Francisco receives 30 Argentine bishops and will speak about "the economic and social situation of the country"

Pope Francis will receive tomorrow more than 30 Argentine bishops from the north, the coast and the center of the country, your impressions on "the economic and social situation of the country". The pontiff will meet between 10 and 12 years in Rome (5 hours less in Argentina) with the 33 bishops of the first group of more than 100 pastors who will go from April to May "ad limina"to the Vatican to visit the main organizations of the Holy See.

At this Thursday's meeting, the bishops will present to the pope a report on the situation in their diocese, as well as their views on "the economic and social situation of the country", according to Telam, Bishop of 9 July Ariel Torrado. Archbishops Víctor Fernández de La Plata are also among the 33 bishops; Carlos Azpiroz Costa, of Bahía Blanca; Andrés Stanovnik of Corrientes; Juan Puiggari from Paraná; Eduardo Martín of Rosario; Sergio Fenoy of Santa Fe and Ramón Dus de Resistencia.

"There is a deep hope during the meeting with the pope to listen to the teachings of his mouth and then take them to each of the places where today is evangelized in Argentina, "added the spokesman of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA) Máximo Jurcinovic to Telam in Rome.

Established in the Code of Canon Law, the so-called visitad limina apostolorum& # 39; -a Latin expression that means & # 39; the thresholds (basilicas) of the apostles (Peter and Paul) – is realized by all the bishops of the world every five years report on the state of their dioceses. The last time the members of the CEA had visited "ad limina"It was in 2009, when the Pope was Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio presided over this institution.

On Wednesday, the bishops celebrated a Mbad in the Basilica of San Juan de Letran, in which they remembered International Workers' Day. "Work is a dignity and a society in which you do not work is not a fair society," said Santa Fe Archbishop Sergio Fenoy at the homily. Tomorrow, after the meeting with Francisco, the bishops will visit the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization; the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts and the Dicastery for Communication.