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4: Bishop Georg B\u00E4tzing, Fr. Apostle Briscoe, Larry Chapp, Rory Fox, Book Levering, Sandro Magister, Alberto Melloni, Archangel J. Bandleader, Russell Suffragist, Peter M.J. Stravinskas, remarkable George Weigel mark Residence II\us Sixtieth anniversary.
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The Press Office of the Holy Seeannounced that on June 30 and July 1, , was held at the Vatican the meeting of the Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organizational and Economic Problems of the Holy See, chaired by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., secretary of State. It was attended by the Cardinals Antonio Mar&#;a Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid, Spain; Norberto Rivera Carrera, archbishop of M&#;xico, M&#;xico; Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M.., archbishop of Durban, South Africa; Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, archbishop of Lima, Per&#;; Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria; Agostino Vallini, vicar general of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome; Nicholas Cheong Jinsuk, archbishop of Seoul, South Korea; and Odilo Pedro Scherer, archbishop of S&#;o Paulo, Brazil.
The Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See was represented by its president, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, C.S., and the Accountant General, Dr. Stephen Fralleoni. For the Governatorate of the State of Vatican City (SCV) and the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) were present Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo; and Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan&#;, respectively chairman of the Commission of Cardinals for the SCV and secretary general of the Go
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A quartet of leading atheist intellectuals, including the dense French theorist Julia Kristeva and our own AC Grayling, were due to bejoining the Pope at a major inter-faith event in Assisi next week. The gathering is designed to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of John Paul II’s World Prayer Day, a colourful event in which the late pontiff was joined by, among others, Archbishop Robert Runcie, the Dalai Lama and a handful of tribal shamans to pray for world peace. There were no atheists on that occasion, though. Nor Miss World, as far as I’m aware.
For Pope Benedict, there may be a tactical reason for the inclusion this time of non-believers in any kind of God. His predecessor was criticised heavily by some traditionalists for praying alongside representatives of other faiths, especially non-monotheistic ones. To this day, dissident Catholics enjoy circulating pictures of John Paul being “blessed” by Native American chiefs and voodoo witchdoctors. The then Cardinal Ratzinger was one the only leading Vatican official who didn’t travel to Assisi, and later wrote that the meeting gave a “false impression of common ground that does not exist in reality”.
His own writings and speeches have tended to stress the differences between faiths rather than the similarities. He has