BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

Saturday, August 28, 21st Week in Ordinary Time

ST. AUGUSTINE (b 354, Tagaste 354, d Hippo 430 - both in what is now Algeria], Bishop, Theologian, Doctor of the Church
Benedict XVI devoted six discourses to St. Augustine on his pilgrimage in April 2006 to the saint's tomb in Pavia
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/travels/2007/index_vigevano-pavi...
and five General Audience catecheses in January-February 2008
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2008/inde...
In addition, he has referred to him countless times during the past five years alone, that it is surprising the Vatican has not yet published a compilation of his papal texts referring to St. Augustine. Not to be repetitive, here is a link to a couple of brief articles about Benedict and Augustine that I posted on this day last year on this thread:
benedettoxviforum.freeforumzone.leonardo.it/discussione.aspx?idd=8527...
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/nab/readings/082810.shtml


In today's OR, the only story about Benedict XVI is a front-page commentary on his coming visit to the UK. Other Page 1 items: Seven months since the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, more than 700,000 persons are still living in refugee camps, and the government projects at least $1.6 billion will be needed for basic reconstruction; another million Pakistanis in the southern coastal region are fleeing the threat of new flooding, as monsoon rains continue unabated, international aid is sparse and slow, the threat of epidemics among the homeless is ever more real, and the Taliban are taking advantage to launch new terrorist attacks; a new report shows that the largest African economies will reach the level of Brazil and Russia by 2050; and the Vatican Archives is coming out with the first volume of Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli's notes of his daily meetings with Pius XI as his secretary of state. Another three articles about it in the inside pages, including Cardinal Bertone's Foreword to the book; and an interview with the Prefect of teh Pontifical Council for Social Communications about an international conference he is organizing for next month on the role that Catholics must play in the digital world.


No Vatican bulletins today.
It is the second day of the Ratzinger Schuelerkreis's annual reunion seminar in Castel Gandolfo, focused
this year on the hermeneutic of the second Vatican Council.