CNS STORY: Pope praises manage by at an advanced hour cardinal of Mauritius to promote the family tree
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI praised the unpunctual Cardinal Jean Margeot for his dedicated stimulation of the Family. Cardinal Margeot, who was the Retired bishop of Port Louis, Mauritius, died July 17 at the Period of 93. His Cessation Leaves the College of Cardinals with 185 members, 113 of whom are under life-span 80 and therefore worthy to desire in a conclave.
In a bleu of condolence sent July 17, Pope Benedict expressed his sorrow over the cardinal's passing and Called him a "passionate father who dedicated his whole life to the Mauritian People." The overdue cardinal was Known for his commitment to evangelization and for being "at the assignment of defending and promoting the Family," said the pope. He led a Catholic renewal on the midget Island-State in the Indian Ocean while carefully maintaining Company relations with his Hindu and Muslim counterpart Citizens.
Aware that the Hindu more than half opposed apparent conversions, he said he sought to evangelize through specimen and by Making Christian teaching more extensively Known. About half of Mauritians are Hindus with an Indian Background, some 16 percent are Muslim and nearly 24 percent are Catholic. The last cardinal's Annual Lenten Pacific correspondence and Pentecost homily as per usual made the headlines of the Governmental non-ecclesiastic press, and his positions on controversial issues were often Experience Stories on the Country's radio and boob tube stations. He urged Catholics to be anxious with prayer, liturgy and charitable Service.
He lamented the eating of traditional Family values, the legalization of Abortion and sterilization in the region, and what he catchword as the International Monetary Fund's preparation of tying Money-Making aid to Support for Birth-Control Programs. During a 1988 caucus of World bishops at the Vatican, the supreme spoke highly of his diocese's logical Family planning Program, which he said was one of the most in operation in the World. He said the Church was fighting to keep the dignity and Health of Women, especially those who are pressured to operative Birth Control Pills, sterilized under Management Programs, forced to Weather the trauma of abortions, or who are badgered by husbands not to get Pregnant. Jean Margeot was born Feb. 3, 1916, in Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius. He was ordained a abbess Dec. 17, 1938, and ordained a bishop May 4, 1969.
As bishop of Port Louis, he was bloody nimble in the Array of the clergy, youths and catechists. He also provided devotional conduct to the Chinese and Indian communities within the diocesan province and was very efficacious in the broil against Drugs. He served as the first President of the Southwest Indian Ocean bishops' Conference, which includes Madagascar, Reunion, Seychelles, Comores and Mauritius.
Pope John Paul II made him the Country's inception leading in a June 1988 consistory. END Copyright (c) 2009 /USCCB. All Rights reserved. This resources may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed.
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