Pope wants new statutes for worldwide missionary organizations

(Katholisch).

Pope Francis wants to change the statutes of the Pontifical Mission Societies, which operate worldwide. These should further develop a “spirituality of the missionary community,” he said on Saturday in Rome to representatives of Catholic mission organizations from around 120 countries. It is about living in communion with God and with people. “We should enable the people we meet to have the fundamental experience of God’s love. They will be able to find it in our lives and in the life of the Church,” said Francis. Christians must be “shining witnesses” of God.

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