ROME, MAY 2, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The International Union of Superiors-General will have an audience with Benedict XVI during its plenary meeting focused on "weaving a new spirituality which generates hope and life for all."
The May 6-10 meeting in Rome will bring together 850 superiors-general of women's religious congregations. They will meet with the Pope on Monday.
Issues including the environment, interreligious dialogue, laity, migration, refugees and spirituality will be discussed during the plenary meeting.
The president of the union, Sister Therezinha Rasera of the Sisters of the Divine Savior, explained the focus of the meeting with this question: "Contemplating our world, hearing its cries, its needs, its thirst, its yearnings, what is the thread that we, women religious, leaders of our congregations, are called to weave now …?"
Code: ZE07050209
Date: 2007-05-02