The two documents "School in Portugal" and "Full Priority for Children" are the most important issues on the agenda which are going to be dealt with in the Plenary Assembly of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference (CEP) taking place in Fatima from today to November 13. During the works taking place at the Casa das Dores, the Portuguese Bishops will also debate the reports submitted by the different Episcopal Commissions on the renewal of the basic services of CEP, on the celebration of the Pauline Year in Fatima (scheduled for January 25, 2008), as well as on the analysis and approval of the budget of the General Secretariat for the year 2009. Concerning the priority lines of his second presidential term of office for CEP, Mgr Jorge Ortiga anticipated in an interview with Ecclesia Agency that they would concern "the ways of transmitting faith, reorganisation of the believers’ communities, the ecclesial communion, permanent training, and a renewed and special attention to social problems." "We must go on defending our social and assistance structures, and to reflect on their functioning, since, in the globalisation era, it is necessary to pay constant attention to and approach everyday life as much as possible, by supplying a pastoral capable of answering concrete social problems, which should not simply be linked to tradition," declared the president of CEP. ” ” ” “
