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Yesterday (Jan 26, 2012)
This year the Pontifical Seminaries of Campania, Calabria and Umbria in Italy are celebrating the Centenary of their inauguration and it was on this occasion that Pope Benedict meet with Staff and Seminarians of these institutions on Thursday in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace.
The Pope speaking to those gathered underlined the important role regional seminaries play in the life of a diocese adding, that they are places that foster knowledge, encourage an ability to work together and provide an enriching ecclesial experience for future priests.
Turning to the life and work of the priest, the Pope stressed the importance of learning about the structure of the faith as a whole.
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VATICAN CITY, 26 JAN 2012 (VIS) - This morning in the Vatican the Holy Father received superiors and seminarians from three Italian regional pontifical seminaries in Assisi, Catanzaro and Naples. All of these institutions, as the Pope remarked in his address to the group, are currently celebrating their first centenary having been founded as part of efforts towards the reformation of priestly education carried out under Popes Leo XIII and St. Pius X. "Bringing diocesan seminaries together into regional seminaries, and the reform of theological studies, produced a notable improvement in quality", Pope Benedict noted. "In this, an important role was played by the Society of Jesus", the Jesuits, to whom the new regional seminaries were entrusted.
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VATICAN CITY, 26 JAN 2012 (VIS) - Yesterday 25 January the Holy See, acting also in the name and on behalf of Vatican City State, adhered to the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (New York, 1999) and to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime (Palermo, 2000). On the same date the Holy See ratified, likewise in the name and on behalf of Vatican City State, the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Vienna, 1988), which it had already signed in the year in which it was adopted. The instruments of ratification and adherence were accompanied by a number of reservations and interpretative declarations.
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