LE FIGARO.
- Is your appointment to the cardinalate a new charge or a culmination?
Bishop Jean-Marc AVELINE.
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It is above all the link with the Holy See, and especially the Pope, which characterizes the office of cardinal.
When I was an auxiliary bishop, my job was above all to serve the ministry of the archbishop.
It's a bit the same thing that I will have to do now, in the service, this time, of the Pope's ministry.
But the fundamental vocation is the same for everyone baptized: to advance as far as possible on the path to holiness.
Then, no specific vocation is greater than the others, none can live without the others and none has the monopoly of holiness.
Is this choice of the pope also a way of greeting Marseille?
The pope has been attracted to Marseilles for a long time, long before I became its archbishop, because this city is, in his eyes, one of those dividing lines on which he likes to go to testify. of the mercy of...
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