The Archbishop of Valencia, Monsignor Carlos Osorio, assured that there is “particularly urgent task” for the present and future in Spain in which the Church can contribute as a “building an open culture, the reconstruction of moral consciousness and evangelization at the height of the times, “reported the Archbishop in a statement.
At a conference this afternoon at the Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia on ‘The Church’s presence in society in light of the teachings of Benedict XVI, “the prelate says his thinking is” thinking Spain from the Church “, on the based on the teachings of the present Pope.
Monsignor Carlos Osorio has defined in his lecture the “great tasks for the future”, among which is situated, as “particularly urgent, first, the construction of” an open culture that places man at its center, which discover their needs, which helps fulfill their responsibility and to prepare for the service for the domain before. ”
That culture is, moreover, that “makes men realize that we are constitutively open to transcendence, forces him to be in solidarity with his story, he relies on the truth and promote effective cooperation and realistic.”
Secondly, he referred the Archbishop of Valencia to the relationship between Catholic faith and “being Spanish” and recalled how until the nineteenth century there was a “identification of society with a source of meaning” in reference to religion. Now in the twenty-first century the Church has to contribute their work to “build in Spain’s moral conscience.”
Finally, Bishop described Osoro has referred to the task of the Church in creating an open culture, and stressed that their work involves creating an “anthropological consciousness” and, through it, by ” cultural permeation of society “, so you can” recover the real God. ”
Over these urgent tasks, “the bishop has placed the” primacy “in the Church of evangelizing and has defended the need for this evangelization is” the height of the times “, preaching the” universal truth and rationality specific ” .