The Pope invited the priests and religious people of Assisi to undertake "the task to develop an announcement of the Christian faith that is up to today’s challenges": "Your spiritual and pastoral tradition must remain steady in its perennial values and at the same time it must renew itself to give a genuine answer to the new questions". Hence his encouragement to "confidently" follow the pastoral plan of the bishop, mgr. Domenico Sorrentino, which points at the perspectives of "communion", "charity" and "mission". Since the name of Francis "demands that this City should distinguish itself for its unique missionary rush", "this Church must live on a deep ‘experience of communion’". This is the goal of the Motu Proprio "Totius Orbis", under which the Pope established that the two Papal Basilicas of Saint Francis and Santa Maria degli Angeli "should pastorally fall within the jurisdiction of the bishop of this Church", for "a more coordinated and effective pastoral action". Actually the Second Vatican Council and the following Magisterium highlighted the need that the communities of dedicated life, including those established under the papal law, should fit in, "in an organised way", with the life of the particular Church "so as not to live like ‘islands’" and "fit in" with the service and the pastoral plan adopted by the bishop for all of the diocesan community.
