BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

October 10, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Second and third from left: St. Francis contemplating worldly glory, by Alonso Cano, 1624; St. Francis performing an exorcism, Goya, 1788.
ST. FRANCISCO DE BORJA (Francis Borgia) (b Spain 1510, d Rome 1572), Husband/Father/Widower, Jesuit Priest, Third Jesuit Superior-General
Great grandson of Pope Alexander VI, grandson of King Ferdinand of Aragon, and son of the Duke of Gandia, Francisco was raised in the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, whom he accompanied on two military expeditions. At age 19, he married a noblewoman and they had eight children. Meanwhile, he rose in court to become viceroy of Catalonia. A friend and adviser to his contemporary, Ignacio de Loyola, he joined the Jesuit order in 1548 after his wife died. He was ordained in 1551. He became a notable preacher and was given charge of the Jesuit missions in the Orient and in the West Indies. He became the Jesuit Superior-General in 1565. Under him, the society established missions in Florida, New Spain and Peru, and greatly developed its internal structures. He re-introduced daily meditation to the Jesuit rule when he felt they were being too involved in their work at the expense of their spiritual growth. Because of the changes he made, he has sometimes been called the 'second founder' of the Jesuit order. He worked with St. Pope Pius V and St. Charles Borromeo in the Counter-Reformation. He died in Rome but his remains were brought to Madrid in 1901. He was beatified in 1624 and canonized in 1670.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/nab/readings/101010.shtml


OR today.

On the eve of the Mid-east synodal assembly, the Pope addresses the heads of the eastern Churches:
'May the eastern Catholic Churches flourish'
Specific canon law for the eastern Churches is indispensable to safeguard their tradition
The other papal story in this issue is his meeting with the President of Croatia. Other Page 1 news: Four Italians killed by terrorist bomb in Afghanistan, and (believe it or not), a story (with photo yet) on a well-attended U2 concert in Rome's Olympic Stadium. In the inside pages, Cardinal Bertone consecrates four new archbishops who were recently given important appointments: Giorgio Lingua, Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq and Jordan; Joseph Tobin, American Redemptorist, secretary of the Congregation in charge of religious orders; Ignacio Carrasco, Spanish Opus Dei prelate, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life; and Enrico Del Cavolo, Salesian, rector of the Pontifical Lateran University.


THE POPE'S DAY

Mass at St. Peter's Basilica - to open the Special Assembly on the Middle East of the Bishops' Synod

Noontime Angelus