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Vatican City, Dec 10, 2012 \/ 01:29 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The solution to the issues plaguing the American continent is to renew faith in Christ, Pope Benedict XVI said as he helped open a conference on the Church in the Americas.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cA renewed missionary spirit and zealous generosity in your commitment will be an irreplaceable contribution to what the universal Church expects and needs from the Church in America,\u201d Pope Benedict said.<\/p>\n

\tHe made his remarks to participants in the Dec. 9-12 international Ecclesia in America Congress, who were gathered in St. Peter's Basilica after the conference's opening Mass.<\/p>\n

\tThe congress\u2019 aim is to improve relationships between the Church in North, Central and South America, and to discuss the New Evangelization.<\/p>\n

\tPope Benedict remarked that promoting a culture that respects human dignity is a matter of \u201cfundamental urgency\u201d in the American continent due to the \u201cwidespread mentality that tends to attack the dignity of the person and damage the institution of marriage and family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cPainful situations of emigration\u201d \u2013 especially when associated organized crime, drug trafficking and arms dealing \u2013 are of chief concern to the Americas, as are \u201cinequalities and areas of poverty caused by questionable economic, political and social measures,\u201d the Pope added.<\/p>\n

\tAlthough the solution to these problems requires \u201ccareful study,\u201d the Pope said \u201cthe Catholic Church is convinced that the light for an adequate solution can only come from the encounter with the living Christ, which gives rise to attitudes and ways of acting based on love and truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis is the decisive force which will transform the American continent,\u201d he stated. \u201cThe love of Christ impels us to devote ourselves without reserve to proclaiming His name throughout America, bringing it freely and enthusiastically to the hearts of all its inhabitants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tFor this reason, Pope Benedict explained, Catholics in the Americas should \u201ctake up this commitment\u201d by encouraging men and women religious and laity to \u201cpurify and strengthen their interior lives ever more fully through a sincere relationship with the Lord and a worthy and frequent reception of the sacraments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn effect, Jesus Christ's love and the power of His grace must take root ever more intensely in the hearts of the people, families and Christian communities of your nations, to allow them to progress with dynamism along the paths of harmony and fair progress,\u201d the Pope said.<\/p>\n

\tProper catechesis and doctrinal formation \u201cmarked by complete fidelity to the Word of God and the Church's Magisterium\u201d were also named by the Pope as essential to forming a response to \u201cthe deepest questions and aspirations of the human heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe entrusted the renewal of the Americas to the Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, calling her a \u201cmodel of openness to God\u2019s grace and perfect concern for others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe gathering, which was inspired by Bl. Pope John Paul II\u2019s 1997 exhortation ''Ecclesia in America,\" was organized by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the Knights of Columbus in collaboration with the Institute for Guadalupan Studies.<\/p>\n

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