Knights answer Pope’s call

Sydney
11 November 2001

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Knights answer Pope’s call

Pope John Paul has asked the laity to be apostles of the new millennium: “At the threshold of the third millenium, God calls believers, especially lay people, to a renewed missionary zeal.

“Mission is not an appendix to the Christian vocation ... The Christian vocation by its nature is a vocation to the apostolate”.

The International Alliance of Catholic Knights, which includes Australia’s Knights of the Southern Cross, has responded to the Pope’s call.

The role of the Catholic knights as apostles of the third millennium was one of the conclusions of the alliance’s recent international conference in Melbourne.

The alliance will prepare briefing sheets to aid reflection on how to be a lay apostle, and distribute them through parishes and Church groups around the world. The knights also make a commitment to always honour the name of God and Jesus Christ and highlight their disapproval of inappropriate uses of the Lord’s name by others.

“A groundswell for the loving, correct use of the Lord’s name can address the denigration of Christianity in our societies,” concluded the alliance.

And of world peace, the knights say this: “Terrorising and killing innocent people can never be justified in the name of God.

“We shall unite with all people, irrespective of religion, to seek peace in the name of God”.

The meeting concluded with a Mass during which the alliance president, Eamonn Fleming of Ireland, installed Geoffrey Renner of the Gambia as his successor.