Vatican City, Dec 2, 2008 / 09:51 am
To mark the 100th anniversary of several Italian pontifical seminaries, the Holy Father met with the student representatives at the Vatican on Saturday. Speaking to the seminarians from the regions of Marche, Puglie, Abruzzo and Moliese, Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that mankind in the third millennium has the need for God.
The Holy Father opened his address by noting that the mission of priests “is to scatter with open hands the Word of God over the fields of the world." The Word, “which brings eternal life, is Christ Himself, the only One Who can change the human heart and renew the world, Pope Benedict proclaimed.