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Thursday, Sept. 24

ST. PACIFICO DA SANSEVERINO (Italy, 1651-1721)
Franciscan,Preacher and Abbot
Canonized 1839


OR today.

At the General Audience, the Pope speaks on St. Anselm of Aosta and Canterbury:
'Whoever loves the Church serves her without abandoning or betraying her'
Right photo shows the Pope with Cardinal Maradiaga of Honduras, whose country is undergoing a constitutional crisis. Page 1 also
contains the start of the list of participants in the coming special assembly for Africa of the Bishops' Synod. Other Page 1 stories:
UN secretary-general expresses hope for a total ban of the atomic bomb as the UN General Assembly opens; and a story on
the G20 summit in Pittsburgh this week.



THE POPE'S DAY
The Holy Father met today separately with two more groups of bishops from northeast Brazil on ad-limina visit -
the sixth and seventh groups of Brazilian bishops he has seen in the past two weeks. Brazil is the largest
Catholic country in the world in terms of Catholic population.


The Vatican also said that a video of the Pope's message in English on climate change that he read at
the General Audience on August 26th was sent to the UN summit on climate change in New York.

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