BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

FIVE YEARS TODAY, AND COUNTING....

AD MULTOS ANNOS, SANCTE PATER!

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU ARE

TO THE CHURCH, TO THE WORLD, TO ALL OF US.

Thank God love is infinite, for we could never love you enough.

As I am not very imaginative and have quite a prosaic mind, I am thankful to Vatican Radio for the 'instant' vignettes they created and posted last night as soon as the Holy Father had left Malta to commemorate another perfect apostolic visit....




They help fix the images of Malta in the mind and perfectly portray the luminous spiritual and warmly personal characteristics that Benedict XVI has placed on his Pontificate...





Cardinals to fete
the Pope today

The Vatican announces that at 1 p.m. today, the Holy Father will lunch with the members of the College of Cardinals who are in Rome at this time, to mark the fifth anniversary of his election to be the Successor of Peter.