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Sunday, August 30

BLESSED JEANNE JUGAN (France, 1792-1879)
Founder, Little Sisters of the Poor
To be canonized in October



OR today.

The only papal news in today's issue is the Pope's
appointment of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop
of Cologne to represent him at the 12th centenary of
the death of St. Ludgerus, first Bishop of Muenster
and 'Apostle of the Saxons and Frisians', to be
celebrated in Werden an der Ruhr, Diocese of Essen,
on Sept. 6. Page 1 has an editorial on growing use
of microcredit as a way for social inclusion of the
'have-nots'; Iran slows down its nuclear development
work to allow IAEA to inspect a nuclear plant; EU
mission seeks to promote resumption of Mid-East
peace talks; Christian and Muslim parties in Lebanon
continue talks to form a government.



THE POPE'S DAY

Sunday Angelus - The Holy Father, referring to Saints Monica and Augustine,
whose feasts the Church celebrated last week, talks about prominent saints who came
from the same family, like the brothers Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzene.