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U.S. nuncio: Bishops must foster missionary zeal

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A major challenge facing U.S. bishops today is to move faithful Catholics from private faith to a missionary commitment to lead others to Christ, the apostolic nuncio to the United States said Tuesday.

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Holy See’s U.S. ambassador, delivered his remarks Nov. 12 at the opening of the bishops’ annual fall plenary assembly in Baltimore, reflecting on a momentous year highlighted by the National Eucharistic Congress in July, a new encyclical on the Sacred Heart from Pope Francis, and the conclusion of the three-year Synod on Synodality in October, and final preparations for next year’s jubilee year for the worldwide Church.

Striking a pastoral tone, Pierre offered an overarching theme linking all these initiatives: a call to “return to the heart” of Christ and then moving outward from this personal encounter to heed his call to spread the Gospel.

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