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In a country like Papua New Guinea, where roughly 98 percent of the population identify as Christian, with Catholics making up the majority of that number, the work of missionaries is never over.Archbishop Iannone on Church's fight against abuse and existing norms
"Papua New Guineans can go as missionaries, not only overseas, but they can also go as missionaries from their own place of birth to other parts of the country," Father Roche told OSV News Oct. 16."We need laypeople and lay leaders to work in the mission in Papua New Guinea, especially as we are discussing synodality. In a synodal church, laypeople's role is also very important.
Among the greatest challenges as a missionary, he said, is the amount of pastoral work in the country with a limited number of priests."The average number of priests in the dioceses of Papua New Guinea -- there are 19 dioceses -- would be 25-30. Whereas my home diocese would have 250 priests! And yet here, there are just 25 or 30."
"He boosted me as a missionary," he added."He boosted me in my work and he is a strength that was not only given to me, but also to other missionaries." Fr Roche said it was"high time that we teach them to be missionary: missionary with other families, with communities, in their parishes and in other parishes in the dioceses."
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