{"id":34842,"date":"2023-10-26T12:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=34842"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:42:10","slug":"diocesan-church-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/iglesia-diocesana-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish Church calls for \"pride in being Catholic\"."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"We are all proud of something, and our convictions are also a reason to be proud of something\". This is what the bishop of Bilbao and head of the Secretariat for the Support of the Church<\/a>Joseba Segura.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Segura made this statement in the context of a breakfast presentation of the campaign for the Diocesan Church Day<\/a> of this 2023 to the media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this meeting, the Bishop of Bilbao also emphasized that this traditional campaign of the diocesan Church \"increasingly places less emphasis on the economic aspect to give more value to daily life and the contribution of the Church to the world.\" <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Segura also wanted to emphasize that the campaign presented was carried out in a social context in which among so many \"meaningful proposals, the Church becomes one more and leads us to ask ourselves to what extent we are convinced that our proposal has a social value\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Spanish society has a great respect for the manifestations of faith of other confessions and, at times, Catholics are afraid to explicitly present our convictions,\" said the bishop in charge of the Secretariat for the Support of the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not being \"ashamed\" of being believers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is, in fact, the visual storyline of the 2023 campaign, in which the audiovisual proposal focuses on situations \"that occur regularly\" in the opinion of those responsible for this campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video shows how three lay people, two young men and a young woman, seem to be \"ashamed\" to show their faith and how a reflection on the work of the Church, -personalized in a priest who gives communion to a sick woman, another priest who helps the homeless and a nun dedicated to education-, leads them to a change of attitude and to show, \"with pride\" their belonging to the Catholic community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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