Letter from Rome

March 2003

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Most Reverend Superior General,

I received your letter of 25 October last, which contained the Acts of the General Chapter in summary form, which chapter was held by the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society from August 4-17, 2002, at Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.

While I thank you for the documentation which was examined attentively, I particularly thank you for your expression of gratitude concerning the meetings that were held last May 2002 with this Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Superiors of the Missionary Congregations and Societies. The fruits of these deliberations are beginning to mature for those committed to the New Evangelization of the Gospel in our times.

In particular from your report, we note that no changes have been effected to your constitutions, which reflects the stable norms you have erected for religious life. The decision to develop a new model of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society to maximize the participation and include more lay persons is prudent and farsighted. Your impetus to "internationalization" will discover avenues never seen before and travelled upon among differing Canadian cultural groups and the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society.

Wishing you all the successes in your activity for the reign and the glory of God...

His Eminence Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe
Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

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