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BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

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Thursday, December 3

Third photo from left is a painting of St. Ignatius sending off St. Francis on his mission to the Orient.
ST. FRANCISCO JAVIER (Francis Xavier) (b Spain 1506, d China 1552)
Jesuit missionary to the Orient, Patron Saint of Missionaries
He was a classmate of Ignatius Loyola in Paris, and together with five other friends, they founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order) in 1534. In 1541, he was sent to re-evangelize Portuguese colonies in Asia, and in the next 16 years until his death, he established missions in India, Ceylon, Malaysia and Japan. During this time, he was renowned for many miracles including raising the dead and calming stormy waters. He died in an offshore Chinese island on his way to establish missions in China. He was originally buried in Malacca (in what is now Malaysia), but the body was later transferred to a church in Goa, the Portuguese enclave in India [second photo from right ahows
the altar with his casket], and an arm is kept as a relic in the Jesuit church of Gesu in Rome. He and Ignatius were canonized together in 1622.




OR today.

At the General Audience, Benedict XVI introduces William of St-Thierry
a 12th century monastic theologian who extolled God as Love:
'Love is energy for the soul and man's fulfillment'

Other page 1 stories: Obama's risk in Afghanistan with his military decision; and continuing deaths in Bhopal, India,
from the United Carbide factory explosion that loosed isocyanate gas 25 years ago. This issue contains the Pope's homily
at the Mass with theologians on Tuesday morning (translation posted on the preceding page of this thread yesterday);
Cardinal Bertone celebrating his 75th birthday with Mass at the Pauline Chapel yesterday; and an essay 'defending'
the conversion of Edith Stein from Judaism in reply to a critical article in an Italian Jewish magazine.

NB: Why does the OR use a picture of the Pope showing his back, and a frontal picture of Bertone, both in the Pauline Chapel on separate occasions?
Just because the picture with the Pope shows the Michelangelo painting of St. Paul's conversion
?



THE POPE'S DAY

The Holy Father will meet this afternoon with

- H.E. President Dmitri Medvedev of the Russian Federation, and his delegation.


Among today's nominations by the Pope:

- Fr. Bernard Ardura, O.P. as President of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences. Fr. Ardura (born 1943 in Bordeaux)
was Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture till now. He succeeds Mary Ann Glendon at the Social Sciences Academy.

- Fr. Barthélemy Adoukonou of Benin, to replace Fr. Ardura as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
Fr. Adoukounou is secretary general of the bishops' conference of French-speaking West Africa and the Association
of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa.


The Vatican released the text of the Pope's message for the XVIII World Day for the Sick in 2010, observed annually
on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11).



My cable modem is acting up and it turns out it must be replaced, so my Internet connection will be on and off
(yesterday it was mostly off, and today it is intermittent); consequently, my posting will be iffy.


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