Sunday, Sept. 20
ST. ANDREW KIM TAEGON (Korea, 1821-1846)
& 103 OTHER KOREAN MARTYRS, canonized 1984
Andrew Kim was the first Korean-born Catholic priest.
He and the other martyrs died in the 19th-century
persecutions by the Joseon dynasty.
OR today.
Meeting with the Patriarchs and major archbishops of the Oriental churches, Benedict XVI announces
A Bishops' Synod assembly for the Middle East in 2010
Other Page 1 stories: An analysis of the US decision to scrap Bush-proposed missile defense shield in eastern Europe; IAEA asks to inspect Israeli nuclear sites; IMF notes record unemployment in the G20 countries; and in the inside pages, the full text of Cardinal Bagnasco's lectio magistralis on Caritas in veritate in Genoa yesterday.
THE POPE'S DAY
Sunday Angelus - The Holy Father's mini-homily was on the concept of wisdom in the Letter of St. James.
After the prayer, he deplored the bloodshed in Afghanistan where a terrorist bomb recently took the lives
of seven Italian soldiers, and spoke about his trip to the Czech Republic this weekend.
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