The principal theme of your assembly concerns the pastoral guidelines which you intend to offer the Churches in Italy for the coming decade: you will thus be able to determine the most appropriate and effective ways to continue and strengthen the work of the new evangelization, which is certainly a pastoral priority for Italy, as it is for many other nations with a great and ancient Christian tradition, but which are threatened by currents of secularization and dechristianization.
Por último, quiero leer en voz alta una lista vergonzosa; los Estados miembros que aún no han ratificado el Convenio sobre la protección de los intereses financieros comunitarios: Bélgica, Luxemburgo, Países Bajos, Italia, España, Portugal, Irlanda y Francia.vatican.va vatican.va