The Holy Father's Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday

VATICAN CITY, MAR 18, 2005 (VIS) -In the Holy See Press Office this morning, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, presented the Pope's Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday 2005. Also present at the press conference were Archbishop Csaba Ternyak and Msgr. Giovanni Carru, respectively secretary and under-secretary of the congregation.

The eleven-page document, dated March 13, has been published in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Polish.

Cardinal Castrillon affirmed that this year's Letter has a special resonance because it was signed in "a place marked by the Cross of Christ," Rome's Gemelli Hospital.

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The Full Letter of the Holy Father to Priests for Holy Thursday 2005 is here.