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"I bambini hanno il diritto di essere concepiti e portati in grembo, messi al mondo e cresciuti nell'ambito del matrimonio". Lo ha ribadito Benedetto XVI parlando ai vescovi scandinavi, ricevuti in udienza giovedì mattina, 25 marzo, in occasione della visita "ad limina Apostolorum".

Dear Brother Bishops,
I welcome you to Rome on the occasion of your visit "to the threshold of the Apostles" and I thank Bishop Arborelius for the words he has addressed to me on your behalf. You exercise pastoral governance over the Catholic faithful in the far north of Europe and you have travelled here to express and renew the bonds of communion between the people of God in those lands and the Successor of Peter at the heart of the universal Church. Your flock is small in number, and scattered over a wide area. Many have to travel great distances in order to find a Catholic community in which to worship. It is most important for them to realize that every time they gather around the altar for the Eucharistic sacrifice, they are participating in an act of the universal Church, in communion with all their fellow Catholics throughout the world. It is this communion that is both exercised and deepened through the quinquennial visits of Bishops to the Apostolic See.

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