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of those who are able to make an end to the misery apostles of the good news, apostles who announce
of nations. May God, Who unites us in His church, that the Kingdom of God is at hand. Amen.
give us the strength so that we may be His apostles, Most Rev. Marie Daniel Dadiet

“A mission has been confided to me: to be

an apostle for the Pilgrims of St. Michael”

During our Congress on Sun-
day, Sept. 6th, Archbishop Marie-
Daniel Dadiet repeated his appre-
ciation and gratitude and let us
know that he and Cardinal Agre
are determined to make the Social
Credit philosophy known in the
Ivory Coast:
Dear father Cardinal Agre,
Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan
in the Ivory Coast, Excellencies,
our Lords the Archbishops, Miss
General-Directress of the Louis
Even Institute and her collabor-
ators, Reverend Fathers, honor-
able members, friends and bene-
factors of the Louis Even Institute,
dear Marcel Lefebvre, dear guests,
brothers and sisters.
Before I give you my impres-
sions on what I have just lived in
this prestigious Congress of the
Pilgrims of St. Michael, I would
like to read to you a short ex-
cerpt from the encyclical “God is
Love” (Deus Caritas Est) of Pope Archbishop Dadiet with our Directors (Marcel
Benedict XVI: “The Church is the Lefebvre, Therese Tardif, Florentine Seguin)
family of God in the world. In this
family, no one ought to go without the necessities of or youth of the diocese of Man, I had a copy and like a
life… The aim of a just social order is to guarantee to son, I remain attached to my father. After that he went
each person, according to the principle of subsidiarity, to Abidjan where he was Archbishop for sixteen years
his share of the community’s goods.” running, then he was nominated as Cardinal and I had
I would like to, brothers and sisters and dear the occasion to work beside him for four years before
friends, express all of my gratitude to His Eminence being appointed myself Auxiliary Bishop of Korhogo. I
Bernard Cardinal Agre, Archbishop Emeritus of Abi- would like to take advantage of this occasion to renew
djan, who is a great friend of the Pilgrims of St. Mi- to him all of my gratitude.
chael. If I say thank you to the Cardinal, it is because The Cardinal received me one day in his private
he made me discover the Pilgrims of St. Michael, he home (in Abidjan) and that day, he gave me three
made me discover Social Credit. And this gesture books on Social Credit (In this Age of Plenty, the 10
of our father Cardinal does not surprise me; I have Lessons, From Debt to Prosperity). And the Cardinal
known him since 1976 — I was a seminarian at that told me: “My son, take these three books and go; read
time and he was the bishop of Man, in the west of the them and afterwards come to see me and we will talk
Ivory Coast — but already in the Church of the Ivory about them.”
Coast and also at the level of the universal Church, he Back home in the Ivory Coast we have the habit of
had big responsibilities. He was in charge of the Epis- saying, “All that God does is good.” Before this con-
copal Commission of the means of social communi- gress, I could not meet with the Cardinal so that we
cation in the Ivory Coast and in the Vatican as well… could speak about these three books. God wanted me
Every time the Cardinal wrote an article to the faithful to come to this congress so that I could see it with my

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