Pope Francis received Hungarian Catholic leaders at the Vatican

Pope Francis receives Hungarian Catholic leaders in Vatican . Photo: MKPK

A pilgrimage of Hungarians to the Vatican will take place in April next year, Cardinal Péter Erdő, the head of the Hungarian Catholic Church, told MTI, after meeting Pope Francis at a private audience in Vatican City on Monday morning.

Cardinal Erdő headed a delegation to the Vatican including Bishop András Veres, President of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, and Greek Catholic Metropolitan Fülöp Kocsis.

Erdo said they expressed thanks to the pontiff for the visit he had paid to Hungary at the end of April this year. Pope Francis’ visit was “a matter for the whole of Hungary”, he said, adding that it had given the entire Catholic community new impetus and strength.

The cardinal said the pope welcomed that his visit had made a lasting impact on Hungarian society and education.

He said they had told the pontiff about a planned pilgrimage of Hungarians to the Vatican next April with the aim to jointly express thanks to him.

Erdő said Pope Francis had noted his latest meeting with President Katalin Novák in August, pointing out that they were thinking along the same lines about the values of the family and the demographic problems.

Bishop Veres said the pope had highlighted the important role Hungary could play due to its geopolitical location in serving as “a bridge” between the East and West not only politically but in terms of religion as well. Hungary, the pope said, had always been regarded as a meeting point between people and cultures, Veres added.

Veres said they also discussed the situation of Ukrainian refugees coming to Hungary on a daily basis, noting the Hungarian church’s support for the education of Ukrainian children. They also discussed the humanitarian aid extended to eastern Ukraine where a large Hungarian community lives and to which region many Ukrainians moved from the country’s western region.

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Ancient Institution in Crisis : says:

07/10/2023 at 11:18

St. Dominic 1170 – 1221 message – founder of the Dominican Order, to this day a Creed of Practice, within the order :
” We must sow the seed, not hoard it.”
What I wonder, the (4) four in the photograph, the “mean” age of them would be ?
Its this imagery, especially noticeable in Decorous Liturgical Holy Roman Catholic Services, the age of the participants, from the “Red Slippers” – the Princes of the Church – Cardinals, through the hierarchical structure of the Church of Rome.
Ow for a 30 to 40 year old Pontiff.
They say miracles do HAPPEN.
This global imagery, still remains, in my opinion, and I do practice my Faith being baptized into, from my birth, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, that it is :
“An Ancient Institution in Turmoil.”
Saint Pope John XX111 – gave HOPE – in the calling of Vatican 11.
“Time to open the windows and let in some light.” – his reply, as to WHY, there NEEDED to be a 2nd Vatican Council – 11/10/1962 – 08/12/1965 that the previous, had been held near on a century earlier.
My opinion, the skeletonization, of the changes – downsizing of the changes Vatican 11 presented the Holy Roman Catholic Church the OPPORTUNITY to “open its windows” a MAJOR factor was the AGE of the PRINCIPAL decision makers – who remain lost in time, and could not through AGE – move the church forward and “let in some light.”
That remains as a dominant stigma to this day, post 1965, that the expression of the Holy Roman Catholic Church of Rome remains an – Ancient Institution in Turmoil – that factually we LIVE with, that “bums on the pews” in places of religious practice and worship, continue to DIMINISH.
Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungary aged 71 – opening windows letting in light – KNOWN – right / right wing conservative of traditional Holy Roman Church teachings and laws/practices – age & traditional conservatism – the Churches of Hungary, under his Cardinalship, remain stayed and darkened.
Cardinal Peter Erdo – personifies the crisis that remains in the Holy Roman Catholic Church of Rome.
T. S. Eliot quote :
“Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it.”
I rest my case.