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Wednesday, Oct. 21

ST. HILARION (born near Gaza, 291, died in Cyprus 371)
Anchorite
Educated in Egypt with St. Anthony Abbot,
lived as a hermit in Palestine, then settled in Cyprus
where he died. St. Jerome wrote his biography.


OR today.


The news on Pope Benedict's initiative towards Anglicans is very much downplayed on Page 1, as
a brief item at the bottom of the page indicating there are two items in the inside pages about
'Personal ordinariates for Anglicans who enter the Catholic Church' One item is the CDF note,
the other the joint statement by the Archbishops of Westminster and Canterbury. Page 1 stories:
Runoff elections in Afghanistan set for Nov. 7; Synodal fathers express solidarity with victims
of African conflicts as they consider the list of Synodal propositions to be voted on; and
two headlines accentuating the positive - what little there is - about the meeting in Vienna on
Iran's nuclear program, and the US-Russia intention to pursue a new round of reduction in their
nuclear arms stockpiles. Also a teaser for an article in the inside pages by the Israeli ambassador
to the Holy See who explains why the Jews use the term Shoah rather than the Jewish equivalent
of 'holocaust'.


THE POPE'S DAY
General Audience today - The Holy Father's catechesis was on St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church.

After the GA, the Holy Father met with
- H.E. Nasser Judeh, Foreign Minister of Jordan.


The Vatican also announced that the Holy Father has named
- Mons. Manuel Monteiro de Castro, titular Archbishop of Benevento, Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops,
as Secretary for the College of Cardinals. (The single-sentence announcement does not make clear if he will hold both
positions simultaneously.)

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