| US BISHOPS PRESENT FIRST DECLARATION OF YEAR 2000 |
Washington, 3 (NE) The organism of communications of the US Bishop's Conference recently
informed that the country's bishops have presented their conjunct declaration "Because God
loves you" at the beginning of this year 2000. "New possibilities lie before you -before all of us-
at the start of the third Christian Millennium. This is a time to look at the world and decide how
to better serve your neighbor," state the Bishops in the declaration. Cardinal Anthony
Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia, who will discuss this declaration today at his radio
program "Live with Cardinal Bevilacqua," recalled that "as we step across this great threshold,
we know that there is still much work to be done." The Cardinal also emphasized that the
Jubilee Year is a "time of great hope."
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