It's odd to find this on Page 1 of tomorrow's issue (7/31/09) of L'Osservatore Romano, but their early afternoon deadline makes them one issue late in reporting anything that happens after 3 p.m.
THE POPE IN CASTEL GANDOLFO:
He arrives after two weeks
in Val D'Aosta
July 31, 2009
There is a nice picture on page 1 - the Pope looks very lively despite having had a long day:
But the story is about the Pope's brief greeting to the people of Castel Gandolfo which we posted yesterday.
And in the inside pages, there is another story about his departure from Les Combes, also pretty well reported yesterday, with another nice photo:
The account includes the farewell from the kids who gave him an edelweiss and an album of their drawings but no photo of that.
It mentions the Pope's helicopter flight from les Combes to Torino-Caselle airport, where he was met by the Archbishop of Turin, Cardinal Severino Poletto, and the Mayor of Turin, and then took an Italian military sirplane to Rome-Ciampino.
La Stampa in Turin had some good pictures of that brief Torino-Caselle stopover.
And a stray photo from the Angelus at Les Combes - when some local people give the Pope the gift of an Alpenstock, looks like, great for use on mountain walks:
There is some bread-and-butter news today:
Pope invites priests of the world
to come to Rome for Year of Priests
closing conference next year
VATICAN CITY, JULY 30, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is inviting priests from around the world to Rome next June to close the Year for Priests.
The International Conference for Priests will be held June 9-11, 2010, culminating with a Mass presided over by the Pope.
The theme for the conference, like that of the priestly year, is "Faithfulness of Christ, Faithfulness of Priests." The program includes moments of prayer, reflection, the chance to go to confession, and the papal Mass.
The organization of the event has been entrusted to Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi, the Vatican institution whose mission is to evangelize through pastoral tourism and the ministry of pilgrimage.
More information on the program and registration (for now, only in Italian) can be found at their Web site.
www.orpnet.org/
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 31/07/2009 15:51]