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Saturday, August 29

THE BEHEADING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST



OR today.

No Benedict XVI stories in this issue. On Page 1: An editorial commentary
on a lay theologian's misrepresentation in another newspaper of the nature
of forgiveness in the Church, applied in this case to the Prime Minister
of Italy and his alleged sexual indiscretions. Page 1 international news:
Now the Obama administration says a freeze on Israeli settlements in
the West Bank is not a condition to resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks;
Japan's unemployment rate hits 5.7%, highest in the postwar era [in the US,
it's 9.5%!]; and the World Council of Churches elects Lutheran minister
Fyke Tveit of Norway as its new president.




THE POPE'S DAY
No events scheduled for the Holy Father today, but it was previously announced he would spend today with his
Schuelerkreis which is holding its annual reunion seminar on the theme "Mission in the ecumenical perspective'.