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This forceful has shown the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Caņizares, which closed this afternoon at the World Congress UCAM University John Paul II the Great, with a lecture entitled `De Juan Paul II to Benedict XVI: Challenges for the Church today. "
Canizares has stressed the continuity of the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, which move in the same path that God says you have to walk if we answer your calls and meet the needs of the Church and man , has emphasized the role of the Eucharist as the center of Christian life and holiness and stressed the need to live united to God, as a challenge and priority for both pontiffs.
Cardinal Caņizares explained that Jesus Christ was the passion of John Paul II.
"A love of Jesus Christ, to whom Christ has been his life and everything in your life. Kingdom of Christ, identified with him, what John Paul II said and showed, is a living testimony of Jesus Christ, so when they ask me summarize in two words his figure, always give the same answer: "witness of Jesus Christ and witness of Hope."
Canizares has been defined as "the Pope of the fundamental and inalienable rights of man, a champion and a builder of peace, a defender as anyone in the dignity of the human person, a tireless fighter on behalf of life, initiator and promoter of a new culture of solidarity, of life and a new civilization of love, a man of dialogue and encounter between religions, protector and father of the poor, defender of the oppressed, a free man like few others, freedom-loving, evangelical and missionary tireless prophet of the family and ultimately passionate man of God to man and his truth. "
Cardinal Caņizares has emerged as challenges, needs, challenges and concerns of the Church today, isolation and neglect of God, the silent apostasy of the West, secularization, the secularization of our society, the profound moral and human failure that afflicts humanity, the loss of a sense of truth and the implementation of an organizational culture dominated by relativism raised among other things, a culture of death, the continuous attacks on life and the inalienable right to life that every human being has to life from conception to natural death, abortion, euthanasia, embryo manipulation, totalitarianism, violence, hunger, wars, the crisis of family and education, children, youth and lack of hope.
The cardinal stressed the commitment of Benedict XVI by a Gospel of Life.
The Pope family Caņizares stressed that the family of John Paul II was a pastoral priority highlighted, and inseparable from the challenge of education.
"Aware of what is played here, John Paul II stands out as the Pope a proclamation clear, unambiguous and consistent of the Gospel of the family and its truth.
Sanctuary of life and hope based firm, founded in love and open to the gift of life, the family carries the very future of society and man. "
In the afternoon have also been involved the president of the European Network of Family Policy Institute, Dolores Verlarde Catolfi-Salvoni, who has lectured on women in the Church and society in the thought of John Paul II and the undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Laity, Guzman Carriquiry that he delivered the lecture "John Paul II and young people."
Dolores Velarde explained that John Paul II the contribution of women is "above all spiritual and cultural nature, but also socio-political and economic and precious is a greater presence of women, because they contribute to manifest the contradictions of a society organized solely to considerations of efficiency and productivity, and require systems to be redesigned for the processes of humanization which the civilization of love.
For his part, Guzman Carriqury, highlighted the massive deployment mission that marked the pontificate of the Polish Pope, who called repeatedly and urged to a new evangelization, in which young people were subjects and target preferences.
"In the apostolic trip program each and every pastoral visits to parishes, there was always reserved a space for meetings with young people.
His pontificate was crossed by a continuous schedule of meetings and dialogues.
As part of this journey, were of paramount importance the successive embodiments of the World Youth Day, especially in its global calls presided by the Pope of the Catholic dioceses and cities in the world, "he said.
Source: UCAM
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