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   HOLY SEE REPRESENTATIVES MEET WITH INDIAN BISHOPS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 24 JAN 2011 (VIS) - The following English-language communique was   
   released at midday today:   
      
   "From 16 to 22 January a colloquium was held at St. John's National Academy of   
   Health Sciences in Bangalore, India, in which a delegation from the Holy See   
   met with twenty-eight members of the Bishops' Conference of India and   
   twenty-six theologians from various parts of the country. The delegation of the   
   Holy See was led by Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation   
   for the Doctrine of the Faith, assisted by Archbishop Luis Ladaria S.J.,   
   secretary of the congregation, Msgr. Charles Scicluna, promoter of justice, and   
   three officials.   
      
   "The members of the Indian episcopate who participated in the colloquium   
   represented the three Ritual 'sui iuris' Churches in India, led by Cardinal   
   Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops'   
   Conference of India".   
      
   "In the first part of the colloquium, theologians addressed questions such as   
   the specific role of the theologian in the Church, theological methodology in   
   the East and in the West, inculturation, Jesus Christ as the one Saviour of all   
   people, the relationship between the Church of Christ and other religions, the   
   Christian concept of authentic human liberation, the role of the faith   
   community (the 'sensus fideliu,'), and the distinctiveness of Christian prayer   
   and spirituality".   
      
   "The second part of the colloquium was organised for bishops and the   
   representatives of the Holy See. These days were devoted to various questions   
   relating to the specific role and responsibility of bishops in the Church, such   
   as the bishop as teacher of the faith, the functioning of the Doctrinal   
   Commission of the Bishops' Conference, the formation of future priests and   
   members of religious congregations, and the correct adjudication of the more   
   serious canonical delicts".   
   OP/VIS 20110124 (300)   
      
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