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ROME, JUNE 15, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Diocese of Rome wants to go to new heights with its newly launched pastoral plan for the faithful. The main focus of this diocese for the next 12 months to three years has been themed "Communicating the Gospel and the Joy of the Faith to the New Generations." Monsignor Marco Gnavi, an official with the Vicariate of Rome, believes a lot can be said for the fruits born of a questionnaire which members of the diocese were invited to complete in recent months. "This was to verify what the local faithful thought was being...

Benedict XVI Reflects on "Dei Verbum" "'Lectio Divina' Will Bring to the Church a New Spiritual Springtime" ROME, NOV. 8, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is the address Benedict XVI delivered in the courtyard of the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, on Sept. 16, to 400 participants in the international congress on "Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church." The Sept. 14-18 congress, in Rome, attracted 400 experts, including about 100 bishops. The initiative commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's dogmatic constitution on divine Revelation, "Dei Verbum." * * * Your Eminences, Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate...