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HOLY SEE REPRESENTATIVES MEET WITH INDIAN BISHOPS

VATICAN CITY, 24 JAN 2011 (VIS) - The following English-language communique was
released at midday today:

"From 16 to 22 January a colloquium was held at St. John's National Academy of
Health Sciences in Bangalore, India, in which a delegation from the Holy See
met with twenty-eight members of the Bishops' Conference of India and
twenty-six theologians from various parts of the country. The delegation of the
Holy See was led by Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, assisted by Archbishop Luis Ladaria S.J.,
secretary of the congregation, Msgr. Charles Scicluna, promoter of justice, and
three officials.

"The members of the Indian episcopate who participated in the colloquium
represented the three Ritual 'sui iuris' Churches in India, led by Cardinal
Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops'
Conference of India".

"In the first part of the colloquium, theologians addressed questions such as
the specific role of the theologian in the Church, theological methodology in
the East and in the West, inculturation, Jesus Christ as the one Saviour of all
people, the relationship between the Church of Christ and other religions, the
Christian concept of authentic human liberation, the role of the faith
community (the 'sensus fideliu,'), and the distinctiveness of Christian prayer
and spirituality".

"The second part of the colloquium was organised for bishops and the
representatives of the Holy See. These days were devoted to various questions
relating to the specific role and responsibility of bishops in the Church, such
as the bishop as teacher of the faith, the functioning of the Doctrinal
Commission of the Bishops' Conference, the formation of future priests and
members of religious congregations, and the correct adjudication of the more
serious canonical delicts".
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