{"id":6984,"date":"2006-06-20T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/the-nuncios-address.html"},"modified":"2006-06-20T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T13:24:08","slug":"the-nuncios-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/the-nuncios-address.html","title":{"rendered":"The Nuncio’s address"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, not a complete text, but a CNS summary of Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Sambi’s address to the USCCB last week:<\/a><\/p>\n

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"As Christians we have to transform any Way of the Cross, any Calvary, into a moment of resurrection," he said. "This is specific for us as a Christian to make any difficulty a moment of resurrection."<\/p>\n

Archbishop Sambi highlighted the global role of the United States and the U.S. church with an anecdote about when he was the Vatican representative to Indonesia several years ago.<\/p>\n

One Christmas, he said, he decided to celebrate the feast with a visit to a small, remote, primitive village where "I could not drink the water" because he was not immune to local bacteria or viruses. Then a smoker, he also forgot to bring enough cigarettes with him.<\/p>\n

When he arrived in the remote village, he said, in its street shops "I found Coca-Cola and Marlboros."<\/p>\n

"I think the United States and the church of the United States has something more to bring to the world than Marlboros and Coca-Cola," he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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