"When the Pope calls, we answer him". Msgr. Angelo Bagnasco, the new president of CEI, repeated the words pronounced in Genoa yesterday, and this morning at the headquarters of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, in Rome, in front of the directors and the employees of CEI itself. "With hope, added the new president I accepted the act of my appointment by the Holy Father, in the service of the Church in Italy". On recalling the Ecclesial meeting in Verona, Msgr. Bagnasco said to be ready "to relaunch the contents and the proposals of the meeting, matching them with the realities of our dioceses and of Christian communities". "Clearness and serenity added Msgr. Bagnasco, must characterize the attitudes to be assumed in the current times, for the first one does not exclude the second". "We are not allied with any throne, he concluded but we are the allies of man". The president confirmed that "the richness of our Church is being rooted in the fabric of our people, even though it is not always acknowledged, and sometimes it is neglected".
