May 29
St. Madeleine Sophie Barat (France, 1779-1865)
Founder, Society of the Sacred Heart
OR today.
The Pope to the General Assembly of the Italian bishops' conference:
'A true educator unites authority and exemplariness'
(Translation of the full papal text posted in yesterday's item above on this event)
Other Page 1 stories: Seoul and Washington raise military alert level after North Korea's latest bluster;
a UN report that current economic crisis will result in 50 million losing jobs around the world. And in
the inside pages: the Vatican issues a new edition reproducing all the documents on the trial of Galileo
by the Roman Inquisition.
THE POPE'S DAY
The Holy Father today received the credentials of new ambassadors from Mongolia, India, Benin, New Zealand,
South Africa, Burkina Faso, Namibia and Norway. All the addresses were in English except for those to
the envoys from Benin and Burkina Faso, delivered in French. Afterwards,the Pope addressed all the new
envoys together in French.
He also met with
- Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
- Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Copuncil for Inter-Religious Dialog
And in the afternoon with
- Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (weekly meeting)
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