HAPPY NAME DAY ONCE AGAIN
TO OUR BELOVED HOLY FATHER!
July 11, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
ST. BENEDICT (BENEDETTO DA NURSIA) (Italy, 480-547), Father of Western Monasticism, Co-Patron of Europe
No papal stories in today's issue of OR.
Page 1 stories: At least 102 villagers killed by a Taliban suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan; European nations await results on 'stress test' by the European central bank on 91 banks to be known July 23; a story to recall the anniversary of the July 11-12, 1995 massacre committed by Serbo-Bosnian forces of 8,000 Serbian Muslims in Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia; the total solar eclipse today on Easter Island off the Pacific coast of Ecuador which will last more than 5 minutes; and the case presented by Italy and nine other European countries seeking a reversal of a European Human Rights Court ruling last year against public display of the Crucifix in Italian schools.
THE POPE'S DAY
Angelus on the Feast of St. Benedict - On the first Angelus of his current summer vacation, the Holy Father
pays tribute to the patron of Europe and 'patron of my Pontificate'.