May 27
St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 605)
Roman missionary to England
First Archbishop of Canterbury
OR today.
No Papal stories on Page 1, but there is an inside-page
article by Cardinal Kasper assessing the Pope's pilgrimage
to the Holy Land (translated 2 posts above). Page 1
international news: Unanimous UN condemnation of Monday's
nuclear bomb test does not stop North Korea from new
missile tests; Ahmadinejad says Iran will henceforth talk
'nuclear' only with the International Atomic Energy Agency;
Taliban continue to threaten Swat valley in Pakistan; new
fighting between Sudan troops and rebels in Western Darfur
where some 350,000 civilians have fled the battle zone; and
an editorial commentary on North Korea's choice to continue
its international isolation.
THE POPE'S DAY
General Audience today - The Holy Father resumed his catecheses on great Christian writers
of the early Middle Ages, with St. Theodore the Studite, a 9th-century Byzantine monk who led
the revival of Byzantine monasticism and classical Byzantine literary genres.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 27/05/2009 16:28]