VATICAN CITY: POPE PAUL EMPHASISES GOSPEL PREACHING DESPITE PROBLEMS OF HUNGER AND SLAVERY IN MISSIONARY WORK.

Record ID: 647959

  • Title: VATICAN CITY: POPE PAUL EMPHASISES GOSPEL PREACHING DESPITE PROBLEMS OF HUNGER AND SLAVERY IN MISSIONARY WORK.
  • Date: 24th October 1971
  • Summary: 1. GV Saint Peter's Square 0.07 2. SV INT. ZOOM mission members wearing national dress 0.13 3. STV PAN Pope enters in procession 0.34 4. SV Nuns 0.35 5. LV & CU Samoan delegate reading address to congregation PAN TO Pope 1.03 6. SV Missionaries seated 1.04 7. SV Pope speaking 1.17 8. LV Pope TILT UP TO ceiling 1.25 9. GV Missionaries with national music conducting service 1.39 10. SV Other missionaries meeting Pope Paul 1.52 Initials OS/058 OS/109 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th November 1971 12:00
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  • Location: VATICAN CITY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA38ITNSD50QM3FS2GQ28WDX033
  • Story Text: Pope Paul, underlining the importance of preaching the gospel in the Roman Catholic Church's missionary work, said in the Vatican City today (Sunday 24 October) that total priority should not be given to the battle against hunger and slavery.

    Speaking in Saint Peters at a solemn mass for the missionary church, the 74-year-old Pontiff said many modern ideas ran counter to its missionary work. Some of the ideas, he said, relegated the preaching of the gospel to second place behind temporal liberation and economic needs.

    The place of honour during the mass went to the Samoan delegation from the Polynesian island of Apia in the Pacific, which Pope Paul visited last November during his Far-Eastern pilgrimage.

    SYNOPSIS: In the Vatican City on Sunday, Pope Paul unexpectedly intervened in the Church's debate on the problems of injustice in the world, and warned that the worldwide missions should not give total priority to the battle against hunger and slavery at the expense of preaching the gospel.

    The 74-year-old Pontiff, speaking at a colourful mass in Saint Peter's to celebrate "Mission Sunday", said that the religious content of the church's message should take the forefront in its missionary work.

    The place of honour during the mass went to the Samoan delegation from the Pacific island of Apia, which the Pope visited last November during his pilgrimage to the Far East. Wooden drums, flutes and gongs resounded through the vast Basilica as a Samoan choir sang native hymns for the mass.

    Con-celebrating the mass with Pope Paul were six prelates from Latin America, Pakistan, Europe and the Pacific.
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