Travellers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:37:09 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Travellers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Call for more pastoral care at international airports https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/06/26/call-for-more-pastoral-care-at-international-airports/ Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:05:20 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=73182 Bishops have been urged to increase pastoral care for travellers at international airports. A seminar of aviation and airport chaplains in Rome this month noted that airports can be places of "difficult situations asking for extra care". "We urge the ordinaries of the areas where there are international airports to increase the pastoral care of Read more

Call for more pastoral care at international airports... Read more]]> Bishops have been urged to increase pastoral care for travellers at international airports.

A seminar of aviation and airport chaplains in Rome this month noted that airports can be places of "difficult situations asking for extra care".

"We urge the ordinaries of the areas where there are international airports to increase the pastoral care of civil aviation taking into account the steady increase in the flow of travellers, migrants, pilgrims and those who make their travels possible.

"Even at smaller airports it is desirable the presence of a minister (priest, deacon, consecrated or lay person) specially appointed for this position."

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