'Eucharist Calls for WWIII Vs Poverty, Cruelty' – Papal
VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2, JANUARY 25, 2016 No campaigning IN THIS ISSUE: in IEC, politicians told Msgr. Joseph Tan, executive secretary of the IEC New York blizzard strands Communications Department. IEC CEBU City, Jan 24, 2016--Politicians are IEC speaker, delegates, A3 welcome to attend the 51st International Eucharistic Congress here, but only as “pilgrims. The week-long IEC, which is expected Papal legate Cardinal Bo to draw 12,000 participants, is open to all to visit Cebu prison, A3 but is not an occasion for electioneering, said Msgr. Joseph Tan, executive secretary of the IEC Communications Department. “Although the IEC is open to every- IEC speaker to celebrate body, including politicians, we want to make sure that we will not change the Traditional Latin Mass, A2 IEC to become some kind of a political event for one party or the other, or one candidate or the other,” the priest said in a press briefing this morning at the IEC Pavilion. “Of course we expect … some of the people running for office to be present, but they will be treated like any other person, as pilgrims,” explained Tan. “We are open to their presence but rest assured that this will not become a plat- form for their electioneering,” he added. The IEC, a major religious event that promotes the centrality of the Eucharist in Christian life, features daily celebra- tions of the Holy Mass as well as cat- echetical talks. The theme of the 51st IEC The Catholic Church in is “Christ in You, Our Hope of Glory,” the Philippines: A Brief Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Papal Legate to the 51st International Eucharistic Congress, kisses an image of the Sto.
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