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May 1, Feast of St. Joseph the Worker
Patron of the Universal Church


HAPPY NAME DAY ONCE AGAIN

TO OUR BELOVED HOLY FATHER!


NB: Our Pope has four name days during the year:
March 19 and May 1, for St. Joseph;
March 21 (observed by the Benedictines)
and July 11 (official Church holiday) for St. Benedict.

NB: Today is also our first anniversary on this Forum. My profound thanks once again to Gloria for being our host.




Saturday, May 1

OR today.

The main story today is the Holy Father's address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, recalling the principles of
Caritas in veritate on the essentially ethical nature of economics, but saying that without public intervention and moral
criteria, the market cannot regulate itself. Other papal stories, the concert offered by the President of Italy for the Holy
Father on Thursday evening; the Pope's condolences on the death of his good friend, Cardinal Paul Augustine Mayer, OSB,
(photo above) who died yesterday at the age of 99; and two stories anticipating the papal visit to Turin tomorrow. International
news on Page 1: the environmental consequences of the BP oil-drilling explosion off the coast of Louisiana may well be worse
than that from the Exxon Valdez tanker spill off Alaska in 1989.


No events scheduled for the Holy Father today.


THE POPE'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR MAY
General intention:
"That the shameful and monstrous commerce in human beings,
which sadly involves millions of women and children, may be ended".

Mission intention:
"That ordained ministers, religious women and men, and lay people involved in apostolic work
may understand how to infuse missionary enthusiasm into the communities entrusted to their care".


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