Jul 25, 2007 / 07:28 am
During a meeting on July 24 with some 400 priests from the dioceses of Belluno and Treviso in northern Italy, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about God, modern man, and the Church.
“We spoke about God, the Church, and humanity today, and above all, about the fact that we are the Church and that in this journey we must all collaborate,” the Holy Father said about his meeting with clergy at the Church of St. Justin the Martyr in the small town of Auronzo.
During the meeting the Pope fielded questions from the priests about the main pastoral priorities of the Church in today’s world.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told Vatican Radio the Pope discussed such themes as “the problem of formation of young people and their moral conscience, the problems in priestly life, the priorities for ministry in current-day Italy and the historical development of the [Church’s] situation.”