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Vatican City,
15th April 2005 (CNA)
- Archbishop Cipriano Calderon Polo, Vice
President emeritus of the Pontifical Commission
for Latin America and member of the Congregation
for Bishops, said Thursday the Church in Latin
America is “mature” and ready to give a Pope to
the universal Church.
Archbishop Calderon, who accompanied Pope
John Paul II on all of trips to Latin America,
first as director of the Spanish edition of
L’Osservatore Romano and later as Vice
President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin
America, told CNA that the Pontiff “coined the
phrase ‘Continent of hope’ in reference to Latin
America which, after 500 years of being
evangelized, is now itself
evangelizing.”
“The Holy Father pointed out on one
occasion that Latin America was preparing to
reevangelize Europe and to evangelize other
regions of the world; and he saw this as the plan
for the region for the Third Millennium,”
Archbishop Calderon noted.
The Spanish prelate also stated that “Latin
America is now a mature Church, ready to give a
Pope to the universal Church, if not during this
conclave, then during the
next.”
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