At the ongoing symposium on the “Holiness of the day”, Cardinal Semelaro, Minister of the Congregation for the Congregation of the Holy See, announced that Pope Francis will rebuild the “Committee of the Witnesses of the Faith”. The work of this new committee will be linked to the mission of the Congregation for the Congregation of the Holy See.
(Vatican News Network)Card. Semelaro, Minister of the Congregation for the Congregation of the Holy See, present at the “Holy Today” seminar in Rome, announced at the audience that Pope Francis will formally establish a “Committee of the Witnesses of the Faith”. To this end, the minister gave an interview to Vatican News to present the background and the reasons for the establishment of this permanent institution.
Card Semelaro was the first to explain that this institution existed at the time of the 2000 Jubilee. At that time, Pope John Paul II was willing to honor men and women who were not canonized and who worked hard to live their faith. At that time, the Sant’Echid group was entrusted with the task of forming a “Committee of Witnesses of Faith”. The group then compiled a list of figures that included not only Catholics, but the entire Christian world. But the work of the commission is limited to the celebration of the Jubilee of 2000.
For the “next jubilee”, the cardinal said that the “idea” of the Committee for the reconstruction of witnesses to the faith “has reappeared.” “Pope Francis said he would re-establish this committee, this time not for a specific event, but to link it to the work of the Congregation for the Congregation of the Holy See. So a standing committee.” days, we will prepare for the establishment of this institution and we will also study the scope of its working mission “.
Subsequently, the head of the Congregation for the Congregation of the Holy See gave an example of the German Lutheran Protestant theologian Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, killed for his opposition to Nazism. “The Church did not declare him a martyr because he was not a Catholic, but he gave a Christian witness. There are many others like Pastor Bonhoeffer, ”the cardinal said.
Card Semelaro said that saints are not always immediately evident in the eyes of the faithful, and our task is to show that we are not ‘making saints’, but by helping the pope to discern. The cardinal concluded: “It should be emphasized that the saint is not far from us, he is a call for everyone. Sanctification must not be listed, but we must respond to the call to sanctification”.
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