Tag: Austrian Bishop’s Conference
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New President of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference
The archbishop of Salzburg, Franz Lackner O.F.M., has been elected new president of the Austrian bishops’ conference. He follows on the archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn O.P. Franz Lackner has a many-faceted CV: Born in 1956, he started a training as electrician, served as a UN soldier in Cyprus from 1978 to 1979, joined…
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Austrian Bishops’ Conference on “pro multis”
The Latin words “pro multis” could be translated literally as “for many,” as Pope Emeritus Benedict called for, but many have argued that it is an idiom which in effect means “for all,” the translation approved by Pope Paul VI.