Thursday, Oct. 14, 28th Week in Ordinary Time
ST. POPE CALLIXTUS I (Italy 155-222), Pope and Martyr
(Will add biographical sketch later)
OR today.
At the General Audience, the Pope speaks of Blessed Angela of Foligno
'A great mystic of the Middle Ages'
Other Page 1 news: Synodal Assembly on the Middle East starts discussions in working groups; a wrap-up on the successful rescue of the 33 copper miners trapped in Chile for 69 days; and Iraq's former Prime Minister Al-Maliki travels to Damascus to seek better Iraq-Syria relations.
No events have been announced for the Pope today but a Vatican bulletin confirms that
yesterday after the General Audience, he met privately with
- Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, and
- Rabbi David Rosen, director of inter-religious affairs of the American Jewish committee and an advisor
to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.
The Holy Father has named Mexican-born Mons. Gustavo Garcia-Siller as Bishop of San Antonio, Texas.
The new metropolitan was until now an auxiliary bishop in Chicago.
Until I can translate the articles, two news items from the Italian newspapers:
- Andrea Tornielli writes that Benedict XVI will anounce at the next Wednesday General Audience or
the Sunday Angelus after that, a consistory to create new cardinals on Nov. 20-21, as earlier speculated.
- In
Avvenire, Gianni Cardinale says he has been told by authoritative Vatican sources that the Pope's
coat of arms has not been changed, and that the use of the window hanging with a 'new' seal last Sunday
was a 'one-time event'. He also cites the continuing use of the familIar seal with the Holy Father's
official messages published in the OR since Sunday.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 20/10/2010 02:23]