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Vatican City, Jun 5, 2012 \/ 04:02 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The priest behind the recent \u201cad limina\u201d visits of America\u2019s bishops to Rome says that Pope Benedict has called on the U.S. Catholic Church to help rescue and revive Christian culture. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Holy Father spoke of the challenges in marriage, in family life, in growing secularization, in education, but I think there was a common theme amidst all the challenges: that where God does not exist, where he is taken out of culture, civilization itself begins to disintegrate,\u201d Monsignor Anthony J. Figueiredo told CNA in Rome. <\/p>\n

Over the past six months Msgr. Figueiredo has led the organization of 15 visiting delegations from the US consisting of 258 bishops. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very, very intense time of serving these bishops, really allowing them to feel that Rome was their home away from home, and I must say that they went back really very positive for a number of reasons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAd limina\u201d visits usually occur every five to seven years and give the episcopate a chance to speak with the Pope and Vatican officials about the health and future of the Church in their diocese.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important part of the Ad Limina visit is not so much the administrative tasks, even though these are important, but really to come here and to pray,\u201d he said.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

It was therefore one of Msgr. Figueiredo\u2019s key tasks to make sure that each delegation were able to say Mass at Rome\u2019s four papal basilicas. That included making pilgrimages to the tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul. <\/p>\n

He was also the point-man with the Vatican when arranging Papal audiences for each of the delegations. These meetings, he said, allowed the bishops \u201cto be confirmed in the mission that is entrusted to them, which is really an apostolic ministry given them by the Holy Father himself.\u201d <\/p>\n

Although born and bred in England Msgr. Figueiredo, or \u201cFr. Anthony\u201d as he usually refers to himself, is a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark. For the past six years, though, has been based in Rome. <\/p>\n

That transatlantic overview means that while he believes European culture as becoming increasingly secularized \u201cthere still exists a window of opportunity in the United States\u201d to save Christian culture. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf God is taken out of the equation, this is what the Holy Father was saying, then the human person has no human dignity,\u201d he said, \u201cand we can do with the human person whatever we feel should be done to him or to her regardless of him or her being made in the image and likeness of God.\u201d <\/p>\n

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