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Wednesday, Oct. 14

ST. CALLIXTUS I (Pope 217-222)
First Martyr-Pope after Peter
Rose from slave to deacon to Pope



OR today.


Papal stories on Page 1 have to do with yesterday's announcements of the Pope's attendance
at the World Summit on Food Security at the FAO in Rome on November 16 (with an inside-page
interview with the Vatican representative to FAO - translated and posted above) and his visit
to the Great Synagogue of Rome on January 17. The top story is FAO Director-General Jacques
Diouf's address to the Synodal Assembly for Africa, in which he says the world's hungry expects
much from the Church. Other Page 1 stories: A report saying that if the worldwide economic
crisis is ending, the unemployed numbers do not reflect it; and a feature on the new 'easy
readers' or e-books. The inside pages contain a couple of stories about ASTRUM, the Vatican
Museums exhibit on astronomy.



THE POPE'S DAY
General Audience - The Holy Father spoke on Peter the Venerable,
another sainted Abbot of Cluny who served in the early 12th century.