IS MCA APPROVED BY THE CHURCH?

REV. SR. FAUSTINA EJEAGU, SHCJ
LAGOS ACHDIOCESE MCA COORDINATOR

IS MCA APPROVED BY THE CHURCH?

Popes and other ecclesiastical dignitaries approved the association and recommended it to the Catholic faithful. Pope Pius IX, by a brief of 18 July 1856, raised it to the rank of a canonical institution, give it a Cardinal Protector, and requested all bishops to introduce it in their dioceses.

Pope Leo XIII, in an Encyclical letter, Sancta Dei Civitas (3 December, 1890), blessed it and recommended it again to the bishops. “It is my earnest wish,” he said in 1882, “that all the children in the Catholic world should become members of this beautiful association.”

Pius X emphasized its international character, comparing it to a great army the component parts of which are the various national branches.

In 1922, the Missionary Childhood Association was given the title Pontifical by Pope Pius XI, thereby designating it as the Holy See’s official agency for mission for children – providing substantial support for their most basic human needs while offering them hope in the person of Jesus Christ.

In May 17, 2013, Pope Francis spoke to the National Directors about the importance of their work in educating all church members-from children on up about their Christian responsibility to participate in and support the missionary work of church.

The answer then is YES? Missionary Childhood Association is approved by the pope himself. Lets make MCA count in our parishes.

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