Tulsa bishop says Catholics must share their faith, pray for missions

Published: 2006-03-10

ROME (CNS) -- Catholics who have received the gift of faith must support efforts to share that gift with others, said Bishop Edward J. Slattery of Tulsa, Okla. "The most important thing for our people to do is to pray for the missions, because faith is the work of the Holy Spirit," the bishop said March 10 while in Rome for a meeting and conference marking the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's document on the church's missionary activity. The conference at the Pontifical Urbanian University was sponsored by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. In addition to participating in the conference, Bishop Slattery attended the first meeting of the newly enlarged supreme committee of pontifical missionary societies. Named to a five-year term on the committee, Bishop Slattery represents North and South America on the board charged with overseeing the budgets and promoting cooperation among the Holy Childhood Association, the Missionary Union of Priests and Religious, the Society of St. Peter Apostle, and the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

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