Paglia then mentioned the Twentieth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family which the United Nations celebrates this year, highlighting “the geographic proximity between the ecclesial event taking place in Philadelphia and the debates being held in the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. That proximity is a providential call to religious and civil institutions to work together to bring a better future to all the families of the world.” The Italian archbishop said that “the Pope who bears the name of Francis of Assisi, the saint of universal brotherhood, the Pope who was called “from the ends of the earth,” is already walking with us as we prepare for the two thousand fifteen Meeting. We see what he has already done just this past year: The Family Pilgrimage of the Year of the Faith last twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh of October; the twenty-first Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family three days before, which studied the Charter of the Rights of the Family on its thirtieth anniversary; the Meeting between the Pope and engaged couples in St. Peter’s Square for Valentine’s Day this past February 14; the Letter of the Pope to Families and the Consistory on the Family that I mentioned above. These are all milestones on a path that is being walked by men and women from all our churches in the world, nor can we fail to mention the questionnaire submitted to all the world’s dioceses to facilitate sharing in this journey.” The archbishop expressed the hope that there would be “a broad and active presence from the other Christian Churches and communities, as well as from representatives of the world’s other Great Religions, together with other men and women who, though not religious, are committed to bringing peace and good will to our world.” “There is no doubt that the presence on the Chair of Peter of the first Latin American Pope makes the event even more meaningful,” Paglia said. Answering journalists’ questions regarding this, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, Mgr. Charles Joseph Chaput, said it is too early to say whether the Pope will be attending for sure and recalled that Benedict XVI only announced his participation at the last family meeting in Milan (2012) “six months before” the event took place. If Francis does go to Philadelphia, it will be his first visit ever to the United States.vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/famiglie-families-familias-32977/
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