appropriately recognizing their indispensable role in the evangelization
935 IV, 2 | Marriage thus demands an indissoluble love; thanks to this stability
936 II, 1 | succumb to the temptation to individualism, which is so alien to its
937 VI, 0 | duty, and still less an individualistic one, as if it were possible
938 III, 0 | person, considered not only individually but also and especially
939 VI, 1 | Episcopal Conferences of the industrialized countries to present this
940 I, 0 | Church's message in Africa inescapably entailed consideration of
941 VII, 0 | solidarity is peace, an inestimable good for peoples and nations
942 Conclu, 0| us once more before the inexpressible event which is the centre
943 VII, 0 | Catholics from their very infancy with a genuinely universal
944 III, 0 | to take upon himself our infirmities and diseases. "The entire
945 III, 0 | Catholics from negative influences which condition the way
946 II, 1 | Apostles indicate by name the inhabitants of the places who participated
947 II, 1 | That is why we, the happy inheritors of this marvellous adventure,
948 V, 2 | education, inculturation and initiation to the dialogue of life
949 V, 1 | for the priest celibacy is inseparable from chastity".190 Moreover "
950 II, 1 | are demanding ever more insistently the recognition and promotion
951 IV, 1 | fully exercise their role of inspiring the temporal order — political,
952 III, 0 | doomed to failure that he instituted the Eucharist, "the pledge
953 I, 0 | Churches. For by divine institution and the requirement of their
954 II, 1 | cent of the health-care institutions of the entire Continent.~
955 VI, 0 | standard of living, the insufficiency of means for educating the
956 IV, 1 | caused by the avalanche of insufficiently critical ideas spread by
957 V, 0 | ecclesial community can integrate the positive values of a
958 V, 2 | insofar as their research integrates the truths and experiences
959 III, 0 | cultural values through their integration in Christianity" and, on
960 IV, 2 | that is, endowed with intelligence and will and therefore with
961 Intro, 0 | Exhortation, the result of an intense and prolonged collegial
962 VI, 0 | world that is increasingly interdependent, the destinies and problems
963 VI, 1 | problems in cooperation with interested government agencies, wherever
964 III, 0 | Gospel can contribute to the interior transformation of all people
965 V, 2 | of the faith and helps to internalize them. They serve the Church
966 III, 0 | not "a matter of one's own interpretation" (2 Pet 1:20), but is to
967 I, 0 | 2000 as one of the keys for interpreting my Pontificate.20~The series
968 VI, 0 | public affairs in the two interrelated areas of politics and the
969 VII, 0 | play an important role in interreligious dialogue, above all by fostering
970 III, 0 | the Church walks and lives intimately bound in a real sense to
971 VI, 1 | nepotism, racism, religious intolerance and the thirst for power
972 VI, 2 | social communications ad intra and ad extra. The Church
973 IV, 1 | to Baptism because of the intrinsic need to receive the fullness
974 Intro | INTRODUCTION~
975 II, 2 | Intrusiveness of the mass media~52. Finally,
976 II, 1 | ancestors. They believe intuitively that the dead continue to
977 VI, 2 | pornography and violence which are inundating poor countries. In addition,
978 VI, 0 | elsewhere will be able to investigate suitable legal ways of having
979 VI, 0 | increase economic growth and investment in order to create new jobs.
980 III, 0 | Christ, the "image of the invisible God, the first-born of all
981 VI, 0 | initiatives, so, when they accept invitations offered to them, Catholics
982 I, 0 | said, "it will be able to involve all levels of the Christian
983 III, 0 | from the risks of false irenicism or militant fundamentalism,
984 II, 1 | has practically become an irrelevant appendix, often forgotten
985 V, 1 | other pastoral workers, an irreplaceable service of unity in charity,
986 VI, 1 | spread of this disease by irresponsible sexual behaviour and drafted
987 III, 0 | the Book of the Prophet Isaiah in order to shed light on
988 II, 1 | can we not recall Blessed Isidore Bakanja, Martyr of Zaire,
989 II, 2 | traditional religion and Islam. The Fathers also considered
990 III, 0 | therefore be taken so that Islamic-Christian dialogue respects on both
991 Intro, 0 | Continent present at the Synod issued an important message entitled
992 II, 2 | Assembly, clearly showed that issues in Africa such as increasing
993 IV | CHAPTER IV~IN THE LIGHT OF THE THIRD
994 I, 0 | African soil: at Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast (1990); at Luanda,
995 II, 1 | went down from Jerusalem to Jericho; he fell among robbers who
996 III, 0 | adorns herself with her jewels" (cf. Is 61:10).~
997 VI, 0 | investment in order to create new jobs.218 This involves the commitment
998 I, 0 | 17-18) ... And as Saint John at Patmos during particularly
999 II, 1 | Madagascar, and Blessed Josephine Bakhita of the Sudan, also
1000 I, 0 | Dioceses, some important journals and periodicals, individual
1001 IV, 1 | Church".139 Therefore a journey of conversion that did not
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