NEW YORK — In what the head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is calling a “gift,” Filipino Cardinal Luis Tagle will serve as Pope Francis’s special envoy to the National Eucharistic Congress this summer.
According to an announcement on 18 May, Tagle, who holds a prominent role in the Holy See’s Dicastery for Evangelisation, will not only visit the Congress but celebrate its closing Mass on 21 July.
“ gift to the Eucharistic Congress,” Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services and the head of the USCCB said in the 18 May statement. “ deep passion for apostolic mission rooted in the Eucharist is sure to have an inspirational impact on everyone attending the Congress.”
