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June 6

St. Norbert (Germany, 1086-1134)
Bishop and Confessor



OR today.

The only papal story in this issue is a brief inside-page
item on the Holy Father's summer vacation [posted yesterday
as a communqiue from the Pontifical Household]. Two news
analyses lead off Page 1 - on Obama's Cairo speech and on
the economic crisis. Other Page 1 stories: North Korea
proposes to talk to the Seoul government; 100,000 civilians
flee the fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu; and a new
terrorist attack, thought to be Taliban, kills 32 in
a Pakistani mosque.



THE POPE'S DAY

The Holy Father met today with

- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (weekly meeting)

- Bishops of Venezuela (Group 3) on ad limina visit.

- Community of the French Seminary in Rome. Address in French.


The Holy Father has named Mons. Paolo Sardi from the Secretariat of state as the Pro-Patron
of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
(Another Curial change pre-announced by journalist Andrea Tornielli. Sardi was in charge of the department
responsible for translating and releasing papal documents.)


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